Jason O'Halloran goes 13-11 at Cadwell Park

It’s been a difficult weekend for Honda Racing at Cadwell Park for the eighth round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship, as the team struggled to find form across all sessions at the challenging and technical 2.18-mile circuit.

However there are positives to take away from the weekend with Jason O’Halloran fighting in the top-ten in race one, still recovering from his ankle injury, and Superbike newbie Tom Neave showing huge progress finishing both 18-lap races aboard the CBR1000RR Fireblade.

Jason O’Halloran – BSB Cadwell Park 2018

Not able to find pace in qualifying ‘The O’Show’ made up places in the opening race of the day quickly moving from 12th into seventh. The Aussie was looking strong until he was run off-track at Hall Bends and re-joined the group in 13th place, where he eventually took the chequered flag.

Starting the second race 13th on the grid, O’Halloran dropped places early on but over the race distance fought back aboard the CBR to finish 11th. He leaves Cadwell having collected a handful of points and remains tenth in the overall championship standings – 32 points adrift from the all-important Showdown top six.

Jason O’Halloran – BSB Cadwell Park 2018

Jason O’Halloran saying, “It’s been a really tough weekend for us here at Cadwell and I have never struggled so much here in my whole racing career, I don’t know what we were missing or where it went wrong but it’s just been really, really tough all weekend. We missed the mark with it and it’s a hard place to ride when you’re not struggling and to ride with things not 100% it’s even tougher. I’m devastated with today, normally this is a really good track for me and I was just riding around then, I wasn’t even racing, we’ve got to leave here, pick our heads up and look towards Silverstone which is a completely different track and should hopefully suit us a little bit better.”

Jason O’Halloran – BSB Cadwell Park 2018

Meanwhile deputy Neave continued to impress at his local circuit during both races where he finished 15th and 12th. Collecting his first-ever British Superbike points, the 23-year olds pace improved throughout the weekend and with strong form improved and shaved a second off his fastest lap time.

The whole team would like to thank Tom for all his hard work and it’s been a pleasure working with and watching him progress from Thruxton to Cadwell.

Tom Neave – BSB Cadwell Park 2018

Honda Racing will now look forward to the ninth round of the championship, which takes place on 7-9 September at Silverstone where Dan Linfoot will be making his return to the number 4 Fireblade having been side-lined with injury.