British Superbikes, Navarra - Ryde: My step “wasn’t big enough”
Kyle Ryde was pleased with his trophy ⛄haul after B🏅ritish Superbikes took their first visit to race in Navarro, Spain - but his pre-season form suggested more.
The Yamaha riders were once again the men to beat at the Circuito de Navarra, with a top three in 💞both races, building on a domi🏅nant qualifying for the manufacturer.
Ryan Vickers dominated to win both races, but it was more of a mixed bag for his teammate at OMG Grilla witꦛh Kyle Ryde picking up second in race one and an equally hard fought third in race two.
Ryde 🔯had dominated the pre-season leading the way in both the Donington test and the one at Navarra directly before the race weekend𝓰.
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That had left expectations high on the man from Mansfield, with two podiu💟ms giving a feeling of what might have been as much as celebration.
Ryde boiled his performance down to two main factors - not making a big 🎶enough step betw♑een races compared to his rivals and a change in temperature.
Ryde explained: “The best thin🌼g that happened really was that we made the bike a bit better but I think everybody did at the same time - I think even Ryan was doing high sixes towards the end and I didn’t do one of them💧 so obviously everyone made the bikes better”.
“Unfortunately mine wasn’t a big enough 🐓♏step to follow them to the line”.
The second element the #77 thought factored in♏to his Sunday performance was the change in weather, though noticeably more windy, the temperature was also hugely different to those the riders had been exposed to at the track thus ❀far.
Ryde elaborated:
“I’m happy that we made the bike a bit better, I’m just gu☂tted that obviously we did - probab🌃ly about 150 laps in certain temperatures and I felt good all week. Then, all of a sudden, I feel not so good, but yeah - to take home two trophies I’m not complaining, I could have crashed so many times in race one earlier.
While Danny Kent backed his w𒁃eather opinions, Ryde was still pleased with his overall performance - his race two was much smoother with none of the flirting with the green on track that earned him a track limits wa💖rning in race one:
“Not dead happy, nut I’m happy that I’ve got 30 points and two trophies to take ho🌼me and can have a vino tinto tonight!”
Ryde will be lookin𒁃g to take a step forward and claim victory when the BSB championship returns to British soil - at Oulton Park on the May bank holiday weekend.
