Honda’s Glenn Irwin won’t go as far as saying he is going to win races at this weekend’s Donington Bennetts British Superbike round but is pretty confident of performing at a high level.

Irwin has put the Oulton Park race weekend - where his championship lead was hacked back to just two points - behind him and says he wants to go into the Brands finale with as big an advantage as possible.

“I am confident. I can’t go and say I am going to win, but what I can say is the championship is close and I would like to go to Brands Hatch with obviously a lead to start with, and a bigger lead than what we currently have now,” said Irwin.

“I think we need and want to do that, and being at a track where I think we realise that we can do that with our package is important.

“If we didn’t think we had the pace at the track with the bike it would be difficult aiming for higher results, but there is no reason why we can’t perform at a high level. Obviously our opposition can bring their A game as well, which can always make things difficult but that’s where we are.

“The weather could throw some variables as well, so that will be exciting. We have to not read into Oulton Park too much, and we backed that up with our test that followed Oulton Park, take the positives in terms of development and take the positives from the test that we are showing good form and try our best to turn that into good results this weekend.”