Rizla Suzuki's Tom Sykes snatched second place in the British Superbike series standings with a brace of second places at Cadwell Park this afternoon and is now targeting more silverware for the rest of the season.

The Huddersfield rider, who is now 110 points behind Airwaves Ducati's Shane Byrne, has a five-point lead over HM Plant Honda's Leon Haslam. Both men have leapfrogged Cal Crutchlow, who has slumoped to fourth.

“In the first race I was passed and then lost a few tenths when the front wheel slid at the hairpin," said Sykes. "There weren’t enough laps left to catch it back again. In the second race Leon got past me cleanly and then we had a hard fight right to the end but it is very tight and narrow around Cadwell Park and I didn’t want to risk a dangerous overtake and ended up second again.

“It’s a good double rostrum for Rizla Suzuki, although I would have liked to have won a race to say thank you to the team for all its efforts. Second in the title race is what we want and from here on in I’ll be getting my finger out to bring home more silverware. We all want more race wins.”