The whole Jentin Racing/Lloyds British team celebrated a season-best performance by Simon Andrews who rode two fantastic races to secure a fifth and sixth place finish in round seven of the Bennetts British Superbike championship at Oulton Park on Sunday to consolidate his ninth place in the overall championship standings on 90 points.

Andrews produced his best qualifying position of the season and started the two British Superbike races from the middle of the second row.

Free practice was run in mixed weather conditions with both the sessions on Friday unfortunately disrupted by rain, never the less Andrews shrugged of the weather problem and put in some strong laps to finish in 10th place after running near the front of the field throughout both 50-minute sessions.

Saturday's final free practice was again run in wet conditions and with nothing to be gained from the experience Andrews sat it out in the garage preferring to wait for the sole qualifying period later in the day where the forecast was for dry weather!

On a drying track, but with the threat of rain always present, Andrews posted a string of consistently fast laps to complete his qualifying in an excellent sixth place for a second row start to the two 18-lap Bennetts British Superbike races on Sunday.

As the first of the two 18-lap affairs got underway Andrews held station in sixth place and gradually pulled clear of the pursuing pack of riders behind him. But when fellow Yamaha rider Karl Harris fell he moved up to fifth place, going on to complete the race in a fine fifth position, some 5.8 seconds ahead of pole setter Cal Crutchlow.

Encouraged by this fine performance, Andrews went out in race two with high hopes for a repeat performance. But his race was nearly over when he had a big moment at Old Hall Bend at the start of lap two. Andrews tussled with the R1 Yamaha and amazingly managed to keep it upright but lost seven places in the process.

A monumental fight-back followed which saw Andrews regain his position. He forged past Palmer at Old Hall on lap three and repeated the move two laps later on Scott Smart to move up into ninth position and chase after Michael Rutter passing him before the end of the lap. Andrews was in scintillating form and after passing both Harris and Laverty went on to pull a small gap and consolidate sixth place where he remained until the chequered flag.

"It’s been a good weekend for the team. Our goals for the year were to be top five and we finished fifth and sixth today so we are slowly creeping up the championship and not far off it," said Andrews. "We go to World Superbikes at Brands Hatch next, where our times put us in the top 10, with the amount of good quality riders this year I think if we come away with points we will be really happy."

Bernie Toleman, team manager said: " Fifth in race one was an excellent result for us - it equals the team’s best result of a couple of years ago and sixth in the second race, which again we are really pleased with.

"Simon had quite a moment at the end of lap two in race two which dropped him a fair way down the field but he fought back hard to finish sixth. So after a qualification of sixth and then fifth and sixth in the two races in anyone’s terms is an excellent weekend’s work. The way everyone in our team has worked has been just incredible; we seem to be going from strength to strength."