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 jumped on for the first time in 🧜2025.

Iddon was running in the group behind th🎃e dominant Bradley Ray when he crashed out of Race 1 at Oulton Park, this following a crash in qualifying that happened 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 the corner and was literally just rolling to get back [on 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 mahbx.com after the cancellation of Raꦓce 3 at Oulton Park was announced.

“In [Race 1] I actually felt super𝐆-strong, I felt really good, comfortable. If you l🥀ook 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 madd🐓est I’ve ever been at myself for 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-on [effect].

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

Christian Iddon improving understanding

De🎉spite the crashes at Oulton Park, Iddon felt that he was improving his understanding of the🅠 Kawasaki with time.

Having found a dramatically different feeli♔ng with the ZX-10R💙R at thꦐe Donington test compared to the ꦐprevious 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,” Iddꦍon said.

“I t𒀰hink a lot of it is me t🌳rying 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 things to change for the final race – we’re talking clickers, but I actually think they would have made quite a difference bec🥃ause the little things do seem to make quite a difference.

“We’ll roll on to Doni♚ngton 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 at least feels 🐻he is progressin𒈔g with his understanding of the ZX-10RR.

“I do think I’m starting to understand the bike m🐬ore,” he said.

“I think there are some things that I can change to try and improve it. But lap-on-lap, it’s like anything, y🌺ou learn.

“Not necessarily that it wou⛄ld make me super-faster but hopefully to improve the consistenꦅcy and stuff.”