Kilmacrennan’s Richard Kerr had an excellent third place finish in the first race at the weekend’s BSB Motostar Championship at Caldwell Park today.
The 17-year-old schoolboy qualified in third place and after a race-long battle with fellow Irishman Eugene McManus, Kerr finished a fantastic third place securing his fourth podium of the year in the highly competitive Motostar class.
It wasn’t without a bit of drama as Kerr had a coming together with another rider and was forced to miss the chicane, picking up a 1.5 second penalty with three laps to go.
Kerr was now in fifth on corrected time going onto the last lap but the young Donegal man showed pure determination as he took over a second out of his rivals.
Kerry posted his quickest lap of the race on the last lap securing a podium finish by 0.219 of a second.
Richard lines up on the second row in fourth place for tomorrow’s second race – live on Eurosport at 2.45pm.
