Leon Haslam was pleased with a podium however closing in so quick he felt it was a “little little bit of a disgrace” that the rain worsened and stopped play within the first Showdown British Superbikes race at Assen.
The racer with probably the most Assen wins in BSB was sixth on the grid and made a superb launch on the moist observe solely to go backwards in a tentative opening few corners for a lot of the discipline, Haslam defined:
“I really bought a very good begin. I used to be third away from sixth and I hit a number of white strains on the again straight and I form of dropped again fairly a good distance. I believe I used to be down at seventh or eighth at one level and I discovered my method by way of them fairly simply.”
Redding had excelled within the moist, his current expertise at Assen balancing out the difficult situations, and permitting him to push out a lead of over 4 seconds, whereas behind the Moto Rapido Ducati rider was re-working his method ahead.
As soon as there the hole quickly got here down as Redding struggled with visibility and Haslam pushed on:
“By then Scott had already bought his head down and he was fairly a method up the highway. I felt like I had a fairly good rhythm, that was form of reeling him in after which I bought a little bit bit excited and had a number of moments of my very own after which clearly the rain got here.”
On the pink flag Haslam had dropped the hole to 1.907 seconds and was visibly nearer within the spray behind. That lead Haslam to muse what may had been had situations been a little bit safer, although the #91 was nonetheless pleased with second place on the rostrum after the pink flagged race:
“So yeah, a little bit little bit of a disgrace that it did get ended early however on the identical time we’ll take a podium. We’ll see what tomorrow brings with the climate and every part else.”
