BSB 2026, R9, Assen Race 2

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Full coverage of race 2 of round 9 of the 2026 BSB (British Superbike Championship) from Assen on the 20th Sep 2026.

Scott Redding Interview – 01:25
Brad Ray Interview – 05:42
Scott Redding’s Guide To Assen Circuit – 09:20
Grid Walk – 15:21
Warm Up Lap Rory Skinner Incident - 21:53
Glenn Irwin Interview – 27:50
Rory Skinner Interview – 33:18
Ryan Vickers Interview - 36:10
Jason O’Halloran Interview – 44:30
Steve Rogers Interview – 48:30
Rory Skinner’s Guide To Assen Circuit – 51:40
Jordan Bird Interview – 58:46
Race 2 Start (R26) – 1:05:12
Post Race Interviews – 1:21:58
Rostrum Celebrations - 1:26:25

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00:00:01Welcome along. Glad to report much brighter conditions here today than we had yesterday to the relief of the riders

00:00:06and those of us watching from Pitlane, including Shane Byrne and James Hayden.

00:00:10Fellas, Scott, back to his brilliant best yesterday. He's had some issues at some of the kind of quirkier British

00:00:15tracks this season, James.

00:00:16But when we come to these international venues, he seems to come into his own.

00:00:20Yeah, very much. We just mentioned his history here. He's been superb over the years.

00:00:24Loves the fast-flowing, more GP-style circuits. And had a real game plan yesterday. You could see, he just

00:00:29thought, if I get away quick, get my head down, see if I can break the pack.

00:00:33You know, cars on row two, which doesn't happen very often. And he stuck to his game plan, made that

00:00:38break and controlled it. Very impressive.

00:00:40And at this stage, Shane, he can't really do much more than that, can he?

00:00:43No, that's the problem he's got, isn't it? You know, trying to fight for a championship.

00:00:46You know, he was 71 points down coming into this round of the showdown.

00:00:52Obviously, the points ramp up a little bit, so points make prizes, but it looks like it's going to be

00:00:57a bit of a big ask.

00:00:58But, you know, he's got to just take it race by race, try and keep winning and hope that Kyle

00:01:02has a bad day.

00:01:03But unfortunately for Kyle, his bad days are, well, for Scott anyway, Kyle's bad days are podiums, aren't they?

00:01:08So that's the consistency that's brought him this championship lead so far.

00:01:12OK, well, he had a bad weekend last time out by his own standards, did Scott.

00:01:15But as Shane said, he arrived here at Aston with a 71-point deficit to try to close up in

00:01:21these three showdown rounds.

00:01:22And he's certainly not given up hope just yet.

00:01:26Obviously, it's a very, very important time in the championship for you now.

00:01:30What's your battle plan for this showdown now?

00:01:32What are you thinking? What's going through Scott's mind when he lines up on the grid?

00:01:35I don't really have too many options as part from win, I think, almost most of the races or at

00:01:40least beat Kyle in all the races.

00:01:42But, you know, you never know what can happen. I've had a rough couple of rounds.

00:01:46So I don't know, just kind of keep my head down, do what I got to do.

00:01:49If I can win, win and just do the best I can.

00:01:51You know, I don't believe I could win every race from here to the last one.

00:01:54That's not very realistic.

00:01:56So I just need to do the best I can.

00:01:58I'm sure Kyle will beat me in some races, but I've got to keep my head on my shoulders

00:02:01because these three rounds, we have three races per round, weather conditions.

00:02:05A lot can happen, a lot of points going further into the championship.

00:02:08So I just take it as it comes.

00:02:10You know, I've said at the beginning of the year, it'll be what it will be.

00:02:12I can't force anything else to happen.

00:02:14Just stay calm, keep my head in the game and go from there.

00:02:17Obviously, three great tracks for you.

00:02:19You've got Donington Park, youngest ever winner there.

00:02:21And then Brown's actually won there earlier on this year.

00:02:23Three great tracks to finish the year for you, for sure.

00:02:25Yeah, three great tracks for me, but also Kyle.

00:02:28You know, good and bad.

00:02:30You know, his tracks he goes well at too.

00:02:32Donington's is his home race, literally lives around the corner.

00:02:35And we had a good battle there earlier this year.

00:02:37He was only better than me in the last two corners.

00:02:40I think that was due to my size.

00:02:41So maybe I'll go on a big diet after here just for that round

00:02:44and then just get back on being comfortable for brands

00:02:47because brands need a bit more power.

00:02:48And I feel good at brands and we never know what the condition there.

00:02:51Well, like you said, Scott, what will be, will be.

00:02:53Just keep winning, see what happens.

00:02:54Absolutely.

00:02:55Thank you very much.

00:02:55Best of luck, mate.

00:02:56Thanks, mate.

00:02:58He's got to keep winning.

00:02:59He says it's not realistic to win all of the remaining races,

00:03:02but it is possible and it might be the only way, really, Shane,

00:03:05that he can actually get that pressure on Kyle.

00:03:08Yeah, that's it.

00:03:08And it's going to be really difficult.

00:03:10I think we're going to have to do like some difficult races today

00:03:12or some different races for Scott.

00:03:13I don't think he's going to get it quite all his own way,

00:03:16especially in this first race.

00:03:18Bradley Ray had been the guy that had pace all weekend, FP1, FP2, super strong,

00:03:23you know, stronger than anybody,

00:03:25but took too long to get through the pack, didn't he,

00:03:27from a bad qualifying position.

00:03:28So I think that there's going to be a few more in the mix today

00:03:31and Scott just has to hope that he can win a race

00:03:33and Kyle gets sort of battered back as far back as possible.

00:03:36Because as I said earlier on, you know,

00:03:38the amazing thing about Kyle Ride this year has been

00:03:41that a bad day for him really has been a third, hasn't it?

00:03:43You know, other than that, he's been winning all sort of seconds.

00:03:46And so he's done a phenomenal job

00:03:48and he's going to take some achievement to top him, I think.

00:03:52Kyle ended up in a battle with Leon Haslam yesterday.

00:03:55And actually, James, if Scott can get the start,

00:03:57perhaps, you know, that's something for him to cling on to, really,

00:03:59is the fact that, as Shane said,

00:04:01there are other riders with the pace to give Kyle some problems, maybe.

00:04:03Yeah, that's what he's got to hope,

00:04:05because it's just that difference of trying to get someone in between them both.

00:04:08This was like Leon having a big sort of moment at the final chicane.

00:04:11Kyle sort of comes back underneath him.

00:04:14So, yeah, there's a couple of things.

00:04:15Obviously, his lead's gone down to 68 points.

00:04:18He can only control what he can do.

00:04:20He's got to hope that maybe whether it be Leon or Vickers or someone,

00:04:24he's just going to get amongst them.

00:04:25But there's still 50 points just at this round alone.

00:04:28He's got 68 points behind.

00:04:29So you just, you can't tell.

00:04:32We know the weather conditions look great sort of today,

00:04:34but that could change very quickly here.

00:04:36So there's a lot of this and buts.

00:04:38But what we do know is Kyle's on the front row for this second race.

00:04:42So it's going to be much harder for him

00:04:44to try and make that break.

00:04:45But I'll see if I'll be interested to see on the shorter race anyway,

00:04:48whether he tries to just do exactly that,

00:04:50just get his head down, get going quick,

00:04:52because Kyle doesn't need to beat him, does he?

00:04:54Well, the interesting thing about that is that in commentary yesterday,

00:04:57James Whitson was talking about the fact that, you know,

00:04:58Kyle was having a proper dig.

00:05:00You know, he really wanted to beat Leon.

00:05:02You know, he really wanted to be in second place if he couldn't win the race.

00:05:04But interestingly, with me after the race,

00:05:06he spoke to me and he said,

00:05:07you know what, I absolutely loved the race.

00:05:09I absolutely enjoyed the race with Leon.

00:05:11Loved getting involved, loved having a battle.

00:05:13But I was just thinking to myself the whole way through this race,

00:05:15you don't need to be doing this.

00:05:17And all the time you're thinking about stuff like that,

00:05:19you know, sometimes you drop a little bit of focus.

00:05:21He still did though, didn't he?

00:05:22Oh, he did.

00:05:22Yeah, no, he got involved.

00:05:23And it was great to see because, as James said, you know,

00:05:26he didn't need to, but wanted to and enjoyed it as well.

00:05:29OK, Brad Ray will also be hoping to get in the mix at the sharp end today

00:05:33after a difficult start to his weekend.

00:05:35He had a crash, qualified way back down the grid,

00:05:37had to fight his way through.

00:05:38But he's a glass half full kind of guy and he's talking to James.

00:05:42Brad, weird day yesterday.

00:05:45Came through, got a reasonable result in the end

00:05:48and sat from fourth and riggered.

00:05:50So, set up well for today.

00:05:51Yeah, no, yesterday was a tricky day.

00:05:53Friday, obviously, we had good pace.

00:05:56But, yeah, yesterday was tricky coming from 16th.

00:06:00The pace was there to definitely fight with Scott,

00:06:03which is frustrating,

00:06:03but at least we've got two more stabs here today.

00:06:06The bike felt good.

00:06:07We found something this morning with the starts as well.

00:06:10The starts haven't been good this year,

00:06:11so we found something this morning,

00:06:12so I'm back to starting well, hopefully.

00:06:14So, basically, expect a good start from you

00:06:17and you to be doing it right at the front?

00:06:18I hope so, yeah, that's the plan.

00:06:20But the race never goes to plan.

00:06:21But the good thing is we've got pace,

00:06:22we're able to pass.

00:06:24Sprint race is going to be fast,

00:06:26so we'll try and lock in and get a good result.

00:06:29And a little bit more news.

00:06:30You're staying with the same team,

00:06:31a bit of continuity for next year.

00:06:33I think, given we don't know where the rules are going to go,

00:06:35the regs are going to go,

00:06:36I think that's a good move, I think.

00:06:39Yeah, no, personally, it took a bit of thought

00:06:41to understand what was happening.

00:06:42Obviously, the rules are changing next year.

00:06:44I think the best thing for me at the moment

00:06:46is to stay with Steve, stay with Yamaha,

00:06:48stay with the same bike and crew.

00:06:50And I think, honestly, next year,

00:06:52the Yamaha will be a good package, a strong package.

00:06:55And like you say, a bit of continuity

00:06:56is always good to start a new season.

00:06:59You've got a good chassis,

00:07:00that's what you're going to need next year.

00:07:01I think if they've balanced all the engines,

00:07:02good luck, mate.

00:07:03Cheers, mate, thank you.

00:07:05Yeah, just tell us a bit more about that, chaps.

00:07:07Why is it potentially a good move

00:07:09for Brad to stay where he is?

00:07:10Because right now, when you look at this championship,

00:07:12anybody from the outside is going to be thinking,

00:07:14well, if you're not on a Ducati,

00:07:16you ain't going to win.

00:07:17Well, unfortunately, well, not unfortunately,

00:07:19there's some pretty exciting news, I think,

00:07:21due from the British Superbike Championship,

00:07:23you know, with some new technical regs

00:07:24that might be implemented next year.

00:07:26And it's going to be the biggest,

00:07:28one of the biggest changes, I think,

00:07:30in probably the last sort of 10 or 15 years.

00:07:32So, you know, there's a lot of apprehension

00:07:34from riders and from teams and whatever else,

00:07:36but there's also a lot of merit

00:07:38to continuity and consistency, you know.

00:07:41So, you know, if lots of stuff is going to change,

00:07:45then knowing as much as you can

00:07:47with the motorcycle that you're used to

00:07:49probably will be beneficial.

00:07:51So, yeah, that was the reason for Brad's choice

00:07:54of staying with Yamaha

00:07:55and hopefully it will bode well for 2027.

00:07:59And ultimately, if we're talking about reducing power,

00:08:01what they're sort of saying here as well is,

00:08:03you know, because he knows the chassis,

00:08:04he's got beautiful chassis,

00:08:05the Yamaha knows the team.

00:08:06So, actually, if they're bringing it down a notch,

00:08:08staying where he is,

00:08:09it's going to be a great leveller with the Ducatis

00:08:11and bringing a lot of other manufacturers in.

00:08:13But some really exciting stuff

00:08:14on the board for next year.

00:08:15Yep.

00:08:16OK, and still plenty of exciting stuff to come in 2026.

00:08:21Starting today with our sprint race.

00:08:23It's race two and three for the weekend

00:08:25for the British Superbike class.

00:08:26It's coming up at the top of the hour.

