Having missed the previous round at Oulton Park, Robbin Harms returned to the Pirelli National Superstock 1000 Championship and scored his first points of the series, as the action moved to the third round at Snetterton on Sunday.

Having spent the last two weeks at the Isle of Man TT races, it was also a return to the premier domestic short circuit scene for the team.

Free practice and qualifying saw Harms well on the pace.
In qualifying he was never out of the Top 10 in the three sectors both in top speed and fastest sector times, and eventually qualified the Ninja ZX-10R in 10th place on the grid, just over one second off pole.

As is often the case in one of the most fiercely competitive classes, the race was not short of incident. Five laps in, the safety car was called into play and two laps later the race was stopped with a 6 lap re-run announced, to take place after the first British Superbike race.
Robbin at this point had been amongst the traffic in 18th and lucky to still be in the race.


Struggling with a fading front brake, he ran of the track twice, but still managed to post the tenth quickest lap.

The much shortened re-run was always going to be something of a sprint compared to the full race distance, and from 17th at the end of the opening lap, Robbin made up a few places to register his first points in 13th place, just over a second outside a place in the top ten.

Once again he was strong in all three sectors and posted the ninth fastest lap of the race.


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