Superbike Race 1 at the North West 200 was the first 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:road race for the 8Ten Racing team, ꦗand while it was won by Davey Todd, third-placed Peter Hickman assured that he was “rea🤡lly happy” with the result.

Hickman and Todd both worked to put together 🏅the 8Ten team after they split from FHO Rac♐ing over the winter.

A complicated♓ preseason followed in which Hickman took part in none of the official BSB testing, and Todd was only able to get out on the Superbike-spec M1000 RR on the final day of the last test at Oulton Park, where the pair raced in 8Ten colours for the fi꧋rst time last weekend.

It was a process that meant Hickman was able to be pleased with the result of Superbike Race 1 at the North West 200 despite missing out to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:the victorious Todd and only fi🍰nishing third, behinꦏd Dean Harrison as well.

“I’m rea🥀lly happy: Davey’s won the race, I’m on the podium, it’s the first ever race on the roads for the 8Ten Racing team,🐓” Hickman told BBC Sport NI after Thursday’s Superbike race.

“We can’t really ask for too mu🦩ch more – a 1-2 would have been nice!”

The Lincolnshire-based rider’s race was compromised by a mistake on the first lap at York Corner. It cost him a place to Dea🅷n Harrison and time to Todd.

“I was quite happy with what I was 𓂃doing,” Hickman said.

“I got away off the start, made a little mistake straight away at York: I hit the brakes and realised straight away tha🙈t I wasn’t going to stop.

“I think the full tank ofꦰ fuel maybe [caught me out] after practice, obviously at the end of practice there’s not a lot of fuelꦡ left.

“I braked at the same spot but nearly overshot York and brought Dean [Harrison] with me pretty much, when I looked on the📖 inside he was r𒁏ight with me.

“[That] let Davey [Todd] get away a little bit, which I wasn’t too worried about💧, but Dean managed to bridge the gap straight away whereas I didn’t; I take a little bit of time to get going.”

He added: “I caught all the way to the back of them, then 𓃲I lost the rear out of Church and nearly spat myself over the handlebars on the last lap right as I got to them and that was the race done for me.”

In💯 comparison to the four laps of Thursday’s race, Saturday’s two Superbike outings are run over six laps, something Hickman anticipates could help him.

“We needed a few more laps, [and] luckily on S⛦aturday the races are a bit longer,” he said.

“I alw🧸ays get faster the longer the race goes on, so let🥀’s see what Saturday brings.”