Last Lap Mistake Costs Steve Points scoring Finish

26/08/08 : A last lap mistake over the mountain part of the Cadwell circuit meant that Steven left empty handed and very dissapointed after what looked to be a very promissing weekend.

Throughout practice and qualifying Steven had been amoungst the top 10, and qualified an impressive 4th fastest in the mornings wet qualifying session.


However but a dry seoncd qualifying saw Steven drop down to 13th place, but he was still less than one second from pole position, so as per usual, it was very tight.

With confidence high after a good weekend at Knockhill Steven was confident of a good top ten finish at Cadwell.

At the start of the race Steven made a good start and was holding 10th position until a red flag brought an immediate stop to the race. This meant that the riders all reformed on the grid to a now shorter race of 14 laps.

Second time round and Steven maintained his position in the first few corners but then slipped back two places to 15th. Steven then spent the rest of the race fending off a fierce persuit of the final point which he was set to achive until he made a costly mistake at the mountain section, losing a place, and the final point.

'I am totally gutted about this result. I made a really bad mistake over the mountain and I hold my hands up to that. To be honest i expected more though. We had been very fast all weekend but come the race, I just wasn't in a position to pass anyone.'

'Luckly me and my team are going to test at Croft before we go to race there in a few weeknds time, so I am hoping we can put this behind us.'