Moto Rapido Racing came away from Donington Park after Scott Smart secured a second place in the National Superstock 1000 race and also gained a first UK podium for the Ducati 1198S.

The second place wrapped a satisfying meeting for Moto Rapido team as Scott and the team continued to make steady progress throughout practice and qualifying over the Bank Holiday.

Another great weekend for Scott Smart and the Moto Rapido team in the British Superstock Series.

With the sun out at Oulton Park, free practice went very well with gains being made in all sessions.  Scott was getting faster through qualifying one with a provisional front row start in fourth place.

In the second qualifying session Scott was matching his fastest laps of the weekend and with a new rear tyre fitted he jumped to second place and was the fastest through the first two sectors of the very technical Oulton park circuit.

A very busy weekend for the Moto Rapido Ducati team!  With barely any testing prior to round one every lap of practice and set up was crucial, in the Superstock class there were only three 20 minute test sessions prior to qualifying and two of these were on a rain soaked Brands Hatch.

But with every session lap times improved and Scott qualified 10^th.  A difficult start saw him 13^th on lap one with plenty of work to do, but once through the traffic he finished just seven hundreds of a second behind seventh place and lap times in the final stages that matched the race leaders.

Moto Rapido first test.

This week saw track debut of the Moto Rapido Ducati 1198S with new rider Scott Smart at the MSVR test day at Brands Hatch.

The official test day was the first time Scott had seen the finished bike so the team were looking forward to the scheduled three hours on track for some valuable set up ready for the first round on Easter Monday.