After moving from British Superbikes to World Superbikes, Ryan Vickers has reviewed his first half-season with Motocorsa Racing.

Ryan Vickers made his full-time World Superbike debut in the 2025 season, and after half a season, he has looked back on the opening six rounds of the season.

Heading into the season, the British rider had no expectations, but is happy with the progress he has made across the season so far.

"It's difficult prior to the season to lay any expectations and, and actually know where you're going to be," Vickers told WorldSBK.com.

"Because 1), I've never done it before, and 2), you never know how long it's going to take to adapt and how difficult the challenges are ahead. I obviously knew that I've got to learn new circuits, I've got a new bike to learn, and I've got new electronics to learn. But you never know how long these things are going to take.

"It's probably taking a bit longer than what I thought originally to get the hang of riding the Ducati and its electronics. This year in particular is probably one of the most competitive years the Championship has had; the level is so, so high. The lap times are crazy fast, so much faster than last year, even when the bikes haven't changed a lot. The level has just gotten higher.

"It's been different to come into it, and we are progressing. The results haven't really shown too much other than Misano, where had a bit of a bit of a breakthrough there; but every weekend we have been improving ourselves. We're just waiting for the results to start showing, which is obviously difficult, but we're closing the gap every time."

The main difference Vickers has found between his time in British Superbikes and World Superbikes is how advanced the electronics are on the world stage compared to in Britain.

"It's completely different," he explained when discussing the electronics.

"The most difficult thing for me as a rider is not just trying to ride around problems, because in BSB the electronics are very basic, whereas with WorldSBK, electronics are set up corner by corner, so you can pretty much make the bike have a perfect setup for every corner in the track.

"In BSB, I spent 5 or 6 years riding round on bikes where you know the bike isn't going to be perfect in all of the areas and you learn to ride around problems. It’s a good skill to have, but at this point it's held us back a little bit because as soon as you ride slightly different on the WorldSBK bike, the electronics automatically adapt to how you're riding, and it can cause things to not work correctly."

After six rounds of the 2025 season, Vickers and the Motocorsa Racing squad find themselves in 19th place in the World Superbike Championship.