00:08:27We'll be racing throughout the afternoon

00:08:29with the Moto4 British Cup,

00:08:31BMW F900Rs,

00:08:32the British Supersport feature race

00:08:34at ten past two

00:08:36and then the big one of the afternoon,

00:08:38BSB race three is at three o'clock.

00:08:40We'll also bring you action

00:08:41from the FIM Sidecar World Championship.

00:08:44So, look out for that.

00:08:45Technically, at this stage of the season,

00:08:47there are still seven riders

00:08:49in with a mathematical chance

00:08:50of winning this British Superbike Championship.

00:08:53The showdown continues after the break.

00:09:09Right, time to take a closer look

00:09:11at the track here at Assen.

00:09:13Nobody knows it better than Scott Redding,

00:09:15who's been coming here every year

00:09:17since he was a teenager

00:09:18in 125cc Grand Prix.

00:09:20Way back in 2008,

00:09:22he's played his part

00:09:23in some iconic moment.

00:09:27Oh, Redding!

00:09:29Bad run!

00:09:30He needed the points so badly.

00:09:33Oh, Jake.

00:09:34He's out.

00:09:35There's something gone there.

00:09:36Reading wins it.

00:09:37He does the double here at Assen.

00:09:42So, Scott,

00:09:44iconic Assen circuit

00:09:45and iconic part of it

00:09:46is this is the Struber

00:09:47and I've got to be honest,

00:09:49typical Assen weather,

00:09:50a little bit of rain about,

00:09:51really breezy.

00:09:53But this is your first point

00:09:55to talk about.

00:09:56Struber.

00:09:56It's one of the main overtaking places

00:10:00but there's different ways

00:10:01of setting it up.

00:10:02You can come outside of the turn three

00:10:05and set it up early

00:10:06or you can wait late

00:10:08until somebody, you know,

00:10:09anticipate they're going to go out

00:10:10to get the slingshot

00:10:11and then bang, you'll be there.

00:10:13But it's a corner that I do like.

00:10:16Very tricky because the speed is so low

00:10:18so sometimes with the front end

00:10:19can be a little bit sketchy

00:10:21but then, yeah,

00:10:22it sets us up

00:10:22for some of the best corners.

00:10:29So, the Struber

00:10:30where we've just been

00:10:30half a mile that way,

00:10:32the next right hand

00:10:33after the straight

00:10:34is Ruskendhuk

00:10:35which is just where

00:10:36the cyclist is now

00:10:37back to fifth.

00:10:39Yeah.

00:10:39And we've just been

00:10:40arguing about it

00:10:41because I said it's 130

00:10:41and I said,

00:10:42no, man,

00:10:43it's about 150.

00:10:44How you execute

00:10:46the rusty hook

00:10:47as I'll call it

00:10:49is how you set up

00:10:50this left into the right

00:10:51and the left here,

00:10:53yeah, you can overtake

00:10:54but actually setting up

00:10:55into that right handle

00:10:56with a lot of cambers

00:10:57is really nice

00:10:58because a lot of people open it

00:10:59and you can dive inside

00:11:01but it comes from here.

00:11:02It comes from setting up there

00:11:03and that's what I like

00:11:05about this track

00:11:05is like technically

00:11:07it's not simple.

00:11:09A lot of the corners

00:11:10you're setting up here

00:11:11for over there

00:11:11instead of it

00:11:12like one to the next.

00:11:14One at a time.

00:11:14Yeah, you can get it

00:11:15like three corners before

00:11:17and it is one of the

00:11:18two scariest corners

00:11:19on the circuit.

00:11:24Look, I don't know

00:11:24who Gert Tim was.

00:11:26I think it was

00:11:26a 1950s Dutch racer

00:11:29but he's got a good chicane

00:11:30because a lot of things

00:11:31happen here

00:11:31but it all starts

00:11:33at the fast left back there.

00:11:35Yeah, so with that

00:11:35left back there

00:11:36you get such a slipstream

00:11:38through the corner

00:11:39so even like

00:11:40in practice or qualifying

00:11:41you gain a lot of time

00:11:42by just catching

00:11:43someone through there

00:11:44versus being alone

00:11:45because you're pushing

00:11:46the wind

00:11:46so when you're behind

00:11:48you actually get

00:11:48a bit of a run

00:11:49to set up for this chicane.

00:11:51So the idea would be

00:11:53you're going to pass

00:11:54somebody

00:11:54get a slipstream

00:11:56run it to the left

00:11:56and then get up

00:11:57the inside into this.

00:11:59Yes.

00:11:59I mean I managed it

00:12:01last year

00:12:01which was good.

00:12:02We did a few overtakes

00:12:04here

00:12:04but also

00:12:06races have had

00:12:07epic finishes.

00:12:08I remember the

00:12:08Valentino Rossi market

00:12:11Colin Edwards finish.

00:12:12Yeah, there's been foggy

00:12:13and killy

00:12:14incidents here.

00:12:15There's mega stuff here

00:12:17so this is what makes it amazing.

00:12:18You have such a good track

00:12:19and to finish it here

00:12:20with these grandstands

00:12:21which normally

00:12:22fills with people

00:12:23one of the best places to be.

00:12:25Good luck this weekend

00:12:26and thanks for letting us

00:12:28into your kind of mindset

00:12:29and the secrets

00:12:31to us.

00:12:32Good luck.

00:12:32Yeah, and yeah

00:12:33I'm going to go and defrost

00:12:34we're just freezing.

00:12:40Well it's much warmer today

00:12:42thankfully

00:12:42the sun's out

00:12:43and as you can see

00:12:44there are plenty of people

00:12:45in the grandstands here

00:12:46as well for this one.

00:12:47So pretty much

00:12:48for this time of year

00:12:49ideal conditions

00:12:51unlike the last couple

00:12:52of days here Shane.

00:12:53Yeah, I'd definitely say so.

00:12:54Track temperature

00:12:55we're not too sure

00:12:56but we're trying to get

00:12:56some sort of idea

00:12:57of what that is.

00:12:58A little bit blustery

00:12:59to be fair

00:12:59the wind's picked up

00:13:00a little bit hasn't it

00:13:00but yeah

00:13:01you'd take a dry ass

00:13:03and with some sunshine

00:13:04all day long

00:13:05wouldn't you?

00:13:05You certainly would

00:13:06and so would Scott

00:13:07who starts from pole position

00:13:08James not only did he

00:13:09take the wind yesterday

00:13:09but he set the fastest lap

00:13:11as well

00:13:11and he's got a couple

00:13:13of Ducati's alongside him

00:13:14on the front row.

00:13:16Yeah, absolutely

00:13:16the top three from the race

00:13:17yesterday

00:13:18three Ducati's

00:13:19so he's going to have

00:13:20his work cut out

00:13:21I think Brad

00:13:22obviously Brad started yesterday

00:13:23on row five, row six

00:13:25so he had a lot of work to do

00:13:26he's in fourth behind

00:13:27and he looked like

00:13:28he had some really good pace

00:13:29towards the end of that race

00:13:31but he just had too much

00:13:31to make up

00:13:32so I think he's another

00:13:33one to watch

00:13:34so it'd be really interesting

00:13:35to see how these first laps go

00:13:36but the start

00:13:37is always important.

00:13:38Ryan Vickers

00:13:39has showed glimpses

00:13:40of speed

00:13:41so far this week

00:13:42and Shane

00:13:42but did have some issues

00:13:43over race distance

00:13:45with grip yesterday.

00:13:46Yeah, I think the Hondas

00:13:48have been struggling

00:13:48a little bit with grip

00:13:49to be honest

00:13:50across the board

00:13:51is something that

00:13:52they're trying to

00:13:54work on

00:13:55I'm sure that they

00:13:56will have done some work

00:13:57overnight

00:13:58and tried some stuff

00:13:59this morning in warm-up

00:14:00warm-up was slightly damp

00:14:01so not too much

00:14:02to take from that

00:14:03but hopefully Ryan

00:14:04will have found something

00:14:05to allow him

00:14:06to be a bit more consistent

00:14:07a little bit of rear entry grip

00:14:08looked like to be a problem

00:14:08for Ryan.

00:14:09It's probably going to be

00:14:10advantageous as well

00:14:11because being a slightly

00:14:12shorter race

00:14:13being a sort of sprint race

00:14:14I think those problems

00:14:15with the rear tyre

00:14:16just developed a little bit

00:14:18later in the race

00:14:18so he might just

00:14:19get away with it

00:14:20on the Honda

00:14:20so I expect them to be

00:14:21well, Ryan certainly

00:14:23in the hunt.

00:14:24Two more bits of news

00:14:24really, really quickly

00:14:25I've just been informed

00:14:26that the track temperature

00:14:27is 25.3 degrees

00:14:28which is absolutely perfect

00:14:29and not only that

00:14:30Stuart Higgs is just over there

00:14:31the series director

00:14:32with the dates

00:14:34for the 2027

00:14:35British Superbike round here

00:14:3617th to the 19th of September.

00:14:39Get your tickets now!

00:14:41No excuses!

