Yamaha Racing's Tom Sykes has admitted he is learning from mistakes during his rookie World Superbike season but is determined not to let them happen again, especially during qualifying.

The Huddersfield youngster left Valencia with a brace of top ten finishes but says that an error during qualifying meant he had to claw his way through the field in both outings.

“I got a good start in race one and got past a few in turn one. It was a fairly decent race in the end, I think I could have gone for fifth but Leon Haslam had done a good job in the last few laps and made a big gap," said the ex-Rizla Suzuki man.

"I think we could have been in the top five otherwise. For me it was very difficult in race two, I had a good start, but going into turn two I was held and others came round the outside and went through. I worked my way back up to ninth and was looking good and catching up with Neukirchner but unfortunately got so close to Biaggi and just as we were going into turn one I ran wide a bit and let two or three past.

"I’ve learnt from my mistakes this weekend, I messed up in qualifying and potentially cost myself two very good results. With the R1 working so well round here it’s a lesson learnt and hopefully won’t let it happen again!”