Keeping up with Jones
MIKE JONES AND THE factory Yamaha Racing Team delivered two knockout results at Queensland Raceway’s second round of the mi-bike Motorcycle Insurance Australian Superbike Championship, with a double victory and a new qualifying lap record.
Jones’s R1 was fast from the start, possessing incredible stability and drive out of corners, and put the fancied Ducatis of reigning champion Wayne Maxwell (Boost Mobile with K-Tech) and Bryan Staring (Desmosport Ducati) on the back foot.
It had been eight years since the national championship last competed
