BMW Motorrad's Leon Haslam has identified that controlling the amount of power his S1000RR World Superbike is the biggest problem he needs to fix in an attempt to win his first race of the 2011 season.

Haslam, who is in his first year with the squad, is fifth in the title table behind Yamaha's Eugene Laverty. It is a pleasing place to be for the Derbyshire man, given his results this year haven't set the world on fire and most of his struggles have come from the team's electronic setup.

"The problems stem from a number of things. When make the bike stable we can get on the podium as we did in Monza and Phillip Island and we can also finish top five too. That's not where we want to be as it's not amazing but the thing is stable," said Haslam, speaking to bikesportnews.com at Silverstone this afternoon.

"When we've tried to make the bike better it has become unstable, hence the ninth and tenth places - we are struggling to even compete. With me knowing the track, we are going to work from a stable package and see where we can go with it. I want to ride it like it is for most of Friday and see where that takes us."

Engine aggression and a lot of power are dovetailing to cause the S1000RR to be unstable, and Haslam says you need the electronics in order to be able to get the power onto the tarmac. You need complex electronics to control that aggression. Week in, week out trying to make the step up to winning races is hard and we are trying new things all the time.

"We are doing a lot of testing but it is bringing those results to racetracks which is the hardest thing. Our bike is very sensitive to temperature and grip levels. Sometimes you find a solution which a change in temperature can ruin which makes the job pretty difficult."