Ben Currie racks up a consecutive double podium at Brands Hatch

Brands Hatch proved to be another close weekend, really close to a double victory but another brace of second places will have to do. The team gave me an unreal package to do the business this weekend, but I just couldn't quite reward them with the results that I felt we deserved.

After being combined first overall for Friday’s practises and then going and putting it on pole during qualifying, things were only looking up. And the ten-lap Sprint race on the Saturday was a proper colossal battle every lap of the way. Me and Jack pulled away from the rest of the field and it all came down to the last lap. I made a pass and unfortunately ran wide a couple of corners later and lost back the lead and couldn't regain it, missing out on the win by literally a thousandth of a second. Really unfortunate.

Anyway, Sunday came around and I had an opportunity for redemption. We had a different game plan going into the race, which was to follow Jack and pressure him but unfortunately it wasn't to prevail as the same scenario as the previous race followed.

Jack tried to break us in the middle part of the race, but I hung onto him, managed to set the fastest lap of the race, and closed the eighth tenths of a gap that he had back in, and I made a pass on the last lap to take to lead.

Unfortunately, I made the similar mistake that I made in the first race, and I ran a little bit wide. He snuck up the inside of me, and this time I lost by half a bike length, four thousandths of a second. Being a carbon copy of Saturday's race was very unfortunate, and as you could expect I was a little bit miffed off.

But I'm now thoroughly looking forward to Thruxton and feel like it could be a very strong round for us. It was a round last year that we took a double victory at so let's look forward to that, especially as it’s the local round for the Oxford Products Racing Ducati team. And in the meantime, I have a test with the team at Cadwell Park in early August. I can’t wait to get going!