Michael Laverty believes the Tyco BMW team have found what they had been missing after the opening Showdown round at Assen and is now ready to come out fighting for his first win of the MCE British Superbike Championship season at Silverstone this weekend (2/3/4 October).

Laverty has been hunting a feeling throughout the season to give him more confidence to push forward with the Tyco BMW as the team continue their development programme, but after a third place finish at Assen, confidence is high ahead of the next two Showdown races.

Laverty said:

"I am really content ahead of this weekend as I have been chasing a feeling with the bike all year and at Assen we found what we were looking for, so I am feeling really quite satisfied and ready for this weekend. I think we also haven't found the full potential either; at Assen the conditions were changeable and that means we still have plenty of scope to make further improvements. We can arrive this weekend and hopefully be right on the money and we want more podiums from this weekend that's for sure.

"I think going into this weekend the top step has to be my goal because it is definitely on the horizon. The BMW has to be one of the fastest bikes out there and so we can't wait for the Hangar Straight this weekend! I feel that this track will be one where we can beat the Yamahas and the Kawasakis because of the top end speed. I think Josh [Brookes] is on a roll at the moment and is the rider to beat but he will have to put up a fight this weekend.

"The weather played a big part at Assen and this weekend I think we are going to see two big battles for the wins. From a team point of view I know Tyco BMW are ready to fight for the podium with both myself and Tommy [Bridewell], we know Shakey will want to get one over on Josh too. Then you have to thrown into the equation Christian Iddon, Luke Mossey and Dan Linfoot who will want a better weekend after Assen. That's going to be one big freight train on Sunday!"