Bradley Ray Britain Bradley Ray Britain

Oulton BSB: Bridewell’s ‘strong weekend’ serves up second

bikesportnews.com

Tommy Bridewell went into Oulton Park with the goal of winning all three British Superbike races and whilst he didn’t quite achieve that, he came mightily close as he outscored championship leader Bradley Ray, 65 points to 52. The Oxford Products Ducati rider had the most ground to make up to Ray coming into the Showdown and with a win and two seconds at the weekend, he shot up the leaderboard from eighth overall to second. “I’m definitely happy, 100 per cent, and we had a good, strong weekend,” Bridewell told bikesportnews.com. “We set out our goals before the weekend and we clawed back a decent amount of points to Brad whilst moving up to second in the championship was an added bonus.

It’s what we needed and a good step in the right direction.” The weekend obviously wasn’t without its fair share of drama with at least two of the Showdown contenders ruled out of the next round, Tarran Mackenzie missing the rest of the season altogether.

And Bridewell himself was caught up in some controversy when he made contact with Jason O’Halloran in Sunday’s first race, the McAMS Yamaha rider crashing out. “I genuinely felt bad for Jason and am genuinely sorry for those guys with how their weekend went.

No rider goes racing to cause another to crash. Jason was quite slow up and over Clay Hill and I felt the move was on so took the opportunity.

Related News
Glenn Irwin ended the 2022 Bennetts British Superbike Championship in almost exactly the same manner as he’d started, the Honda Racing rider taking two wins at Brands Hatch at the weekend compared to the treble he’d taken at the season opener at Silverstone.
Honda’s Glenn Irwin took his fifth win of the season as he bagged the final British Superbike Championship race of 2022 ahead of brother Andrew with Danny Buchan finishing third to make it two Synetiq BMW’s on the podium. Glenn Irwin grabbed the holeshot from pole position but Buchan went ahead at Stirlings and he led at the end of the opening lap from Glenn Irwin, Peter Hickman (FHO Racing BMW), Andrew Irwin, Danny Kent (Buildbase Suzuki) and Tommy Bridewell (Oxford Products Ducati) although Hickman quickly went into second at the start of lap two. Jason O’Halloran was missing though with the McAMS Yamaha being wheeled off the grid after the sighting lap.
Peter Hickman took his seventh career British Superbike Championship race win on Sunday, the FHO Racing BMW rider getting the better of Danny Buchan (Synetiq BMW) and Glenn Irwin (Honda Racing) in the opening race of the day at Brands Hatch.
Coming into the final round at Brands Hatch with a 66-point lead, Bradley Ray only needed to finish in seventh place in Saturday’s opening Bennetts British Superbike Championship race and fifth place duly saw him and the Rich OMG team clinch their first BSB title.
Rich OMG Yamaha’s Bradley Ray has been crowned the 2022 Bennetts British Superbike Champion with a fifth-placed finish at Brands Hatch.
Glenn Irwin claimed pole position for this afternoon’s Bennetts British Superbike Championship race at Brands Hatch, the Honda Racing rider getting the better of Peter Hickman (FHO Racing BMW) and Tommy Bridewell (Oxford Products Ducati) in a rain-interrupted session.

Latest News

Change privacy settings
This page might use cookies if your analytics vendor requires them.