Red-hot Redding puts the hammer down to celebrate victory at Knockhill
Scott Redding was back on top of the ZYN British Superbike Championship podium in race three at Knockhill, keeping his cool and coming out fighting in the final race of the weekend to celebrate his second win of the season ahead of a rebounding Bradley Ray after his race one disappointment.
In a hectic second race of the weekend, defending champion Kyle Ryde was victorious ahead of Ray and Redding. The Hager PBM Racing Team rider had hit the front of the pack on the opening lap, but Ryde was instantly on the attack and moved ahead.
The leading trio were in close contention, but the BMW Safety Car was deployed when Luke Hedger, Richard Kerr and Joe Talbot crashed out at the Hairpin on lap four with the stricken Whitecliffe CDH Racing Honda in the track.
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When the race resumed, Ray was shadowing Ryde but couldn’t find the opportunity to make a move for the lead, securing a strong second place to overcome the disappointment of yesterday’s DNF, with Redding completing the podium line-up.
The battle for fourth again went down to the wire with a three-rider tussle won by Storm Stacey as he made a last lap move on Max Cook, with Leon Haslam taking the chequered flag in sixth place.
Josh Brookes claimed his best result of the season in seventh place for DAO Racing Honda ahead of teammate Lee Jackson and Danny Kent, with Ilya Mikhalchik claiming his first top ten finish in the Superbike class in tenth place for the ROKiT BMW Motorrad British Superbike Race team.
However, in race three Redding was even more determined to return to winning ways and at the start of the race, Ray had launched into the lead from Redding and Ryde with Vickers holding fourth place.
A lap later and the Hager PBM Racing Team rider attacked with a dive down the inside at the Hairpin.
The race was then red flagged on the third lap when Danny Kent suffered a technical problem on the Cheshire Mouldings Yamaha. On the restart over 25 laps, Ray again got the jump on the chasing pack and again Redding, Ryde and Vickers were the leading quartet at the end of the opening lap.
Ray was holding strong at the front of the field until lap 14, when Redding made another bold move at the Hairpin to capture the lead, holding off the McAMS Yamaha rider and then firing in fast laps towards the end of the race to take the chequered flag first for the second time this season.
Ray delivered another determined second place, whilst Ryde had made a mistake on lap 17 at the Hairpin, running wide and giving Vickers the opportunity he needed to move ahead.
Ryde was fighting back though and regained the position three laps later at turn three, then was able to keep the Honda Racing UK rider at bay until the finish.
Rory Skinner was fifth on the lone Cheshire Mouldings Yamaha, getting the better of a beaten up Glenn Irwin after his race two crash earlier today, with Max Cook and Leon Haslam completing the top eight.
Josh Brookes delivered another strong top ten finish in ninth, just ahead of Christian Iddon on the Sencat Racing Yamaha.
ZYN British Superbike Championship, Knockhill, Race 2 result:
- Kyle Ryde (Nitrous Coin Nitrous Competitions Racing)
- Bradley Ray (McAMS Yamaha) +0.613s
- Scott Redding (Hager PBM Racing Team) +2.009s
- Storm Stacey (Bathams AJN Racing Ducati) +9.766s
- Max Cook (AJN Steelstock bimota) +9.930s
- Leon Haslam (Moto Rapido Racing) +10.212s
- Josh Brookes (DAO Racing Honda) +10.537s
- Lee Jackson (DAO Racing Honda) +12.182s
- Danny Kent (Cheshire Mouldings Yamaha) +12.411s
- Ilya Mikhalchik (ROKiT BMW Motorrad British Superbike Race team) +14.734s
ZYN British Superbike Championship, Knockhill, Race 3 result:
- Scott Redding (Hager PBM Racing Team)
- Bradley Ray (McAMS Yamaha) +1.132s
- Kyle Ryde (Nitrous Coin Nitrous Competitions Racing) +3.376s
- Ryan Vickers (Honda Racing UK) +4.430s
- Rory Skinner (Cheshire Mouldings Yamaha) +9.024s
- Glenn Irwin (Nitrous Coin Nitrous Competitions Racing) +9.415s
- Max Cook (AJN Steelstock bimota) +11.398s
- Leon Haslam (Moto Rapido Racing) +14.586s
- Josh Brookes (DAO Racing Honda) +15.522s
- Christian Iddon (Sencat Racing Yamaha) +15.779s
ZYN British Superbike Championship standings:
- Kyle Ryde (Nitrous Coin Nitrous Competitions Racing) 154
- Scott Redding (Hager PBM Racing Team) 133
- Leon Haslam (Moto Rapido Racing) 108
- Bradley Ray (McAMS Yamaha) 107
- Max Cook (AJN Steelstock bimota) 93
- Rory Skinner (Cheshire Mouldings Yamaha) 78
- Storm Stacey (Bathams AJN Racing Ducati) 67
- Glenn Irwin (Nitrous Coin Nitrous Competitions Racing) 61
- Ryan Vickers (Honda Racing UK) 61
- Christian Iddon (Sencat Racing Yamaha) 53
Scott Redding
Hager PBM Racing Team
“I want to dedicate this win to Paul Bird, for Frank and Jordan today and also to my dad, because earlier he said I didn’t wish him a Happy Father’s Day and I said ‘I wanted to win a race so I could tell you’, so I managed to do that, Happy Father’s Day!
“Now back to business. For the race, I was getting fed up with being in second or third and I was just trying to get my teeth into it. We’ve been working the bike, on the sighting laps, changing the bike on the grid and to be honest I just dug as deep as I could dig and the bike felt better than it’s felt all weekend in conditions that were worse for everyone else.
“For me it felt like every other race I’d been in this weekend, in fact it felt a little bit better for me so the tables kind of turned a bit where I was the hammer not the nail! When I passed Brad the first time, I was feeling real racy and though ‘I’m going to get stuck in and then the red flag came out and we did the restart and it sort of happened again but I didn’t feel as good.
“I managed to make that move on Brad again and I was digging my heels in to stop in the last corner! It got a bit loose out there, I’m not going to lie, every time I relaxed I was sideways. I was just happy to have that pace. I felt comfortable, that was probably the biggest thing I’m going to take away from this. I’m just happy to come away with a victory.”
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