Although he continued his sequence of points scoring finishes with a 15th place at Brno in the Czech Republic this weekend, Britain's James Ellison was disappointed not to score a better result at round 12 of the MotoGP World Championship.

With improvements being made to the PBMUK Aprilia, the 31-year-old from Kendal was hoping to bridge the gap to the established CRT front-runners but struggled with set-up in the first two practice sessions where he ended up 18th out of the 19 riders.

James improved to 17th in the final free practice session and held that place into qualifying but in the 22 lap race, he scrapped it out with Mattia Pasini for the final point, eventually coming out on top although the pair of them were well over half a minute down on the leading CRT rider Randy de Puniet on his ART Aprilia in eighth place overall.

Despite his and the team's disappointment, the result sees James jump a place to 18th in the standings whilst the PBMUK team are now 12th in the Team standings going into the next round at Misano.

James Ellison:  "I was glad to score another point for PBMUK, but hoped to be more competitive with the leading CRT riders and felt I should have been so I'm disappointed for both me and the team. The bike is good enough now and we made good progress throughout the weekend but Brno has never been a strong circuit for me. The team have worked very hard so I want to thank them and I now look forward to Misano where I will work hard on improving even further."

Phil Borley, Technical Director:  "Although finishing in the points is satisfying, I feel it was another race where we have underachieved. We must realise the full potential of our ART machine, which we believe is one of the most competitive CRT bikes and is capable of challenging for better positions than we are currently achieving. We need to consistently reduce the gap to the leading riders on similar machines, so we will focus on improving our weak areas both before and at the next race."