It was a disappointing weekend for Faversham’s Finn Smart-Weeden on his Kawasaki Ninja400 motorcycle at the British Superbikes event at Norfolk’s Snetterton race circuit.

Smart-Weeden, 14, crashed out after three laps in qualifying.

During the race on Saturday, once again three laps in, he lost front-end feel and finished in 14th, although he did add one point to his championship total.

The following day he started from 27th position, but made inroads through the field - only to be beaten to the line by just 0.004sec leaving him in 16th place and without any more points.

Smart-Weeden said: “Overall, I have to admit to being disappointed.

“With a fully-functional bike, I’ve proved I have the pace to race in the top 12 but we have been dogged with technical issues the whole BSB season.”

He competes at Silverstone this weekend.

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