Another double podium for Brookes

Tyco Suzuki’s Josh Brookes heads to Japan today [Monday], to prepare for the Suzuki 8-Hour at the end of the month with the Yoshimura Suzuki team. This all comes, following two more solid podium finishes during round five of the British Superbike Championship yesterday at Snetterton.

The Australian took his Tyco Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike to second and third places at the Norfolk venue and now holds thirds place with 172 points in the championship standings behind Shane Byrne [207] and Alex Lowes [175]. More importantly he is only ten ‘podium credits’ behind series leader Byrne as the Showdown over the final seven races of the season get’s ever closer.

Josh Brookes:

“I did feel I was able to have a go at the wins in both races, but the Safety Car coming out seems to upset my rhythm at times and in the second race I made a bit of a mistake when the win was possibly within my grasp. I’m now looking forward to testing at Suzuka this week before the 8-Hour at the end of the month, but as soon as I get back my focus will be back to Brands Hatch – where we need to get as many podium credits as possible and close the gap on Shakey and Alex.”

Philip Neill – Team Manager:

“It was a tough weekend for everyone with the unusually high track temperatures, however I feel our boys did as good a job as anyone finding a decent set-up with both our Superbikes and Taylor’s GSX-R600 Supersport bike. In race one Lowes just had that little bit extra over the 16 laps, however in race two it really did look as if Josh had something extra. I think we can safely say we were looking at a realistic race win, but unfortunately Josh made a little mistake, but these things can happen when you are pushing hard in the last six laps of a BSB race.”

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