Irwin Shines At Cadwell Park BSB
R
ound eight of the 2023 British
Superbike Championship
was held across the long August
weekend in the UK at Cadwell
Park and it was Glenn Irwin
(BeerMonster Ducati) who took
the lion's share of the glory with
two wins out of three, reducing
Tommy Bridewell's advantage in
the standings to 14.5 points.
Irwin took the race-one win by
0.118 seconds over Kyle Ryde
(LAMI OMG Racing Yamaha) and
Ryan Vickers (LAMI OMG Racing
Yamaha), and did it again over
Ryde in race two with a last-lap
pass at the Coppice section of
the track before pulling away to a
0.4-second win. Jason O'Halloran
(McAMS Yamaha) was third.
"I felt the lap time came quite
easily but I tried to win the race
at the slowest possible pace,"
Irwin said. "I slowed the pace
up with the stop-go tactics as I
knew a maneuver could come
anywhere here.
"All that matters is getting
those points back on Tommy in
the standings and I am so grate
-
ful for this win."
Bridewell rebounded in the
third race of the weekend, mak-
ing a move on his BeerMonster
Ducati teammate Irwin to win by
0.057 seconds. ROKiT BMW Mo-
torrad Team's Leon Haslam took
third, half a second behind.
As the championship fight
now reaches the Showdown with
the points value increasing, 16
riders remain mathematically in
title contention.
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Irwin (2) had to
work hard for it but
managed to scrape
two wins out of three
at Cadwell Park.