00:14:43All right

00:14:44we've touched on Brad

00:14:45and Ryan Vickers

00:14:46from the second row

00:14:47of the grid

00:14:47Joe Talbot

00:14:48is going to be there

00:14:49as well

00:14:49thankfully he's in one piece

00:14:50even though the bike

00:14:51wasn't yesterday

00:14:52huge, huge offer

00:14:53Yeah, unfortunately for Joe

00:14:54it was

00:14:55the punishment

00:14:56didn't really fit the crime

00:14:57for not just Joe

00:14:58but for the team as well

00:14:59you can see there

00:14:59the bike literally

00:15:00split in two halves

00:15:02unfortunately

00:15:02not the first one

00:15:03of those

00:15:03that they've done

00:15:04this year

00:15:05so yeah

00:15:06Joe's up and about

00:15:07and he's fit

00:15:09and healthy

00:15:10and ready to go

00:15:10he's a strong little

00:15:11fella anyway

00:15:12so I'm sure

00:15:13he'll be back out

00:15:14the team

00:15:14would have done a great job

00:15:15got the bike up

00:15:15and running again

00:15:16and away it goes

00:15:17Good stuff

00:15:18all right

00:15:18great atmosphere

00:15:19down here on the grid

00:15:20let's get amongst it

00:15:21with James

00:15:21Cheers boys

00:15:22I've just put my hand on

00:15:24the time I can

00:15:25can confirm

00:15:25it's 25 degrees

00:15:26exactly

00:15:27so Shane

00:15:28you were right

00:15:29you didn't tell us right

00:15:30I'm back on row three

00:15:31this is Ilya Mikulczyk

00:15:32he had a

00:15:33in my opinion

00:15:34really good run through

00:15:35to seventh yesterday

00:15:37Ilya

00:15:38to circuit

00:15:38you know

00:15:39quite well

00:15:40and the bike knows

00:15:41I thought

00:15:41good good race

00:15:42yesterday for you

00:15:43yeah thanks

00:15:44it was

00:15:45to be honest

00:15:46not perfect

00:15:47as

00:15:49we was able to do

00:15:51to be honest

00:15:52because we had

00:15:53some wrong strategy

00:15:54in the quality

00:15:55then some small issues

00:15:56so

00:15:56I started a little bit

00:15:58out of top 10

00:15:59then in the first laps

00:16:00I was already

00:16:01I think out of top 15

00:16:03then it was

00:16:04good comeback

00:16:04I spin quite a lot

00:16:06of my tires

00:16:07and a little bit

00:16:08stuck with the guys

00:16:09I think

00:16:11who pace was

00:16:12a little bit slower

00:16:12so today

00:16:13we started

00:16:14just to

00:16:15make good start

00:16:16unfortunately

00:16:17with our bike

00:16:17it's a little bit

00:16:18difficult

00:16:18because we don't

00:16:19have launch control

00:16:20and it's difficult

00:16:20to manage

00:16:21but yeah

00:16:22from five starts

00:16:23one two starts

00:16:24we can do good

00:16:24so I hope

00:16:25today will be

00:16:26exactly this one start

00:16:27or two

00:16:28and yeah

00:16:28we will see

00:16:29I try to

00:16:30follow front group

00:16:32and yeah

00:16:33just full send

00:16:34let's see how

00:16:34it's going

00:16:35and we will try

00:16:36to keep

00:16:37similar position

00:16:38as yesterday

00:16:38or even improve

00:16:39good luck

00:16:40thank you

00:16:41yeah

00:16:42that was about

00:16:42a smiley

00:16:43as Ilya gets

00:16:44really really

00:16:44race facey

00:16:45when it comes

00:16:46and sitting on the

00:16:47grid

00:16:47a lot of people

00:16:48are

00:16:49right

00:16:49this is

00:16:50we'll have a

00:16:50quick word

00:16:51with the boys

00:16:52we're talking

00:16:52about this

00:16:52fellas

00:16:54not a perfect

00:16:55race yesterday

00:16:56but you've got

00:16:56a brand new

00:16:56bike

00:16:57couldn't you

00:16:57now

00:16:58yeah

00:16:59my fault

00:17:00yesterday

00:17:00definitely

00:17:01my fault

00:17:01so huge

00:17:01apologies

00:17:02to the team

00:17:03and

00:17:04but we move

00:17:04on

00:17:05today's a new

00:17:05day

00:17:06and feeling

00:17:06good

00:17:07I've had

00:17:07some good

00:17:08pace

00:17:08so

00:17:08another good

00:17:09start

00:17:09like I had

00:17:10yesterday

00:17:10and sitting

00:17:11with the front

00:17:12boys

00:17:12and learn

00:17:12I need to

00:17:13find a bit

00:17:13round the

00:17:13back

00:17:14but if I can

00:17:14do that

00:17:14I think I

00:17:15can be there

00:17:16thank you

00:17:16very much

00:17:17yeah if you

00:17:18look at this

00:17:18bike

00:17:19it's made up

00:17:19out of separate

00:17:21sections

00:17:21you've got the

00:17:21main trellish

00:17:22frame

00:17:22then these

00:17:23bolt on

00:17:24and don't

00:17:25think

00:17:25I used to

00:17:26think that

00:17:26would make it

00:17:27cheaper

00:17:27if you broke

00:17:27a bike

00:17:28because you

00:17:28don't have to

00:17:28replace the

00:17:29whole frame

00:17:29each part of

00:17:33so I got it

00:17:33completely wrong

00:17:34there

00:17:36Ryan Vickers

00:17:36I think we've

00:17:37got about

00:17:37three minutes

00:17:37left

00:17:38I wanted

00:17:38just a quick

00:17:39word with

00:17:39Ryan

00:17:40before I get

00:17:40to the front

00:17:41row

00:17:41quick word

00:17:41Ryan

00:17:42you look

00:17:42a bit

00:17:42struggling

00:17:43going into

00:17:43the corners

00:17:44yesterday

00:17:44when you're

00:17:44losing the

00:17:45rear going

00:17:45in

00:17:45it is

00:17:46really

00:17:46difficult

00:17:46I can

00:17:46remember

00:17:47that much

00:17:47about

00:17:47racing

00:17:48at least

00:17:49yeah well

00:17:49to be honest

00:17:50it looked

00:17:50like I was

00:17:51struggling

00:17:51on the way

00:17:51in but that

00:17:52was just

00:17:52because it

00:17:52was so bad

00:17:53on the way

00:17:53out

00:17:55I had to

00:17:56over

00:17:57over

00:17:57work

00:17:58the way

00:17:58in

00:17:58that I

00:17:59actually

00:17:59then

00:17:59created

00:17:59a problem

00:18:00but that

00:18:01was the

00:18:01only

00:18:01way

00:18:02that I

00:18:02could

00:18:03create

00:18:03some

00:18:04kind

00:18:04of

00:18:04lap

00:18:04time

00:18:05and

00:18:05you know

00:18:06we had

00:18:06no grip

00:18:06absolutely

00:18:07none

00:18:09those

00:18:09decays

00:18:10really really

00:18:11strong

00:18:12for them

00:18:12fast

00:18:12sections

00:18:13out the

00:18:13back

00:18:13it's

00:18:13the first

00:18:14time

00:18:14I've

00:18:14really

00:18:14noticed

00:18:15a huge

00:18:16difference

00:18:16you know

00:18:16sort of

00:18:1710 bike

00:18:18lengths

00:18:18through

00:18:18some

00:18:18of the

00:18:19corners

00:18:19out

00:18:19the

00:18:19back

00:18:19and

00:18:20really

00:18:21difficult

00:18:21I'm

00:18:21just having

00:18:21to work

00:18:22so hard

00:18:22on the

00:18:22way

00:18:23in

00:18:23to make

00:18:23that

00:18:23time

00:18:23back

00:18:24up

00:18:24let's

00:18:24see

00:18:25we

00:18:25made

00:18:25some

00:18:25changes

00:18:25today

00:18:26let's

00:18:26see

00:18:26if

00:18:26we

00:18:26can

00:18:26close

00:18:26that

00:18:27gap

00:18:27good

00:18:27look

00:18:28right

00:18:28I

00:18:28think

00:18:29we've

00:18:29only

00:18:29about

00:18:301.30

00:18:30so we'll

00:18:31just have

00:18:31a quick word

00:18:33with Kyle

00:18:34Ride

00:18:34he is on

00:18:35the right

00:18:36side

00:18:36of front row

00:18:36because he

00:18:37doesn't

00:18:37generally

00:18:37talk

00:18:38that

00:18:38much

00:18:39just a

00:18:40quick

00:18:40and Kyle

00:18:40a bit

00:18:41frustrated

00:18:41yesterday

00:18:42we saw

00:18:42that

00:18:42he got

00:18:42involved

00:18:43in a

00:18:43bit

00:18:43of a

00:18:43battle

00:18:43and that

00:18:44cost you

00:18:45a little

00:18:45bit

00:18:45time

00:18:45a bit

00:18:46better

00:18:46this

00:18:46time

00:18:46if you

00:18:46can

00:18:46make

00:18:47a

00:18:47start

00:18:47yeah

00:18:47I

00:18:48just

00:18:48need

00:18:48to

00:18:48make

00:18:48a

00:18:48better

00:18:48start

00:18:49I

00:18:50think

00:18:50hopefully

00:18:51what

00:18:51Leon said

00:18:51yesterday

00:18:52he kind

00:18:52of

00:18:52got us

00:18:52both

00:18:53getting

00:18:53close

00:18:53to

00:18:53Scott

00:18:53and

00:18:54putting

00:18:54a bit

00:18:54of

00:18:54pressure

00:18:54on

00:18:54but

00:19:10I

00:19:1630 seconds

00:19:16he said

00:19:17his golf

00:19:18buddy

00:19:18cost him

00:19:19a little

00:19:19bit

00:19:19of

00:19:19time

00:19:19and

00:19:19you

00:19:19racing

00:19:20each

00:19:20other

00:19:20yesterday

00:19:20yeah

00:19:21he did

00:19:21get him

00:19:21away

00:19:21a fair bit

00:19:22to be fair

00:19:22I'll have

00:19:23to beat

00:19:23him

00:19:23this

00:19:23one

00:19:23good

00:19:24cheers

00:19:25right

00:19:26this might

00:19:26just work

00:19:27out

00:19:27with 30

00:19:27seconds

00:19:27left

00:19:28we've got

00:19:28to speak

00:19:28to the

00:19:29pole

00:19:29setter

00:19:29and your

00:19:30winner

00:19:30from

00:19:30yesterday

00:19:31a man

00:19:31fighting

00:19:32for this

00:19:32championship

00:19:33this is

00:19:33Scott

00:19:34brilliant

00:19:34race

00:19:35yesterday

00:19:38and you

00:19:38were doing

00:19:38all you

00:19:39can

00:19:39you can't

00:19:40do

00:19:40anymore

00:19:40it's

00:19:40down

00:19:40other

00:19:40people

00:19:41now

00:19:41yeah

00:19:42that's it

00:19:42I've got to

00:19:42just ride

00:19:43the best

00:19:43I can

00:19:44which I

00:19:44always do

00:19:45and just

00:19:46do what I

00:19:46can do

00:19:47I mean

00:19:47this road

00:19:47to be a bit

00:19:48different

00:19:48to yesterday

00:19:48a little bit

00:19:49more data

00:19:50a bit more

00:19:51of a normal

00:19:51grid

00:19:52line up

00:19:52what we're

00:19:52used to

00:19:53do what

00:19:54we can

00:19:54do

00:19:54and that's

00:19:54all there

00:19:55is to

00:19:55it

00:19:55mate

00:19:55you enjoy

00:19:56good luck

00:19:56thank you

00:19:58and that's

00:19:58it

00:19:59I still

00:19:59think

00:20:00he's going

00:20:00to have

00:20:01company

00:20:01now

00:20:01from

00:20:01Kyle

00:20:02Ride

00:20:02from

00:20:02Leon

00:20:02Asselman

00:20:03probably

00:20:04maybe

00:20:04from

00:20:04Brad

00:20:05Ray

00:20:05as well

00:20:07well the

00:20:07Ducatis

00:20:08were dominant

00:20:08yesterday

00:20:09in race

00:20:10one

00:20:10but it's

00:20:10all to

00:20:10play for

00:20:11here

00:20:11over a

00:20:1212 lap

00:20:12sprint

00:20:13in race

00:20:13two

00:20:13as the

00:20:14showdown

00:20:14continues

00:20:15we'll be

00:20:16live with

00:20:16this one

00:20:17in just

00:20:17a couple

00:20:17of minutes

00:21:04we'll be

00:21:09it's round nine of the british superbike championship for 2026 and here in asson we

00:21:15thought we were in for a clear dry sunny day but just as this warm-up lap gets underway

00:21:20we're hearing spots of rain in sector three ready for a 12-lap sprint race here in fact

00:21:27that's not spots of rain that's rain i suspect james whitton we might have a delayed start

00:21:32coming up here yeah i don't think there's any uh i don't there's any any uh doubt about that if

00:21:37it's

00:21:37raining on a part of the circuit he had been declared a dry race so they've got to do something

00:21:43about that now depending on how it's rain falls what i can tell you is that the sector three is

00:21:48exactly where the weather's coming from so i would expect it to come this way soon in terms of the

00:21:54championship car oh dear we got a big blow up there blow and yeah that's rory skinner's bike and i

00:22:00think

00:22:00he looks like he might be on his way off it as well he is we've got a red flag

00:22:05here i hope rory's

00:22:06okay just as he tipped in to turn six and that is a fast one that's five faith away on

00:22:12a fast lap

00:22:12but luckily that was and these guys are about to come into the rain as well oh that's so unfortunate

00:22:18yeah i mean they've got to check there's going to be oil on the track they've got to check that

00:22:22and

00:22:22clean that up and dress it uh fast part of the track rory did nothing wrong the bikes let go

00:22:27some of

00:22:28the internals have come poking out and that's a lot of oil from the track yeah we're hearing a line

00:22:35of fluid as well that's no surprise from what we just saw there on that back straight well uh good

00:22:40news fast part of the track rory did nothing wrong the bikes let go some of the internals have come

00:22:47poking out and that's a lot of oil from the track yeah we're hearing a line of fluid as well

00:22:53that's no

00:22:54surprise from what we just saw there on that back straight well uh good news rory's up yeah uh and

00:22:59the other good news they're not gonna have to worry too much about the rain for the time being not

00:23:04the

00:23:04first yamaha blow-up that we've seen so far this year hey listen uh it's it's not a yamaha thing

00:23:10all

00:23:10mechanical things uh blow sometimes here we go let's have a look oh yeah that's blown up and at that

00:23:16point

00:23:16there is uh parts of the engine and in and look at that as soon as you tip in luckily

00:23:22he dropped off

00:23:24the low side of the bike and then didn't get collected uh by the bike and rolled on so he's

00:23:30uh

00:23:30he's got away with that pretty unscathed as rory not his fault and when that happens you are the last

00:23:35to know everybody else behind you knows exactly what's gonna happen i've seen it in races where

00:23:39somebody's bike's leaking all you can see oil on his tire you try and catch him but he's obviously

00:23:43going as fast as he can and then next thing you see they've gone down the road so yeah unlucky

00:23:47for

00:23:47or you've seen it first hand with a yamaha parade lap at brands hatch a few months ago yeah uh

00:23:52i thought

00:23:53i was going to see my good friend and old colleague disappeared neil mckenzie disappearing into the trees

00:23:58but we managed to slow him down it was only going slow really because that's all we can do now

00:24:02so yeah

00:24:04we will wait here i suspect we may well have seen a delayed start in any case because of the

00:24:09spots of

00:24:09rain in that uh third sector but uh there is going to be a pretty hefty delay here because there

00:24:18is a

00:24:18line of oil as you was imagine on that back straight it'll be on the racing line as well

00:24:23real shame just good to see that rory's up and he's okay as he heads back into the go should

00:24:28just

00:24:28point out as well only one bike rule in british super bikes as well yep yeah that's a long line

00:24:35of

00:24:35oil and you know what i think i think uh that that wasn't an actual engine blow up because he

