Ryde, Irwin Share Knockhill BSB Wins
R
ound four of the 2023 British
Superbike Championship was
held at Knockhill in Scotland over
the weekend with OMG Yamaha's
Kyle Ryde and BeerMonster Duca-
ti's Glenn Irwin taking the wins.
Ryde jumped out of the gates
in race one to initially lie second
to polesitter Jason O'Halloran
(McCams Yamaha), engaging in
a five-rider battle that included
BMW's Christian Iddon, team
-
mate Ryan Vickers, O'Halloran,
himself and Glenn Irwin.
Irwin was looking good for
the win until he crashed out with
three laps to go. Ryde was then
the race leader with Tommy
Bridewell promoted to second
after he had carved his way up
the order with O'Halloran in third
and that was how the podium
lined up at the flag.
Ryde backed up his race-one
win with another victory in race
two, this time from Bridewell and
O'Halloran.
Irwin was in a determined
mood for the final race of the
weekend and, after another
race-long battle with Bridewell,
Vickers and O'Halloran—who
would crash out if the lead on
lap two—the former Honda rider
took the race win to move to
third in the championship stand
-
ings, 11 points off series leader
Bridewell. Ryde backed up his
two race wins with a fourth in
race three.
"It's a shame what happened
in today's first race as I could
have been coming away with
a hat-trick but I'm happy with
the two wins we had and, like,
yesterday, I really, really enjoyed
the final race." Ryde said, "I could
see Tommy in the lead and knew
when it was time to up the pace
as while he was strong in some
areas, I felt strong all around the
circuit.
"He improved his braking into
the hairpin all weekend, but the
BeerMonster Ducati was strong
out of the hairpin, and I was able to
make my move along the straight
and into the first corner."
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Jason O'Halloran (22)
leads the field into turn
one in race three but the
Aussie would come up
zeros with a crash the
following lap.
