Cadwell Park - BSB 2025 Round 7
The Track
Circuit length: 2.18M / 3.508KM
Corners: 18
Lefthand: 8
Righthand: 10
BSB Lap Record : Bradley Ray - Yamaha 1:25.858 (2022) 91.40mph
Honda Racing on the rise at Cadwell Park
Sunday 24th August 2025
Honda Racing UK has made an extremely confident start to its home round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) and Quattro British Supersport Championship at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire, just five miles from the team’s base in Louth.
From the brief evening test session on Friday, both Tommy Bridewell and Andrew Irwin have been much closer to the ultimate pace in BSB. Both of the Honda riders then came through the Free Practice sessions fast enough to avoid the first knock-out Qualifying session and go straight into the pole position Shootout.
This was to the team’s advantage after both of the Honda Fireblades suffered damage in the final 10-minute practice before qualifying began. A big effort by the team ensured that both of the bikes were back together and ready for their flying laps, with Bridewell qualifying third and Irwin 11th.
The first race of the weekend followed swiftly afterwards, with Bridewell getting up to second place and looking ready to reel in the leader until he crashed out of the race. Irwin, meanwhile, got a lightning start and was soon up to sixth place, which became fourth with attrition, and then with two laps to go he made a decisive pass to take his first podium finish of the 2025 BSB campaign.
In the Supersport class, defending champion Jack Kennedy ended Friday’s first Free Practice session at the top of the timesheets, then set the second fastest lap in the second session before qualifying in third place. His team-mate Dean Harrison, fresh from running at the Classic TT earlier in the week, claimed sixth place on the grid, lining up immediately behind Kennedy.
After dropping back to fifth on the first lap of the race, Kennedy battled through into third place and was chasing down the leaders when he overshot and briefly dropped to 12th place. A tremendous fightback ride ensued, seeing the five-time Supersport champion use all his experience to finish in an eventual eighth place, two spots behind Harrison.
Kennedy also set a new lap record in the race, clocking 1m 28.267s for the 2.2-mile (3.54 km) Full Circuit.
Honda Racing takes victory amid Cadwell Park podium bonanza
Monday 25th August 2025
The seventh round of the 2025 Bennetts British Superbike Championship and Quattro British Supersport Championship at Cadwell Park delivered the first BSB victory of 2025 for Honda Racing amid a deluge of trophies at the team’s home track.
Despite falling in Sunday’s opening BSB race, Tommy Bridewell earned a second place starting position for Race 2 with team-mate Andrew Irwin lining up in fourth position.
A clean getaway saw the two Honda Fireblades riding in line astern in second and third places, with Irwin holding the early advantage, before Bridewell made his way past. Soon afterwards, the championship leader, Bradley Ray, crashed out of the race lead, promoting the Hondas to first and second.
The two Fireblades ran nose-to-tail throughout the race until the final corner, when Irwin was passed by defending BSB champion Kyle Ryde. Out in front, Bridewell deservedly scored his first win of the season after months of hard work for himself and the team, while Irwin’s third place completed the team’s first double podium finish since Brands Hatch in July 2024.
The final BSB encounter of the weekend began with Irwin, holder of the fastest lap in Race 2, starting from pole position, with Bridewell also on the front row in third place. A lightning start carried Irwin to the early lead, but by the end of the lap the two Hondas were running second and third, with Irwin to the fore.
As the race progressed, Irwin and race leader, defending BSB champion Kyle Ryde, pulled away in a private battle while Bridewell circulated in a lonely third place, well clear of the rest of the field. Irwin dodged and feinted but could not find a way past, settling instead for second place, with Bridewell finishing third.
In the Supersport class, defending champion Jack Kennedy claimed pole position, having shattered the lap record for the category in the opening Sprint race. Gear selection issues had pegged him back to eighth at the finish on Sunday, but no such issues afflicted his Honda CBR600RR on Monday.
