Sykes looking forward to home support
Added on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 by Carole Nash Editor
Sykes looking forward to home support
Tom Sykes is hoping that the support of the Silverstone crowd can help him to turn his season around and pick up a positive result this weekend.
The Kawasaki rider has had another difficult year in 2010 after moving from Yamaha to Kawasaki, picking up just two top-ten finishes this season to leave him 16th in the rider’s standings.
But the former Rizla Suzuki BSB man, whose only WSB podium came on a BSB-spec Suzuki as a wildcard at Donington in 2008, believes that he can put on a good performance in front of a British crowd, who have eight riders to cheer on this weekend.
“I have been taking it steady since Brno so I am very keen to get back into race action. It will be an interesting weekend, a new circuit for everybody,” he claimed. “I would like to put on a good show for my home crowd and see if we can get a strong result.
“Very little of the track will be familiar to me, but I did ride the old full track on a standard 600 back in 2002. There have been a lot of changes at Silverstone and it looks good.
“With seven British riders involved this year it will be fantastic for the local fans and I hope there is a big crowd. It will be a busy round for me but I will be out to dig deep, as will the whole Kawasaki team.”
