Three podiums for Jervis

By John Hopkins

Victoria, BC's Oliver Jervis picked up a win and two third place finishes in the opening round of the Washington Motorcycle Road Racing Association season at Pacific Raceways in Seattle last weekend.

The Zlock Racing Kawasaki rider earned first place in the Lightweight Superbike feature and finished third in 600 Supersport and 600 Superbike.

His Lightweight Superbike win was a dramatic one, as Jervis found himself as far back as fourth on the opening lap, and then after taking the lead dropped to second due to a missed shift before regaining the top spot on his Kawasaki ZX-6R.

In the 600 Supersport and 600 Superbike races Jervis was unable to challenge frontrunners Eli Edwards and Mike Sullivan.

"We had certainly missed the set-up to stay with them to challenge for position," Jervis said of the 600 Supersport race. "No excuses, though I felt we did alright considering the lack of time on the bike.

"Afterwards we met with Pirelli's Kevin Graham and Tom Young to discuss some of the challenges I experienced. With their input Dan [Zlock] and I came up with a host of changes to test on the bike. The changes we made worked, and we were able to go consistently quicker [in 600 Superbike], but our competition in Eli and Sully had also improved and they were too strong for us today."

Jervis also competed in the Middleweight GP Twins race but retired with a broken crank on his special SVZR.

Jervis has added sponsorship this season from Clearly Lasik, a Victoria-based company specializing in laser vision correction.