Sensational wins for the all-new Fireblade at Snetterton

Andrew Irwin

You can look at this weekend and take all the negatives, or you can focus on the positives. I came here and we were always going to struggle starting from the back of the grid after the penalty from Donington. In today's third race, I wrecked the tyre trying too hard, we missed out on information from yesterday's race and the first race today, but it's a weekend where we had pace and we showed that. We can go to Silverstone now and continue to show the pace we do have, we're one of the fastest teams' in this class, and we have to keep believing and getting stronger. 

Glenn Irwin

Getting my first win feels really good, it almost feels as good as the second places we've had! The seconds have felt like victories as we've always extended our championship lead, but this one was super-sweet, I really wanted that win and enjoyed how well the Fireblade was working. Getting the win is sweet and it's a testament to how hard the team and myself work. The team is amazing there's no egos whatsoever and everyone from either side of the garage, the Superstock 1000 team; we all work together, I'm really enjoying it and keeping our feet on the ground. 

Tom Neave

I'm absolutley over the moon to be able to turn the weekend around with a win, I felt like I was really up against it until warm-up this morning. Fair play to the team for turning the bike upside down and giving me a package that worked and gave me the confidence to get the job done, as soon as I did that time in warm-up I knew I could fight for a win, so it gave me that boost I needed. I kept my head down the whole race and timed everything to perfection. I knew where I was weak and strong, and at the last turn I was able to get lined up to get the best drive up the start/finish straight, so it was a case of sitting on the back wheel into the last corner and slipstreaming into the line and playing my cards right. The new Fireblade is so strong and it was everything I wanted a bike to be in that race. 

Davey Todd

I'm a little disappointed to be honest, we had unreal pace - pace to win the race, to be at the front and at least battling for the win. At the start I got pushed wide at turn 2, which set us back a little bit, I tried to make my way through and I was just eager to get there, so made a few silly mistakes which set us back a bit more. We can take the positives from it though, the Fireblade was great it worked really well and the last four laps were my strongest laps of the race, it's working well for race distance, we've just got to get in the mix a little more. I'm still learning race craft being back at BSB, so that's the main thing, if I keep working on that, the bike is good, we have pace and lap times so we come back next time stronger.  

Team Manager Havier Beltran

We left Donington Park leading BSB and joint-first in the Superstock championship and unfortunately this weekend we have had a few issues in the Superbike class, we're going to work through them and we believe we can come out the other side fighting strong. We now leave Snetterton leading both the Superstock and Superbike classes, and what another strong weekend for the all-new Fireblade and the team. We know we've got some work to do, and know we have areas to improve, but this is a great start to the championship for Honda Racing.