Peter Hickman

Ultimate Racing rider Peter Hickman added to his points tally after a 12th place finish in the first of two races in round three of the British Superbike championship at Oulton Park on Monday. The Lincolnshire rider rounded off his weekend with 17th in the second race just outside a points scoring position.

Qualifying didn’t go quite so smoothly for Hicky who was unable to make it through to the final section and he had to be content with a fifth row start to the first 18-lap encounter.

Prior to the race Hicky explained: “The weekend has been going alright for me. The times in qualifying were really close and although we are not that far away we are just unfortunately not quite fast enough. We ended up 17th and made it through to Q2 but then snapped a shocker, which is really unusual. That happened at Clay Hill, which a really fast section of the course and I very nearly spat myself off. But luckily I caught it and saved the crash. But that was the end of that. I ended up in 17th place and to be honest I don’t think we would have moved any further forward so, we start the race from a fifth row grid position and see what we can do.”

As the first of the two races got underway Hicky made steady progress through to 11th position but was caught and passed in the closing stages by Tom Bridewell who had been in for a ride through penalty after a jump start. Hicky ended the race in 12th place to pick up a further four championship points.

“I made my best start of the season, at least I went away with my grid row this time,” said Hicky. “The Yamaha R1 is difficult to get off the line but I came around the first lap in more or less the same position before making my way forward. The bike isn’t quite set up the way I want it as I am struggling with front end chatter. It is getting better but we are not quite there yet. But we finished the race in the points so we have to be happy with that.”

The second race didn’t go quite so well for the Lincolnshire ace and he ended up in 17th place at the flag. The race was affected by continuous showers and although Hicky started from the fourth row this time he had handling problems with the Ultimate Racing Yamaha R1.

“The second race didn’t go so well for me because I was having a problem with the front slipping away from me. We just went the wrong way with the suspension but it’s a lesson learnt so that shouldn’t happen again! The weather conditions didn’t help but at least we finished the race albeit not in the points.”

The series moves on to Cadwell Park for round four on May 23 when Hicky will be looking for two good results from his home round, just a few miles up the road from his home, to add to his points tally.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 at 9:05 am and is filed under , News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.