Hannspree Ten Kate Honda World Supersport riders, Andrew Pitt and Kenan Sofuoglu will be at Assen in Holland this weekend (24-26 April) for round four of the 2009 championship.
The Ten Kate team has won the World Supersport race at Assen since 2004 and is keen to continue the tradition at its home circuit, since the team’s base is just 50km to the south of the historic 4.5km track.
2007 World Supersport champion, Kenan Sofuoglu, is currently joint leader in this season’s points standings, having won the opening race in Australia and then taking third at Valencia last time out – the team’s first outing with the 2009 Honda CBR600RR.
With two solid second places in the opening rounds, reigning champion Pitt experienced some front end handling problems at Valencia, but is confident of being right back on the pace and moving up from fourth place on the current leader board.
Andrew Pitt
Well, we did have a few problems last time out with the new bike, but we’ve been able to narrow it down to three small problems that all came together at the same time. It meant the front end didn’t really work properly during the race at Valencia but, now we’ve got the problems dialled out, I’m hoping for better things at Assen. I took second place in a wildcard ride for the team here in 2007 and won last year’s race; and the guys have made some other improvements to the bike, so I’m feeling confident that Assen can be good to me again.
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