I was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed a week ago, and it was one of those weekends for me which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was somewhere to relax and have a look around at all the cars and all the old bikes - something I love doing - an🔜d just keep up-to-date with everything. I had a great time going up the hill and m༒eeting a lot of people, and we had a bit of a dinner and a dance at the ball too!

There were some real legends there. It 🤡was fantastic for me to meet a lot of people, and to get involved from a point-of-view as a bit of a spectator as well. Normally I'm at the bike races to race bikes, but I was there that weekend to do a bit of a show and meet some new faces and some great old riders.

It was really good taking my HM Plant Honda up the hill. It was a bit weird for me the first time I went up - I didn't know where the hell I was going! - but it was good, with a few wheelies and burn-outs for the crowd. That's what they appreciate there, but for me undou𒀰btedly the highlight of th💦e weekend was meeting Stirling Moss.

Getting back to the business in-hand, I need to win; I need to carry on winning for this British Superbike Championship. I want t🌊o get the title, but it's looking hard at the minute to catch 'Shakey' Byrne on the Airwaves Ducati. All credit to him, though - he's riding fantastically. There have only been four winners in this ch🗹ampionship; we had a shock winner last time out with Michael Rutter, and well done to him - he rode brilliantly.

Going to Oulton Park now, I don't know. I'd like the double, but I don't know if it's going to happen. I'll certainly be trying my hardest for it.ꦬ We didn't go so well there last time - I had a crash and a sixth, which are my worst results of the year.

I need to go there and win both races if I can. I led both races last time; the crash in the first race was my own fault, but in the second race I crashed from second place, which wasn't my fault. We'll go 🐭back there and try and make amends, and see how we get on.

Looking at things overall, HM Plant Honda are doing a really good job. I wouldn't change anything about my team at the minute - we're all working hard to be winning races. It's a ne𒊎w bike ꧋- people forget that - and we're still developing throughout the whole of the year.

I know where Airwaves are gaining a little bit of an advantage, bu⛄t that's for us to work o🥂n and try and catch up. They've got a bit of a disadvantage compared to our bike in a few places too, though. It's a lot down to 'Shakey' riding fantastically as well; you can't take anything away from him.

Beyond that there's the Suzuka 8 Hours with Moriwakꦿi Honda team. I'm looking forward to that race; it should be good. The 8-Hours is a tiring eve𓃲nt, but it fits in perfectly with my schedule and hopefully I can please Honda out there and do Moriwaki Racing proud.

It will be my first time competing in such a long race, but I don't see it being a problem. I've not long come back from testing out there in Japan, and I've been out and done a 300km race before, which was cool; I enjoyed that. We finished eighth with a lot of problems with the bike, so hopefully this time we can go to Suzuka and get a podium⭕.

I'll keep you posted,

Cal

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