IT was a difficult weekend for Danny Buchan at the MCE British Superbike Championship at Oulton Park.

The Be Wiser Kawasaki rider, from Burnham, made it through to qualifying two and then into the final session where he managed to put himself on ninth place on the grid.

He got caught up in the first lap melee and was pushed wide onto the grass on the opening lap.

Re-grouping, he dropped some places and was pushing hard to make amends but crashed out at the fast Druids corner, luckily without injury.

Buchan dropped six places on the grid for race two, starting from 15th place, and struggled throughout, dropping backwards through the pack but managed to come home in 17th place.

Buchan said: “It was another really tough and frustrating weekend, everything was going so well in practice and qualifying and I felt really happy on the Be Wiser Kawasaki.

“It was a bit of carnage on the first lap of the race and I got pushed onto the grass, I lost my focus and sadly crashed out a couple of corners later.

“I struggled a little in the second race; I just wanted to bring the bike home in one piece.

“I am looking forward to testing at Snetterton and hopefully coming back stronger there.

“I want to get some consistent top ten results at the remaining rounds and I am just sorry to the team for the crash and want to give them a good result too.”