Ryuichi Kiyonari and Tommy Bridewell will start the first race at Oulton Park from the fourth row of the grid on their Bennetts Suzuki GSX-R1000s, after a wet and tricky qualifying session for the second round of the MCE British Superbike Championship today.

In conditions that caught out a number of riders, Kiyonari and Bridewell kept their GSX-R1000s upright, while ensuring a competitive grid-spot for tomorrow’s opening race. Kiyonari will start from 10th place, after he narrowly missed out on Q3 in the dying moments of Q2, while Bridewell will start alongside him on the grid in 11th place.

However, with competitive and consistent times posted in both the wet and the dry in the free practice sessions, both riders are confident and positive of improving on their positions when racing starts tomorrow on Bank Holiday Monday.

Ryuichi Kiyonari:

“This weekend so far we have made progress in every session, and in the small amount of dry track time we have had, we’ve made improvements with the chatter we had at Silverstone. But our pace is good in the wet and in the dry. The conditions were difficult in qualifying and I had a little issue with our set-up, but it is no problem and we’ve fixed it for tomorrow. I feel good and I’m ready to race.”