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Voltcom Crescent Suzuki’s Eugene Laverty secured two sixth place finishes at the Circuito de Jerez in Spain in last Sunday’s eni FIM Superbike World Championship races with teammate Alex Lowes consolidating his qualifying position in ninth.

Eugene Laverty: “Unfortunately it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. Race one was really disappointing, we had a problem with the start off the line and dropped backwards, we made good progress but sixth wasn’t what we expected. In the second race we made a better start, and I think from start to finish it was the best race I could have possibly had but it was only good enough for sixth. We are going to put our heads together and try to figure out how to get back up on to the podium now because I want to be challenging the top three and improve our championship position.”

Alex Lowes: “It was a frustrating day and not the results we wanted but, as ever, I never give in and pushed hard on the GSX-R. I’m frustrated with the crash as I don’t really know what happened but the team worked really hard to make the changes needed for race two. If it wasn’t for the bad start I think we would’ve had a chance of running with Eugene in the second race, but I lost time getting caught up with Elias. I’m looking forward to the next round and will be working hard with the team to get back up there for Magny-Cours.”