Turning to the Superstock side of the garage Tom Neave took the winning tally of the new Fireblade to five wins so far this season across the BSB and Superstock classes. Making some changes for this morning's warm-up Tom was feeling confident for the 12-lap race and starting from seventh he wanted his second race win.
Racing through the exceedingly competitive Superstock 1000 field, Tom made up places with the start/finish line as his area of attack and on the penultimate lap he took the lead, where he eventually crossed the line to take his second win of the season and extending his championship points tally.
Describing his thoughts, Neave commented ‘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.’
The team will now look forward to the next round of the 2020 Bennetts British Superbike Championship, which takes place in two weekends time at Silverstone National on 4/5/6 September.
