The Motorp𒈔oint Yamaha team were 'blown away' by stand-in rider Loris Baz on his BSB debut at Croft.

The Frenchman, replacing the injured Andrew Pitt, qualifi𝕴ed eighth and finished seventh in race one, before a crashing out of race two.

"This was an incredible weekend𒉰 for me, th♔e British Championship is fantastic, the crowds, the pace of the riders the whole atmosphere is amazing," he said.

"In the second race I get hit by Kagayama and🦂 nearly fell off the bike, so then I am so far back I have to keep pushing, I got through to 13th position and had a good pace bu🍸t then I push too hard at the slow corner and crash.

"I am sorry for the team for the crash, I wanted to get a good result for them but tried a little too much, hop🍌efully I can get another chance💜 to race at BSB and make amends!"

Team manager Rob Mac was certainly impressed.

"That was♉ a great weekend for my team, we did not quite get the end result we hoped for but Dan [Linfoot's] pace was right on 🅘it and Loris blew us away!" he said.

"Loris gave the team a real kick of inspiration, having a young guy pushing hard sat in the same garage 𝔉definitely helped Dan and the both of them came away with a good weekend.

"Loris definitely exceeded⛄ our expectations, qualifying on the second row and finishing 7th for a 17 year old complete rookie to the bike and the track was amazing.

"He got caught up in a battle for the first corner in the second race and came off🧸 worse, fr♏om 22nd position we saw some real determination battling through to 13th before a bit too much youth full exuberance let him down!"

Team regular Linfoꦛot held his qualifying position of fifth in race one, then took ninth in race tw♊o.

"I really enjoyed my weekend, the bike was flying and I really gelled with it, qualifying 5th and getting a good start set the fir﷽st race up and I had good pace to run with them, my tyre spun on the rim 💎and gave me a bit of a vibration and made it hard to hold off Simon Andrews for 4th, 5th was good in the end though.

"For 🌼the second race I battled with Josh Brookes for most of the race, ninth doesn't sound too good but there were six of us all in a pack together really close I feel gꦺreat for Silverstone and can't wait to get back into it"