Aye Gee Suzuki Racing's Josh Wainwright was back in the big points this weekend finishing fourth in this afternoon's race at the Lincoln circuit of Cadwell Park in the Metzeler National Superstock 600 Championship after qualifying on the second row.
The Sidcup rider was one of the series main contenders last year but this season has been nothing but a learning year with his move to a new team and new machine manufacture. 2011 has seem Wainwright on the new Suzuki, for which he runs the team name Aye Gee Suzuki in dedication of his main sponsor that has been with him since really the beginning of his racing career.
However the challenge is steep, apart from his team-mate nobody else is running a Suzuki in the series and as it is standard the team cannot reach out to others even the major team Relentless Suzuki due to the immense difference in equipment and setup.
Wainwright explains: “We've had two good results, but we are a year behind everyone. It's coming along, step by step but we're making so many changes I don't even know where I am sometimes but we're getting there.
“Cadwell is my favourite circuit other than from Brands GP, that's my local circuit. I don't know what it is about here but I always seem to get good results here, I don't know if it's my riding style. Even on the Kawasaki and the Yamaha in 09 with Seton I got my best result here. It's a promising track for me and hopefully get some good results this weekend.”
“At the last two rounds we really found a lot of momentum with setup issues; with knowing my riding style and the chassis setup. It's taken so long for us to get a setup on the Suzuki we've not looked at anything else. We went out on in morning warm up yesterday and put the wrong gearing in. We run the gearing that everybody was assuming that would be the right gearing but it was so wrong because it's so different to everything else.”
Despite not seeing the results on paper as he would like and seeing his old bike ahead of him, Wainwright likes a challenge and is looking forward to seeing the Suzuki eventually further up the field especially to give back something to all that have supported him.