Ayrton Badovini scored a pair of strong results at Donington Park in the sixth round of the 2015 eni FIM Superbike World Championship. It was the fourth round this year for the Italian rider who returned to action at Aragon in April by joining the BMW Motorrad Italia squad to replace Sylvain Barrier. In race 1 the former STK1000 title winner had a great start and rode with a solid pace throughout the whole 23-lap distance, eventually edging out Alex Lowes in the latter stages of the encounter for fifth - his best result on this track (the previous one was a sixth in race 2, 2012).

The second UK outing saw Badovini finishing ninth, despite a near highside that almost took him out of contention.

“I’m really pleased with race 1” said Ayrton Badovini. “We were able to score an excellent result, which was not handed over to us given how worked very hard to achieve it. In race 2 the bike was fast and I could have done better but I got stuck in the pack off the line and had a couple of small problems. We hadn’t made any changes to my bike for race 2 but weather conditions were different and, with more grip, the bike was more nervous and difficult to manage. However the important thing is that we’ve understood even more about our bike and I am starting to go faster. Already in Imola we’d made a good step forward and I thank the team for all their great work. Now we’ll prepare for Portimao.”