Tommy Bridewell and Alex Lowes both gave fine performances at Silverstone today as they showed how quickly they are adapting to the Yamaha bike.

The warm up laps gave the Motorpoint team a morale boost managing the fifth and seventh fastest laps. Over the weekend the bikes had been tweaked and adjusted to make sure that they were tailored to each riders style.

In race one both Bridewell and Lowes suffered from poor starts. Lowes fell all the way back to 17th spot before rocketing up the standings to sixth position. He was pulling out all the stops to gather ground on the top riders and produced the seventh fastest lap of the race in the process. His team mate Tommy Bridewell finished in 10th place after some solid racing.

Lowes wasn’t the only one to give an impressive display on the bike, as race two rolled around Bridewell was able to get a full grasp of the Silverstone track. After the first race he was starting in 11th position on the grid, from that position he was able to push up to eighth place. He remained in eighth for most of the race until Michael Rutter used all of his experience to ghost past the 23-year-old on the final lap. Lowes was not as fortunate, an arm pump problem forced the 21-year-old to slow down his attack on the top six. This resulted in him finishing in 12th place.

Says Tommy Bridewell; “I was really chuffed with my performance in race two. I’ve been to Silverstone many times before, but I’ve never enjoyed the track. The Yamaha has changed that, I was taking on the corners and the team have made some brilliant changes to the engine. I was right behind Michael Rutter for most of the race and you could see how his experience really matters. He takes turns so well and I feel I can learn a lot from being so close to him here. I’m always learning and I can’t wait for Brands Hatch – it’s given us all such a confidence boost!”

Says Alex Lowes: “Really pleased with race one. It’s only my second race weekend on the bike and so I’m pleased to shoot up so many places. I had a bit of a bad start, so I slipped down into 17th. The bike feels good and I was getting a lot of speed out of it for some good laps which got me into sixth place – I only dropped into seventh right near the end. Can’t wait for Brands now.”