MCE British Superbike series leader Josh Brookes thinks there is no extra pressure as he enters the 2015 Showdown at Assen this year as his aim is always to win races no matter at which point of the season he is in.
The Milwaukee Yamaha rider, who is partnered by Jakub Smrz in Holland, has a two-point gap over the field but raced in the IDM series event at the Dutch track - albeit on a different spec of R1 - in August, setting his personal best lap in the process.
“I don’t feel any more pressure because it is the Showdown; I want to win races no matter what point it is in the season and I have put Oulton Park behind me now. At the last round I didn’t get the results I wanted for various reasons and it was a bit of a mess up compared to where we had been before that weekend,” said the Bringelly man.
“I try to apply a method to my racing and I want to be logical and calculated so I am thinking positively for Assen. I did the recent round of IDM there and it might be a different bike and different technical rules, but there must be some knowledge that I can take from there too. This should be a strong circuit for the Yamaha and if everything comes together then we have high expectations for this weekend.”
