World Superbike 2006 - Round Five - Silverstone

Troy left Brands Hatch both frustrated and disappointed. Thanks to tyre problems in both 25-lappers, all he could show for his endeavours was a pair of sixth places and that meant he was unable to close the gap on the leaders in the championship. Runaway series leader Troy Bayliss (Ducati) and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha) dominated the races, taking one win apiece. It was win number nine for Bayliss, but remarkably it was Haga’s debut win of the season. In race one, Bayliss finished over one and a half seconds ahead of local crowd favourite James Toseland (Honda), with Haga third. Fourth was Pitt (Yamaha), with Kagayama (Suzuki) and Troy sixth. In the second race, Haga’s margin of victory over Bayliss was a mere tenth of a second. Third was Pitt, with Laconi (Kawasaki) fourth, Toseland fifth and Troy sixth.

TROY - Race 1: 6th, Race 2: 6th

"It’s hard to say how I feel after a day like today. I suppose I’m both disappointed and frustrated because I expected so much more. In a way, today was a bit like Brno. There I felt I was better then the bike, and here at Brands I felt the same. The problems in both races were the same - tyres. The rear tyre went off in race one after ten laps and from then I just couldn’t keep up with the leaders.

"I was faster in some places then James (Toseland), but once he got past, I found it difficult to re-pass him. I was happy enough with the front tyre, so we kept the same one for race two, but we changed the rear to the hardest one available. The bike felt a bit better, but once again I found it hard to maintain the same pace as the leaders.

"Something has got to change, because I don’t like being in this position. I’m going to do extra training over the next three weeks and see if that helps at all, but I don’t want to finish the season unable to run with the top guys.

"See ya."

Troy

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