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Josh Brookes places fourth overall in 2009 BSB
Championship despite missing three meetings |
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Josh Brookes places fourth overall in 2009 BSB
Championship despite missing three meetings |
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Josh Brookes places fourth overall in 2009 BSB
Championship despite missing three meetings In the first of three races at Oulton Park, run on Saturday, Josh Brookes was unlucky to encounter a technical problem on the second lap whilst negotiating Cascades and running in a strong second place. Shortly afterwards the race was red flagged for an incident involving Karl Harris and a reduced 12 lap race was run, but because Josh was not circulating when the race was stopped he was not permitted to re-start. Race two, the first of two outings on Sunday, didn't go according to plan for the HM Plant Honda rider. Josh fell back from an initial fifth place in the early stages to complete the 16 laps in seventh position. Race three gave the team its best results of the weekend in the Superbike class with Josh claiming third place for the ninth time in the current campaign and teammate Glen Richards improving yet once again to end his season with an eighth in the final race. The race was once again disrupted by a red flag, this time on the first lap. After a lengthy delay the race was re-run over a shortened distance of 12 laps with Josh holding third for the majority of the laps while Glen rode to another strong result in eighth position, despite an aching leg from his earlier season injury. Josh Brookes "It's been both a good and frustrating weekend, but I'm pleased to have finished the final race of the season on the podium. We've got a good base setting with the bike but we've been using our time at the races to also try some different set-up directions, which sometimes we get right and sometimes we don't get the result we were looking for, so this has affected my ability to be as consistent as both me and the team would have liked from weekend to weekend. In the first race today I didn't feel comfortable with our chosen settings at all, but for race two we made some changes and I felt I was able to push much harder." Glen Richards "It felt good to be back racing again but Oulton is a track where you have to be ‘on it' most of the time and my leg has certainly felt that this weekend. In the first race today I cannot believe I was so stupid. The pace car came out which I used as an opportunity to give my leg a bit of a rest, but the only problem was I was still thinking about my leg rather than realising the car had gone in and lost a load of time. I think it's the most embarrassing thing I have ever done in my race career! Going into this weekend I wasn't sure how much my leg would be able to stand up to. I'm frustrated that I wasn't able to do better but happy that I gave it my all and was able to return for the last race of the season and finish all three races with reasonable positions." British Superbike Championship 2009 - Final Standings
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