MotoGP: Danny Webb looks for more success in Jerez

Danny Webb is confident he can continue the impressive start to his 2008 world championship campaign in this weekend’s Spanish 125GP in Jerez.

Webb is brimming with confidence after he claimed a career best finish of sixth under Qatar’s floodlights earlier this month, and the British teenager is hoping to build on that result in Jerez.

“If we build on the Qatar result then hopefully by the end of the year we should get on the podium. That’s the target now,” Danny Webb told MCN.

The Aprilia rider tested in Jerez earlier this year and he said: “I have always liked the track and always been fast there.

“I think me, Scott (Redding) and Bradley (Smith) can be up at the sharp end again.

“The bike went good at the IRTA test and I’d crashed a week before and damaged all the muscles in my shoulder and still ended up 11th, so I’m pretty confident.

Danny Webb said he was happy to be already erasing memories of his tough rookie year in 2007, while also playing a big part in the early British success in 2008.

“For the last five years we’ve not really had much success. Not as much as what we have got now.

“We have got James (Toseland) in the top six in MotoGP and Eugene Laverty is doing a good job.

“Hopefully we are back now and start showing the rest of the world what we are made of.

“It still doesn’t seem real that start I made. I think it will hit me when I go to Jerez and hopefully still be around that kind of area, fighting for the top six.”