A consecutive trio of seventh place finishes for Christian Iddon at Oulton Park

Race 1
Christian Iddon lined up for Saturday’s BikeSocial Sprint Race at the front of Row 4 in tenth. By the end of the first lap around the 2.692-mile circuit Christian was up three places, a position he held to the flag.

Race 2
Christian was unfortunate in the opening race on Sunday into the first corner and initially dropped from seventh down to 13th, but he was soon past Luke Stapleford (Yamaha) to move into eleventh before going on pass Storm Stacey (Kawasaki) on the following lap to move inside the top ten.

Lap 3 saw Iddon pass Jack Kennedy (Yamaha) to go ninth with Jason O’Halloran (Yamaha) next in his sights and by lap 6 Iddon was eighth and in the chasing pack behind Josh Brookes (BMW) and Ryan Vickers (Yamaha).

The race was then put on hold as the safety car came out on lap 14 after Stacey crashed out. Christian was able to hold his position after the restart and went on to take another seventh at the flag. 

Race 3
Iddon started seventh and momentarily lost the position to O’Halloran before taking the place back later in the opening lap. 

Christian was running in the leading group of riders but on Lap 8 he was once again demoted to eighth after Vickers took the position.

As the race neared its conclusion the leading pack of eight riders had split to form four separate battles. Iddon was able to get the better of Vickers by 0.011s across the line to score a consecutive trio of seventh-place finishes. 

Christian Iddon (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #21)
“The weekend started out quite difficult, I couldn’t really get any feeling or sensation with the bike. We worked really hard and found a base that seemed to work reasonably well. It’s pretty much all we had this weekend. 

It’s another semi-frustrating weekend because I want to be at the front fighting for podiums and wins and we’re still a little bit off that. We have made progress, it’s just another one of those ‘what could have been’ weekends. I think that I’m extracting plenty from the package. 

We just need to keep on trying to regroup, push forward and not lose sight of where we think we can be and what we think we can achieve. We need to continue to keep on pushing on.”

Second for Ben Currie in the Oulton Park Sprint Race as he extends his championship lead

The Oxford Products Racing Ducati team returned to Oulton Park this weekend, and Ben Currie was immediately on the pace onboard his Panigale V2, finishing the two Free Practice sessions in first and second respectively, before going on to claim pole in qualifying.

Sadly, Ben was unlucky to not extend his run of consecutive race wins to five, and after leading every race lap it was a small mistake in the final one that cost him victory.

During the race there was drama for championship on Lap 7 when Richard Cooper (Yamaha) crashed out taking out title contender Rhys Irwin (Suzuki) from third.

Ben came under pressure Tom Booth-Amos (Kawasaki) as the race neared its conclusion, and when he made a small error at Knickerbrook on the final lap Booth-Amos was able to snatch the lead and race win.

Ben crossed the line in second place but with Irwin out of contention Ben was able to extend his championship advantage at the top of the standings over the Suzuki rider from 44 points to 66.

Ben Currie (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #61) – 2nd
“Really fantastic race. Led from start to finish. But unfortunately, I made one little error into the Knickerbrook chicane. Came round just a teensy little bit wide and got nicked. But solid second place in the championship and extended our points lead to 66. Couldn't be much better to be honest. So very happy and the Oxford Products Racing Ducati team’s working great!”

Four wins on the bounce for Ben Currie at Cadwell Park

Australian Ben Currie stormed to a consecutive double win on his Oxford Products Racing Ducati Panigale V2 today to take a commanding lead in the British Supersport championship.

A really good start from the front of row two saw Ben Currie immediately up the third behind championship contenders Luke Stapleford and Tom Booth-Amos as the trio went on to pull a gap.

But there was drama on lap six as Stapleford lost the front of his Kawasaki and crashed out from the lead at Charlies promoting Ben up to second behind Booth-Amos.

Currie kept the pressure on Booth-Amos, only for the Kawasaki rider to crash out on lap 11 at the same spot as Stapleford, promoting Currie to the lead.

With a 5.6s advantage over the rest of the field, Currie was able to manage the gap for the final quarter of the race take a double consecutive win to the delight of his team.

Ben's four wins in a row sees his gap at the top of the Supersport championship table now extend to 44 points ahead of Rhys Irwin (Suzuki) in second place.

Ben Currie (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #61) - 1st
"You get the win on the previous day, and you’ve got to sleep on that win, and you know you gotta do it again. I was just trying to stay focused and really work on myself, just trying to focus and hit my marks. It's a long championship so you don't want to make mistakes.

