Honda Racing completes a strong weekend at Snetterton
Snetterton 300Honda Racing completed the third race weekend of the 2025 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) with another podium and valuable points.
Honda Racing completed the third race weekend of the 2025 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) at Snetterton with fine performances in both of Sunday's races.
Having scored the team’s first BSB podium of the season so far, taking his Honda Fireblade to third place on Saturday, Tommy Bridewell repeated the feat on Sunday afternoon after a thrilling tussle which ended in an exquisite slipstreaming pass at the line.
In the third and final race of the weekend, Bridewell was once again in the thick of the action with a three-way battle for third place that raged for all 16 laps, the Wiltshireman ending up with a fourth place finish to end a weekend full of promise for the rest of the season.
Unfortunately, Bridewell’s team-mate Andrew Irwin had significant ground to recover after crashing in Saturday’s race. He finished 19th in the second race on a bike that had been rebuilt overnight but then crashed out of the third race. Bridewell’s results move him to sixth in the BSB points standings, just one point off fourth.
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“Super weekend. The team has made humongous inroads with the bike. Our rear grip was really phenomenal, probably the best I’ve ever had on the Honda but Snetterton’s got two long straights. The start/finish is uphill and we had a headwind today, while the back straight is massively long and we’re missing straight line speed. I think that in the speed traps we were 8-9 mph down on our competition. I can only do what I’m doing when I’m losing that much in those areas. It’s hard to make it back up elsewhere, so I’m really proud of how I rode, and how the team worked, because we knew where we were going to suffer. On our own we were fine, but in a battle it was obvious where we were lacking and we had to make it up everywhere else. I was able to make back my time in the corner and driving off the corner, so I’m really happy with how that’s gone. We’ve got a test coming up and I’m sure we will see some improvements coming from that, I’m just impatient and I want it last weekend!”
“Super weekend. The team has made humongous inroads with the bike. Our rear grip was really phenomenal, probably the best I’ve ever had on the Honda but Snetterton’s got two long straights. The start/finish is uphill and we had a headwind today, while the back straight is massively long and we’re missing straight line speed. I think that in the speed traps we were 8-9 mph down on our competition. I can only do what I’m doing when I’m losing that much in those areas. It’s hard to make it back up elsewhere, so I’m really proud of how I rode, and how the team worked, because we knew where we were going to suffer. On our own we were fine, but in a battle it was obvious where we were lacking and we had to make it up everywhere else. I was able to make back my time in the corner and driving off the corner, so I’m really happy with how that’s gone. We’ve got a test coming up and I’m sure we will see some improvements coming from that, I’m just impatient and I want it last weekend!”
“I’ve got very little to say at this stage. The team delivered a huge repair job last night and they worked incredibly hard late into the night to get my bike back in shape after the first crash. I had a gameplan to try and make back as much ground as I could, and for that to have come to an early finish is incredibly frustrating. I would like to thank everyone on the team - my crew of course, but all the Honda Racing team who all came together to give me a really fast bike again today.”
“I’ve got very little to say at this stage. The team delivered a huge repair job last night and they worked incredibly hard late into the night to get my bike back in shape after the first crash. I had a gameplan to try and make back as much ground as I could, and for that to have come to an early finish is incredibly frustrating. I would like to thank everyone on the team - my crew of course, but all the Honda Racing team who all came together to give me a really fast bike again today.”