Buildbase Suzuki’s Kyle Ryde demonstrated podium pace during the weekend’s Bennetts British Superbike action at Snetterton but fell foul of circumstance.

The youngster, who is still in his blue riband class infancy, took a front-row start for Saturday’s race but slipped down the ortder but remedied that in race to and finished two seconds away from the win.

“I felt like there was a trophy there today. We had good pace but just had a bit of bad luck. But I’m not upset about it; there are plenty of positives to take away,” said Ryde.

“I’m still learning how to ride a Superbike properly and again we qualified on the front row and it was looking good in the first race until we had a sensor playing up. But the second race was good. I think we had the pace to go with the front four but I just got stuck behind [Christian] Iddon and he was hard to pass.

“I could see he looked like he was struggling a bit but he’s not easy to get by, and in the end we ended up two seconds off the win and that was the time we lost in the middle part of the race. And in the third race, again it was just a bit of bad luck and probably a bit of my inexperience.

“The bike got hot and water was coming out of the overflow and I thought it might have been another stone through the radiator like Donington, but I think actually it’d got a bit hot from being in the slipstream a lot.

“I pulled off the line, checked it out, it cooled down, so I got my head back down again. But it’s starting to come, I’m learning all the time, our pace has been good every time we’ve gone out, so hopefully we can bring a trophy home next time.”