| Last to fourth for Brookes in Oulton Park opener |
Milwaukee Yamaha's Josh Brookes delivered a hard-charging performance in the opening MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship race at Oulton Park to carve his way through the pack from 30th on the grid to finish fourth.
Brookes had been setting the pace but a technical problem forced him out of qualifying action and he was to start from the back row for the opening race. The Australian fought his way through the pack to move into the top ten by the sixth lap before climbing to fourth by the end of the 18 lap race.
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"The start with Jon Ingram nearly crashing in to me was the first problem, I believe I could have got a far better start if that hadn't happened to me, more or less everything went as best it could, I made as many passes as I could, as often as I could and moved up to fourth on track. "The bike worked fine, I got the second fastest lap, and to do that the bike must have been working pretty good. When the tyre was in its best condition to do a good lap was when I was doing most of the passing so I couldn't have put in my best lap. To be second on the grid for the race tomorrow after all that I went through is proof enough that the bike is fine. We don't need to change much now – we just need to line it up on the grid tomorrow, start from the front and see what we can do." | |  |
1 Shane BYRNE - Kawasaki - PBM Kawasaki
2 James ELLISON - Kawasaki - JG Speedfit Kawasaki +0.780
3 Danny BUCHAN - Kawasaki - Be Wiser Kawasaki +1.784
4 Josh BROOKES - Yamaha - Milwaukee Yamaha +4.421
5 Dan LINFOOT - Honda - Honda Racing +10.605
6 Luke MOSSEY - Kawasaki - Quattro Plant Tec-care Kawasaki +10.820
7 Richard COOPER - BMW - Buildbase BMW Motorrad +11.590
8 Lee JACKSON - BMW - Buildbase BMW Motorrad +11.671
9 Michael LAVERTY - BMW - Tyco BMW Motorrad +14.628
10 Peter HICKMAN - BMW - RAF Reserves BMW +23.771
11 Chris WALKER - Kawasaki - Be Wiser Kawasaki +24.294
12 Martin JESSOPP - BMW - Riders Motorcycles BMW +25.970
13 Filip BACKLUND - Kawasaki - Anvil Hire TAG Racing Kawasaki +26.668
14 Josh WATERS - Suzuki - Bennetts Suzuki +31.071
15 Ryuichi KIYONARI - BMW - Buildbase BMW Motorrad +43.384
16 Julien DA COSTA - Honda - Honda Racing +53.350
17 Jed METCHER - Kawasaki - Gearlink Kawasaki +57.120
18 Shaun WINFIELD - Kawasaki - Anvil Hire TAG Racing Kawasaki +59.253
19 John INGRAM - Kawasaki - Morello Racing Kawasaki +1:18.487
20 Jenny TINMOUTH - Honda - Honda Racing +1:25.904
21 Aaron ZANOTTI - Yamaha - A-Plant Yamaha +1:28.254
22 Taylor MACKENZIE - Kawasaki - Team WD40 Kawasaki +1:31.395
23 Rhalf LO TURCO - Kawasaki - SBKCity Kawasaki +1 Lap