00:24:41would

00:24:41have known about that because if an engine blows up and throws a rod or a piston or something out

00:24:45the engine you know about that pretty immediately uh and it didn't so i think that's probably an oil

00:24:51line or a pipe that's burst squirted eye pressure the oil out that's gotten the exhaust that's caused

00:24:57the smoke but he wouldn't have known about that because the engine would keep going for the time being

00:25:01and just uh treating the track surface at the moment with that they've got all the latest

00:25:06equipment there look steel toe cap boots

00:25:12that is uh quite a lengthy line as well that they've got to clear up here stuart higgs and co

00:25:18will

00:25:18be going around just to check that out in a moment i'm sure the riders meantime head back into

00:25:24their garages we were in for a 12 lap sprint race as we look here at your championship leader kyle

00:25:31ride

00:25:31great ride from kyle yesterday i have to say i was quite surprised at how much he was willing to

00:25:36risk

00:25:36yeah i can i i would say that he would say it wasn't one of his greatest rides however it

00:25:42was a thinking

00:25:42championship ride for me uh he kept it safe he went as hard as he could without taking risk he

00:25:50got involved

00:25:51uh embroiled should i say with this man early and asked them and they're the best of friends they

00:25:56play golf together pretty much every day even though they tell you different uh men of leisure and they

00:26:02play a lot of golf they're really good friends but they got involved in racing sometimes that happens

00:26:06you know it's costing you both time but you still can't

00:26:11glenn owen there who was just behind rory skinner actually he's just letting kyle know where he thinks that

00:26:17oil line is i mean they're going to see in a moment themselves yeah if uh if glenn's racing career

00:26:23fails at any point which normally they they do you're packing from racing acting that's what i'm

00:26:29going to suggest he's a he's always good with the arms i was acting now i just said very graphically

00:26:35what

00:26:35happened in his opinion uh behind and you see that and the first thing you think of as a rider

00:26:41is

00:26:42there's going to be oil of fluids and you firstly you've got to keep away from it

00:26:47yeah that's a lot of oil and actually who was behind him getting completely engulfed in the

00:26:51in the smoke was it oh hallery i think it might have been yeah yeah i think that might have

00:26:57been a honda

00:26:58yeah well you wouldn't know what was going on

00:27:05yeah very lucky especially at that part of the circuit actually to come away unhurt there is rory

00:27:09yeah really fast but when you get laid onto the track like that on the low side of the

00:27:14the bike as it leans in well it's not the big it's not going to be the biggest crash

00:27:20uh the worst ones where you get thrown in the air then you land and you tumble and again i'll

00:27:26say

00:27:27he's really looking and get tangled up with the bike because that's pretty much the best part of

00:27:31200 kilos and of that they've got a lot of um kinetic energy when you jump off 120 mile an

00:27:38hour

00:27:39scott reading there just checking his tinted visor before he heads back out

00:27:43um we just saw uh glenn irwin down in pit lane shakey's caught up with him to catch your word

00:27:49with

00:27:49that's uh go down to you yeah cheers steve down in the ass and pit lane with my old teammate

00:27:54glenn owen

00:27:55glenn you were one of the guys that was was right behind rory's bike there um looked like it was

00:27:59it

00:28:00was fairly terminal um oil all the way into the the fastest corner on the track not ideal yeah look

00:28:05there was a i'm not that mechanical but to me uh maybe like an oil hose blew off because you

00:28:13know

00:28:13when your bike goes you feel it and you sit up but rory was still chained on the tank and

00:28:17you're nearly

00:28:18like praying for him you're like oh i can't tell him you know we it was like a bomb going

00:28:22off and

00:28:23yeah look uh obviously he's okay it's a super fast pace of crash but one of the safest areas and

00:28:27just as he's turned right there's nothing nothing you can do it's probably why you don't do the

00:28:31island man tt when you see stuff that makes you think that's why that's why i don't do that

00:28:34um but glad he glad he was up he looked a bit shocked but i'm sure when he turned around

00:28:38and seen

00:28:39a cloud that wasn't there before he went down the street he soon worked out what it was

00:28:43um seen uh glimpses of of glenn owen back again this weekend looks

00:28:47has to be a slightly better weekend for you so far not so many uh not so many issues and

00:28:51and

00:28:51all seeming quite positive yeah we only had a like one technical and i feel uh i feel much better

00:28:57in

00:28:57myself you know i've worked hard to bring uh just take a better a better glenn in the garage and

00:29:01communicate with the guys good and it's been super uh fun you know uh the race history wasn't

00:29:07how we wanted the warm-up this morning was nice we just have a little bit of a feeling uh

00:29:12when we're on like back on the dry tires it's a feeling of like like you're riding on wet tires

00:29:18on a dry track in the rear and it's something that i don't know is it the flex of the

00:29:23bike so different

00:29:23from the previous model is it where we are with like wheelbase or whatever but to be fair like

00:29:28the motor rapido guys and has them have been super helpful last night as well and you know they we've

00:29:33kind of had a look at where they are and uh we try something for this race but i feel

00:29:37good i feel ready

00:29:38um and no doubt it will turn i i would just love it the turn this year for uh for

00:29:42dave he's put a

00:29:42lot into it and paul and the entire team what about um that the fact you've got two different races

00:29:47this weekend glenn you've got obviously a sprint race today this this first one and then you've got

00:29:50the the feature race this problem if you've got it sorted what's it going to be better for you

00:29:55which race should be stronger i think either or you know if the feeling's good uh like i'm fit i'm

00:29:59always i can always dig in and be there at the end uh i guess ideally the feeling's good now

00:30:03and we uh

00:30:04first of all we get a lap time and the move is much higher up the grid and then row

00:30:08five and then

00:30:09that changes your entire race although race two is uh race three sorry this afternoon is long

00:30:13the group position is so important now because the level's so so hard and everyone is so close so

00:30:19let's uh let's try everything to have a slightly better feeling i go speak to the guys and say

00:30:23maybe we make a little tweak and i think you've got a new front tire there because man was covered

00:30:27in oil um along with everything else so that's something go get yourself cleaned up and best

00:30:32that for these races glenn to shakey thank you thanks everyone thanks yeah thanks to shaky

00:30:35thanks to glenn as well good to see him smiling and james you've still got it a bang on the

00:30:39money

00:30:39exactly what he said word for word well it had to be uh it had to be like that because

00:30:43uh he would

00:30:44have known rory would have known good to hear from glenn and i've been chatting with him this weekend

00:30:48and he's a lot happier and and glenn's a rider that you can really tell what's going on he kind

00:30:53of

00:30:53wears his hat on his sleeve a little bit and he's just felt that so he wouldn't actually say what

00:30:57breakthroughs may but he definitely seems happier in himself and uh i think that's going to lead to

00:31:02him being quick just if you're tuning in we just had a red flag due to engine blow up for

00:31:07rory skinner

00:31:07so uh this is the work going on at present that was on the warm-up lap as well so

00:31:14uh as soon as we get

00:31:15any info as to when we can get going again we will of course let you know as we look

00:31:19here at your

00:31:20championship leader 68 points his lead now with eight races to go uh he could afford to finish

00:31:27i think actually just off the podium in every single race now afford to finish fourth in every

00:31:32race yeah you work yeah you work that out after cadwell i'm gonna be telling me uh yeah he's back

00:31:37from 71 uh from the first race this weekend uh but he can afford that especially if he's going to

00:31:44keep

00:31:45finishing and of everybody on the grid if somebody is going to keep finishing and get the best of every

00:31:49situation which you do get bits of weather and you get stopped races and you get this sort of thing

00:31:53uh certainly the back end of the bsb season it's going to be kyle that makes the best of it

00:31:58generally from what we know the weather of course can always catch us out as well i didn't see any

00:32:05rain on the radar earlier on no i checked it and normally that is uh pretty accurate uh but it's

00:32:11holland

00:32:12and well it's ascent and it's uh it's late on in the year so we have learned that you can

00:32:18get anything

00:32:18at any point

00:32:22steve played just uh jumping into the back of the van there there is the bike yep

00:32:28and burn wilson from the top rider himself

00:32:37it looked a little bit of a mess once the bike the beauty of the the hard runoff is they

00:32:43normally

00:32:43stay on the side there's nothing to kind of grip enough to throw them over however it did find a

00:32:48little bit of grip it did turn itself over a few times and normally that means that he's taken

00:32:53levers off and handlebars and footrests and done a little bit more damage than if it was just sort of

00:32:59gravel rash one side didn't look like he knew him an awful lot about it did he really until the

00:33:04rear saw came out no no that would have been just as much of a shock well more of a

00:33:09shock to

00:33:10rory than it was to everybody else behind him uh let's actually hear from him now rory i think he's

00:33:15cleaned himself down he's standing by with shaky he certainly is steve rory i just listened to your

00:33:20interview there with duncan vincent on the circuit tannoy um that must have been quite scary because

00:33:25you know flat in fifth gear was 160 170 mile an hour the next thing your bike's not underneath you

00:33:30and you're you're sliding down the track alongside it yeah yeah bit nuts to be honest um just like any

00:33:37other warm-up lap going around just clicked fifth gear tipped in and i thought i felt something funny

00:33:42on my boot but i wasn't sure if it was just maybe a bit of chain lube or something where

00:33:46my gear lever

00:33:47sits and then yeah tipped in and all of a sudden the rear comes running me i get this big

00:33:50plume of

00:33:52flame smoke somebody just alerted it alerted me that my hair's all burnt at the back and i can kind

00:33:56of feel it can we get you to turn around actually check this out rory's literally caught fire and

00:34:01singed all his hair off um you're gonna need to go get a haircut now yeah well it was a

00:34:04bit of trim for

00:34:04the mop so it was all right but yeah unfortunately a lot of work for the boys to do now

00:34:08in between

00:34:09now and the next race so yeah sorry to everybody for the hold up there a bit of oil going

00:34:13down

00:34:13i think quite a lot of oil going down the boys just hosed me down i was head to toe

00:34:17and uh yeah

00:34:18a fair bit of synthol there so yeah unfortunate but yeah glad i'm all right i'm glad everybody else

00:34:22is all right nobody else was caught up in it and yeah we're just gonna have to go again you

00:34:25are

00:34:25absolutely fine by the look of it yeah i'm healthy no no pains no aches having a little poke about

00:34:31my

00:34:31leg feels like there's maybe a bit of blood bit of a flesh wound but i'll be all right good

00:34:34live we'll see you out this afternoon bye done cheers thanks yeah can you smell burnt hair uh

00:34:39made of tough stuff aren't they these uh super bike riders we shouldn't laugh really but i mean

00:34:45he's all right and that's the main thing and you've got to put up with this sort of thing it's

00:34:49weird

00:34:49in the moment how well you can put up with odd things that you just you know for anybody else

00:34:55that took them off riding bikes for life you you kind of get on with it

00:34:59warrior course coming into this weekend uh full of confidence after his race victory at cadwall park

00:35:05uh a few weeks ago look here at leon haslam he started from pole yesterday was ever present in

00:35:11that battle with car ride for the second spot on the podium yep no singe initials here

00:35:17he will once we get underway be starting from the front row again here today on the moto rapido to

00:35:22catty smiles on the face of scott redding he did everything he could do uh yesterday he's coming

00:35:29into this with a bit of a new mentality said earlier in the weekend he feels like he's been

00:35:34sort of thinking about the championship a bit too much over the last few rounds

00:35:38and uh he will start as heavy favorite we're going to take a quick break here from ass and

00:35:42back in a couple of minutes welcome back here to ass and these are the live scenes just on the

00:35:55vien slang the back straight here in ass and on the warm-up lap uh the rory skinner's bike

00:36:00unfortunately gave up the ghost he's perfectly fine but we are in for a bit of a delay here so

00:36:06hopefully we'll have some more information in perhaps the next 10 15 minutes in the meantime if

00:36:11you caught up earlier in the weekend on our show you would have seen this man ryan vickers enjoying

00:36:16a flat track experience with uh danny bucken and after that danny sat down for a chat with ryan

00:36:21to discuss his recent success

00:36:44ryan from the start of the year to where we are now obviously massive improvements for yourself

00:36:47and the team back-to-back wins um a capital park yeah it just seems like massive improvements overall

00:36:53how's uh yeah what's what's done that what what you've been working on yeah exactly i mean we had

00:36:57a real good test and real good start in spain when i first rode the bike then when we came

00:37:01to the uk

00:37:02we had like huge problems when we went to like donnington especially with a high grip surface now

00:37:06and it wasn't until we got to knock hill where we managed to figure out a solution

