Fabrizio fights hard in England but for little reward
Fabrizio slipped from eighth to ninth overall, but is still very much in the contest for a top five finish, as he is only 28 points behind new fifth place man, Cal Crutchlow.
Fabrizio was resigned to the fact that home advantage played its part in Sunday's results, and was satisfied that fourth was the best he could do in race one. "Well as we expected, the British riders really had the bit between their teeth today and it was all I could so to stick with them," he stated post-race.
"I didn't expect Haslam to get past when he did but once he did, there wasn't much I could do about it, but nevertheless I'm pretty satisfied with fourth to tell the truth. In race two my rear tyre was moving around a lot and having lost a lot of ground I came in to try to change it but once I went back on track I realized that nothing had changed and, out of the points zone, I retired from the race."
