The following two seasons, Courtney, competed in the British Superbike paddock in the Motostar standard Moto 3 class. 2016 being a steep learning curve, but he made big steps and in 2017 was making good progress until he got caught up in a start-line incident at Oulton Park, thus aggravating an old wrist injury and further complicated the injury to a broken wrist sustained at Knockhill.
Having sat out the rest of 2017 and most of 2018 the 20 year old trainee accountant is returning to racing this weekend at the Sunflower , this time on board a stock 600 Yamaha .
; “I have some good memories at the sunflower, getting my first podium at the meeting in 2014. I love the atmosphere of the whole event and I am chomping at the bit to get back out on a bike and into a competitive meeting. It will be difficult to be on the pace early, given how long I’ve been out of the sport, but I am hoping to get better as the weekend goes on and get a bit of momentum to drive me into 2019. We are competing on our own R6 and a one off appearance on the Team ILR Moto 3 at the sunflower and for 2019, I will be aiming to be back in the BSB paddock in the Superstock 600 class and with experience of that paddock and 2 years more maturity, I feel as though I can target some good results next year.
As always, a massive thank you to my sponsors Modern Tyres, Brian Jones at Mototech, who have stayed alongside me despite the absence, and of course my family for maintaining their support for me.