The change from BMW to Ducati for MGM Bonovo and Scott Redding has instantly resulted in podium rivalry after the British rider scored a top-five end in WorldSBK Race 1 on the 2025 season opener in Australia.
Redding scored 38 podiums in his two years on the Aruba.it Racing Ducati group again in 2020 and 2021, however solely two in his three years at BMW between 2022–2024.
The British rider’s return to the Panigale V4 R lastly rolled onto a beginning grid in Australia for Race 1 on the opening spherical of the 2025 World Superbike season, and instantly noticed Redding again in podium rivalry, the #45 battling in opposition to Alvaro Bautista, Andrea Iannone, and Danilo Petrucci for a lot of the race over third.
In the long run, it was fifth for Redding, who barely rode on Friday because of technical issues, which marked his greatest consequence since he was fourth within the Superpole Race ultimately 12 months’s French Spherical.
“That was enjoyable, that was actually thrilling,” Redding advised WorldSBK.com after Race 1 in Australia.
“It was simply so good to be again, preventing on the entrance. At one level I felt like I used to be main the race as a result of Nicolo [Bulega] was thus far forward!
“However to be battling for a podium in my first race again with Ducati [has] been superb, the group has been phenomenal.
“We had a tough day yesterday, I did 5 laps all day, [so] a variety of stress in qualifying right now to get it proper, and within the race I needed to essentially do my greatest and present my potential. I may really feel the rostrum – I needed it, however I didn’t fairly have sufficient right now.”
At one level within the race, Redding misplaced a chunk of his bike that was picked up by the trackside TV cameras. The British rider defined that it was a chunk from the again of his seat that he makes use of to cease him falling too far again within the seat.
“I’ve like a seat bumper on the again of the seat and I felt it come free, after which it was gone,” he stated.
“So, in the previous few laps it disturbed me slightly bit on using place as a result of usually I chill out in opposition to that and I wasn’t in a position to.
“So, I felt actually far again on the bike and I used to be utilizing my arms much more. It was okay, it didn’t have an effect on me or the consequence.”
