Works Yamaha's Eugene Laverty admitted that double World Superbike race winner Carlos Checa just had the edge over him in both races yesterday at Silverstone and that he had to settle for a brace of seconds to consolidate his fourth in the championship.
Laverty pushed hard from the word go in both encounters but had to give best to Checa. It was a 40-point haul for the Toomebridge man, however, which he dedicated to his brother John who is still in hospital after his big Oulton Park crash a couple of weekend ago.
"Not a victory but two second places are quite good. In race one Carlos went by me and pushed on but I had some limits with the bike so I couldn’t really catch up. In the end, second place was more than enough. In race two I really wanted to push for a victory, especially to cheer up my brother John in hospital, but I’m sure he’s happy with my results," said Laverty.
"I had a better second race, I changed the tyre and there was an improvement. In the later part of the race I tried to move my body position on the bike and began to close in on Carlos, but when I did, he reacted. He had the edge on us today so he would have been extremely difficult to beat."
