Sixth place for Glenn Irwin maintains championship lead

Andrew Irwin

The weekend was reasonable I think, coming here I said to myself to aim to be inside the top six - in the first race we were fifth, and the second race we were fifth until the last few laps and then ended up seventh. Seventh maybe isn't ideal but after how things have been recently, we had another weekend with no mistakes and no incidents, so I'm taking that as a positive! The next rounds are at Donington Park where we were really strong at the start of the year, we've improved the new Fireblade since we were last there so we'll go there open minded and try and be in the top six again and closer to where I feel we should be. The team did a good job across the weekend as always, and we move to Donington Park with a positive mindset.

Glenn Irwin

The first race today, for sure it was annoying to have to retire, we've had a pretty perfect record with no crashes and that's a big part of the quest of what we want to achieve. In the last race I was doing some maths with the championship standings and I threw everything at it to try and pass Danny, which would have meant if Jason stayed where he was we would have been equal in the championship. But Lee passed Jason, which meant we've just kept the title lead. This was probably our weakest track so far, but it's a new bike and this year we didn't expect to be where we are. So I think we need to remind ourselves of that and we probably would have been happy with fifths and sixths here this weekend without the success we have enjoyed. That last race was the fastest of the weekend and I gave it all I could as I know what's at stake, I also felt I owed the team a stronger performance, I felt more ready before that last race after the set back. Thanks to the boys, we did make positive changes and it's the best the bike was all weekend, thank you. 

Tom Neave

It’s been a really testing weekend having not been here on the new Fireblade. We always knew we were going to be up against it, especially when there’s been a lot of lads who’ve been to Oulton prior to the weekend. We struggled a hell of a lot and we were just unfortunate not to have got it right this weekend. Luckily, the next round is Donington Park which I’ve won at this year, and also hold the lap record on the national circuit, so I do feel more confident going there and hopefully we can get the championship back on track and finish strong. The next few weeks I'm just going to make sure I work harder than ever before, so we arrive at the next round ready to go and put up a good fight for the championship. 

Davey Todd

In all honesty that was a really tough race, we pushed hard in that one to do something different, we made some massive changes in morning warm-up to try and get the bike dialled in, with a few big changes for the race again. To be honest it's just been against us this weekend, it's a different track than the ones we've been racing at all season, and it can be difficult to find a set-up over a race weekend. We did make a lot of progress and hats off to the guys, they worked flat out all weekend to give us a setting and we moved forward, it was just unfortunate with the results. We're getting there and will move onto the next round at Donington, we've been there before so we should be somewhere near and I can't wait for two weeks now.

Team Manager Havier Beltran

We knew Oulton Park was always going to be a challenge for us having not ridden here prior with the new Fireblade and it highlighted the areas we need to improve on. That said, we did make progress over the weekend but we seemed to be on the back foot and not able to challenge at the front. We are running a brand-new machine and we've enjoyed success, which I don't think anyone expected, so we need to remember that when we have a tough weekend. With Donington Park being the next round, we will be concentrating and looking at ways to improve and be strong at Rounds 13/14/15.