Ryan Vickers and the RAF Regular and Reserve Kawasaki team topped the second Bennetts British Superbike Championship Official Test session at Oulton Park today, with Kyle Ryde forced to settle for second place again by 0.062s.
Danny Buchan had settled the initial benchmark at the halfway point from Jason O'Halloran and Ryde, as the lap times continued to improve on the earlier session. Peter Hickman was also on the move though and as the final 20 minutes of the session approached, he had fired the FHO Racing BMW into second place.
O’Halloran had soon moved back into second place though, and he was just 0.090s adrift of SYNETIQ BMW’s Buchan at the top of the times, as Hickman, Christian Iddon and Kyle Ryde completed the top ten.
Vickers then fired in his fastest laps with just under ten minutes remaining of the session, putting him 0.062s ahead of Ryde with Buchan still holding third until another improvement from O’Halloran in the final five minutes.
Vickers’ time was enough to keep him at the top of the times ahead of Ryde and O’Halloran with Buchan and Hickman completing the top five.
Honda Racing’s Glenn Irwin was sixth fastest ahead of the VisionTrack Ducatis of Josh Brookes and Christian Iddon with Andrew Irwin and Gino Rea completing the top ten.
Bennetts British Superbike Championship, Oulton Park, Official Test, Session 2:
- Ryan Vickers (RAF Regular & Reserve Kawasaki) 1m:35.000s
- Kyle Ryde (Rich Energy OMG Racing BMW) +0.062s
- Jason O'Halloran (McAMS Yamaha) +0.250s
- Danny Buchan (SYNETIQ BMW) +0.315s
- Peter Hickman (FHO Racing BMW) +0.520s
- Glenn Irwin (Honda Racing) +0.548s
- Josh Brookes (VisionTrack Ducati) +0.696s
- Christian Iddon (VisionTrack Ducati) +0.709s
- Andrew Irwin (SYNETIQ BMW) +0.818s
- Gino Rea (Buildbase Suzuki) +0.898s