Team Suzuki Press Office – August 30.
Tommy Bridewell took a brace of top-five finishes on his Bennetts Suzuki
GSX-R1000 at Cadwell Park and round eight of the MCE British Superbike
championship on Bank Holiday Monday, as he kept his challenge for a
place in the Showdown alive.
Bridewell started from seventh place on the grid for the weekend's
opening race, and made a series of overtakes at a circuit that is
notoriously difficult to pass at, to put himself in contention for a
podium finish.
Bridewell battled all the way to the flag to secure a solid fourth
placed finish, and more importantly, kept a number of his fellow
Showdown challengers behind him.
In race two, he found himself embroiled in a fight for fourth place.
Holding sixth on the final lap; a late move into the Old Hairpin saw him
snatch fifth and he held it to the line to take a solid haul of points
from the weekend's action.
Tommy Bridewell:
“The results this weekend actually makes Brands Hatch an even bigger
disappointment, because a worst of third in race one there and a
top-five and maybe even another podium in race two, would have meant
we'd be in the Showdown now or very close to it after these results. I'm
happy with the way I'm riding, and credit to the team because they've
worked really hard to go from a disappointing start to the season to
front-runners. The bike's mega; chassis and set-up wise. I think we've
got one of the best out there, and you can see that on TV with how late
we can brake and the corner speed we're able to carry. I passed people
on the outside at the end of the back straight into Park and I'm that
confident with the package we have put together. The area we just need
to work on is getting out of the corners. But we've now got just three
races to make the Showdown. It would have been nice to have been on the
podium today, and I could have done with beating [Peter] Hickman in the
last race, but we had a lot of Showdown contenders behind us, and
hopefully we can get three good results and a bit of good luck at Oulton
to get ourselves in there.”
Martin Halsall - Bennetts Suzuki Team Owner:
“I'm really proud of our performance again this weekend. Tommy's ridden
superbly well, he's gone faster than he's ever gone around Cadwell Park
and as a team it's been our best weekend here. A podium would have been
nice, but you don't get given them in BSB and we raced hard for the
results that we got, and we beat a lot of our rivals who are also
pushing for a Showdown spot. It's still going to be incredibly
difficult, but all we can do is try again at Oulton Park, beat who we
need to beat, and hopefully get the rub of the green to elevate
ourselves into the top six.”
Race One Result: 1. Shane Byrne, 2. Leon Haslam, 3. Jason O'Halloran, 4. Tommy Bridewell (Bennetts Suzuki GSX-R1000), 5. Glenn Irwin.
Race Two Result: 1. Leon Haslam, 2. Jason O'Halloran, 3. Shane Byrne, 4. Peter Hickman, 5. Tommy Bridewell (Bennetts Suzuki GSX-R1000).
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