Josh Brookes

“It has been a very much up and down weekend; the opening practice was terrible! We had lots of issues with brakes and just the general setup of the bike wasn’t particularly favourable. The second session was far better, we were sixth in the times; the brakes were improved, not fixed but improved and the general settings of the BMW were pretty much nearly how we ran the rest of the weekend. Where things came undone for us was when it started to rain. I didn’t go too bad in qualifying in seventh, that was probably the best the bike felt in the rain. The bike was half and half, for the first half of the race I went with intermediate tyres and felt really good, I was moving forward towards the end of the race and with eight laps to go, I set the fastest lap of the race, so it was all showing good progress. But then the rain came, so then we were on full wets, and I just went backwards, or whatever we’ve done with the bike which wasn’t anything I can really put my finger on, but it reduced our performance. Fortunately, we had two dry races on Sunday, where in the final race we showed good progress and we had signs of improvement. It’s an odd one as we started the weekend where we finished really, as we were in the top five/six from the beginning of the weekend, but the weather put us back, so we did make progress with the setup and feeling, it just didn’t reflect on the times and being able to move further up.”

Peter Hickman

“The weekend was as to be expected really, I’m not in a great place at the minute so I just wanted to keep riding, keep doing laps and laps, and laps! And try not to focus on the position too much, just have the feeling of me on the bike, which we’ve done to be fair I feel a bit more comfortable again. I actually had a bit of a race in the last race and not just riding around by myself, we weren’t in the position that we want to be racing for don’t get me wrong, but at least I was having a better race. So yeah overall, it’s not been too bad a weekend, it would have been nice to have got the 10^th on Saturday in the rain without slipping off, but hey that’s the way things go sometimes but overall it’s been positive weekend.”

Faye Ho

“The weekend has been a real solid weekend for the team and I think will have built moral across both sides of the garage. It’s not been an easy start to the season for us, but to come away from the weekend with Josh collecting solid points and now in the top-ten standings, and Pete looking comfortable on the bike and enjoying riding again, is a good outcome and something we can most certainly move forward with. I’m so pleased for Jamie too at the weekend, she came back to racing after that awful incident at Oulton Park and really impressed everyone with her results. This weekend was her first finish in the F 900 R Cup, after not finishing in Spain and then Oulton, so to celebrate her first finish in a new class, on a new bike in 12th place – just outside the top-ten is a huge achievement and one she should be super proud of.”