BEN Basso is convinced top-flight strugglers Peterborough can build on their first victory of the season.
The Panthers crushed local rivals King’s Lynn on Monday night to win and end a 17-match winless streak.
The Danish crowd-pleaser, who roared to his best Premiership score of the year with eight, paid ten, admitted: “It’s been a tough season so far in the Premiership, no doubt about that but I’m doing pretty well at Glasgow where I’m number one in the Championship averages ahead of everyone else in the league.
“I think things have started to turn around at Peterborough, not only for myself but also the team.
“I think people expected too much of me and I was finding it tough, it’s just different tracks and different set-ups and nothing was fitting into place.
“The track has been different each meeting and that doesn’t help anyone.
“But now we have just had a rethink and I went back to some of the old stuff on Monday night and it seemed to work better for me.
“Things like the moisture in the track can make a difference but hopefully it should be more consistent now and I will know what set-ups are the ones to do.
“Monday night’s win has definitely helped us all, it was the first of the season after seven losing meetings and it was definitely needed.
“It’s still early in the season and we believe we can turn things around, it will be about time.”
Basso was pushed into a heat leader role with the Panthers and reveals that he has high ambitions for what is only his third U.K. campaign.
“Personally, I want to make some good points,” he insists.
“I set a target to average over eight points a meeting in the Premiership and over ten in the Championship and that should be reachable and achievable.
“I always set myself targets, it’s necessary and I think I have almost always achieved them.
I know some riders keep their goals to themselves but I have always wanted to tell people about mine. I’ve been the same over the last four years.
“It’s about balance, not setting it too high or aiming too low. It’s important, if you set targets you also show you want to do it and want to achieve something instead of just saying I want to score over four or five points a meeting.”
Words by Holeshot Media.
Images by Taylor Lanning.