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 pod🔯ium at the first race at Oulton Park after making the switch back to Ducati m൩achinery for 2025 in BSB.

Leon Haslam got his 2025168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: British Superbike campaign off to a strong start with a pod🎃ium visit after finishing third at th🧸e first race of the opening round at Oulton Park.
Now a veteran of the BSB paddock, Haslam has not been a Ducati rider in any championship since the 200🐭7 season and makes the move after running his own BMW outfit in 2024.
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Able to concentrate on his riding, the #91 has looked invigorated, and after a strong showing ღin 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 retrဣospect prevented Haslam from giving chase after Ray’s escape.
Haslam explained afte𒈔r 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, I probably just took it a little bit too easy the first few laps and 🦩he’d already gone after🧔 four or five laps.”
That gap took Haslam back into the battle for the rest of the rostrum slots, first working his way📖 past 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 it was good - I think we learned a lot from ܫthat 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 another runaway win on Bank Holiday Monday with two races remaining,ꦡ starting with the sprint adding “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 full꧒ tank with learning the Ducati, but 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 alཧl I think we learned a lot and we brought home a podium”.