Dublin rider Jack Kennedy kept his nerve to score an emotional victory for the Northern Ireland-based Mar-Train Yamaha team in the British Supersport class at a rain-lashed Brands Hatch on Easter Monday.

Kennedy's victory over a shortened race distance was only rewarded with half points [12.5], but adding the win to his sixth place in Sunday's openi🐎ng race leaves him second in the championship standings as the🌱 series moves to Thruxton this weekend.

His young team-mate and Superpsort newcomer Taylor Mackenzie was forced to retire from the race at the end of the warm-up lap with a technical pꦅroblem, but Kennedy put the smiles back on the faces of the team w꧋ith a dream victory in an incident-hit race, which was declared a result after seven laps as conditions worsened.

Gearlink Kawasaki's streaked away to open up a commanding lead before he crashed out mome🐭nts before the race was stopped due to oil on the circuit.

The race was restarted but it was clear the problem remained as a string of riders crashed out, including Wilson. The organisers 🍃declared the rꦇace a result, giving Kennedy the victory from Sam Warren and Billy McConnell.

"I'll take the win no problem. It was treacherous out there and I'm just delighte🍰d to bring the bike and myself home in one piece," said Kennedy.

"It was very co♛ld and wet and I just stayed out of trouble as best I could. On Sunday we run wi🌟th wet front, dry rear and it was starting to come back to me until the rain came again.

"Sixth was okay in the circumstances. Then on Monday it was a case of staying out of trouble again and th𓆏e front row re-start helped me. It was a strange way to win, but a win's a win."

Mackenzie finished 21st in Sunday's♕ race as he ad🥃apted to riding the Yamaha R6 in the wet for the first time.