McAMS Racing Yamaha’s Danny Kent had “not the easiest weekend” at the Oulton Park BSB, round one of ꦉthe 2025 season, at a circuit he acknowledges is n🤡ot his strongest.

Kent was 10th in Race 1 and improved to sixth in Race 2, but this was still below the expectations of the rider who picked up his first BSB win at the final round of 2🃏024 in Brands Hatch.

The McAMS Yamaha rider said that he had been on the back foot from🌼 the beginning of the weekend thanks to technical problem s.

“It’s not been the easiest 🐻weekend for us, we started the weekend with a few technical problems which hampered our weekend, to be honest; sort of only got back on-track in [Race 2],” Kent said, speaking to ltxcn.top after Race 2 at Oulton Park.

“Not the ideal start to the year. Oulton’s not the best track for me, personꦰally.”

There was definite progre🌳ss, though,🍸 in Race 2, Kent felt.

“I’ve been able to set my best ever lap, 0.2 secon💯ds faster than what I did in qualifying – which was previously my best💫 lap.

“We’re definitely going forward, but this year the pace is a lot faster and there’s new people at the front: in the sprint race, I finished fourth last year with a certain time, and then I finished sixth today and was two seconds quicker in overall race time. So, the pace has definit꧑ely been upped.

“I just have to now look forward to Donington – it’s a track that’s good for me, goo🦩d for the Yamaha, and we have to bounce back and get a good point haul.”

The c𝄹hanges Kent made for Monday’s races at Oulton Park aren’t ones he expects to carry forwards to the Donington round, the #52 sayi🔯ng they’re track-specific.

“We’ve got a base setting,” he said. “Oulton is a u꧟nique track with the elevations and everything, [so] the setting here doesn’t work everywhere, Donington being on🍷e of those.

“We’ve got a goo♔d base setting for Donington, we had some good, stro🉐ng results there last year.”