Michael Laverty used Cadwell Park's undulating curves to his advantage at round four of the British Superbike Championship, forcing his way up the current standings with a brace of podiums on his Relentless by TAS Suzuki.

Laverty is now third in the BSB standings on 101 points, only nine behind second-placed man Josh Brookes with fellow Suzuki pilot Tommy Hill still on top with 146.

Alastair Seeley had a character-building weekend, but after struggling with minor set-up and confidence issues after a slip off during Saturday's Q2 session, the Ulsterman posted solid results inside the top-10 in both races and is seventh in the championship standings on 79 points.

Michael Laverty:

"It's been a good day for me coming away with two podium finishes - an almost perfect day, but as a racer I always want to win and it would have been nice to put the Relentless by TAS Suzuki on the top step. I was suffering with arm-pump today and that sort of spoiled any chance I had of the victory, but I'm happy and we've now moved up to third in the Championship. I also proved that the Oulton win was no fluke and the team has also done an awesome job for me again this weekend. I really believe we have established ourselves as genuine championship contenders."

Alastair Seeley:

"John Reynolds told me weekends like this are character-building and I have to agree. We struggled with set-up early in the weekend and my tip off at Charlie's in qualifying knocked my confidence a bit, but I'm not making excuses. The boys helped me a lot and we made some changes to the bike overnight, which transformed it and helped my confidence. With only three bikes to a row here at Cadwell it makes qualifying so important. I got beaten-up a bit at the start of race one by Brogie; after that I put the hammer down and picked them off for ninth. In race two I got a better start but took a while to get dialled-in, but seventh wasn't so bad and we took six-tenths off my best lap from the opening race."

Philip Neill - Team Manager:

"From a Championship point of view it's been a very good weekend for us. As I've said before, time and time again, I always knew Michael had these sort of results in him and he was never outside the top five all weekend with his times. And but for the arm-pump problems I think he was strong enough to win that first race: However it's good for his Championship.

"Alastair had a tough weekend but to see him progress from the first session where he was a bit off the pace, and having crashed in qualifying, was very pleasing. He also put his confidence in the team to make some radical changes to the bike before the races today and I was personally pleased to see him set his fastest lap of the weekend in the second race, getting down in amongst the times of the top five. We are now looking forward to the next round which comes after the Isle of Man TT where we will be looking for some more success on the roads."

BSB Race 1:

1.Ryuichi Kiyonari (HM Plant Honda) 2.Michael Laverty (Relentless Suzuki by TAS) +0.497s 3.Michael Rutter (Ridersmotorcycles.com Ducati) +1.877s 4.Tommy Bridewell (Quay Garage Honda) +2.528s 5.Josh Brookes (HM Plant Honda) +5.168s 6.John Laverty (Buildbase Kawasaki) +7.754s 7.Chris Walker (MSS Colchester Kawasaki) +10.072s 8.Martin Jessopp (Ridersmotorcycles.com Ducati) +11.042s 9.Alastair Seeley (Relentless Suzuki by TAS) +11.953s 10. Dan Linfoot (Motorpoint Yamaha) +13.178s

BSB Race 2:

1.Josh Brookes (HM Plant Honda) 2.Tommy Hill (Worx Crescent Suzuuuki) +4.398s 3.Michael Laverty (Relentless Suzuki by TAS) +5.675s 4.Michael Rutter (Ridersmotorcycles.com Ducati) +5.921s 5.John Laverty (Buildbase Kawasaki) +10.465s 6.Tommy Bridewell (Quay Garage Honda) +10.731s 7.Alastair Seeley (Relentless Suzuki by TAS) +13.663s 8.Chris Walker (MSS Colchester Kawasaki) +19.568s 9.Martin Jessopp (Ridersmotorcycles.com Ducati) 1 lap 10. Stuart Easton (Swan Honda) 1 lap