Ryan Vickers became the 57th different race winner in the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch and the LAMI OMG Racing Yamaha rider is ready to try and add to his podium tally this weekend as the title fight reaches Thruxton (August 11/12/13).
Vickers claimed his first podium finish in the Championship at Donington Park and now after a career best weekend at Brands Hatch; he is ready to keep the momentum rolling into the high-speed Hampshire circuit, which was a happy hunting ground for Yamaha in 2022.
Vickers said: “I am really looking forward to Thruxton especially coming off the back of Brands Hatch as that was my best ever Superbike round of my career. It was an amazing round at one of my toughest circuits, so to have my strongest performance at my worst circuit as such made it even better. That shows the run of form that we are getting at the moment.
“I am really happy to get to Thruxton, which is probably the strongest circuit for the Yamaha and also probably my favourite circuit and in the past my best results have always come at Thruxton, and on some bikes that don’t usually have the strongest of results there. I am really looking forward to it; we are going with the same attitude of the last couple of rounds, and just build and concentrate on ourselves and then we should be right there in qualifying and for the races.
“The team have given me a great bike and I want to be battling for the wins and podiums again and I am sure we will be doing just that. We have been building nicely the last four rounds but to have podiums at four rounds and leading races has been amazing.
"We are clawing the gap back in the championship a bit, we haven’t moved position but we are really closing the gap to the guys in front and they are also not too far away. Once the points change for the final rounds, we just need to be in that battle at the front again and then we could seriously catch up. I am not focused on that right now, we just want to keep working hard and doing what we have been doing the last few rounds to keep the momentum going.”