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Sykes eager to get back to winning status

Wednesday, 28 August 2013 08:48 GMT
Sykes eager to get back to winning status

Tom Sykes is full of confidence and expectation as WSBK returns at the famous Nürburgring for the tenth round of the season. Sykes had the first of his ten career race wins for Kawasaki, under heavy rain conditions, at the Eifel venue in 2011. Since then winning and scoring other podium finishes has become an even more regular occurrence for Sykes, who was the championship runner-up in 2012.


Sykes is currently only 13 points from the leading rider Sylvain Guintoli despite two challenging races at Silverstone, which saw him off the home podium on both occasions. After a long summer break in the calendar Sykes is hungry to get back into race action, to make the most of the rest of the year. The season has been cut to five remaining rounds (including Germany) after the planned finale in India in November was recently cancelled.


"I am really excited about racing again this coming weekend in Germany" said Tom Sykes. "I spoke to my crew chief Marcel Duinker last night and a three-week break has been good for us. I have enjoyed my time at home and with the busy month we have coming up in September I have been doing some good training in readiness for three races in quick succession. I am ready go, I feel fit and I am fully recharged. I like the circuit in Germany and the Ninja ZX-10R has been strong there in the past so I am looking forward to this weekend."