Thruxton race report

Thruxton has been kind to us this year… sort of.

SBK

Christian Iddon showed great pace all weekend at the teams’ local round at Thruxton and held those stable lap times throughout all the races.

For everyone unfamiliar with Thruxton circuit, once the lead group break away it’s hard to regain the gap so qualifying is key. Unfortunately, we had a terrible qualifying and started 17th on the grid making Christian's job a lot harder.

I think we recovered well, and his pace was good, scoring points in all three races (13th/9th/10th) and finishing Sunday's set of races as top Ducati.

We are now ninth in the championship and now focus on Cadwell Park in two weeks’ time.

SSP

Ben Currie also showed good pace all weekend and qualifying 4th ahead of Saturday race in which Ben took his maiden victory on the Ducati V2!

His win marked the first time Ducati has won a British Supersport race since 2006 when Sean Emmett won at Croft.

But Ben's times unfortunately only secured us seventh on the grid for the Sunday race so we knew he had some work to do. It was a tremendous race and Ben wasn’t looking clear to win but with three laps to go Ben made his move from fourth to first and lead the rest of the way bringing home Ducati’s first ever double podium slot at Thruxton racing circuit!

We are currently leading the Supersport championship by 14 points and have confidence moving to Cadwell.

BTC

Ollie Walker was also back on form at Thruxton, staying inside the top 5 all weekend and finishing 4th in Saturday’s race after losing the lead group.

Sunday was a new day and Ollie fought hard from the start of the race to keep with the main pack and the top four broke away from the rest of the field, Ollie took 2nd place with an awesome move into the last set of corners.

Currently 6th in the championship, his next outing will be at Oulton Park on the 17th of September.