{"id":5694,"date":"2014-08-07T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2014-08-05T05:22:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:22:23","slug":"tough-weekend-for-tyco-suzuki-at-thruxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2014\/08\/tough-weekend-for-tyco-suzuki-at-thruxton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Weekend For Tyco Suzuki at Thruxton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Round six of the British Superbike Championship at Thruxton didn\u2019t quite produce the results or fulfil the expectations of all three Tyco Suzuki riders, but with more information logged, it\u2019s all about forward planning for Oulton Park this coming weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>

John Hopkins produced a pair of eighth placed finishes for his weekend\u2019s efforts, with Josh Waters taking 12th place in race two, which bettered his race one performance of 17th.\u00a0<\/span>

In the British Supersport class Taylor Mackenzie crashed out of Sunday\u2019s action but took eighth place in Saturday\u2019s sprint race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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John Hopkins:\u00a0<\/strong>

\u201cI did everything possible and rode as hard as I could to get away with the lead group in both races, but unfortunately we didn\u2019t have the speed down the multiple straights to pass the guys ahead. In the draft we no doubt had the pace to run at the front and we\u2019ve made steps to close the gap, but still weren\u2019t able to achieve the results we all are looking for as a team.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>

Josh Waters:\u00a0<\/strong>

\u201cIt was a tough weekend. In race two I was much better, moving forward and getting to 10th place before the red flag. The re-start was good to begin with but midway through I had an off feeling with the rear tyre. I kept battling throughout the race and all I can say is, I\u2019m looking forward to Oulton where I\u2019ll be looking to get back up to the sharp-end with the Tyco Suzuki team.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>

Taylor Mackenzie:
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\u201cI was disappointed to crash out of race two, as I feel like it\u2019s one of the best Supersport races I\u2019ve ridden. It was the best I\u2019ve been on the first two laps, which helped me massively. I\u2019m looking forward to getting back out at Oulton Park now and really showing what I can do on the GSX-R600.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>

Philip Neill\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Team Manager:\u00a0<\/span>

\u201cAlthough Thruxton did not deliver the results we were hoping for, once again we have some positives to take away from the round. John showed his ability with some impressive lap times in various sessions during the weekend; we just need to work on our consistency.\u00a0<\/span>

\u201cWe will continue to work as hard as possible for our next race at Oulton Park where we will be hoping to see an improvement on our current results. Taylor is starting to look like a top-five contender in the Supersport class and I believe he can now start to make the step forward and be consistently in that number for the rest of the year.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

via Team Suzuki Press Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Round six of the British Superbike Championship at Thruxton didn\u2019t quite produce the results or fulfil the expectations of all three Tyco Suzuki riders, but with more information logged, it\u2019s all about forward planning for Oulton Park this coming weekend.\u00a0John Hopkins produced a pair of eighth placed finishes for his weekend\u2019s efforts, with Josh Waters […] Read the full article »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055],"tags":[375,3824],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsports","tag-mbikebrandsuzuki","tag-mbikecategoryracing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}