After podiums at Donington, Most and Magny-Cours, BMW's Reddingpower says he must 'forget' this target for this weekend's Barcelona WorldSBK round:
Since the arrival of a new Kalex-built swingarm for July's Donington Park round, Redding has finished in the top three at least once per weekend, following up third place in the Superpole race at his home venue with third in the opening race at Most and second in the first Magny-Cours race.
"To be honest, Barcelona is going to be one of the hardest races of the season for us," Redding said."We suffer in those long corners, but we need to learn. We tested there, but so did a lot of other people, so I want to improve in that area to be better for next year. "[At Magny-Cours] I expected more, which is why I was fighting more, Barcelona will be one where we take a little step back, understand a few things, and maybe when we go to Portimao it can be better."Redding finished second in the opening Magny-Cours race behind Alvaro Bautista, helped by Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea both crashing out of the race early on in separate incidents.
Explaining his slump in competitiveness, Redding admitted that a rain-soaked Friday practice had served to obscure BMW's real level of competitiveness in the first race and that his weaknesses were more exposed on Sunday.