British Superbikes team announce wildcard entry to WSBK finale | World Superbikes | Crash The British Superbike Championship's OMG Racing UK Team will enter the season-finale World Superbikes round at Jerez as wildcards. Kyle Ryde and Ryan Vickers will be on track at the Circuito de Jerez – Angel Nieto for the last round of 2024. They will race on WorldSBK-spec Yamaha R1 machines. Ryde and Vickers will benefit from the Magneti Marelli electronics used by Yamaha, and will be closely overseen by Yamaha Motor Europe Motorsport Racing & Development for their appearance.
That’ll be a disaster, neither, IMO, are at WSBK standard, neither have experience of WSBK electronics and I don’t think either have experience of the track at Jerez. Totally the wrong message to make either of them think they might have a future in WSBK in the immediate future. I’m a grumpy old git this morning Andy
A quick nod to the records tells me that Kyle Ryde rode world supersport at Jerez in 2016 but had been sacked in 2017 by the time it came around again.
Kyle Ryde I understand but Vickers is simply going to destroy an even more expensive bike. Yamaha aren’t competitive either, so top 15 would be like a win
More likely to be circulating with Tarran Mackenzie, Bradley Rae and heaven forbid, Adam Norrodin. Andy
