Donington Park: Round 5
It was a strong weekend for the Oxford Products Racing Ducati team at Donington Park. Tommy Bridewell secured two fifths and topped the weekend off with an amazing win!
Practise and qualifying was tough but the team dug deep to qualify in seventh place on the grid for the opening race of the weekend.
He struggled off the start in the opening race and dropped to 10th after the opening lap but he quickly moved up through the field to sixth place at the finish but gained a position after Ryan Vickers was given a time penalty.
For race two he started from eighth on the grid, dropping down to 11th after lap one Tommy once again had his work cut out. He pushed hard through the field in some close battles avoiding some dramas to finish in a strong fifth.
For the final race of the weekend Tommy started from fourth place which put him in with a good chance of doing well. He got a good start and held his position but he was eager to get to the front and was soon making progress. He took to the front and bridged a gap of 3 seconds over the 20 lap race to secure a fantastic win. He is sitting in fifth in the Championship standings.
Tommy Bridewell - “It was a strong weekend in all. Happy with everything. I didn’t quite have the feeling I needed to fight for the victories in the first two races.
We did some good changes for the last race, I felt really comfortable in the race in the wet and dry and really pleased to take the win. It was a gamble on tyres as we’ve never used them before but it paid off. We are looking forward to a strong weekend at Cadwell.”
Moto3
Ollie Walker was fast all weekend and finished 4th,6th and 5th putting him 7th in the championship while Ryan Hitchcock is unfortunately still recovering from his broken arm and will miss the next round at Silverstone supporting the Moto GP in a couple of weeks.
Ducati Cup
Josh Day stormed his way to victory in race one Saturday winning by 3 seconds over Elliot Pinson but narrowly missed out to Elliot in race two by 0.018 seconds. He still leads the championship by 29 points.