Monday, 30th June 2008

Michael Laverty was holding his chin firmly up despite a disappointing outcome to a potentially breakthrough day.

“We decided to go for a wet front and an intermediate rear, which would give me the confidence to push early on and hopefully allow me to open up a gap. I had a five second lead in three laps but I was pushing too hard to try and make a big enough gap in case the track dried up.

“It is disappointing and it would have been interesting to see if I could hold on, but we will never know now!”

Nonetheless, despite the results failing to reveal as much, Laverty was pleased to show he has the capability to compete up at the front of the field and has no regrets about pushing hard – even if would ultimately be a little too hard.

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“I'm not really in the championship hunt, so I am pushing for good results, but as a general rule I don't try to do anything too stupid. But I had nothing to lose today and I crashed because I was pushing, but we will see how the rest of the year pans out.”

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