Oulton Park: Rounds 10-11-12

It was a difficult weekend for the Oxford Products Ducati team at Rounds 10, 11 and 12 of the Bennett British Superbike Championship at Oulton Park. Tommy Bridewell had an extremely challenging weekend and had to settle for a 14th and two 11th places, dropping him to 5th in the BSB Championship standings.

Tommy Bridwell and the Oxford Products Racing team were hoping they had found the issue at Silverstone and were eager to get to Oulton and start off strong. However, they were having problems with the front tyre and finding a good, comfortable set-up to suit Tommy’s style at a track he is normally very strong at.

It has been frustrating and the team continued to make changes throughout the weekend but the results and progress just did not come as they had all hoped. Tommy qualified in 15th place for the opening race on Saturday; despite pushing hard Tommy raced a pretty lonely race to finish in 14th.

A slower lap time put him in 15th again for the second race of the weekend on Sunday. He got a good start and tried to make some progress through the pack; he was in a close battle with Gino Rea and managed to get 11th at the end of the 18-lap race.

He was promoted to 14th on the grid for the final race of the weekend but it is always difficult to be starting that far back and able to make strong progression. He worked hard as always but once again had to settle for 11th place.

Tommy Bridewell: “It really has been a difficult and frustrating weekend for all of us. We have literally tried everything and gone round in circles but nothing seemed to work. I feel disappointed for myself and the team as we gave it everything we possible could. It is just so disheartening.

We have to move forwards from here and look forward to Donington now where I took my first win. This was just a bad weekend at the office and we will bounce back stronger.”