Thruxton points haul for Honda Racing UK

Glenn Irwin

Overall it's been a good weekend, we've had a 4th, 6th and another 4th, so in terms of points it has been good. The second race today was a strange one, the bike didn't change from yesterday but for some reason we struggled throughout the whole of the race. We made some changes for the final race and it was better, at the start there were some riders being over eager, which stopped me from getting closer to the front guys and getting away with them. I then had to plan the race, be smart and work out a realistic position, which I thought was fifth, then Pete [Hickman] went out and it was fourth. I was pleased with how the Fireblade was in the final race and to rebound and pass so many people is enjoyable and makes our Showdown challenge much stronger, which is always the goal. We're now heading to the teams' home round, which is nearly mine as we don't have one at home, so I'll take Cadwell Park as mine! 

Ryo Mizuno

It was a very good weekend. This time we were able to solve the problems session by session and the process to the final race was very good. It was also the first Q2 of the season, we scored points in every race, and the fact that we were able to improve our position race by race. I would like to look again at what has changed from the previous round and work towards the next so that we can improve more consistently. I would like to thank the team staff for their hard work across the weekend.

Takumi Takahashi

We tried a different set-up in the morning warm up, which improved my feeling a little, but in Race 2 I didn't have a good pace right from the start and couldn't improve my place. We tried something different for race three and got the best feeling of the weekend and I think we made progress to finish in the points, so we'll be aiming for even higher positions in the next race at Cadwell Park.

#68 Tom Neave

It's been an extremely difficult weekend, and I'm disappointed. I came into the weekend with high expectations and we just couldn't achieve those. I've been struggling with a shoulder injury and it's really hampered our progress across the weekend. I need to get it looked at ahead of the next round and come back fitter, stronger and ready to fight at Cadwell Park. It's my home round and favourite on the calendar, we're only at the halfway point of the season and I'm positive we can build and come back from this. The lads have proved what the Fireblade is capable of here at Thruxton, so this weekend is one of those; we move on and come back stronger.