WIND
IN THE
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Vickers Takes Double BSB Win in Spain
T
he 2024 British Superbike
Championship kicked off at
the Navarra circuit in Spain (yes,
we know) over the weekend with
OMG Grilla Yamaha's Ryan Vick-
ers doubling up on wins to open
a handy championship lead.
Vickers, who finished eighth
in the 2023 season, took the
opening win ahead of teammate
Kyle Ryde by 1.3 seconds, with
former Moto3 World Champion
Danny Kent (McAms Racing Ya
-
maha) third, 2.1 seconds behind.
Vickers nearly threw the sec-
ond race win away on final cor-
ner of the final lap but gathered
it all up to take the win, his first
BSB career double, with Kent
and Ryde swapping race-one po-
sitions and finishing two-tenths
of a second and 1.1 second in
arrears, respectively.
"What a day! I've gone from
having no dry wins to having two
in a day! The bike felt so good in
race one and we decided to keep
it the same for race two, which
paid off. When I was behind Dan
-
ny in the first race, I knew that I
couldn't let him pass Kyle first in
case he got away, so I wanted to
get by as quick as I could, which
is what we did and managed to
get the win."
Vickers leads the series on 36
points to Ryde's and Kent's 30
points each.
In the Supersport class, Luke
Stapleford (Macadam Triumph
Racing) headed Davey Todd
(Powertoolmate Ducati) and
Jack Kennedy (Honda Racing
UK) in race one while defending
champion Ben Currie (Oxford
Products Racing Ducati) took
race two ahead of Stapleford
and Todd.
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Ryan Vickers takes off in the lead as BSB kicks off its season in Spain.