00:37:13um and then from then on we just started chipping away started getting better and better got to

00:37:18thruxton i knew thruxton and cadwell were two great tracks for me in the past and um i was looking

00:37:24forward

00:37:24to seeing what i could do there honda has always been good at thruxton and cadwell so managed to uh

00:37:30pull

00:37:30some good results out of the back the chicken flag is out vickers take a bow

00:37:43rv7 wins again at cadwell

00:37:48come on and what's the plan obviously going forward we're into the showdown phase now of the championship

00:37:54where there's more points on the line what's the plan have you got a plan in mind you're just gonna

00:37:57go there and try and win yeah absolutely i mean good thing is we're the underdog at the minute you

00:38:02know we're in fifth place at the minute in the championship nearly got fourth and the goal is to

00:38:07try and get third in the championship i mean that's probably the most realistic target that i can

00:38:12achieve um you know we've got a got a target set in mind which i think it's a good thing

00:38:18to have

00:38:18um i even said to the team before we went to cadwell i was like look i really want to

00:38:22push for

00:38:22third in the championship here but i've got to beat brad in every race um to go into the showdown

00:38:27with

00:38:28like 50 points different and i did exactly that i beat him in every race at thruxton and at cadwell

00:38:33and we're going into the showdown around 50 points behind and we've got a good chance of

00:38:39of achieving that goal we're approaching obviously silly season now and not being in the paddock as

00:38:45much obviously i get really excited about the silly season so can you spill any beans if you uh yeah

00:38:49what's the plans for 2027 where do you want to be yeah i mean it'd be great to continue the

00:38:54relationship with honda you know it's like when you're with a team to do a second year and to

00:38:59continue that relationship there's definitely a benefit in performance and i've got a lot of people

00:39:03interested from this year from the performances that i've shown the honda's capable of against some

00:39:08very competitive bike you can imagine there's some good interest for me which is great position to be

00:39:13in uh sometimes it's a lot more difficult as you know and uh yeah we'll uh get through this next

00:39:19round at assen and then i think there'll be quite a few discussions to get something settled and a

00:39:25deal done before we go into the final two rounds obviously assen is renowned you know it rains it

00:39:29dries it rains it dries you're looking forward to assen yeah i can't wait assen's a great track

00:39:34i've only ever rode it twice once on british super bikes in 2019 and then last year on the world

00:39:38super

00:39:38bike really excited to go there on the honda we've got the bike turning quite well improve the the edge

00:39:44grip a little bit that'll probably be our biggest weakness um but i think if we can uh we can

00:39:48do that

00:39:48we'll be fighting at the front good luck mate cheers buddy

00:39:57yeah since uh knock hill he's been in tremendous form ryan because he's every race he's finished

00:40:01he's been inside the top six of course the man in form coming into this weekend the two wins at

00:40:05thruxton the two wins at cad well it is silly season already coming into this weekend james

00:40:10you could start a rumor from this end of pit lane and it will have changed by the time you

00:40:14get to the

00:40:15other but if you are honda you want to keep him completely yep uh really impressive the beginning

00:40:22of this year you could tell especially the ex-riders amongst us could tell we're discussing it with james

00:40:27hayden and danny the bike was almost unrideable from what we saw at snetterton uh but he was still

00:40:33riding it and still finishing fourth and fifth i mean in this kind of uh company that's an unbelievable

00:40:40effort and to stay on the thing was a massive achievement the bikes come to him a little bit

00:40:45they've made improvements we've seen jason howard and getting better on his uh and and it's made all

00:40:50the difference to ryan he's had a really good season and he would be at the top of my shopping

00:40:55list if i

00:40:56was a team manager in this championship yeah yeah it's a good time to be on form at the moment

00:41:00in general

00:41:01even if you've not had the best of seasons because it seems like there could be unbelievable moves from

00:41:07you know in terms of the championship this rule change is going to be the biggest change

00:41:11yeah to british superbike for a good 15 or so years yeah i think the rules uh have to change

00:41:15the regs

00:41:16have to change the bikes have to be slowed down a little bit because the circuits are getting kind

00:41:19of outgrown a little bit that's the overview uh so to that end they're going to alter the the

00:41:24regulations for the bikes i think a little bit less power therefore nobody really knows which

00:41:28which bikes is going to be the uh the which bikes are going to be the the sort of dominant

00:41:33ones

00:41:33certainly it's going to rejig that and if you you're going to go for a a bike you want one

00:41:39with

00:41:39a decent chassis or that you've ridden before and you've got data and like i said i think the hondas

00:41:44in and other bikes are going to be in good shape but also the new regs are allegedly and you

00:41:50can see it

00:41:51tempting one or two other teams slash manufacturers into that championship and i think this off season

00:41:57uh is going to be uh really good to be a rider normally there's more uh bums than seats and

00:42:04i

00:42:04think this year it might be the opposite way around yeah uh james hitting pointing out on the screen

00:42:08there the the fact that there's an oil pipe hanging down uh that's coming from the oil cooler i think

00:42:14or the or the bottom right it looked like oil that came out because the smoke was definitely

00:42:17oil smoke and that's what's happened pressure builds up when the bike revs and if there's a

00:42:22a loose union or a wheat pipe boom it's all hands on deck there you could see chris anderson known

00:42:28as

00:42:28spanner on uh duty rory's dad as well mike who works on the bike yeah mike good mechanic

00:42:37um we at the moment it obviously have no information for our time screens as to when we're going to

00:42:43get

00:42:43going but shaky is uh busy down in pit lane have you got an update for us i've got a

00:42:49little update

00:42:49actually yeah i've just been down and uh had a look at rory's bike um spent a little bit time

00:42:53looking around it and it seems you're you're bang on right james um it wasn't actually a an engine

00:42:58failure um obviously the um the oil cooler pipe where it goes into the engine as james said it's uh

00:43:04it split that which has obviously blown oil out all over the all over the bike and all over the

00:43:08back

00:43:08tire so fundamentally the engine should be absolutely fine although they'll probably change it as a matter of

00:43:13precaution but um yeah a sort of technical failure but not an engine blow up as such so uh yeah

00:43:19not

00:43:19quite so much work to do for the uh cheshire mr team it would seem

00:43:25yeah well i'll tell you what it not quite so much work shaky you get your overalls on and try

00:43:29and fix

00:43:30that thing that that has had a proper whack the top is off both of the fork legs they need

00:43:35to be changed

00:43:36handlebars wiring yeah that's that's a that's a lot of work needed there but like shaky said the engine's

00:43:42probably uh the the component that doesn't need changing which we thought it might initially yeah it's

00:43:48unlikely he's going to get out obviously for this sprint right at all um he's uh they'll be hoping

00:43:52to get that fix ready for race three later on they're a little bit unlucky because we've explained

00:43:56this before but the bottom half of the fair in what we call the belly pan uh is like a

00:44:01catch tank it acts

00:44:02like an open top catch tank that has to hold the amount of oil and coolant that that um engine

00:44:08contains

00:44:09but when it sprays out of a pipe you know a thousand psi then it can go anywhere so normally

00:44:15if it's just an oil leak that the belly pan would have caught it

00:44:20and just when we were watching that blow up one rider that we spotted directly behind rory at the

00:44:25time and probably got sprayed with some of that oil was jason o'halloran he's with shaky now

00:44:30yeah he certainly is steve you can tell james by the way that i didn't have a chance to chuck

00:44:33the overalls

00:44:34on yet um i will get around to working on that other bike but um for now i'm here with

00:44:38jason o'halloran

00:44:39jason you uh one of the recipients of pretty much all of the oil out of rory's bike um everything

00:44:44okay

00:44:45for you you're all cleaned up and ready to go yeah we're all cleaned up and ready to go um

00:44:48uh that was

00:44:49a little bit of a scary one that um rory was just ahead of us onto the back straight obviously

00:44:53bike

00:44:53blew um a lot of smoke you know a lot of smoke and i knew there was a lot of

00:44:57oil um tear off caked in

00:44:59it soup caked in it boots caked in it so we've had a quick change around but um uh yeah

00:45:04hopefully

00:45:05the guys get the track cleaned up hopefully rory's all right and um yeah we go again uh when we

00:45:08when

00:45:09we get the restart we've been watching a couple of features on the show of uh ryan he's been off

00:45:13flat tracking with our very own danny bucken and having a lot of fun results for the hondas are

00:45:18getting a bit stronger and uh you're not you're keeping up your side of the bargain as well this

00:45:22weekend it seems like things are going really well yeah to be honest over the last few rounds we've

00:45:25gotten stronger and stronger um this weekend we've had really good one lap speed i was second on

00:45:29friday in pre-q um uh we struggled a little bit yesterday over the distance just with the um uh

00:45:34keeping the grip you know when i've got when i've got a new tire i can ride the bike really

00:45:37well

00:45:37uh when the tire drops down a little bit uh i come into a few issues so um uh some

00:45:42small changes

00:45:43for this race um i was with a good group yesterday so get stock into that um and yeah see

00:45:47if we can

00:45:47get a little bit higher up well we wish you the best of luck this afternoon thanks guys thank you

00:45:52yeah thanks very much to shaky thanks to jason that the worst thing for jason in that uh incident

00:45:56would be not gonna see where you're going because he would have had no vision whatsoever and you know

00:46:01there's oil so you don't want to touch your brakes you don't want to tip it into a corner and

00:46:04make it

00:46:04even worse so yeah would have been he played that down quite well i thought jason absolutely as we

00:46:10can see the clear up operation looks like it's almost done here it's looking good here we still

00:46:16know info for you but hopefully we'll be able to bring that shortly just quickly on on the honda

00:46:20struggling ryan mentioned grip yesterday jason's mentioned grip as well we have seen how

00:46:25good the decati has been at pretty much every circuit so far this year why here in particular

00:46:30does the the gap between the decatis and the rest look larger i actually don't know i mean a little

00:46:36bit of that is how not the bikes react to having grip when they've got a decent tire but more

00:46:43jason was

00:46:43making the point but wait that when the grip drops which is going to do especially in the longer races

00:46:48they can't cope with it quite as well that's a chassis thing uh that's a for me that's more of

00:46:54a

00:46:54mechanical grip than it is a sort of laptop making a few tweaks to to where the power is

00:47:00so um and this circuit is all about that for the most part you've got good camber uh but it's

00:47:05it's

00:47:05really quick uh and there's also a couple of sections where they're on you're on the side of

00:47:09time for a long long time early on in the lap and then the very bottom end of the circuit

00:47:14when you start

00:47:15to make your way back so um when you've got a track that needs side grip and you don't have

00:47:19it because

00:47:20the tire gets worn and your bike doesn't cope with it well you're going to struggle a bit one other

00:47:23manufacturer we're expecting to see at the sharp end here today is a yamaha in the hands of uh brad

00:47:29ray yesterday just didn't quite go to plan for brad he didn't get obviously qualified didn't go to

00:47:33plan he was mired back on the grid he got boxed in early in the race as well but the

00:47:37speed at the

00:47:38end of the race was there yeah and the speed at the beginning of this weekend was really good as

00:47:41well

00:47:41uh on friday he was as quick as anybody and quicker than well actually quicker than anybody and

00:47:46underneath his quickest ever lap in qualifying from 2025 so there's nothing wrong with the way

00:47:52that that yamaha is performing you would expect the yamaha to be good here it's really good on the side

00:47:56of the tire and so is brad um but he had a nightmare and when they needed the track time

00:48:02it rained just

00:48:03like it always does and and then he dropped off it as well so they just had a bad run

00:48:08at this weekend

00:48:09i think uh from now on as look with a a little bit of a sort of crossing your fingers

00:48:15uh i think that

00:48:17they're gonna have a good bike thing if you didn't tune in yesterday you might not have heard the

00:48:22the news that brad ray is staying with mccam's yamaha for next year let's talk to the team boss now

00:48:27steve rogers is with shaky he certainly is yeah steve rogers fantastic news yesterday announced that

00:48:32bradley ray is going to be remaining with the mccam's yamaha team how happy about that oh fantastic mate you

00:48:37know it's been uh it's been a great two years so far so uh yeah looking forward to 2027 obviously

00:48:43we

00:48:43know of potential new regs next year um obviously you feel they're going to suit yourselves at the

00:48:49yamaha and bradley what's your thoughts on on you know preparations and stuff for the next season

00:48:54yeah i mean it's a long way off yeah um you know we don't know what exactly is happening but

00:48:58i think

00:48:58we're pretty well going to be prepared um and the bike's pretty competitive now so it's obviously uh

00:49:04things do change i can't see us not being competitive so yesterday talking of competitiveness

