Tyco Honda's Peter Hickman showed his had the raw pace to run with the fastest riders in British Superbikes last weekend at Cadwell Park but just couldn't find a way past the likes of Josh Brookes on the brakes to make it on to the podium.

Classed as an average privateer up until this year, Hickman first made inroads into the top seven or eight at Thruxton, which was put down to a wet track, but the Lincolnshire man has got faster and consistently faster as the rounds have progressed - culminating with his first front-row start on Monday.

“I’m really happy with the weekend. We qualified well and it was a really fast pace in both of Monday’s races. We were running 1:27s lap times all race – even on the last lap," said Hickman.

“In Monday’s first race Josh Brookes held me up a bit and started to gap me but then I chased him down and was back with him. He was so late on the brake though which made it impossible to pass but I’ve got to say I was really happy with my performance.

“In the second of Monday’s races, I ran with the leaders throughout the entire 15 laps  and it was much the same story – I had the pace to do the lap times but I didn’t quite have enough to put a move on any of them.”