Race 1: Karl Muggeridge finished in tenth place in race one of the fifth round of the World Superbike championship at Silverstone.

Muggas got a pretty good start and made up a few places on the first lap but couldn’t keep the pace of the front group mainly due to grip problems and therefore slowly got shuffled back to tenths position.

Muggas comments: “I was pretty happy with the start but that alone doesn’t win you a race. We got the steering of the bike improved but lost the grip again, it’s just out of balance and we struggling to find the right direction. As that wasn’t enough problems about two thirds of the race the bike developed an ignition problem which meant it didn’t rev as high as it should. I lost some top speed and couldn’t do anything about getting passed by a couple of other riders, which was pretty frustrating.

Frenchman Laconi took his first victory of this season with six times winner Corser in second and last years World Champion James Toseland in third. Muggeridge’s team-mate Vermeulen finished in fourth position and was able to close the gap to second in the championship down to 8 points.

Race 2: Karl Muggeridge, repeated his performance of the first race and finished again in tenth position in the second race here in Silverstone at round five of the World Superbike Championship.

Muggas seems to have sorted his start problems he used to have the last couple of rounds and got away pretty good again making four positions into the first corner. The bike felt pretty good for the first third of the race and enabled Karl to hold 7 position for a few laps until ge started getting grip problems on the rear again and had to be happy with bringing home another 10th place.

Muggas comments: “We made some changes after race one and the bike was definitely feeling a bit better. But around ten laps before the end, the grip at the rear just seemed to drop off – especially at the hairpin and again coming out of the chicane. It made changing direction pretty difficult but the bike was holding a better line through the faster sections. For sure, the results are disappointing after the progress we made at Monza but there’s a long way to go, a lot still to learn and I’m looking forward to testing some new parts in Magny Cours to improve on what we learnt this weekend..”

Ronald ten Kate – team manager: “I have to admit that our results today have not met the expectations we had following our performances in Monza. It looks like the handling of the bike in first few laps of the race is causing us some problems but hopefully we can look at that when we go testing at Magny Cours in France next week. We have a lot of new parts to test there and this will be our first real opportunity to try things outside a race weekend. We’re looking to improve the bike in a few areas and hopefully put the two riders into winning positions. We need to change some things quickly to get back to our winning ways but there are still 14 races left and a lot of points up for grabs.”