Tyco Suzuki's Josh Brookes was held back by the return of chatter in this afternoon's second MCE British Superbike session and says he needs to do some work this evening to try and eliminate it the third session tomorrow.

The Bringelly man finished today in third place and only a quarter of a second behind fastest man Alex Lowes but says a lot more time will be found when the track rubbers in and he gets rid of the annoying vibration.

"It wasn't a bad session by any means but it was a bit of a dive as all morning was wet and the water just washed the track so then when you go out in the dry it's clean with no rubber down, which is the opposite of what you want," said Brookes, speaking to bikesportnews.com at Silverstone.

"Every lap the track was changing and so was the grip. Towards the end, I could push harder as more people laid down more rubber but we got some chatter and until we cure that we are at a bit of an impasse. I can't ride through it or switch it off.

"It's on the the most annoying things to get and something we struggled with at Assen for the first day and a half which we put down to an experimental fork setting which we had been given by Ohlins to try, which we did and it didn't work so we went back.

"Now this weekend we have got chatter, which isn't a surprise as Silverstone is quite bumpy and we have ad it here before. The bumps set off the chatter and the bike doesn't get time to recover in the middle of the corner.

"We have got two seconds to find before we're on lap records but at the moment, the track isn't particularly good and a cool-ish day doesn't help either."