Bradley Ray will join up with Raceways Yamaha, as he has found a way to remain on the 2025 British Superbike grid.
Raceways Motorcycles will return to the Bennetts British Superbike Championship with a Yamaha R1. The team will field a one-rider team with 2022 British Superbike Champion Bradley Ray on their machine.
Ray's original plan for the 2025 season was to ride for the OMG Racing Yamaha squad. However, the team announced their withdrawal from the series 12 days ago.
However, Ray has been saved in the last days before the new season gets underway. He will ride for an experienced team that used to run under the McAMS Yamaha banner between 2017 and 2023.
Ray said: “I am super happy and grateful to Steve Rodgers and Yamaha Motor UK for putting together this opportunity for me at the very last minute; it has been a bit of a whirlwind!
“Obviously it has been a very difficult couple of weeks and there has been a lot of uncertainty, but when Steve rang me with the opportunity I couldn’t say no as it’s as close as we could be to the original plan for the year – remaining with Yamaha on an R1 in BSB, which is amazing. I can’t wait to get the 2025 season started as soon as possible and be back fighting for wins up the front.”
Steve Rodgers, Team Owner, concluded: “It was never really my plan to return to racing, but following what has happened with OMG it was a huge shame to see the riders facing 2025 without a ride. We came close to signing Brad as McAMS Yamaha back in the day, so when it became clear we could do something to get him on the grid this year I couldn’t quite resist the opportunity.
“Thanks to Stuart Higgs and the team at MSV, plus the guys at Yamaha Motor UK for helping us make it happen. It’s not a simple task setting up a BSB team in a couple of weeks, but we’ll give it a go!”
OMG Racing will now also be able to stay on the Bennetts British Superbike grid as a restructured team. However, they will also only run a one-rider team, and they will field Kyle Ryde on a Yamaha R1.