00:49:09uh bradley obviously qualified badly a few issues yesterday but um come through to fifth in the end

00:49:15wasn't it um good ride that what's your thoughts for today yeah he had great pace um he rode really

00:49:21well i mean start wasn't the best you know we ended up back to 16th but um yeah i think

00:49:25if you know

00:49:26we get away with them um yeah i'm sure it'll be a good race yeah hearing uh rumors that he's

00:49:31uh he's made

00:49:31an improvement in the starts department uh did a little bit of work over night bowl accounts he

00:49:36told me that he's very very happy with the starts again now yeah we made a few changes we went

00:49:40through

00:49:40the data checked everything from last year made sure all the perch was the same on the clutch everything

00:49:46um and yeah yeah did a couple this morning and the second one was back to where we used to

00:49:50be

00:49:50so yeah touch wood should be good steve there's some few spits of rain coming i'll let you get inside

00:49:56and uh see what this rubber brings now thanks shaky cheers yeah thanks very much uh shaky as you

00:50:01can see everyone's uh cleared there but a few spots of rain in the air again now as well it's

00:50:06hasn't

00:50:07it's come really dark there's dark clouds coming over i don't think it's going to rain for long

00:50:10i've had another look at the radar and if you're wondering uh steve rogers is talking about the

00:50:15perch on the clutch that's the point at which it starts to drive the wheel it's really important

00:50:20for where you balance that with the throttle remember no actual uh launch control these bikes

00:50:25you've got a rev limit so you can hold the throttle flat out without blowing the engine

00:50:28but you still have to release the clutch and that's what gets you the start and some are good and

00:50:33some

00:50:33are bad like skinner with the file out on the top of the fork there yeah they've taken away when

00:50:38like

00:50:39i said normally when it's hard run off the bike stays on its side that's brilliant because you just have

00:50:43the the fairing and the sort of bobbins to fix and maybe a footrest handlebar on one side but when

00:50:48it

00:50:48flips over you start doing damage everywhere and that bike's landed right on its top and it's taking

00:50:53the the top of the tank off look also took the dashboard and that's a really expensive and you

00:50:59can imagine very important item which actually whacked the fork legs as well so that won't stop

00:51:04them working and they should work internally the same but anyway the dull looks are pretty now doesn't it

00:51:14all right well hopefully it won't be too long before we have information as to when we're going

00:51:19to get started again stuart higgs has made his way back up into race control uh let's take a quick

00:51:24break here from us and when we return hopefully we'll have some news

00:51:32welcome back here to assen still no news on when we're going to get started here after the red flag

00:51:37came

00:51:37out due to engine block for rory skinner earlier in the weekend rory went around the aston circuit in

00:51:44the safety car with a certain james whitton let's take a look back at that

00:51:49right rory you've done plenty laps around this layout it's a little bit familiar to me but i'll drive

00:51:55i'm not a multitasker you talk no problem so yeah as you said jimmy it's a different layout to what

00:52:01you

00:52:01would have been used to back when you were racing i think it was probably mid 2000s they changed it

00:52:05for this

00:52:05later yes this is all i've ever known i have seen the videos of the old track but yeah it

00:52:09looks a bit

00:52:10tighter than what what it used to be but i feel it all kind of flows quite well now we've

00:52:14just had fp1

00:52:16i looked at the sector times we're in sector one at the minute and it was a yamaha one two

00:52:20three

00:52:20the corners all just link into one you know we're we're on the edge of the tire we're driving from

00:52:25one white line to another one curve to another and everything is done here on the edge of the tire

00:52:30so

00:52:30i think assen this weekend might be attractive yamaha territory it favors the yamaha a little bit

00:52:35more than what maybe the other tracks have this season so far so famous this is one i recognize

00:52:40this is called stroobin stroobin small hairpin yep second gear first gear first yeah it's uh

00:52:49it's weird it goes on for so long that you think that the apex is quite soon but you've got

00:52:54to wait

00:52:54and wait and wait and be patient because this drive out of the stroobin up to uh i don't know

00:52:58what the next corner is you know what it's called yeah it's called vinslang there you go don't know

00:53:02what it means no neither do i but yeah it's uh it's an important to get a good run out

00:53:06of there it can

00:53:07almost be a passing opportunity coming into here if you can drive out if yeah if you can if you

00:53:12can

00:53:12limit wheel spin and limit wheelie coming out of stroobin it can it could open things up and it's

00:53:17important to get a good drive out of there because it's a fast sector track and that's where you make

00:53:21and

00:53:21lose some time but it gets really technical here we're fifth gear flat out into the right back two

00:53:25gears on the yamaha into this left so we're third gear through here there's a couple little bumps one

00:53:29we just went over there with the car wheels and it's hard you've got you can't use too much track

00:53:33in the exit because you're coming into now there's really cambered corners of the track yeah this is

00:53:38really this is uh stick and valve really cambered next one not as next two is straight lining i'm

00:53:44guessing yeah yeah so we've got the new fim kerbs here which is not something we actually have

00:53:48any other tracks in the in the uk so we've got a lot of curve to work with um it's

00:53:53it's quite nice

00:53:54really it's quite nice having that but you don't need to use it all but it does allow you to

00:53:57straight

00:53:58line things and kind of just set yourself up a little bit better but this left hander here you

00:54:02know the name the bolt the bolt it's probably the flattest corner on the track falling into this double

00:54:07right which is very similar to turn uh turn three and four kind of just leads on you got to

00:54:11be patient you

00:54:12you can open the throttle early but you tend to run wide so you've got to be patient patient patient

00:54:16you start to see this red curb there that's kind of roughly where you want to square the bike up

00:54:21spin it and drive all the way onto these curves i mean we can see how wide they are i

00:54:25feel like we

00:54:25could almost fit the whole car on them but we're clicking fourth gear here just before we tip into

00:54:29this right flat out through the dip it's spinning it's this is beautiful this is this is peak race

00:54:37track for me this is yeah yeah it's fast it's all out you're just trying to put things together

00:54:41fifth gear fly i mean we must be doing 165 mile an hour 170 mile an hour down here and

00:54:47you're just

00:54:47white line to white line curve to curve trying to get your points right and you've got to be inch

00:54:52perfect because at that speed if you're if you're an inch off line all of a sudden you're really by

00:54:56time you get to the next bit you're a foot off so you've got all this fast stuff and all

00:55:00of a sudden

00:55:00we're hard on the brake second gear into the final chicane and that's when things get rowdy on the last

00:55:05lap of a race it just gets a bit mental it's everybody's last like last chance yeah to do

00:55:11something and it's so much tighter than what you thought my first session this morning my first

00:55:14couple of laps i was like oh this is so much tighter than what i remember it but yeah a

00:55:18couple

00:55:18laps later started to get my reference points again it felt like normal you know what i was

00:55:22smiling you're good it you can just sense what amazing places it's just a proper race track isn't

00:55:28it thanks thank you yeah it certainly is still work going on on rory's bike unfortunately that

00:55:36will not be going out in the sprint race we do have uh an update for you though whilst we

00:55:41were

00:55:41watching that from race control uh pit lane opens in what a minute and a half it will be a

00:55:46quick

00:55:46restart a 10-lap sprint race from original group positions and a compulsory two sighting laps where they

00:55:52have to pass through pit lane that james obviously for the riders to basically assess where that

00:55:57oil line yeah the oil's uh marked if you like they put um some media down on it's like it's

00:56:03kind of

00:56:04like cement dust it sticks to the oil it soaks up any wet parts of the oil but actually the

00:56:08most

00:56:08important thing is it lets the riders know exactly where the more damp in oil parts of the track have

00:56:13been more skinner there just talking through that onboard lap with spots of rain just poking my head

00:56:19out of the commentary box a moment ago there are some really fierce dark clouds looming overhead

00:56:24as ever have you got your rain caught like you did last night yes yeah got that it's packed

00:56:31you know has them about to head off from that front row it will be scott redding on pole though

00:56:36looking for two from two here in assen a double winner last year as well leon haslam has had five

00:56:42victories in bsb here lots of success on the world stage as well and a quick look up to the

00:56:48skies

00:56:50ready for pit lane to open in just under 20 seconds then for these compulsory sighting laps

00:57:00next out there is danny kent as well team make two rory skinner and the cheshire moldings

00:57:05yamaha yeah the bad news about where the oil is it looked to me as though rory was pretty much

00:57:13on the

00:57:14racing line sometimes you are on a wall lap sometimes you can be a little bit off it he

00:57:17looked like he was on the racing line and that's exactly where obviously people are going to want

00:57:22to be they've having a good look at it on these uh these outlaps and sighting laps

00:57:27that said you'll know where you need to be to avoid it the first few laps

00:57:32uh but you might not be able to do that if you're in a pack of riders yeah absolutely being

00:57:38on that

00:57:39front row is going to help isn't it a great deal you want to be first there yep we're about

00:57:42to see

00:57:43leon haslam's first out on the track they're about to come up to that section now and get a good

00:57:50look

00:57:52there it is it is on the racing line isn't it yeah leon stayed on the inside of it i

00:57:58think they'll

00:57:58only have to cross the oil with a little bit of lean angle once i don't think any more than

00:58:03that

00:58:03and as the race goes on and people do cross over the uh the sort of cement dust portion that

00:58:09is on

00:58:09the oil then it will get its grip back i think early on people are going to try and avoid

00:58:13that

00:58:14yeah you see how you see how you sat it up over the oil just so it didn't have a

00:58:18much lean angle

00:58:20it is possible to overtake into turn six but it's incredibly fast it's not what you would call an

00:58:24overtaking hotspot luckily is it no it's not it is so fast the only chance you've got is if you

00:58:29get

00:58:29out of the corner before which is a first gear helping called struban a really quick uh and then

00:58:35almost draft past them down the street scott redding in fine form yesterday the strong

00:58:41favorite for this race as well what does that team boss think jordan bird is with shaky

00:58:46jordan bird is with shaky um jordan fantastic performance from scott yesterday a little bit of

00:58:52rain earlier on but it looks like this delay might actually have done us a bit of a favor

00:58:55yeah i think so we're just playing weather gods then weren't we but it's um it's just one of the

00:59:00things you can't control but i think it might have um done us a bit of good there but yeah

00:59:04great day

00:59:04yesterday i think it was eight races since we last had a win so and we forgot what it felt

00:59:08like so it

00:59:09was good to be back it was scott's little boy's birthday as well which was lovely so yeah two more

00:59:14goes at it today the sprint race is always a good one that's always exciting so well we'll get our

00:59:18elbows out

00:59:19see where we end up bikes are obviously coming back through pit lane they got a mandatory uh

00:59:23bit lane pass now so i can do two laps over the top of the oil i spoke to scott

00:59:27interviewed him

00:59:28yesterday he said that uh he was going to make some changes to the bike to try and get himself

00:59:32a bit

00:59:33more focused and give him what he needs for these races today how did he get on with that and

00:59:38how's he

00:59:38feeling for the race of the sprint race yeah this morning the the warmer was a little bit iffy

00:59:42conditions so we tried a few things and just engine braking wise so we know if we're in the ballpark

00:59:47or not

00:59:47you can't really tell too much you know when them sessions are a bit iffy but he seems happy i

00:59:52think

00:59:53we've had a great setting all weekend and it's been nice to arrive somewhere on the new bike and kind

00:59:57of not be trying things kind of late on into the race weekend so yeah he's he's just been fired

01:00:04up you

01:00:04can see when scott redding turns up and he's definitely turned up here so i'm excited well you're

01:00:17thanks to jordan thanks to shaky as well uh the compulsory two sighting laps i'm not sure leon haslam

01:00:24got the memo he definitely didn't listen in the briefing did he because he had to come back to the

01:00:28small gate in pit lane that's uh really just a an access game for personnel uh yeah i didn't listen

01:00:35to

01:00:36this is the showdown the first weekend of the showdown here in assen and in donnington park in a

01:00:41fortnight as well 25 points for the win 22 for second 20 for third and then they ramp up further

01:00:47heading into brand is that a bit of rain falling again i think it might be and i think that's

01:00:52what

01:00:52glenn was just uh yeah yeah it is look yeah got the oil falling in that part that cut all

01:00:58that on that

01:00:59corner flag and light board so yeah uh have some strikes again yeah there could be a further delay here

01:01:07because this is obviously set up to start as a dry race but such a large footprint here for this

01:01:162.6 mile circuit yeah it's it it's almost like stretched out in one long line so it's actually pretty

01:01:22much a mile between the upper end of the circuit and and the bottom of the circuit so it can

