Compounding Sykes' unfortunate luck, he was forced to ride in the terrible weather conditions of the second race on a bike with a dry weather setting after the laptop with all the data on broke in the rain.

“We were unfortunate in the second race. We went to change the engine characteristics on the bike but the laptop got soaked through and it died on us! More bad luck!

“I definitely think we could have gone with the frontrunners and it is a bit of a dampener on the weekend, but the team is working well and hopefully we can finish the last three rounds in BSB strongly from here.”