The combination of worsening weather conditions and hold-ups in earlier races culminated in the Superstock race being postponed at Silverstone denying Steve the chance to race in the penultimate round of the championship. The race will be run over the weekend of October 8-11 at Oulton Park when the Woodhall Spa rider will have two races at the season finale.

The weekend was going well for Steve who rides for the Louth based HM Plant Honda team and he completed his qualifying in 12th place for a third row start to the Silverstone race. This grid position will be carried over to Oulton Park where Steve will use the grid position gained at Silverstone for that race while qualifying in the normal way for the final round that was already scheduled for the Cheshire circuit.

“I was happy with 12th, or more relieved shall we say, as we have had a problem with the front forks here at Silverstone and Croft but we have now found out what the problem is and solved it. That last qualifying session was the first dry track time on the new circuit. I was down in 24th place when the red flag stopped us. We made some more changes and when we got back out there I was able to move up into 12th.”

But come race day the weather took a turn for the worse and a combination of crashes in the other classes and poor visibility caused the Superstock race to finally be postponed on the grounds of rider safety.

Speaking to Steve after the announcement was made to postpone the race he said: “Obviously safety is the main priority and the visibility was getting very poor. They got a group of us together for a ride around the track in the course car and we agreed with the organisers that it would be better to run two races at Oulton Park than risk anything with the conditions the way they are here.”

Although the timetable for the final two races at Oulton Park has yet to be finalised it is more than likely the Silverstone race will run sometime on Saturday, October 9 and the final race of the season on Sunday, October 10 2010