01:01:27be a

01:01:28different weather pattern down there keep an eye on glenn irwin he looked like he was keen to let

01:01:34people know i mean race control will already know the marshals will have informed stuart higgs of

01:01:39what's happening up there how heavy is the rain uh before they set off here it's a quick restart

01:01:45procedure race control uh at bsp particularly stuart higgs is really good at listening to the

01:01:51riders as well when it comes down to weather and and safety concerns so he'll it'll be across all that

01:01:59could be nervy moments here then for the british superbike riders and teams as we look like we're

01:02:04about ready to go here yeah but yeah marshals and mechanics running about so well looks like we're

01:02:10going yeah a couple of riders maybe not too happy that we are getting underway perhaps who knows

01:02:1610 laps is coming up though it's going to be a warm-up lap first

01:02:20this will be a proper idea of whether or not that rain is still there or not

01:02:27so two compulsory sighting laps finished the rain flag still out james yeah

01:02:36really see it from that camera angle that's the bottom end of the circuit isn't it yeah that's 12

01:02:43that's 0.12 so that is where the weather's coming from that was the bolt into mandavine yeah that's

01:02:50the very bottom the second that's behind him as the the riders are going now was there a bike smoking

01:02:55there as we pulled away leon haslam's bike are we seeing things here it's it's a bit misty in general

01:03:05there isn't it yeah

01:03:08all of these riders will have started this race on slick tires and let's see what the rain

01:03:13looks like in terms of the championship it's as you wear car ride 68 points off on scott redding

01:03:20yeah we're hearing that the the black flag with the orange disc is out for leon haslam

01:03:25so it looks like there's some issues here the man who sits fourth in the championship

01:03:29yeah that means that an issue with his bike and he's got to come in

01:03:32and obviously if he has got an issue with about that cause a problem for everybody else on track

01:03:36and you see he'll be getting that information that means you have to pull over at the nearest

01:03:40and safest point you can't continue to go round into pit lane you're not supposed to anyway well you

01:03:45shouldn't do because when you're pottering round your bike could be leaking a load of oil out and making

01:03:49contaminating the track for everybody else this is the grid uh it should shape up like this but it

01:03:53probably isn't going to uh scott reading on pole leon haslam it looks like will not make second car ride

01:03:59the

01:03:59championship leader starts from third heading road two is brad ray on the mccams yamaha and ryan

01:04:03vickers with joe talbot the rookie in six after a heavy crash yesterday a halloran didn't look too

01:04:09happy on the grid but he starts from seventh ahead of the ukrainian ilya mikulchik with max cook in

01:04:14ninth then it's danny kent rory skinner will not take part in this race after that engine blow up so

01:04:19there'll be a gap in 11th with lee jackson starting 12th row five features christian idden glenn erwin and

01:04:25storm stacy with the rookies reese erwin and eugene mcmanus the teammates 16th and 17th ed fraser

01:04:31rogers with brooks andy erwin in hedger they're following leon haslam makes his way here into pit

01:04:36lane yeah and i can tell you he will have looked down at that bike there's no way that an

01:04:40experienced

01:04:40rider and and a a good bloke like leon wouldn't have uh have looked down and make sure he isn't

01:04:46contaminating the track for anybody else so with a bit of luck he gets checked out whatever it is now

01:04:51he's

01:04:51not gonna he's out yeah he doesn't know what's that well he knows there's something wrong they're

01:04:57having a quick look at it but that looks like there might not be any points on offer here for

01:05:00leon

01:05:01so a couple of gaps on the grid but we are ready to go racing here in front of the

01:05:05good crowds

01:05:06in assen 10 lap sprint race coming your way eyes on the lights and we are underway a good start

01:05:15from

01:05:15bradley ray look at ryan vickers again on that honda sailing through the gap where leon haslam

01:05:21should have been reading does take the whole shot it's vickers in second brad ray their third

01:05:26car ride also coming through yeah great start from ryan vickers from the second i've never seen him

01:05:31make a bad start that's all his motocross experience and he's a really really competitive

01:05:36and confident motorcross rider and that will that's what gives him that launch it's a big move there from

01:05:41kyle ride on bradley ray but he's on the wrong side so he has to allow brad ray through again

01:05:45into

01:05:45third oh that was a huge moment a huge moment was that uh danny kent yeah it was danny kent

01:05:54he's very lucky to stay on board it's scott redding though that leads us down the wien schlank

01:05:58and into turn six for the first time already building up quite a nice lead out front yep scott

01:06:05redding's got a lot of confidence from yesterday everybody just about on this first year road says

01:06:09yes we can go with him if we get a start but they're going to get a chance to put

01:06:12that into

01:06:13practice aren't they yeah kyle right keen look to go through on brad ray and not let scott redding out

01:06:18of his sight the championship leader moves up into third ahead of his old teammate yeah right because

01:06:24and on the group made changes to that bike uh just to try and give him a little bit more

01:06:29longevity

01:06:29of tire and therefore side grip as the race goes on we saw it backing into the corners and when

01:06:35a bike's

01:06:35doing that when you turn into the corners off the gas and it lets go and it did it again

01:06:39there

01:06:39i just saw it that's difficult for a rider to cope with because it's going to struggle to keep car

01:06:43ride behind him here he attacks on the approach to the gear to mission cane car ride is up into

01:06:48second

01:06:49place nice tidy move that from ride and now he's got to try and reel in scott redding who at

01:06:57the end of

01:06:57lap one has an eight tenth lead yeah that was brad ray looking to make a move into turn one

01:07:04on ryan

01:07:05vickers but the honda's just a little bit quicker than the yamaha this looking made sort of part let's

01:07:10have a look it's a blue bike there it goes loses it back that that's about us near to a

01:07:15kind of low

01:07:16speed but nasty high side as you get that without oh hang on dear yes reese erwin he's gone down

01:07:23he's

01:07:23furious as well perhaps suggesting that might not be all of his own doing well yeah but furious is

01:07:29good because it means you're gonna hurt absolutely it's scott reading though that leads he tips it in

01:07:35to turn seven let's see here back of the shot yeah can't really see the start of that

01:07:46it's a shame for reese it's spreading that leads this one from rye bradley ray keen to get

01:07:50through on ryan vickers joe talbot as well really good start from the asian still stopped the motor

01:07:55rider number 19. yeah joe rushed this weekend a little bit i felt um and and just struggled a

01:08:02little bit to think straight when you needed to think about what ties you needed for that

01:08:07uh pre-qualifying and um got it a little bit wrong and therefore on the back foot but he's settled

01:08:13down

01:08:13now i was talking to him this morning rider just getting himself in between the two promoters is

01:08:17jason o'hara and on the other honda there it's then max cook and ilian michelchick yeah got

01:08:22right from illy michelchick to 70 yesterday as brad slides up the inside of ryan vickers you just get

01:08:28the feeling that ryan vickers with the way the bike is here he's kind he's like bringing a cannon knife

01:08:35to

01:08:35a gunfight isn't it yeah oh that was close from joe talbot on the approach to turn one fastest lap

01:08:41of the

01:08:41race to the championship leader kyle ryde the gap at the front has come down to six tenths of seven

01:08:47yeah this is perfect for kyle ryde sits in second he's catching up with the leader and his championship

01:08:52rival doesn't need to do anything silly got to keep an eye on who's behind he's got to keep an

01:08:57eye on

01:08:57brad ray because he just when he gets a bit of clear trap might be able to bridge that gap

01:09:07we're at lap three of ten at the moment scott reading then leads from this man kyle ryde who

01:09:13seemed when he spoke to you on the grid like he's not entertaining the idea of just settling

01:09:18for a second or third he feels like he's got the speed to win yeah but he's i mean for

01:09:23three years

01:09:24he's been good at assessing that and then riding accordingly uh so i don't think you're going to

01:09:30see him push too hard to win a second even tier championship rival at this stage of the season

01:09:35with a 68 point lead is enough bradley ray taking a couple of laps to warm into this but he's

01:09:41got the

01:09:41speed and the race pace to get stuck in the question is can he mix it with the ducatis

01:09:48he's struggled at times this year to do that reading ride one and two ray third then it's

01:09:56joe talbot still in there in fifth place yeah most places uh

01:10:02bradley has had the pace uh but he just hasn't had the bag he's had the pace when he's been

01:10:08on his

01:10:08own but in a race situation you rarely are on your own oh christian they didn't there's an issue here

01:10:14it for the sencat yamaha rider of course there was a dnf for him yesterday yeah he's a real lawyer

01:10:19he's christian spoke to him last night and he just says he doesn't know what to do because everything

01:10:24every decision they make for the right ends up going wrong and races like that sometimes the most

01:10:30frustrating sport um it really is when it's going right it's easy and when it's going wrong you can

01:10:35never fix it fast stop the race from bradley ray in third place 36 flat not seen a race lap

01:10:42under the

01:10:42136 bracket before that might change here so ray has now warmed into this one on that mccams yamaha

01:10:48he's half a second down on car ride on the back there is storm stacy currently in 12th place ahead

01:10:56of

01:10:56josh brooks danny kent behind them after that big moment out of turn five yeah still chasing 13th here

01:11:03the man in in picture there has struggled a little bit more than i thought it would this weekend

01:11:07i thought he'd uh come to this place big fast flowing big kind of levers big elbows and i thought

01:11:14it might just suit him a little bit but it doesn't i mean to be honest i haven't spoke to

01:11:18him and find

01:11:18out what's going on with the bike but he seems to have struggled a bit this weekend on this lap

01:11:22brad

01:11:22ray has taken a good two or three tenths out of car ride nine in third down that blue yamaha

01:11:28number

01:11:2828 this could be a 135 coming up here for the first time in a race from ray in third

01:11:34through the

01:11:36timber chicane we go now reddings gap has also come down a bit hasn't it back to kyle ride over

01:11:42the line

01:11:42we go let's have a look at the timing screens it's a 36 one so just lost a maybe a

01:11:48tenth or so in that

01:11:49final sector but he's faster than your race leader by half a second yeah he's not murky weather down at

01:11:57turn one that is in fact with steam on the inside some moisture i'm not an expert you can probably

01:12:01tell and there's something going on with that all right to side so he tried that a couple of times

01:12:09yesterday now that the sort of the right line to get out of that corner if you've no uh traffic

01:12:14band you're trying to nip at your heels it is actually wide mid-corner cut it back straight the exit

01:12:18straight the exit out and get on the gas earlier and and take speed out the corner you can't really

01:12:23do that

01:12:24with with company from behind but also from kyle's point of view you go the inside of somebody they

01:12:28don't know that that you're there then you're going to lose out oh dear we've got another promoter

01:12:34and is it talbot or is yes it is it's talbot who's gone down out of fifth place

01:12:41well from what i saw last time we saw him on his bike he was on his own i don't

01:12:46think he can

01:12:47blame anybody else for that this is real shame for talbot because he would have been learning so

01:12:52much behind this lead group bradley ray there in third then mr man on the move again through sector

01:12:59two and three he gains time on the two out front and vicar's not going away either he's just inherited

01:13:09i'm sorry he stays in fourth it's cook who's inherited fifth

01:13:15yeah that's all of his own doing i think that i think so yeah lost the front and that's uh

01:13:21yeah it's been an expensive weekend it has been an expensive weekend uh for well not for joe as such

01:13:27but for the team

01:13:32just seeing kyle right here trying to force his way through on scott reading will he have another

01:13:37look here into strubborn turn five he's setting it up but reading slightly defensive and you're right

01:13:44yeah just can't make that clean enough there just isn't enough room is it and that would be a block

01:13:48pass and dangerous for both i feel and probably more dangerous for kyle because there's always more

01:13:52weight on the rear tire which normally means it pushes the front tire out of the way rad ray in

01:13:57third a

01:13:57showing that he's got the speed to match these guys but getting past them is another problem

01:14:01yeah on a yamaha just lacks a little bit of straight line uh kind of punch and that makes it

01:14:07difficult

01:14:07to put your bike in a position where you can do anything on the brake so if he is going

01:14:11to get

01:14:11past it'll be a setup move across two or three corners

01:14:19to debalt and now into the double right handers scott reading was slightly wide on the approach to

01:14:26mandavine there or not yeah mandavine uh he's kind of took on us taken us one right at the very

01:14:30bottom of the circuit that's about probably half a mile away from where we sat now again like i said

01:14:34it's a stretched out track now uh the track just builds and builds it's fast it's flowing it's

01:14:41curb to curb and it is beautiful if you've got a bike that's doing what you want it to do

01:14:45and then it

01:14:46all leads to this magnificent final sector as well yeah it does suck you in a little bit as well

