Glenn Irwin addresses Tommy Bridewell and BSB rivals for 2025 glory

"If I was a betting man which I used to be, I’d p💫ut a pound on it"

Glenn Irwin
Glenn Irwin

Glenn Irwin has vowed to become a Superbike champion despite𒁏 a n▨ew-look and very strong BSB line-up in 2025.

The British Superbike Championship will welc🐻ome back Brad Ray, while Christian Iddon will switch to a Kawasaki.

Tommy Bridewell, Irwin’s fierce riv🍨al, and new champion Kyle Ryde will also be vying for more ꦛaccolades.

“BSB is always a competitive championship where people don’t really w🏅ant to leave,” Irwin said at .

“Christian is on the Kawasaki, and with Christian you always get 110%. He’ll have good days but may🌃be the p🦹ackage is not a title winner.

“Brad Ray’s a former champion and w🎶ill be very strong. But will he be stronger than Kyle Ryde? I don’t think so. I think Kyle developed a lot this year.

“And Tommy is one of the most resili🍃ent characters on the grid.

“Yo𒁃u could go on and on. I try not to pick one. I think we focus on bring🎐ing the best version of ourselves and playing as a team, that’s what can win the championship.”

Irwin finished as a close runner-up last year to rival Bridewell. He w💖as third this year, as Ryde picked up th♐e title.

“I have no doubt I’ll be a Superbike champion,”🃏 Irwin insisted.

“You ca♎n’t put a timeline𓃲 on it, but I have a great feeling it is all part of my story.

“I💧n 2023 I lost by half a point. People ask how you get over that. Well, there’s nothing to get over. It was what it was. It wasn’t meant to be.

“But with PBM for the next two years, and if I was a betting ♐man which I used to be, I’d put a pound on it.ജ My time will come.”

Ir✤win has signed new terms with PMB Ducati to stay committed to the🐓 team, but will no longer race on the roads.

That decision should give him added impetus for the BSB title💝.

He said about winning the 2025 title: “There’s 🧸no reas🌱on why not.

“Continuity with the team, continuity w💟ith Ducati, it’s the brand I’ve had most success within my career.

“We know how the championship’s been over the last couple of years. I💛n 2023 we very much could have won it, it didn’t happen and that’s fine. This year we were still very fast on days but not consistent enough, and not e💞nough podiums. So, I know what I have to work on.

“The 👍team have already invested heavily. It’s hard with the bike when you don’t have a new model, you’re looking at ways to develop something you already have in a great window.

“But they’ve invested heavily ౠlately with some ideas that Danilo Petrucci has used in World Superbikes with great success. It’s nice knowing that you have𒅌 something coming.

“I think with the tyre issue, we wi💮ll have something better next year. Not as good as before but I don’t need too much, just a little꧒ bit.

“But I’ve the right mindset and I can foc🌳us solely on BSB now.”

PBM Ducati’s Jordan Bird added: “I th🔯ink continuity for both sides of the party is brilliant.

“Next year we’ll be on the same bike as this year, with some u𒈔pgrades. And in 2026 there will be the exciting new project. We’re really excited, and we know how both of us work now so I think it’s going to be a good couple of years𓃲.”

PBM Ducati are fully focu🦋sed on Irwin, as their only rider on the grid.

“For me it’s not changed much,🍬 🅰although it’s definitely cheaper,” Bird joked.

“It’s a really difficult one because everybody wants to have two bik♔es, you want the presence of two bikes there. But you can only win the championship 𒆙with one person, you don’t need two bikes to win a championship.

“For me, putting all eggs into one basket with Glenn wasn’t a difficult thing.♚ He knows us, we know him.

“For me to e🔥stablish myself as a team owner it was definitely the right thing. It was more contained, so you can keep🦹 more on top of it.

“And 💝there’s still a great fight whether you have a teammate or not. It’s still BSB at the end of the day.”

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