Ben Currie does the double at Thruxton

Oxford Products Racing Ducati's Team Manager Iain Hopcroft reports back from the weekend's action at Thruxton

Superbike
Race 1 - 13th, Race 2 - 9th, Race 3 - 10th

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 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.  

Supersport
Race 1 - 1st, Race 2 - 1st

Ben Currie also showed good pace all weekend qualifying fourth ahead of Saturday's race in which he took his maiden victory on the Ducati V2!

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

But his lap 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.