Despite the weather once again playing havoc with proceedings, Britain's James Ellison continued his season of points scoring rides when he claimed 14th place in this weekend's Gran Premio Iveco De Aragon at Motorland Aragon in Spain.

The 14th round of the MotoGP World Championship got off to a damp start with the opening free practice session about washed out but in the second and third sessions, the former World Endurance and double European Superstock champion battled his way up to 14th place in each of them aboard the Penrith-based PBMUK Aprilia CRT.

Qualifying proved disappointing for the 32-year-old from Kendal as he could only manage 20th out of the 21 runners but in the race, Ellison turned things around to battle with Colombian Yonny Hernandez and although the Brit was passed on the last lap, he held on to claim 14th and in doing so added two more points to his tally.

It was the eighth time in the last nine rounds that James had scored points, his only blip coming when he crashed out at Laguna Seca and in total he has recorded nine points scoring rides so far in the Paul Bird Motorsport team's rookie season.

Going into the three flyaway races starting with Japan in two weeks' time, James holds 18th in the World Championship classification with the PBMUK team holding 12th in the Team standings.

Phil Borley Technical Director:  "It was another weekend of mixed weather that restricted the dry track time but after a disappointing qualifying James made a good start in the race and rode well to hold 13th position for the majority of it. Unfortunately on the penultimate lap he lost this position to one of our rivals and did not have the chance to retake it on the final lap. We used a new specification engine for this race, which had a different power characteristic that James liked, so we hope this will help us continue to reduce the gap to the leading CRT riders at the next race in Japan."