A trio of seventh place finishes for Christian Iddon at Cadwell Park
Race 1
The opening British Superbike race at Cadwell Park was a fairly uneventful one for Christian Iddon. The Oxford Products Racing Ducat rider had lined up on the grid in eighth position for the BikeSocial sprint race on Sunday but lost a couple of positions on the opening lap. But by lap four Christian passed Storm Stacey (Kawasaki) for seventh behind championship leader Tommy Bridewell (Ducati), a position that he held until the chequered flag.
Race 2
Christian started the first of the two 18-lap races on Bank Holiday Monday from the middle of Row Two in fifth but dropped down to seventh as the race got underway. On lap five Christian ran straight on at the chicane, with Race Control giving him a two second time penalty.
The following lap saw Christian lose a position to Glenn Irwin (Ducati) which temporarily demoted him to eighth until race leader Ryan Vickers (Yamaha) crashed out on the same lap.
Lap nine saw Christian run on at the chicane once more, picking up an additional two second time penalty from Race Control.
Christian went on to take the flag in a consecutive seventh, but his four second penalty did not affect his position as he had built up a gap of 4.833s over Josh Brookes (BMW).
Race 3
The final Superbike race of the weekend mirrored the first with Christian staring from eighth, holding the position as the lights went out. On lap eleven, he passed Stacey to move up into seventh. At this point he was two seconds behind local rider Lee Jackson (Kawasaki), going on to take his third seventh place finish of the weekend.
Christian currently sits ninth in the championship standings, twelve points behind Vickers in ninth but 61 clear of Jack Kennedy (Yamaha) in tenth.
Christian Iddon (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #21) "Not a great weekend, and not what we expect to be fair. It’s just frustrating that we’re quite close to the front, but not at the front. We’re just off the back of the lead group in every race. And that's kind of where we're at, just missing out. But we’re pushing really hard to try and find it.
It's just a little bit frustrating the moment because myself and the team are both capable of more than we're currently showing. Something is just not quite clicking but hopefully we can find that and rectify it for the last few rounds of the season starting at Oulton Park next time out.”