It's a Ducati 1-2 in Race 3 as Tommy Bridewell takes a masterful double win and Josh Brookes finishes in second at Oulton Park

Tommy Bridewell scored his first ever double British Superbike win at Oulton Park today. After winning the first of the two races on Sunday Bridewell lined up on pole on his Oxford Products Racing Ducati. A great start saw him take the lead into the first corner and he immediately pulled a gap out at the front, which he had extended to six and half seconds by half race distance.

Bridewell was dominant out at front and raced on towards the chequered flag to take his second win of the day to the delight of his team and fans.

VisionTrack Ducati’s Josh Brookes made it a Ducati one-two after bringing his Panigale home in second place ahead of a close pack of riders to score his second podium finish of the weekend.

Christian Iddon was lucky to stay on his bike after being knocked off track mid race, and he regrouped to cross the line in eleventh place. 

Championship standings
1. Tarran Mackenzie 1093
2. Jason O'Halloran 1091
3. Tommy Bridewell 1084
4. Christian Iddon 1060
5. Peter Hickman 1050
6. Josh Brookes 1042

Tommy Bridewell (Oxford Products Racing Ducati #46)
Race 1, 6th – Race 2, 1st – Race 3, 1st
“So proud of the team, so proud of myself, so proud of everyone that supports me. What can I say, my first ever British Superbike double win. I am smiling but there’s obviously that slight disappointment because I felt I had the pace to do the triple. Massive thanks to Ducati Corse for producing a spectacular machine and credit to Oxford Products Racing Ducati for giving me a bike that allows me to win. I have the physical part of it, but I also get the enjoyable bit.

So proud of everyone involved. Hard bit is I don’t get much time to recover. Three days back at home, back in my tractor tomorrow, going to put my topper on the back and go cut some grass. Back to serious work next Friday at Donington.”

Josh Brookes (VisionTrack Ducati #25)
Race 1, 2nd – Race 2, DNF – Race 3, 2nd
“To be fair we’ve had what is quite a good weekend. Second in the first race, just being overtaken on the last lap was a bit heart-wrenching and then it got even worse, the first race on Sunday trying to maintain my speed at the end of the race to avoid the chance of being attacked on the last lap I found myself losing the front at Druids on the last lap. I can’t help but feel disappointed by that mistake but that is racing we’ve got to expect at some point that these things can happen. And then to fight back in the last race with a strong second, Tommy rode exceptional, I can’t take anything away from him. I just had the job of trying to fight for second. I had attacks from people and plenty of moments where the bike was out of shape and trying to have me off even. But managed to hold it all together and bring it home in second. Good for the team, good for the sponsors and hopefully good for the fans. That gives us some positive energy to go into Donington now in just a few days’ time.”

Christian Iddon (VisionTrack Ducati #21)
Race 1, 3rd – Race 2, 4th – Race 3, 11th
“We’ve had a funny weekend. Started off with a podium in the first race which was really good. A hard-fought podium which was nice and close to the win. The first race on Sunday we finished fourth, but it was close. Just didn’t have what I needed at the end of the race, I’ve been struggling a lot with brakes this weekend and the first race today was the worst that we’ve had it. Really inconsistent, and it’s hard to push to the absolute when it’s like that because you’re not sure what’s going to happen every time you come into a corner.

Then the final race, we had a good start from eleventh on the grid, I was a long way back. Made good progress forwards, obviously Tommy was away. Josh was the pace setter in our group. I could see at a point he started to reduce the rhythm, so I figured it was my time to push forward, we were about four to go. I made a move on Tarran, and he made a move back and his move was a bit stronger than mine and had me into the barrier. I managed to keep the bike up, we salvaged four very valuable points. In regard to the championship, we’ve reduced the gap to the front this weekend which is the most important thing but it’s what could have and should have been. It’s mighty frustrating to put all that effort in and come out with what we’ve come out with but that’s the nature of the beast. We get that in racing. Everyone has their fortunate situations and their misfortune, and we were a bit unfortunate in that last one. I’m glad that I had good pace this weekend, we’ll take that as a positive. I feel back to where we’ve been previously, and the fight is there to take this all the way.”