Christian Iddon was “really upset with myself” for crashing twice on Sunday at the Oulton Park BSB but that he’s improving his understanding of the Kawasaki ZX-10RR he’s ju🦩mped on for the first time in 2025.

Iddon was running in the group behind the dominant Bradley Ray when he crashed out of Race 1 at Oulton Park, this following a crash in qualifying that ꩵhappened on a lap where he wasn’✱t pushing.

“I was really upset with myself because when I crashed in qualifying it wasn’t on a push lap, I’d run a bit deep in th🌊e corner and was literally just rolling to get back [oꦑn 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 ltxcn.top after the cancellation of Race 3 at Oulton Park was announced.

“In [Race 1] I actually felt 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 ꦫfor making that mistake. It’s always a rider’s fault when you crash, but I genuinely didn’t feel like I’d changed much.

“But obviously I did something wrong, so I was really angry; 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-o𒆙n [effect].

“And it did [on Monday], tꦆo be fair, I didn’t feel with it in Warm Up, and then I jusꦍt rode tight in [Race 2].”

Christian Iddon improving understanding

Despite the crashes 𒀰at Oulton Park, Iddon felt that he was improving his understanding of the Kawasaki with time.

Having foun൩d a dramatically differen♊t feeling 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 now believed it to be about his lack of experience with the bike.

“To be fair, we had a similar – but not as bad – experience, really,” 𒊎Iddon said.

“I think a lot ♉of it is 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 call 🔯really fine tuning, but [it’s having] a reasonably strong effect.

“We had some ideas of thin🍰gs to change for the final race – we’r♔e 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 myself for [the Race 1 crash], but it’s a part of the game.”

Iddon added that he a🐈t least🎃 feels he is progressing with his understanding of the ZX-10RR.

“I do think I’m starting to und🌱erstand 🐭the bike more,” he said.

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

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