Josh Wainwright - Lloyd & Jones PR Racing BMW Round 7 - Brands GP

Josh Wainwright and the Lloyd & Jones PR Racing BMW continued to make improvements at round seven of the MCE British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch this weekend. Josh was 22^nd in race one and unfortunately crashed out of race two.

 

Josh was once again faced with a bit of an uphill struggled but still was able to take off around a second from his time from free practice one to two. Then another half a second in the third practice session on Saturday before qualifying, another 0.1 in qualifying saw him start race one from 25^th place.

 

He struggled off the start and dropped back some places he did start to get into a rhythm and was able to make a pass on multi British Champion Ryuichi Kiyonari. He worked hard and was able to set some consistent lap times and brought the BMW home in 22^nd place at the end of the 20-lap race.

 

Josh was placed on the back of the grid for race two which left him with a lot of work to do. He was working hard and made some positions but sadly had a big crash into the very fast Westfield corner. He walked away with no injuries but the BMW certainly took a beating.

 

Josh Wainwright - "It was a difficult weekend and I feel like we are always on the back foot as we have no data. Every session we are trying to learn everything quickly, I am having to adapt my riding style to ride the Superbike as it has so much power we almost need to tame it down.

 

The team worked hard again and maybe we made too many changes, we made some good progress in practice in qualifying but it never really turned into a result in the race. I was pushing hard in the second race and I really wanted to get in a battle with a few people but I just tucked the front and crash out quite heavily.

 

I'm sorry to have let the team down with the crash, it's not something I do very often but I know they have a lot of work to do before Cadwell and I think it's a good job we have a few weeks off.

 

I will continue to work hard at the remaining rounds and hopefully we can start to get some results."