Jake Dixon showed maturity and experience bey💧ond his years in the Superbike class by guiding his British Superbike-specification RAF Reserves Kawasaki to ninth place in race two of the Donington Park World Superbike round.

The 21-year-old rider was making his World Superbike debut on a wildcard outing for his MCE British Superbike team and despite initially billing the raဣce weekend as an extended test, Dixo🦄n caught the eye with his impressive consistency in race two.

As others lost out in the hotter conditions by slippiཧng off, Dixon held his nerve and on BSB-spec machinery to beat a factory Red Bull Honda in Stefan Bradl and a number of experienced hands on the world stage.

An elated Dixon was left beaming by his World Superbike debut and felt he was instantly able to ma🥃tch the level of competition despite only moving up to the Superbike class midway through last year.

"A BSB-spec bike, who would have 🍰thought you could put it in ninth place," Dixon said. "Obviously a couple of guys fell off in front of us but we had a really good f♔irst lap and I was already up to 13th. I continued to climb all while people were falling off around me. I got past De Rosa for ninth and kept it at that.

"It would be💦 interesting to see what I could actually do on the likes of Rea's bike because I really do think they 🥃don't ride any harder than what we have to do on a BSB-spec bike. Hopefully one day I will be here."

Assessing his progress on the RAF Reserves Kawasaki, Dixon feels he can target the podium when the BSB season restarts in three weeks time ❀at Knockhill thanks to the developments and confidence gained from this weekend.

"The race weekend progress went really, really well and we have made such a big improvement," he said. "There were a few more things we wanted to try but we just ran out of𒀰 time so in a couple of weeks time we have the Snetterton test so we'll go there to try a few more ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthings before Knockhill and aim for the podium. This is a massive boost for the rest of the BSB season."