A downpour at 👍Donington caused panic on the grid, some strange tyre choices and a confident win for Ryan🍬 Vickers, as both of the BeerMonster Ducati riders floundered, finishing without a point.

The round ten sprint was delayed, had sighting laps, time to change tyres and was reduced🌸 by a further two laps to a ten lap dash.

Ryan Vickers won the race on that sighting laps, putting his foot down and asking for wets against his LAMI OMG mechanics suggestion after how he felt in the time on💮 track.

The bold decision paid of and he flew to the front of the race from fifth on the grid, part holeshot, part all of his rivals carefully treading their way arouꦺnd in slow motion by compariso▨n.

With nothing to lose in the championship and confidence in hi🔥s tyre choice🎶, the Yamaha man soon built up a sizeable lead - over five seconds after just a handful of laps.

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From there the #7 controlled the race from the front, crossing the line for his second win of the season 3.742s clear, with a wheelie over the line, 🦹such was the faith in his grip.

Leon Haslam knows Donington, well - his local track and his BSB experience paying off, with just the new track surface to factor in. Despite choosing a rear intermediate for his Rokit BMW Motorrad, the #91 got a strong start but then struggled as t꧟he rain abated. Haslam found a way to deploy heat into his rear, increasing grip a🐠nd allowing him to fight back from sixth.

After a few laps r🅠acing Jack Kennedy and Luke Mossey to work out the final podium places Haslam pulled clear to claim second.

Mossey returns to rostrum after six year wait

The battle fo𝓰r third then went all the way to the line. Kennedy started the last lap ahead, with Mossey tucked in close after an error from the Mar-Train Yamaha rider. Mossey then took his chance and moved ahead but ran wide. The run to the line saw the Tactix by Lloyd & Jones rider finally able to slipstreꦯam his BMW in front.

Mossey, who started from♏ 14th on the grid, was a p꧂icture of elation and relief - eleventh was his previous best result this season and third marks his first podium visit since Oulton Park in 2017.

That left Kennedy clear in fourth, making up the most placඣes in the race after qualifying 21st, with a gapped field as the remaining riders struggled to stay upright in groups on track.

Lee Jackson was next to arrive afte🍨r a three second wait, the best Kawasaki rider once again for Cheshire Mouldings. It was an age before another bike saw the chequered flag, with sixth placed Franco Bourne over twenty seconds behind for Marvel HCL Motorsport.

He was clear of the next battle on track, with Josh Brookes taking seventh for FHO Racing, justꦿ ahead of Starline Racing Kawasaki’s Storm Stacey in eighth.

Peter Hickman’s f🍒ull wet set up had seen him fly up 🍸to second on the opening lap, but his choice soon became difficult to manage, fading to ninth on the second FHO Racing entry.

The top ten was completed by rookie Louis Valleley for Rapꦦid CDH Kawasaki, his best result since♈ joining the championship.

Tom Neave was a distant eleventh🙈 for Honda, just ahead of Kyle Ryde who slipped back to twelfth from fourth on the grid 🤡on the second OMG racing bike as his tyre gamble, as was the way for so many, didn’t pay off.

The remaining points went to rookies Max Cook (Cheshire Mouldings Kawasaki) in 13th and Bradley Perie (Lee Hardy Racing Kaw𝓡asaki) in 15ꦇth with Jack Scott seperating the duo on the second Rapid CDH entry.

Christian Iddon had been eleventh when a trip through the gravel ended his hopes of points. Rejoining20th the Oxford Products Ducati rider gave chase as best heꦗ could in the conditions, but just missed out in 16𒁏th.

Pole man Jason O’Halloranꦏ tiptoed around 🌼to 17th for McAMS Yamaha - and was no the only ride having a torrid time.

Ducati disaster for Irwin and Bridewell

Tommy Bridewell qualified second and Glenn Irwin sixth, and both seemed assured enough that their tyre choice would keep them in touch with each other, particularly imp✤ortant given the small difference between them in the title hunt.

They were closely matched - but for 23rd and 24th placedꦿ finishes.

Both the BeerMonster Ducati riders experienced the same problems - no grip, moving as if they were riding on ice, ཧboth had excursion🐽s off track and both pulled into the pits to change tyres.

Bridewell’s choice𝕴 to stay out longer left him slightly worse off, but the duo were both classed as a lap down without a point to either of their names in a sprint to forget for the PBM Team.

Official British Superbike Donington Park Records:

Lap Record: Leon Haslam (BMW) 1m 27.593s  (2023)

2022 at Donington Park:

Round Three - pole: Jason O’Halloran (2nd Bradley Ray, 3rd Kyle Ryde)

Race One: 
1:Kyle Ryde
2:Jason O’Halloran
3:Bradley Ray

Race Two: 
1:Jason O’Halloran
2:Bradley Ray
3: Lee Jackson

Race Three:
1:Jason O’Halloran
2:Bradley Ray
3:Lee Jackson

Round Ten (Showdown) - pole: Jason O’Halloran (2ndBradley Ray , 3rd Tom Sykes)

Race One: 
1:Tom Sykes
2:Jason O’Halloran
3:Peter Hickman

Race Two: 
1:Tom Sykes
2:Bradley Ray
3:Glenn Irwin

Race Three:
1:Bradley Ray
2:Andrew Irwin
3:Glenn Irwin

2023 At Donington Park (Round Three)

Pole: Kyle Ryde (2nd Leon Haslam 3rd Jason O’Halloran)

Race One:
1: Kyle Ryde
2: Tommy Bridewell
3: Leon Haslam

Race Two:
1: Jason O’Halloran
2: Ryan Vickers
3: Josh Brookes

Race Three:
1: Kyle Ryde
2: Tommy Bridewell
3: Glenn Irwin

Last round -  Oulton  Park (Showdown)

Pole: Tommy Bridewell (2nd Glenn Irwin, 3rd Kyle Ryde)

Race One:
1: Glenn Irwin
2: Lee Jackson
3: Leon Haslam

Race Two:
1: Glenn Irwin
2: Lee Jackson
3: Kyle Ryde

Race Three:
1:Tommy Bridewell
2: Glenn Irwin
3: Lee Jackson

Crashes and Injuries and replacements

Andrꦛew Irwin was, perhaps surprisingly, the only rider to crash out in the rain.

Niccolo Canepa brought the second McAMS entry back into the pitꦑs after his tyre choice꧙ left him wobbling all over the place.

Hector Barbera was out after his practice crash.

He joined Danny Buchan out of action on the 💜sidelines.

Mic𒊎hael Dunlop (21st) replaced Josh Owens at Hawk Racing.

Alex Olsen (22nd) was back in BSB using thཧe ‘Pathway’ system for SSTK teams along with his Cumins by Team IWR Honda outfit.

Where does that leave the championship?

Before race one th🎐ere was only half a point splitting the Ducati duo, with Irwin leading the way. Nine riders were still mathematically in with a shout of BSB victory, given the points on offer for the remainder of Donington🏅 and the final round.

That distance stays the s𝐆ame as neither Ducati rider scor꧃ed a point.

A꧅ll the movement happened behind, with Leon Haslam’s podium bringing him up to third, now on 305 points and just 55.5 points behind Irwin at a track where his reputation precedes him.

Though he dropped to fourth behind the #91 after his superb performance, Kyle Ryde made gains♋ too by finishing in a points scoring twelfth now on 304 points, just one behind Haslam.