A consecutive trio of seventh place finishes for Christian Iddon at Oulton Park

Race 1
Christian Iddon lined up for Saturday’s BikeSocial Sprint Race at the front of Row 4 in tenth. By the end of the first lap around the 2.692-mile circuit Christian was up three places, a position he held to the flag.

Race 2
Christian was unfortunate in the opening race on Sunday into the first corner and initially dropped from seventh down to 13th, but he was soon past Luke Stapleford (Yamaha) to move into eleventh before going on pass Storm Stacey (Kawasaki) on the following lap to move inside the top ten.

Lap 3 saw Iddon pass Jack Kennedy (Yamaha) to go ninth with Jason O’Halloran (Yamaha) next in his sights and by lap 6 Iddon was eighth and in the chasing pack behind Josh Brookes (BMW) and Ryan Vickers (Yamaha).

The race was then put on hold as the safety car came out on lap 14 after Stacey crashed out. Christian was able to hold his position after the restart and went on to take another seventh at the flag. 

Race 3
Iddon started seventh and momentarily lost the position to O’Halloran before taking the place back later in the opening lap. 

Christian was running in the leading group of riders but on Lap 8 he was once again demoted to eighth after Vickers took the position.

As the race neared its conclusion the leading pack of eight riders had split to form four separate battles. Iddon was able to get the better of Vickers by 0.011s across the line to score a consecutive trio of seventh-place finishes. 

Christian Iddon (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #21)
“The weekend started out quite difficult, I couldn’t really get any feeling or sensation with the bike. We worked really hard and found a base that seemed to work reasonably well. It’s pretty much all we had this weekend. 

It’s another semi-frustrating weekend because I want to be at the front fighting for podiums and wins and we’re still a little bit off that. We have made progress, it’s just another one of those ‘what could have been’ weekends. I think that I’m extracting plenty from the package. 

We just need to keep on trying to regroup, push forward and not lose sight of where we think we can be and what we think we can achieve. We need to continue to keep on pushing on.”