Ducati maintained its perfect start to the 2026 British Superbike Championship season after Scott Redding and Kyle Ryde shared the spoils across Round 2’s trio of races at Donington Park.
Redding secured his first victory of the season in a truncated opening race that was red flagged on the final lap as rain descended on the Leicestershire circuit.
The ex-MotoGP rider had only just overtaken fellow Ducati Panigale V4 R contender Ryde on the penultimate lap after the 2024 and 2025 BSB Champion ran wide at the Melbourne Hairpin on an increasingly slickened circuit.
It would prove the final act of the race once the red flag was deployed with Redding deemed the winner having been in the lead upon starting the last revolution. Ryde’s leery moment, meanwhile, left him third in the final classification.
Despite the disappointing end to his opening race, Ryde promptly got his head down for the remainder of the weekend to reel off a pair of comfortable victories by more than two seconds on each occasion.
Redding was the rider on the other side of that winning margin, the Hager PBM rider completing a lucrative weekend with a trio of podium results.
It means Ryde – who is targeting a third consecutive BSB title in 2026 - has now won five of the opening six races on the Nitrous Competitions Racing Ducati.
His and Redding’s success is duly reflected in the championship table with the Mansfield rider now clear at the top by 19 points from Redding in second.
Leon Haslam on the Moto Rapido Ducati, meanwhile, maintained his solid start to the season to hold down third overall, while Glenn Irwin (Hager PBM) and Storm Stacey (Bathams AJN) enjoyed peaks of sixth and eighth respectively over the course of the event to hold down ninth and seventh in the standings.
Round 3 of the 2026 BSB Championship takes place north of the border at Knockhill on 19-21 July 2026.
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