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Cadwell Park is considered the home of FHO Racing and Hickman, with most team members based just up the road in Louth. As always, the circuit delivered exhilarating racing, along with a fantastic atmosphere as the fans lined the circuit in their thousands to enjoy the Bank Holiday action.
The 2024 season has been challenging for Hickman and the FHO Team. With a lot of hard work from the crew behind the scenes, the past few rounds have seen Peter turning a corner and getting back in the fight with the BMW M 1000 RR.
Hicky had a positive weekend despite facing some early issues and missing out on the second qualifying session. As a result, he lined up for the first race in 16th place. Despite facing challenges, he finished 12th and 15th in the first two of three races, demonstrating his determination.
During the third race of the weekend, Peter delivered his best performance by moving up from 12th place at the start. Hicky was determined and swiftly broke into the top 10 within the first lap. He chased after the group ahead, closed the gap, and eventually finished in ninth place, just 0.252 seconds behind the eighth-place finisher.
Hicky and the FHO Racing BMW Motorrad team now have a short break between rounds, when BSB returns to Oulton Park (13-15 September).
Peter Hickman #60:
Race 1: 12th | Race 2: 15th | Race 3: 9th
“We struggled a lot on Saturday in the rain with a lack of feeling from the rear and I couldn’t get a lap together that was fast enough. However saying that, I did just miss out on Q2, which really scuppered us moving forward, along with other riders cruising and not looking where they were going during qualifying. We were then so far back on the grid for the opening race, which really makes a difference, especially at Cadwell where it’s just so close and it’s impossible to make the time back up.
On Monday we managed to break the into the 26’s finally, and we were regularly there in both races. In the Sprint Race I unfortunately nudged into Danny [Kent] and took him off track, as well as myself.
Unfortunately, he went down – it was my mistake and I apologise for that and have apologised to Danny; but that’s racing, I made a very small mistake which resulted in us both across the grass.
The final race I made a really good start and hung in there with Josh, Leon [Haslam] and Christian [Iddon]. In fact, for a lot of the race I felt like I was stronger than both Leon and Christian, definitely in the last half of the race I was stronger, but I just couldn’t find a place to pass. Cadwell is super difficult to make passes and I was stronger in unusual places, which made it difficult to be able to pass. To finish inside the top 10, finally, is a little bit of relief if anything, it’s been a real struggle, but we now move forward to Oulton Park where we’ll try and continue this momentum.”
High flying Hickman!