Christian Iddon

I left you at the last column having just won a race, and I then went and stuck the Kawasaki back on the box at the very next round.

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It was the culmination of a second part of the season where we have pretty much been building on confidence and feeling round after round. As such, I arrived at the final round of the series in joint fifth in the standings; with a good weekend, I could potentially finish as high as third in the series. I'd had an ace race earlier in the year at Brands, and I was already feeling confident my bike would be epic and that we could challenge at the front again.

That hope held true as the weekend got underway as I took my best qualifying of the season and put the ZX10-RR on the front row for the last ever time it will be raced under the FS-3 banner and, as far as I know, that bike might not even be on the grid at all next season.

Unfortunately, I had a tiny tip-off in the first race which put my hopes of a proper championship position to bed. However, I'd gone into the weekend with the mindset of just pushing as hard as I could in each and every race, and what will be will be. Therefore, as much as it was very annoying to crash, I was pushing on as was the plan, and I was chasing down the leading group of riders. I had pace and was doing what I set out to do, so I was still content with my performance.

The final day of the 2025 championship was already upon us. After going down the previous day, and now with no championship to worry about, I had nothing to lose. The plan was the same: to push on hard and to give the bike and the team the sendoff they deserved... I wanted to go out with a bang. I’d woken that morning feeling good about how the day was going go. Podiums and maybe even a win was the achievable target, and I was excited to get going. That bang I wanted to go out with happened it just wasn’t the type of bang I was aiming for.