Michael Rutter and the RidersMotorcycles.com Ducati team could not have experienced a more contrasting day of emotions at Silverstone on Sunday in the penultimate round of the MCE British Superbike Championship.Like the majority of teams coming to the all-new Silverstone MotoGP course, the RidersMotorcycles.com team had to work hard to find a suitable bike set-up on the wide, fast flowing course but Rutter put the 1198 Ducati on the front row of the grid, in second place,  narrowly missing out on by a tenth of a second.But on race day the weather turned nasty and that played into Rutter’s acknowledged smooth riding style as he revelled in a race that started in miserable wet conditions but started to dry out in the closing stages.Rutter appeared to struggle in the early going but set the fastest lap of the race as he fought back in the drying conditions to cross the line 1.26s ahead of Josh Brookes.“It was a very difficult race,” said Rutter. “Michael Laverty and Brookes pulled away from me early on when it was really wet. We ran quite a lot of traction control to cope with the extremely slick wet track from the start.“But I think that actually helped me later in the race when the track dried out. It meant we still had some grip left in the rear tyre in the closing stages while the others were sliding around.”Rutter looked set for a repeat of the first race when he was running a comfortable third, inches behind James Ellison and Ryuichi Kiyonari but on  the fourth lap, he suddenly slid off at Aintree corner.“I’m gutted,” he said. “I’d been having problems in the fast double left all weekend. It’s not the kind of corner you should lose the front but that’s exactly what happened.  It simply washed out on me for no apparent reason. I wouldn’t mind if I’d done something stupid but I can’t see why I went down. Maybe I was inches off line and caught a puddle ... but I certainly didn’t think I’d done anything wrong.”Rutter is fifth in the championship, 43 points down on series leader Tommy Hill, and team owner Phil Jessopp said: “It’s not over yet. As today showed, anything can happen. Obviously it’s disappointing that Michael crashed out of the second race but let’s not overlook that fantastic first race victory.“I think the team did a superb job all weekend. We worked hard in practice and qualifying to get the bike working well around this difficult circuit that’s so different to anything else we race on in the UK.  And when the weather turned nasty, Michael rode brilliantly to win the first race.“We’re now at a critical point in the championship. It’s all getting very serious and the pressure is on but, with three races left at Oulton, anything can happen and we know the circuit really suits our bike.