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Brands BSB: 'Turns out we have got a race-winning bike' - Ellison

Anvil TAG's James Ellison was pleasantly surprised by his pace at the Donington Park Bennetts BSB season opener as the Kendal native wasn't sure how competitive his Yamaha R1 would be.

As it turned out, Ellison managed to stick it on the podium in the opening race and goes to this weekend's Brands Hatch round full of confidence.

“I’m really excited for this weekend, I was pleasantly surprised at Donington Park because we still had some work to do to make it into a race winning bike. I was happy running at the front, but I didn’t think we had a winning bike as of then, turns out we did. Although we didn’t win the race it proved it wasn’t far away at all, we still have some development work to complete, so we’re only going to keep moving forward," said Ellison.
 
“I do go well at Brands Hatch Indy, and the only issue with that is expectations are really high, so if we don’t win or set a lap record then people are disappointed. We are heading into this weekend knowing we still have work to do and must focus on making the bike stronger than it was at Donington. We’re under no illusions that it’s going to be easy just because I hold the lap record or that it’s a good circuit for me and the bike is working well at the minute.
 
“The aim is to win races, my expectations aren’t too high but I’m confident it’s going to be a good weekend. The goal is to win races, that’s always the goal and my main focus. We’ll know a lot more after FP1, but I’m heading there confident and very excited.”

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