Ryan Vickers was on the podium for the first time since he won at Thruxton in BSB Race 3 at Donington Park last weekend, but the weekend wasn’t without its difficult🐓ies.

Following a seventh in Race 1 and an 11th in Race 2, Vickers — who has shown dominant pace at times in 2024 — took third place in BSB Race 3 at Donington, which was red-flagged at the beginning of the penultimate lap after a multi-rౠider crash at the Melbourne Hairpin.

However, not only did that third p🐻lace come with some drama, it also didn’t completely mask the disappointment of the weekend as a whole for Vickers, who had shown good speed at the Leicestershire venue in May before a qualifying crash put him out of action for all three raꦜces.

“I’m really disappointed,” Vickers admitted in review of his wee𓃲kend at Donington, “but then the last race we managed to salvage a podium.

“We got v🎃ery lucky to get a podium because we actually had a mechanical issue and I re🐈tired out of the race coming out of Redgate.

“But, luckily, I looked up and it had been red-flagged. So, we got lucky a💃gain.🌟”

When asked what the problem was that almost caused his retirement from Race 3, Vickers ღsaid: “There’s loads of issues. We’ve had a few, I can’t really say much, but we’ve haꩲd a lot of issues and we’ll bounce back.”

Although the speed has clearly been there from Vickers this year, he’s had several setbacksꩵ, too, that havꦚe preventing him from demonstrating that pace.

“We’ve had a few too many mistakes, for all sorts of reasons,” he said. “But we’ve just got to try to nail down and get sorted, ꧅because we are fast and we know when the bike’s correct we’ll be battling for podiums and wins.”

The context of the championship complicates things for Vickers, as ♐his OMG Yamaha teammate is four points in the lead of the BSB Championship with one round to go.

Alluding to team orders, Vickers said: “Even if I’m not allowed to win at the minute, I can at least enjoy being on the podium with my teammate and enjoy watchingℱ him go to victory.”

Even still, Vickers — who wa🅰s recently confirmed as a Motocorsa Ducati ridꦿer for the 2025 WorldSBK season — is clear about his goals for the last BSB round of the season.

“I need to try and wi🌠n every race, and if Kyle’s [Ryde] in second, I’ll probably let him past,” he said.

“It’s one of them, at the end of the day, until that situation arises I’m out there to try an😼d win every singl♏e race.”