Current Championship Position

 12th

Ben's Comments

"We turned up at Thruxton and it was dry, so thats already an improvement over Brands Hatch! Following the disaster that was the previous round I decided that some pretty dramatic changes to the bike were needed. Last year and going into this season we've listen to what other people had said about bike set-up and followed their advice... clearly this hadn't worked for me. It was now time to make some changes based on what I felt I needed to get the bike handling the way that I wanted it to. We completely changed the suspension set-up and imediately the bike felt much better... so much so that I could set the 2nd fastest time in the opening practice session. For the first time on the Triumph I could actually feel what the tyre was doing when I was on the throttle with the bike on its side! The rain returned for qualifying but in two dry races I manged to improve on my grid position each time out and really enjoyed racing the bike again. I should have pushed a little harder in the middle of race 2 as my lap times towards the end where quicker than the guys in front. I feel we made some big steps with the bike's set-up this weekend and now I need to carry the momentum on to future rounds and hopefully improve even further"