Ryan Vic𝐆kers had arrived at 🐻Oulton Park on a high after taking both available wins in the opening round at Navarra.

The Grilla OMG Yamaha rider was still running  a strong pace on arrival at the Cheshire track, which al✨so hosted the paddock for a test prior to running theꦚ second round.

Vickers went on to a top three start in FP1, but t💯he t🥀eam became sure that his small fall in FP2 had affected the bike in some way.

That lead to the #7 finishing fifth in rac🍒e one and then a off the 𓃲pace ninth in the sprint.

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The mechanics and Vickers never stopped searching for the issue, and think the discovered what had made the bike so difficult earlier, and the 25 year old was happy to have a machine th🍌at he recognised back:

“I just got my bike back, how it was in testing and the start of the weekend, I don’t know the exact issue yet, but I had a small crash at the end of FP1, lik꧋e a litt𒊎le low side, but the bike went over a kerb, might have caused an issue.

The guys changed a lot of parts and we think we know the issue, but the𝄹 bike was back to how it was normally.

Vickers elaborated on what he felt w⛄as missing fr🍒om his race package:

“The Yamaha is normally great mid-corner, can run loads of speed and I had absolutely none of thaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt and the bike was chattering front and rear and I was just running wide, so it was a bit strange.

“I was riding races waiting for the next person to pass me, basically was just 𓆉hanging on and trying to stay on the bike.

Back to his best Vickers looked capable, with a bit more experience at the front, of catching the Ducati duo as the bike suited Oultoཧn Park, with his improved performance giving something to look forward to at the next round at Donington Park:

“I think that last race we could have had a bit more but it just took me a bi♊t longer, just to actually get used to riding the bike properly agai❀n.

“So that was good, then at the end of the race we were doing 33’s for quite a few of the last few laps and we cleared the gap".