Honda’s Glenn Irwin took a risk with setup for the final Bennetts British Superbike race at Oulton Park but an early collision saw him pushed to the back of the field.

Getting his head down wanting to make up the lost places, Irwin worked aboard the Fireblade SP to make his way through the pack to come home 10th with a points haul of 23 over the weekend.

“It has been a testing weekend, but we are coming away having learnt a lot. The third race was probably our best ride of the weekend, we made a big change to the Fireblade taking a bit of a risk, but we wanted to try something to give us an insight here when we come back at the end of the year, and potentially at other circuits,” said the Irishman.

“The Fireblade was working really well in that race, but I had a collision on lap one with another rider which set me back to 20th and it was tough from there. Everyone we caught we were able to pass immediately.

‘It was a promising final race with our worst result of the weekend, but the best in terms of the development we managed to achieve with the Fireblade. Hats off to Jason with his three wins this weekend.

Team-mate Takumi Takahashi put on a brave face taking part in both of the day’s races, but with weakness in his shoulder having dislocated it during official testing, he pulled of race two but was in action for the final outing.

Ryo Mizuno, the team’s third rider, continued to push on learning the circuit but unfortunately crashed out during the second race and with swelling to his hand he was forced to miss the final race. After the crash, Mizuno was taken to the medical centre with initial X-rays showing no fractures, however the team will seek further medical advice next week once the swelling has gone down.