01:14:50uh but like i said this is mick the chick yeah inside of jason halloran good good weekend for

01:14:56because it's difficult to tell sometimes where he is in terms of riding uh because you don't know

01:15:02where to put the the bm in this championship at the minute right he's up to six though that's an

01:15:06excellent job yep we're on lap seven of ten in this sprint race it's scott reading that leads on the

01:15:11hager pbm to katie looking to make it two from two but the championship leader up behind him

01:15:16he doesn't want to lose any more championship points to reading three the difference between

01:15:22a win and a second yeah what i would say is he's only a 10 lapper and less of an

01:15:29issue his tires we

01:15:30heard a lot of people talking about tire longevity yesterday in the longer race not such an issue with

01:15:36the shorter race however uh if it was it's the man in second who would probably be in the best

01:15:43spot to

01:15:43kind of gauge where he's and not give his tire a lot of stick varying lines from reading and uh

01:15:49ride

01:15:50doesn't on as they sort of exit the vinch slang and then head into turn seven we're seeing that

01:15:56there's a rain flag here again yeah and i cannot tell you when you've got a 230 odd oh it's

01:16:03an arm in

01:16:03the air there from car ride as well yeah and he feels and he's not only is he warning or

01:16:08signaling to the

01:16:10the race control but it's signaling to the people around him as well oh and off the the pegs for

01:16:15brad ray as well so there's definitely not just a little bit of mental rain there's a bit of a

01:16:20lack

01:16:20of grip yeah oh they're feeling it brad ray goes through one car ride so difficult you've got to

01:16:25press on you really don't want to you want to stop you don't want to fall off your back at

01:16:28whatever

01:16:29speed but you've got to keep going such difficult conditions we may well see a red flag come out here

01:16:34as we start lap eight or ten over the line scott reading it is that leads now then from bradley

01:16:39ray who's gone through on car ride who had his arm up in the air yeah but you've got to

01:16:43press on because

01:16:43even though you think right they'll stop it that doesn't mean the pressure's off because

01:16:46if they stop it it's going to be declared a result now you know that so you've got to press

01:16:51on you might

01:16:52nick a couple of positions here yeah how heavy is it raining though over at mandavine and

01:16:59all that force race control through strobben then right drops one place

01:17:07ray would be on pole as well for the third and final race of the weekend coming up later on

01:17:11we're

01:17:11on lap eight of ten yeah listen both uh well all three leading riders and everybody else in uh in

01:17:18the

01:17:18race actually felt what was going on down at the bottom end of that circuit where the more damp

01:17:22parts of this look at that and he's yeah we've got a red flag that had to be a red

01:17:27flag they're

01:17:28feeling it they've done well to stop on well done yeah that's the right call to make and that will

01:17:33be

01:17:33declared of course uh they've just started lap eight of ten and that will be a second place for

01:17:39mccams yamaha and bradley ray with reading taking the victory i don't think race control had any option

01:17:45in that the last thing you want is to keep it pressing on especially when it's over two-thirds

01:17:48uh distance and then have somebody fall down and get hurt andy irwin what a job from him obviously

01:17:54we didn't really see much of him on the met phone and captain captain 10th yeah well do you know

01:17:59what

01:17:59if if if there's any call for bravery uh these andy irwin that would kind of uh be at the

01:18:06front of

01:18:06the queue every time he's not shy that boy even when he's injured as he is no fair effort he's

01:18:11not raced

01:18:12since donnington park round two there he is andy

01:18:18excellent stuff from here scott swan as well a worthy mention to swanny in the points ahead of

01:18:25josh brooks on the tag on on the tag bike filling for the recently departed uh charlie nesby um

01:18:33i've been impressed with him for a couple years scott swan good bloke racing family dad was a a cracking

01:18:39rider upstairs in race control sure has his reign men that he looks out for what's what's going to

01:18:46be made here of kyle do you feel like he's going to be frustrated here that he put his arm

01:18:50in the

01:18:50air it wasn't stopped there and he's lost a place or no i think kyle's going to be uh happy

01:18:54and i think

01:18:55all three are going to be happy that they brought it home and got something it i cannot stress well

01:19:00you

01:19:00know you've written by you've done this right how easy is it just to hit a bit of pain or

01:19:06just get it

01:19:07wrong yeah keep a little bit break on too much when you're leaning and you're down the road and

01:19:11the job's over and you it's not like a car where you spin off when you're off there's damage and

01:19:15there's probably pain that's quite upset there though doesn't he kyle he's only lost five points

01:19:20in the championship that brings the gap down to 63 overall it's a double so far for scott reading

01:19:28if i were him i wouldn't be upset race control did a really good job of that they don't know

01:19:33exactly what's going on as the riders do at each point of the circuit they called it pretty much

01:19:37when they got to that point of the track again i think good call i think for me race control

01:19:42and

01:19:43the way a race is run especially when it comes to a safety issue we've got probably the best in

01:19:48the

01:19:49world i've had i've raced in world to provide race away they've been confused you don't generally get

01:19:53that at bsb right right fastest lap of the race he will start from pole position this afternoon

01:20:01back on the podium as well good job from brad

01:20:14all right then just having a chat now with his team and just calming himself down before we have a

01:20:20chat

01:20:21with the top three we'll get your confirmed results through in a moment as well yeah also feedback

01:20:26sat straight away he's already telling his crew what the bike felt like any issues anything they

01:20:31need to address because they haven't got that much time now to do anything that he's doing to the

01:20:35bike no of course it's a longer race coming up later on as well yep that was the only place

01:20:51where

01:20:51interesting to hear the comments there from scott reading we've got the confirmed results here for

01:20:56you then red flag out race result confirmed it's reading from ray and ride your top three here in

01:21:02absent for the sprint race ryan vickers didn't have really a weapon to fight with but he still managed

01:21:07to finish fourth ahead of max cook and ilya mikkelchik the season best sixth of the him ahead of

01:21:12o'halloran glenn irwin lee jackson and andy irwin inside the top 10. storm stacy was 11th

01:21:17ahead of fraser rogers danny kent scott swan with a couple of points he finished ahead of josh brooks

01:21:22eugene mcmanus hedger kerr of course talbot a non-finisher likewise christian hidden in the

01:21:29championship then the gap has come down to 63 we started the weekend off at 71 eight points so

01:21:35far that scott reading has clawed back after the first two races here this weekend still bradley ray

01:21:40in third he increases advantage to leon haslam who was absent from that one joe talbot has just

01:21:46dropped down a couple of places as well after that dns

01:21:58kyle ride uh look to have some very very strong pace there i saw you put your arm up at

01:22:02one point

01:22:03and to try and get the race stopped but obviously it went on for a little bit longer you didn't

01:22:06look

01:22:06overly uh enthralled with that but uh nonetheless it's another podium it's another podium yeah but

01:22:12i've got a lot to lose anna so when it starts raining um i knew there was only two laps

01:22:15left

01:22:16there's a high chance he was going to red flag it um yeah i think i threw away four points

01:22:20really um

01:22:21one at donnington one here obviously bad past me into the last sector and then 30 seconds later the

01:22:26red flag come out so i think um definitely lost two points there just by being a bit been a

01:22:30bit weak in

01:22:31the head but yeah i've got a lot to lose um but yeah second and a and a third up

01:22:35to yeah i had great speed

01:22:36there so hopefully this afternoon's bone dry in 17 laps i reckon we'll be able to get some points back

01:22:40well we'll look forward to watching that best of luck kyle cheers mate thank you right second place

01:22:44then he's just having a quick chat with james whittam actually uh james holding up the whole show

01:22:48uh we're not holding it against him here he is bradley ray um brad fantastic performance opportunistic uh

01:22:54overtake there kyle when the uh when the rain came down but um look to have great pace pole position

01:22:59for

01:23:00race three as well how you feeling yeah no it's good um got stuck a little bit at the start

01:23:03behind

01:23:03ryan got through and then uh had good pace to to get to the boys i think i can see

01:23:08now where my

01:23:09strong points and where their weak points are but it's trying to to maximize everything and trying

01:23:13to find a place to to attack uh it's really difficult but uh yeah when kyle put his hand up

01:23:18i thought it's not wet enough at the minute for him to red flag it so i need to get

01:23:21through i need

01:23:22to get through and chase scott and then the next lap we went into turn eight it was like uh

01:23:26like a sheet across the track so it's the right thing to do but uh yeah happy to to get

01:23:31a podium for

01:23:31the boys um starting pole next race and looking forward to it any changes for race three might

01:23:36just try and find uh find a little bit on the edge of the tire um but apart from that

01:23:41i don't think

01:23:41we're we're too far away well we'll wish you the best of luck and see you later cheers mate thank

01:23:45you

01:23:45um right in first place here he comes scott reddin it's a double bubble so far um a lovely present

01:23:52for

01:23:53young hudson yesterday hudson's birthday um and you won a race for him um dad's winning yeah dad's won

01:23:59again um fantastic performance scott how was that for you yeah it was uh not bad it was just hard

01:24:04having those laps on the tires it really made them quite skatey so i just didn't really know what to

01:24:09do or how to really manage it so i just did the best i could do and i felt like

01:24:13i was okay and i

01:24:14made a mistake and kyle got back onto my rear wheel and then um i thought well what do i

01:24:20do i just keep

01:24:20the pace on i know he was trying to pass me i went a little bit defensive and the rain

01:24:24came and i just did

01:24:25what i thought was right and then i saw on the tv there was a gap to them boys and

01:24:30i was like we

01:24:31can red flag it at this point but it wasn't treacherous it was just a bit sketchy um but

01:24:36yeah i'm happy to get that win and yeah it was hudson's birthday yesterday and ollie bayley's birthday

01:24:40today so happy birthday brother hudson how was daddy was that good can you say daddy winner we're winning

01:24:46yeah well done thank you uh he's winning a life is scott as well isn't he what a great little

01:24:55family

01:24:55um and a great win as well that's back to back now i think he's he's only lost one of

01:24:59the race or not

01:25:00one one of the races that he competed here at aston mbs yeah and that was sketchy conditions where you

01:25:04don't want to be or i would think where you don't want to be it's right out front when you're

01:25:08coming on

01:25:08to a a part of the circuit that you don't know where conditions are going to be and that's a

01:25:13fast part

01:25:13of the circuit as well but he managed to pull in those conditions that's really difficult to do

01:25:18easier to be behind and sort of gauge off somebody else and seeing there skating about and it and it

01:25:23he said he watched the tv that's the big screen at the last corner so you have a quick look

01:25:28at that

01:25:29and you can sort of gauge yourself so he knows what he's doing that boy impressive uh impressive from

01:25:34scott and as he said at the start of the weekend james i think he's coming and knows he's got

01:25:38an

01:25:38opportunity and he's he's gonna take it whatever yeah very much he's got to get his head down he knows

01:25:43all he can do is the bit that he can control and if he can win races then he's going

01:25:47to take good

01:25:48points we know here as well i mean it's so funny isn't it it looks sort of the day that's

01:25:52absolute

01:25:52sun's out it was boiling and out of nowhere that little shower sort of comes and there's so many

01:25:57little lists and buts that can happen here at asin but i think that he'll be really chuffed so far

01:26:01what does that take down to 63 points you know if you do the same again it could even be

01:26:0550 something

01:26:06by the end of the day and when you think that's been 70 when we started the weekend so you

01:26:11know i think

01:26:11sammed a little bit he's kind of giving up on the championship and that's released a load of

01:26:15pressure off him and he's just thinking about races and that is the best way to try and win a

01:26:18champion

01:26:18yeah well isn't it funny though we see it across all types of sports that when you've got something

01:26:22to lose rather than something to gain it changes the mindset completely and we saw it with kyle

01:26:26in that race perhaps in different circumstances he doesn't put his hand up in the way yeah yeah i mean

01:26:32this is the thing about karl is he doesn't we know he doesn't make many mistakes at all he doesn't

01:26:37need to

01:26:38make any mistakes so actually even if he has to lose now and again just a fraction so be it

01:26:42you

01:26:43know he's got such a big long forward looking uh gameplay good stuff right we will uh see these boys

01:26:49and the bsp riders again later on this afternoon uh bsp race three is coming up later on at three

01:26:55o'clock but uh we are going to take a quick break here and when we come back we will

01:26:59be racing once again

01:27:01the stars of the future have come through the talent cup uh in the british championship and of course

01:27:07around europe and the rest of the world moto gp of course going on over austria as well

01:27:11and we'll take a look at the future generation uh in the talent cup in just a couple of minutes

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