That race was geeing up to be a big one. I could tell the boys were really up for that one and pushing the pace from lap one. Luke was trying to break us, and we all went away from the rest of the pack. Unfortunately, I saw so Luke goes down just in front of us and then a few laps later Tom did the exact same thing, and I couldn't believe my luck. I was like well I'm just gonna bring it home.

It's unbelievable, four wins on in a row just out of nowhere. No, not out of nowhere, out of hard work. We've got ourselves an absolute weapon now and feeling super confident so I’m really, really happy.”

A trio of seventh place finishes for Christian Iddon at Cadwell Park

Race 1
The opening British Superbike race at Cadwell Park was a fairly uneventful one for Christian Iddon. The Oxford Products Racing Ducat rider had lined up on the grid in eighth position for the BikeSocial sprint race on Sunday but lost a couple of positions on the opening lap. But by lap four Christian passed Storm Stacey (Kawasaki) for seventh behind championship leader Tommy Bridewell (Ducati), a position that he held until the chequered flag.

Race 2
Christian started the first of the two 18-lap races on Bank Holiday Monday from the middle of Row Two in fifth but dropped down to seventh as the race got underway. On lap five Christian ran straight on at the chicane, with Race Control giving him a two second time penalty. 

The following lap saw Christian lose a position to Glenn Irwin (Ducati) which temporarily demoted him to eighth until race leader Ryan Vickers (Yamaha) crashed out on the same lap. 

Lap nine saw Christian run on at the chicane once more, picking up an additional two second time penalty from Race Control.

Christian went on to take the flag in a consecutive seventh, but his four second penalty did not affect his position as he had built up a gap of 4.833s over Josh Brookes (BMW).

Race 3
The final Superbike race of the weekend mirrored the first with Christian staring from eighth, holding the position as the lights went out. On lap eleven, he passed Stacey to move up into seventh. At this point he was two seconds behind local rider Lee Jackson (Kawasaki), going on to take his third seventh place finish of the weekend.

Christian currently sits ninth in the championship standings, twelve points behind Vickers in ninth but 61 clear of Jack Kennedy (Yamaha) in tenth.

Christian Iddon (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #21) "Not a great weekend, and not what we expect to be fair. It’s just frustrating that we’re quite close to the front, but not at the front. We’re just off the back of the lead group in every race. And that's kind of where we're at, just missing out. But we’re pushing really hard to try and find it.

It's just a little bit frustrating the moment because myself and the team are both capable of more than we're currently showing. Something is just not quite clicking but hopefully we can find that and rectify it for the last few rounds of the season starting at Oulton Park next time out.”

A third consecutive Supersport win for Ben Currie

Ben Currie arrived at Cadwell Park on a high after doing the double on his Panigale V2 last time out at Thruxton. And The Oxford Products Racing Ducati rider’s weekend got off to a great start at the Lincolnshire circuit, topping the opening FP1 session, finishing third in FP2 and going on to qualify on pole for the 12-lap Sprint Race.

Ben got good drive as the lights went out to secure the holeshot from pole and by the time he started his second lap he’d created a 0.672s gap over championship contender Rhys Iwrin (Suzuki) in second.

That gap had dropped to 0.4s approaching half race-race distance only for Irwin to crash out unhurt at Barn. This gave Currie a gap of over a second and half over Luke Stapleford and Tom Booth-Amos on their chasing Kawasakis. Ben managed the gap brilliantly starting the twelfth and last lap with a second in hand, and despite a back marker coming into play in the last section of the circuit he took the chequered flag and a third consecutive win, extending his championship lead over Irwin to 39 points.

Ben Currie (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #61) – 1st
“It’s hard around here. You’ve got to try and conserve some energy a little bit because once you start getting ragged, she's a really long lap around here. I caught the lapper at the mountain section, which I thought is not good timing because you cannot pass there. But fortunately enough I nipped inside in the hairpin and brought it home. But then I really lost the front in the last turn, so I nearly had flashbacks of Donington when I had a lead of three and half seconds and crashed on the last lap! 

I didn’t know Rhys had crashed out during the race but on the cool down lap I saw him sitting on the hay bales so shame to see Rhys go down like that. Obviously he was the guy behind me pressuring me at the start. I hope he's alright for tomorrow and we can keep going. 

Huge credit to the boys, three on the bounce, couldn't be more happy. The boys are just giving me the best bike to ride each weekend now and we can just keep this momentum going to tomorrow and hopefully beyond. 

Huge thanks to everyone that stayed up at home and tuning in live and to all my sponsors for helping me out. Roll on tomorrow."

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.