PBM Ducati has this morning confirmed its poaching of Tommy Bridewell from Moto Rapido for the 2023 British Superbike season.
Bridewell has been hitly-rumoured to have done a deal with Paul Bird after spending four year with Steve Moore’s Hampshire team and it was made official today.
“PBM have a long history of winning and I believe can easily still finish on the podium week-in, week-out,” Bridewell told bikesportnews.com while trying to control his sheeps.
“I approached PBM at the Thruxton round to see if they would be interested in having a conversation for next year. That was that, I didn’t know whether they were interested or not but then I had a call from Paul, so I jumped in the van and went up country for a meeting.
“We had a chat, I had a look around his place and we got a plan for 2023 with a handshake. That, so far as I was concerned, was deal done and then we had to do all the contracts and the official signing later on.”
Bird and his Penrith-based team have struggled this year - scoring only two wins and no other podiums - but this doesn’t phase Bridewell, who is looking at the pedigree rather than the results.
“The reasons for me are a change of scenery. I feel like PBM with its pedigree of championships, know what it has to do and I needed a team to help guide me to become British Champion. I feel it is a pretty logical step.
“My only interest was to stay on Ducati and that is why I have made the decision to join PBM. I feel like I beat them this year because I was so determined to be top Ducati and they had the same bike that last year Christian Iddon was on and he beat me on a number of occasions.
“Yes, we beat him in the championship but he was still fourth and in the fight until the last round whereas
Christian Iddon