Christian Iddon feeling good going into the Showdown

Christian shares his thoughts on his season to date heading into the Showdown

“Everything has been going pretty good this year, except for the last couple of rounds. Everywhere we’ve been strong. At Brands Hatch, which was three rounds ago, I felt the best ever I’ve been on the bike. It wasn’t my best round in terms of results, but it was definitely the best I’ve felt and the most at one I’ve felt with my bike, the most in tune.

I was really looking forward to Thruxton, even though it’s not really been known as strong for us. I kind of thought we could really throw up a surprise there. We had the difficulty then of Wilf getting really poorly, and sadly that round turned out to be as the form book tends to suggest anyway which was a real shame.

We then had Cadwell which was probably worse as we didn’t expect the results we got, and our main championship rival actually scored really highly, which they hadn’t done at Thruxton.

The situation now is one of those that it is what it is. We’re still fourth in the points which is not bad but are trying to win the championship. There is a 60 odd point deficit but however we now are into the Showdown part of the year where the points ramp up.

This year we’ve been hammering in podiums at pretty much every round and that’s all well and good. But now we need to do that and up the game a little bit. We must make sure we’re outscoring out main championship rivals to at least head the pile, so as to be in with a shot of taking the championship.

We’re now going to three tracks that we know from this year. Oulton was a triple podium for me. Donington was difficult because I had a crash, but I set the fastest lap of the weekend. And Brands Hatch was the best I’ve ever felt on this bike in two years. So, we’re going to known quantities, and I feel pretty good about it.”