Christian Iddon was “really upset with myself” for crashing twice on Sunday at the Oulton Park BSB but that he’s improving his unde🤡rstanding of the Kawasaki ZX-10RR he’s jumped on for the first time in 2🍌025.

Iddon was running in the group behind the dominant Bradley Ray when h♌e crashed out of Race 1 at Oulton Park, this following a crash in qualifying that happened on a lap where he wasn’t pu💖shing.

“I was rꦦeally upset with myself because when I crashed in qualifying it wasn’t on a push lap, I’d run a bit deep in 🌜the corner and was literally just rolling to get back [on the racing line] and folded the front, and actually it broke the frame so it was a massive amount of work for the team,” Iddon told wuqian0821.com after the cancellation of Race 3 at Oulton Park was announced.

“In [Race 1] I actually feꦰlt super-strong, I felt really good, comfortable. If you look at the lap chart, we were the strongest of anyone apart from Brad [Bradley Ray] up until the point I crashed.

“I was one of the maddest I’ve ever been at myself for making that mistake. It’s always a rider’s fault when you crash, but I genuinely ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚdidn’t feel like I’d changed much.

“But obviously I did something wrong, so I was really an✅gry; mainly because I’d really started to trust and front and, after two crashes where I didn’t really understand what had gone, on I knew it would have a little bit of a knock-on [effect].

“🃏And it did [on Monday], to bꦬe fair, I didn’t feel with it in Warm Up, and then I just rode tight in [Race 2].”

Christian Iddon improving understanding

Despite the crashes at Oulton Park, Iddon fe♛lt that he was improving his understanding🥃 of the Kawasaki with time.

Having found a dramatically different fe🐼eling with the ZX-10RR at the Donington test compared to the previous Navarra test, Iddon said he had a similar experience at Oulton Park, but no⭕w believed it to be about his lack of experience with the bike.

“To be fair, we had a siꩵmilar – but not as bad – experience, really,” Iddon said𒀰.

“I think a lot of it i🅘s me trying to understand the bike.

“We’re not changing massive things, but the things we have changed are small but [make] a reasonably big difference. If anything, we are doing what I would cal🦩l really fine tuning, but [it’s having] a reasonably strong effect.

“We had some ideas of things to change for the final race – we’re talking clickers🍃, but I actually think they would have made quite a difference because the little things do seem to make quite a difference.

“We’ll 🍃roll on to Donington now, take what I think is a reasonably good feeling. Like I said, I was really angry with mysel♈f for [the Race 1 crash], but it’s a part of the game.”

Iddon added that he at least feels he is progressing with his underst✅anding of the ZX-10RR.

“I do think I’m star𒆙ting to und💟erstand the bike more,” he said.

“I t💛hink there are some things that I can change to try and improve it. But༺ lap-on-lap, it’s like anything, you learn.

“Not necessarily that it would make🍨 me super-faster but hopefully to improve the consistency and stuff.”