The Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport competitors headed to Scotland for round eight of the highly competitive series, to the tiny circuit of Knockhill, situated in the picturesque region of Fife, north of Edinburgh. This was to be Jenny Tinmouth’s fourth consecutive weekend of racing, and the Ellesmere Port star was determined to put on a good show once more. Despite a crash in the early stages of final qualifying, Jenny rode an immaculate race to finish in 20th position, her first visit to the top twenty, and an impressive 4th position of the cup competitors.
 
It was a relief for everyone to be greeted with dry, and reasonably sunny conditions on the Friday, as Jenny set about learning how to wrestle her Supersport machine around the 1.27 mile circuit for the first time. Clearly enjoying herself, over the combined free practice sessions she completed 75 laps and posted her fastest time of the day during the afternoon, a time of 52.315 seconds, which was an improvement of 0.637 seconds from the earlier session.
 
Unfortunately, regarding the weather, ‘normal service’ resumed on the Saturday, with persistent rain being a concern for all classes. Riding in difficult conditions, Jenny secured 29th place in the first qualifying session, but was to drop to 33rd position in the afternoon, due to a rare mistake coming out of the John Weir chicane. Upon opening the throttle exiting the chicane, the back end came round on her, resulting in a tumble which led to her sitting out the majority of the crucial final qualifying period.
 
 For morning warm-up on the Sunday, conditions were once again damp, but not as severe as the previous day, and Jenny, needing to regain her confidence, clocked the 22nd fastest time to be back in the zone.
 
As has been so often the case this season; the race itself was held in dry conditions. Jenny took up a lonely 33rd position on the back row of the grid. She made a clean getaway at the start of the race, and maintained close attendance to the riders immediately in front of her.

After only a few short laps it was clear that the freight train ahead was impeding her progress, so using her experience and race craft she lined them up for the pass, and one by one she would pick them off, mainly at the hairpin on the brakes, but on one other occasion using the horses to surprise her rivals particularly through the fast curve at Hislop’s. Once through the pack of riders, she easily pulled away.

The gap ahead to Ben Handley though was now almost five seconds, just too much for Jenny to make any serious inroads. She would take the chequered flag in 20th place and 4th in the cup, regaining 8th position in the series overall, and with Handley taking the final step on the podium for the cup competitors, it proved that Jenny was in touch, and the elusive trophy is within reach.  
 
Speaking afterwards, Jenny said: “The race was good, but I was gutted to start from the back after crashing in possible perfect fast lap time conditions 4 laps into 2nd qualifying, but was happy enough with the race and enjoyed coming from the back. I’m also chuffed with my lap times as I'm there or there abouts, just need a few more tenths here and there and we should be right in the mix. I'm really looking forward to Cadwell in two weeks time, we've not got enough in the pot yet to cover fuel and tyres but I'm sure we'll be reet.”