Looking back over the last few rounds, we have had our fair share of ups and downs. Donington started reasonably well, qualifying 5th but fading in the race due to a problem with my arms which turned out to be a trapped nerve in my shoulder. The weekend was a good shake down for my new bike which JT and the team had burned the mid night oil prior to that weekend to get ready.

Thruxton was a fantastic weekend, I initially didnt look to be so fast, but we were working on a race set up on Friday. Come Saturday we fired some rubber in and went straight to P1, all session until the soft tyres came out when I didnt get the most out of them and dropped to 5th. The afternoon was fantastic, again setting the pace on race tyres and when I had my soft tyres I had grip, and I put the lap of my life in to get pole and the fastest ever 600 lap!!!

The race was good, just not perfect! I got the holeshot and tried to check out and at one point had broke the field by 1.5 seconds. I set a new lap record which I am proud to have but got caught on lap 10 of 16 after a couple of mistakes. I led lap 12-14 but then another slip up at church on the penultimate lap messed up my rhythm and I finished 4th. I moved up the championship to 6th.

Now we head to Snetterton round 5 where I will look to improve upon Thruxton. It has been confirmed im doing Donington WSS and I am so excited to have this opportunity. To ride against the best riders in the world will be a fantastic chance to shine. After visiting Monza last month the world championship is really where I want to be in the near future. After Donington we go straight to Knockhill, my favourite track…. I had two podiums at those tracks last year so keep watching….

Anyone who is going to be any of the rounds please come to our garage and say hello.

thank you

James