Irwin joins Bridewell at PBM for BSB 2023

PBM Ducati has this morning confirmed Glenn Irwin will re-join the team for next year’s Bennetts British Superbike series alongside Tommy Bridewell.

The Irishman last raced with the Langwathby mob from 2016 to 2018 where he won three North West 200 Superbike races and a handful of BSB races - finishing third in the 2018 title chase.

Irwin has been quick to dispel any notion he is going back to PBM for the money and believes wholeheartedly that Paul Bird’s team is his best shot at taking the title. He also points out the biggest difference between then and now is himself.

“I think the biggest thing is what’s different with me. The injury I sustained at PBM in year two is now fixed as of midway through this year and that’s one of the reasons for the upturn in results,” Irwin told bikesportnews.com, fresh from pumpkin-picking with his young family.

“I finally have a left shoulder that I can go to Oulton Park with and actually put the bike left-right-left. I will arrive there a better rider physically, a better person. I have changed a lot, matured a lot and I am going back to PBM for the best chance to become British champion.

“It’s fine having the belief you are a race winner, it’s fine telling people you want to win the British Superbike Championship one day but you only have that inner-belief when you start to achieve something. The momentum we had towards the end of the year means it is realistic to say that now, it is achieveable.”

That inner-belief is crucial to Irwin’s drive and determination but it isn’t something he has always had in spades.

From my experience before at PBM, my team-mate was Shane Byrne for two and a half years and he was able to handle the expectation because he had done it, he had won and he was