It was testing times for the DAO Racing Honda squad at round four of the 2026 ZYN British Superbike Championship at Snetterton, however both Josh Brookes and Lee Jackson braved the challenges across the weekend to bring home solid Championship points in all three races.

Friday would be difficult day on track for the pair, as Brookes and Jackson battled hard with set-up to improve their feelings on track ahead of the all-important afternoon pre-qualifying session. The top-12 shootout would prove a testing session, with the duo failing to secure themselves in Q2, taking the flag in 16th and 17th respectively.

Following an evening of preparation and changes, the team headed into Saturday with a fresh outlook and confident of achieving positive results. Qualifying would provide mixed fortunes for the pair, with Jackson failing to progress into Q2, even though the changes overnight helped him improve in time, he would be forced to start the opening 16-lap battle from 17th.

The ‘BadBoy’ on the other hand enjoyed a positive session, and was one of the three riders to progress into Q2, and the second 12-minute run saw him improve in time further, notching up a 1:46.889, improving in time by more than three quarters of a second from Q1 to line him up 10th on the grid for race one.

Later that afternoon the opening 16-lap ZYN BSB battle got underway, with both Josh and Lee making great leaps off the line. However, after an incident involving five riders at turn two on the opening lap, the race was red flagged and cut to 14 laps.

The restart once again saw the duo make good starts, and after the opening lap Josh sat 10th with Lee 12th and they began to settle into the battle, searching to make their way forwards through the pack.

Brookes sat on the back of a battle with Joe Talbot and Jason O’Halloran, and at half race distance after a retirement for Storm Stacey he found himself in ninth, and with a gap of 1.6 seconds to Talbot and O’Halloran he set about chasing them down. He soon made quick work of passing his fellow Australian and set about catching Talbot who laid ahead. Brookes then inherited eighth place following a retirement for Max Cook, and as he closed in on Talbot the red flag would be shown on the final lap following a technical issue for Christian Iddon, which left Brookes eighth at the end of the race.

Jackson would take 10th place at the end of the race after unfortunately losing out to Ilya Mikhalchik with two laps to go, although disappointed he was pleased after making progress throughout the battle, and felt more comfortable with his Fireblade.

By virtue of their lap times from race one, Sunday’s 12-lap sprint race would see Josh once again start from 10th with Lee two place behind on the same row in 12th.

Unfortunately, on the grid Lee experienced a small technical issue with his machine, which saw the team remove him off the grid to replace the stricken part. The team worked around the get him back out from pit-lane as soon the lights went out.

From the line Josh made a great start, however as he headed into turn two, he was involved in an incident alongside Leon Haslam and Ilya Mikhalchik, which saw him crash out of the race unhurt and with minimal damage to the machine.

The incident brought out the safety car, which helped Lee to catch the riders ahead, and after two laps behind the car the race roared back into life and ‘LeeBob’ began to work his through the field. By half race distance he sat in 14th and continued to post consistent lap times, and with two laps to go he found himself in 11th and in a three-man fight for ninth.

He put in a sterling effort on the final lap to catch Eugene McManus and Fraser Rogers, and at the final chicane he made his move, and on the drag to the line he fired passed the pair to cross the line ninth.

The third, and final, 16-lap race of the weekend would see Brookes start from 16th with his team mate lining up next door in 17th.

From the lights both made really positive leaps off the line, with Brookes making up five places after the opening lap, with Jackson sat in 15th. The duo then became embroiled in a battle for tenth in a group of five riders.

By half race distance, Haslam who sat in 10th had broken away, which meant that Brookes was left to dice it out with Danny Kent, with Jackson battling it out with Fraser Rogers for 13th.

The ‘BadBoy’ quickly made light work of the Yamaha man, and quickly gapped him as he hunted down Jason O’Halloran who laid four seconds up the road. Likewise, Jackson had made his way past Rogers, and began to get his head down to catch Kent who lay ahead.

With four to go Brookes had pulled a manageable gap over Kent, holding a one second lead over him. The Aussie continued to build the gap until the flag, taking a comfortable 10th place finish. Jackson, who did all he could to hold off a charging Ilya Mikhalchik, just couldn’t hold onto his position, and would take 13th at the line, bringing home more Championship points.

Josh Brookes: “We had built strong expectations heading into the weekend after the strong finish we here had in 2025, and the momentum we had built at Knockhill. The bike didn’t work well straight away on Friday, we set about making some changes to help the bike suit the circuit more, but I didn’t get to try them in FP2 because of a small technical issue.

“We made a significant change for qualifying and the bike felt better, more balanced, and in the opening race we finished seventh, which I felt positive about. I got a good start in the sprint race but I was caught up in an incident at turn two, so that was me out of the race, and put me 16^th on the grid for race three.

“I was trying my best but I couldn’t get close to my lap times from race one, I had lost the tow to Jason ahead of me, and once I got passed Danny Kent the gap to Jason was too big. I stayed consistent but then I suffered a tyre drop towards the end of the race. We’ll regroup now as a team and come back at Brands.”

Lee Jackson: “It’s been tricky, really tricky, I came here with an open mind because I have done well here in the past and I wanted to do a good job. Friday was tough, we battled set-up and I didn’t make it into Q2 in the Pre-Qualifying, as a rider I want to get into that, and then in qualifying I didn’t have the pace to make through, and that was really tough to take.

“We did make progress in race one on Saturday, we made the bike feel a lot better for me, but whatever reason this weekend we have lacked that outright pace. We haven’t been able to break into the 1:47’s consistently, and I can’t really say why.

“It’s just been one of those weekends I feel. I’ve got to say a massive thank you to all the boys this weekend, they’ve worked so hard all weekend to improve the bike, and fingers crossed we can improve our fortunes next time out at Brands Hatch.”

Team manager Jonny Bagnall: “It’s been a challenge this weekend for sure, but it’s certainly not from a lack of trying, we’re doing everything we can as a team to improve our results, just for one reason or another it’s not happening for us at the moment.

“We have collected Championship points in both races from Josh and Lee, but it’s not where we want to be at all. We’ll head back to the workshop now, get back to drawing board and see what we can come up with ahead of Brands Hatch.”

Lee Jackson now sits 10th in the 2026 ZYN British Superbike Championship on 62, with Josh Brookes sat in 13th on 57.

The team now has a ten-day break from action before heading south to Brands Hatch for round five of the 2026 ZYN British Superbike Championship.