Storm Stacey picked u🎶p his first British S🌠uperbike win at Snetterton in a difficult race one at the Norwich track, with the weather playing a massive part in the result.

The LKQ Euro Car Parts Kawasaki r𒆙ider had worked his way for🤪ward, pushing with an intermediate tyre in the race which had been declared wet.

When the Red Flag came out for Rory Skinner’s fall, the rac𝐆e had just passed race distance, bur Stacey was waving like a winner:

“I was so nervous to ruin that last half of the race! When the red flag came out before I was looking at the marshals, I was saying ‘is it finished? Is it💜 finished? Have I won? Have I won?’

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Like Kyle said, to go foꦕr the inter rear it was a stiff choice - I didn’t know wh﷽ether to do it or not and I did and it paid off”.

That gamble saw the #79 on pole for the restart. Initially under pressure from Danny 🌞Kent before he fell, Stacey 🍸was expecting Tommy Bridewell, on the same tyres to join him at the front next, that wasn’t to be as the #1 was the next to fall, hitting Kent on the way:

“I thought Tommy was going toꦜ be right with me and Tommy d💛idn’t come with me and I was probably the only inter rider that was actually risking riding with the inter rear tyre really - and it felt good to me.

“I didn’t feel like, 🔥I didn’t really have many moments - I had moments in places where I knew I would but, yeah - chipping away and I thought ‘right, we’re on here, we’re on for a win’ and then when the red flag came out I was like ‘oh, I’ve been robbed, I’ve been robbed of my first’ I 🏅thought I’ve done it”.

Being able to turn around his attitude to not getting a red flag win was key to Stacey being able tꦯo come back and ride at the front again, this time in a fully wet race with low visibility and spray - there was a further delay to the start as it rained again- showing his capability in a range of conditions:

“The delay, it gives us another two laps a♍s well to scrub the tyres in, which made me feel a lot better. Then, when I saw Danny lose the front, I thought ‘right. I just need to k𒀰eep this all together here now’.

Lewis come and I thought oh, he’s going to win the Pathway class and I’ll end up winning outright. That’s how I thought it worked, so I thought, well if 🔯I come second at least I’m still going to win the outright, but then I thought, I’m catching him here, I thought I can do this”.

ꦉThankfully Stacey decided to go all in on the final lap of the five in the shortened distance, taking the win outright from the front:

“So I stringed it all together, got it all good and then I thought ‘right, well if I’m going to win it, 𝓰I may as well win it outright’!

I passed him down the straight, coming on the brakes and managed to make it stick all the way to the l🥃ine and we brought it home in P1”.

Stacey has been with the same team, through several sponsor name changes🎃 for his 128 BSB races so was quick to credit his work and rel𒀰ationship with his team in the win:

“We’ve spent so long trying to do this ♕and not even just trying⛦ to do this - trying to do top fives, a podium - a podium would have been enough two years ago, a year ago, it’s what we’re fighting for . We had a lot of problems back end of last year and it probably wouldn’t have happened last year even if we had a wet race -it’s unfortunate that we’ve had to have a wet race to do it but we knew that was probably going to be the case”.

The irony of winning at last on his least favourite track to ride on the𓂃 calendar wasn’t lost on Stacey either:

“And what is good is to get my first su🅷ꦿperbike win is around the track I least - my least favourite. I’m not a massive fan of Snetterton so to get a win around here is amazing, it’s a bit annoying really”!