A 'confidence-inspiring' season opener has Glenn Irwin ready to fight this weekend at Donington Park.

After the opening round of the 2025 British Superbike Championship, Glenn Irwin finds himself third in the Championship, on the same points as first and second place.

In the two races at Oulton Park, Irwin finished in second place and found himself fighting with Bradley Ray and Leon Haslam. However, this weekend at Donington Park, he believes the three-rider battle will extend to a five-rider battle.

"Looking ahead to the weekend, you almost feel a little bit guilty, because obviously we all want to continue to pay our respects to Owen and Shane’s families, and when we look back at Oulton Park, the whole event is overshadowed by this sadness," Irwin said ahead of Round Two of the British Superbike Championship.

"But if I was to look just purely at the riding side of things and the teamwork, I felt we did a good job.

"We had some difficult moments, but we did well to come from 14th to second in Race One and particularly Race Two, after four laps we were 3.3 off and eight laps later to only be 0.1 off the win was very pleasing.

"I think as riders, we all know what we achieved in terms of race pace over the two races, we only ever took time out of Bradley (Ray) and Leon (Haslam) and for me, that was confidence-inspiring.

"I think we fired our own warning shots without winning races, which is important for our own confidence and important to cement ourselves in the thoughts of our rivals as well.

"This weekend and the whole championship in general is going to be close. The three of us who were in it at Oulton will be there, I expect Kyle (Ryde) to be there, and Danny Kent to also join the party this weekend…it’s going to be a good one."