John McPhee, P12: “It was a good start and good first few laps, I did everything I needed to but then I got into a fight with a couple of other riders. I could get the laptime I needed to stay with the front group, but as soon as I got put off line or made a mistake, I didn’t have the pace to push past my limit to get back on the group. Normally you ride at 100% but if you need 105% you can chance your luck for a couple of laps…but I was riding the whole race chancing my luck and didn’t have anything else in the bag. We made a small change on the bike from Warm Up to the race to help corner entry, and it was the correct way but we almost went too much. We have a clear direction now and it was nice to find it although it was a bit late in the weekend. With three laps left I decided I had to take the points that were available. It’s never good to not attack right to the end but there looked like a lot of chance of crashing.”