Christian Iddon continues to make progress with two seventh-place finishes at Oulton Park
Christian Iddon continued his huge improvement on his opening British Superbike round at Oulton Park this weekend. After finishing Sunday’s Sprint Race in eighth, he went one better today on the Oxford Products Racing Ducati to finish both races in seventh place, looking much more comfortable on the Panigale V4 R.
Christian Iddon
Oxford Products Racing Ducati #21 – Race 2, 7th – Race 3, 7th
“I think we have made massive steps forward this weekend, especially today. Made big strides with the bike, and we’re much more racy. Definitely making progress, and I’m feeling much comfier on the bike, even between the races today.
Step by step we’re getting there but need to hurry up and get there a bit quicker! Because as still as much can now start to see the front, we need to be at the front and stay there. We keep working, keep moving forward.
The whole weekend in general has been pretty good. We were fast in tricky conditions which is good. It’s definitely a huge improvement on the first round, like night and day! I think if all the stars had aligned today, we would have had a chance to fight for a podium. But we’re just missing that last little bit, so we’ll be searching for it between now and next round.”
Iain Hopcroft, Team Manager
“After the recent test at Mallory we came to Oulton with a bit of a base setting for Christian, mainly engine brake control and throttle translation stuff, which I think helped us initially. I don’t think we found him the perfect setting for the weekend in the end, but it wasn’t bad. We had a very positive weekend I think, and we hope to improve the next time we come back to Oulton.
Christian has shown some very good pace, we’ve done some very good laps times on Monday. And he’s obviously extremely good in the wet, and tricky conditions too. It’s always hard to set up a bike for that, but he seems to ride in those conditions very well.
Very happy with Christian and we have lots to improve on and learn and head to Donington Park which should be a great circuit to continue with that progress, and it’s one that Christian has good history with.”