Leon Haslam third in race one after taking opening Oulton Park laps “too easy” with Ray “already gone”
Leon Haslam brought home a hard earned podium at the first race at Oulton Park after making the switch back toꦺ Ducati machinery for 2025 in BSB.

Leon Haslam got his 2025168澳洲5最新开奖结果: British Superbike campaign off to a strong start with a podium visit afte🦂r finishing third at the first race of the opening round at Oulton Parꦆk.
Now a veteran of the BSB paddock, Ha𒈔slam has not been a Ducati rider in any championship since the 2007 season and makes the move after running his own BMW outfit in 2024.
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Able to concentrat🔯e on his riding, the #91 has looked invigorated, and after a strong showing in testing had finished the opening day top heading to qualifying with the best time before Ray put in a record breaking Sunday in qualifying and Race 1 to come out on top.
While Ray was keen to push hard while confident on the new tyres, Haslam had a different tyre management plan for the race, which in retroꦫspect prevented Haslam from giving chase after Ray’s escape.
Haslam explained after the race “Obviously I’ve got to be happy with a podium, I had it in the back of my mid just to finish the race, you know gather 🅠some information,
Pace-wise Brad was really, really fast, ꩵI probably just took it a little bit too easy th✱e first few laps and he’d already gone after four or five laps.”
That gap took Haslam back into t🎀he battle for the rest of the rostrum slots, first working his way pa🌄st reigning champion Kyle Ryde, who faded as he got to grips with his OMG bike, only for a fired up Glenn Irwin to arrive and fight his way into second:
“After that me and Glenn had a good battle, had a good battle with Kent and also with Kyle, so all in all ꦑit was good - I think we learned a lot from that race and we brought it home- which was the objective”.
Haslam seemed positive he can use the Ducati straight line speed to his advantage to prevent anot🔜her runaway win on Bank Holiday Monday with two races remaining, starting with the sprint ad🍸ding “the Yamahas are real competitive in the tighter, twistier chicane stuff, I feel real competitive on the faster flowy stuff, so it’s a bit of a mixture, you know - some places I feel stronger and other - we need to make improvements”.
Haslam added that he needed to balance riding on a full tank with learning the Ducati, ܫb🍰ut was overall happy with his opening performance at Oulton Park:
“A few things I don want to try꧃ and improve on, especially the early laps - it was the first time I’d raced with a full tank▨ of fuel so getting used to that and how the bike handles, but all in all I think we learned a lot and we brought home a podium”.