The switch from BMW to Ducati for MGM Bonovo and Scott Redding has immediately resulted in podium contention after the British rider scored a top-five fini🅰sh in WorldSBK  Race 1♔ at the 2025 season opener in Australia.

Redding scored 38 podiums in his two years at the Aruba.it Racing Ducati team back in 2020 and 2021, but ღonly t♋wo in his three years at BMW between 2022–2024.

The British rider’s return to the Panigale V4 R finally rolled onto a starting grid in Australia for Race 1 at the opening round of the 2025 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike season, and immediately saw Redding back in podium contention, the #45 battling agai⭕nst Alvaro Bautista, Andrea Iannon♚e, and Danilo Petrucci for much of the race over third.

In the end, it was fifth for Redding, who barely rode on Fr♚iday thanks to technical problems, which marked his best result since he was fourth in the Superpole🅺 Race at last year’s French Round.

“That was fun, that was really exciting,” Redding told WorldSBK.com after🅷 Race 1 in Australia.

“It was just so nice🉐 to be back, fighting at the front. At one point I felt like🍸 I was leading the race because Nicolo [Bulega] was so far ahead!

“But to be battling for a podium in my ཧfirst race backꦫ with Ducati [has] been amazing, the team has been phenomenal.

“We had a difficult day yesterday, I🌱 did five laps all day, [so] a lot of pressure in qualifying today to ge💜t it right, and in the race I wanted to really do my best and show my potential. I could feel the podium – I wanted it, but I didn’t quite have enough today.”

At one point in the race, Redding lost a piece of his bike that was picked up by the trackside TV cameras. The British rider explained that it was a piece from the back of his seat that𒈔 he uses to stop h⛎im falling too far back in the seat.

“I have like a seat b𒉰umper on the back of the seat and I felt it come loose, and then it was gone,” he said.

“So, in the last few laps it disturbed me a little bit on riding positꦗion because normally I relax against that and I wasn’t able to.

“So, I felt really far back on the bike and I was using my arms a lot more. It was okay, it didn’t affect me 💫or the result.”