British Superbikes, Navarra - Vickers:"I didn’t want to lose it on the last corner like an idiot!”
Once in first Ryan Vickers looked to have the second race inꦓ Nav𝓰arra all sewn up before a late save was needed to bring home his first ever double British Superbikes win.

I🌊t was double delight for Ryan Vickers, after pulling away for a fairly dominant race one win, the second at the Circuito de Navarra was less straightforward.
Beginning sixth - there was little pressure leading t꧃o a fast lap in race one until he made his, late break on the penultimate lap - which lead to a convincing win - there was immediate avoidance needed to move around an out of shape Rory Skinner, but despite that the Norfolk man still took an early third for OMG Grilla.
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The Yamaha man waited patiently and moved into seꦅcond, before another well timed move in a sequence starting from the end of the lap through to turn one, saw h♋im in the lead again.
This time Vickers knew his bike and pulled💦 away, but all his ha𝔉rd work was almost undone on the final lap.

Vickers credited his performance with 💫the strategy devised between himself and the team - no chang🍒es.
“I did a similar strategy to race🌜 one and we actually decided in the garage that we wasn’t going to change the bike at all from race one to two.
I think we all sortꦑ of decided that I’d probably benefit a little bit from just learning t🧜o ride the bike myself a bit better - and that’s exactly what I did.
The execute plan worked perfectly bringing the #7 his first ev✅er BSB career double win, but⛦ there was a late scare.
Vickers explained: “the last lap I looked at my pit board and I had plus zero. So I thought ‘right I’ve got to do a really good lap here’ and ♏I didn’t want to defend and slow up the pace ‘cause if I did have a little bit of a gap I didn’t want to lose it.”
After a near perfect race, the last corner saw Vickers surprisingly sideways, looking certain to crash, before, iꦺn🦄credibly, he pulled the bike back up as his front tyre fought with him to regain his balance and still take the chequered flag in first.
Vickers detailed the event: “ Got through to the last left and I was like ‘right, I’ve done the whole lap now, 🅠just defend the last corner because I don’t want to lose it on the last corner like an idiot’ - and I nearly did!”
“That was because I defended and wen🍌t in at the same pace and was a little bit and was a little bit tighter, it’s just the nature of the corner really because it’s uphill, you get a load of front tyre”.
Vickers comes away from Spain with the maximum points available, 36, and a very early championship ahead of the next round in Oulton Park.