Scott Redding put in his 'best' performance in the British Superbike Championship in Race Three at Oulton Park.
At the penultimate round of the 2025 British Superbike Championship, Scott Redding had a difficult Friday and Saturday at Oulton Park due to the weather conditions.
The 2019 British Superbike Champion did not race at Oulton Park at the start of the season, and had no setup for his Hager PBM Ducati. After qualifying in 20th place, Redding's weekend looked like it was over before it had begun.
Redding went on to finish Race One in 21st place after dealing with the changing conditions around the circuit on Saturday afternoon. However, he then went on to finish Race Two in 11th place in the full dry conditions.
The 32-year-old started from the third row of the grid for the final race of the weekend and was able to battle his way to the front, and took his fifth victory of the 2025 season.
"Somehow, we made it work..."
"I will be honest, this weekend has felt more like a baptism of fire than Knockhill did," Redding told British Superbikes after Race Three.
"At Knockhill I felt alright, but here in the rain it has just been horrendous. I won at Assen, then I came here, and I can barely get the bike round. I think it has a little bit to do with not having a general setup for the dry around here. These guys have got a base from this year and previous years as well.
"I just kind of took it race by race. I started from the back of the grid, came up to eighth or seventh in one race, then it got stopped, and I thought I would start there, but I was at the back of the grid again. But I came back through, I just did what I could do, because I was learning the track in the Sprint Race, because it was my first dry laps. I was trying to race, trying to feel the grip, feel the suspension, and understand the lines; it was chaos.
"In the last race, I was still in the rhythm from the race before. I got a good start, and I would have been happy with a top five after this weekend. If I could squeeze on the podium, I would be over the moon.
"I got off to a good start, and I just felt good. I had it between my teeth; I was not thinking at all about making mistakes or crashing. I was just determined. I had a nice rhythm, and this place is beautiful when you get a rhythm, and I learnt a lot behind Leon [Haslam]. He is a master around here, so it was great to see, and then I knew where to defend at the end. I heard he [Haslam] tried to have a go and missed a gear. I am grateful he did not collect me.
"But again, Kyle [Ryde] and Brad [Ray] are going tooth and nail, and I do not want to get involved in that. I want to get in front and let them deal with it, or stay behind and let them deal with it. I just did not want to cause that mistake at all, so I was being very patient until I knew I could get by, and let them battle it out.
"Once I got to the front, I looked at my board for the first time in the whole race, and there were four or three [laps] to go. But I just did what I could do, I overrode a bit, but I was just excited, I have got to be honest.
"Hats off to these guys, I still don’t believe this has happened. We have done a mega job, we set the bike up on sighting laps, changing the bike like that is not ideal. But somehow, we made it work."
"I am speechless..."
Redding went on to describe his Race Three performance at Oulton Park as his 'best' in the British Superbike Championship, even compared to his results from 2019.
"I would go as far as to say that was my best, even [compared to] when I was in BSB in 2019," he explained.
"I literally went off with no dry setup, on a track that is difficult for me, and I don’t know why or how it happened. I am speechless. These are the good days that you have to take. I had a rough weekend, and the drive home was going to be very painful; no doubt the baby is going to be crying as well. Now he can cry, and I can at least be happy that I took a race win and some bonuses."
