Milwaukee Yamaha’s Josh Brookes kicked off the Cadwell Park weekend in style today (Friday) as the Australian topped both of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship free practice sessions, lapping inside the existing circuit record to hold the advantage.

Brookes was the only rider to post a lap time in the 1m:26s barrier and his fastest lap of the second session gave him an 0.415s advantage over nearest rival Danny Buchan ahead of tomorrow’s Datatag Qualifying session.

Josh Brookes

“The session felt different this morning, even a bit slippery – we did a really fast time at the test just a week ago so we expected to be similar and do much the same. I found it difficult and we thought it might have been a tyre thing, but a different one felt the same so it definitely wasn’t that. We played around with a few settings in the afternoon session and everything seemed to be better.

“We then went back to what we had this morning and it was better again as the track improved. We are going to try something different now tomorrow as we know the setting we have got is comfortably good enough to race tomorrow. Whilst we have that luxury we are going to try something a little more out of the window to see what we can achieve, it might work, it might be a waste, but its all down to trying.”