In the soaking wet conditions at round five of the British Supersport Championship at Knockhill circuit, the East Coast Racing riders had mixed results in the 18-lap race as Lee Johnston crashed out whilst battling for third position and recent TT winner Gary Johnson ended up in seventh.

The rain has continuously fallen over the last two days and Lee has been riding extremely well throughout the practice and qualifying sessions and ended up qualifying in fifth place for the 18-lap race and Gary ended up in 11^th.

As the rain fell and the riders lined up on the grid, Lee got a great start and settled in to a comfortable position into the tight first turn and was eager to stay with the front runners and not let them break too much of a gap. He got his head down and was soon setting fast lap times catching third and fourth place riders Ben Wilson and Luke Stapleford. By lap seven he got passed Luke and lap twelve passed Ben but disaster struck on lap 14 when both Luke and Ben came back past and Lee was unfortunate to loose the front at Scotsman corner crashing out heavily. Thankfully he has been declared fit by the medics and will start on the front row tomorrow from fourth position.

He said "I'm really disappointed as I didn't get to race at Thruxton and was really looking forward to get back out racing at Knockhill. It's one of my favourite tracks and I really wanted to get a good result here, at least now we've two races so hopefully I might be able to pull something out of the bag tomorrow. I was running well and the bike felt really good but it was a pretty big crash so I'm feeling a bit beaten up at the minute. No one is really sure on what the weather is going to do tomorrow but I hope I can make up for my mistake, I'm just gutted as I wanted to keep getting consistent results. 

It was another mixed day for the East Coast Racing riders during race two of the Fuchs Silkolene British Supersport Race at Knockhill. Despite a small rain shower as the riders lined up on the grid the race was cut short to 20 laps and remained dry for the entire race. Lee Johnston once again was riding well and suffered another heavy crash on lap 19 and Gary Johnson managed to finish in 10^th place and gain some vital Championship points.

Lee Johnston once again was looking strong and confident and was in a solid sixth place and battling hard with Jesse Trayler and Paul Young. He was locked in a really tight battle with Jesse on the penultimate lap when he went down hard at Seat Curve and destroyed his East Coast Honda, thankfully Lee walked away winded but unhurt.

He said "I'm just gutted about this weekend in general it's been a total disaster for me. I know the East Coast Racing boys worked so hard last night to get my bike ready again for today after yesterday and then I went and crashed again. I was having a few problems getting the bike into gear and it all just went horribly wrong on the second to last lap. Gutted is the only word I can use and I'm really sorry to the team and my sponsors."