“Christian was very ill in the race and the last race he did an amazing job to come through from starting row five on the grid to fifth and in sight of the podium, particularly being very ill twice in the race including all over our motorcycle and his leathers. But that's washable, so we’re happy enough, and we’ve made massive progress. I can’t thank the team enough.”

Ben Currie scored his best result of the season at Donington Park this weekend. Although it may have had a low point, there were so many positives to take away, along with some silverware to boot.

Luck was certainly not on the team’s side today, with Ben Currie crashing out from the lead on the last lap of the Supersport race. Christian Iddon had made great progress in his last Free Practice session, and his Superbike got off to a brilliant start before ending prematurely after he was taken out by another rider early on.

“The Oxford Products Racing Ducati V2 was just awesome out there. We can take this result and use it for confidence for the rest of the season and try and keep this ball rolling.”

“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.”

Christian Iddon qualified in eleventh for today’s BikeSocial Sprint race at Oulton Park, which didn’t really do justice to his pace on the Oxford Products Racing Ducati. But a good start in the afternoon’s race saw him in the mix with several other riders, and he had climbed up as high as seventh by Lap 7.