From the outset, a fast and furious battle between the top five riders saw the order changing on every lap, but in the closing stages Kennedy worked his way through and he finished on the podium in second place. More importantly, the five-time Supersport champion strengthened his position in the title race after leading his nearest rivals home.
It was an equally impressive performance from five-time Isle of Man TT winner Dean Harrison, who started in 11th place. Despite dropping back to 13th in the opening laps, the Yorkshireman dug deep and passed rider after rider to finish in seventh place in a hugely impressive ride.
#1 Jack Kennedy
“We finally got the job done: back on the podium, back in with the front group. It was a dogfight out there, really! I tried my best to try and make some passes but everyone knows it’s really difficult to pass around here. I really had to ride the wheels off the CBR600RR, think outside the box and just try and get one over the bigger bikes. Second place on the Honda around here feels like a win at this track, I’m absolutely delighted. We got some good points over my championship rivals as well. So, massive credit to my team and big thanks to Honda UK. I’m absolutely delighted with that one.”
#1 Tommy Bridewell
“A good weekend, I guess. A tough weekend, but it seems like the bike’s made a step. Andy (Irwin) had a great weekend, so that’s good to see - he’s brimming with confidence so it helps push me. Neither of us wants to get beaten by our team-mate, so it pushes me hard. It’s tough around here at Cadwell but no excuses. My emotions are odd, really. We won today, but I expect to be winning more regularly and I expect it to be more consistent. It’s tough because at the minute I’m happy - I’m super happy! We’ve won a BSB race today, and that’s hard to do at the best of times. I’m happy for Honda, but I’m not sure if we’ve turned the corner yet. Let’s see what else we can do for the rest of the year. We need to keep working, that’s for sure.”
#18 Andrew Irwin
“Some races you’re disappointed not to win but today I’m not. I put 100% in until the end of the weekend, and we’ve got three podium finishes to show for it. It’s been a solid weekend. Honda has done a mega job, I keep ranting and raving about it, and congratulations to Tommy for the win. Five podiums for the team is pretty special. I feel great when I’m riding, I feel like I’m getting back to where I was four or five years ago, and I feel like I could be doing this every weekend. It’s nice to have that feeling again: it’s nice to have that belief.”
#5 Dean Harrison
“All in all, I think it’s been a positive weekend. We’ve had good pace all weekend and it’s not quite the result that we wanted, we really want to be a little bit further forward, but we’re battling in that lead group. We pulled them back in today. It was a shame in the first race that the lap times are so tight for grid position because a tenth of a second covers about six grid positions. I was a little bit disappointed to have started where I did, but the team at Honda has been unreal as usual, and we’ll roll on to Donington. I think that we should come to Cadwell twice a year; it’s an amazing track and I’ve never seen so many people here. It’s a special place and one of the circuits that I really like coming back to.”
Both championships will return to action at Donington Park on September 5-7.
| 1 | Kyle Ryde (OMG Nitrous Competitions Racing Yamaha) | 284pts |
| 2 | Bradley Ray (Raceways Yamaha) | 282pts |
| 3 | Leon Haslam (Moto Rapido Ducati Racing ) | 192pts |
| 4 | Danny Kent (McAMS Racing Yamaha) | 182pts |
| 5 | Rory Skinner (Cheshire Mouldings Ducati) | 180pts |
| 6 | Christian Iddon (AJN Steelstock Kawasaki) | 172pts |
| 7 | Tommy Bridewell (Honda Racing UK) | 166pts |
| 8 | Max Cook (AJN Steelstock Kawasaki) | 146pts |
| 9 | Josh Brookes (DAO Racing Honda) | 130pts |
| 10 | Andrew Irwin (Honda Racing UK) | 129pts |
| 1 | Ben Currie (Moto Rapido Ducati Racing) | 253pts |
| 2 | Rhys Irwin (Gearlink Bike Performance 15) | 244pts |
| 3 | Jack Kennedy (Honda Racing UK) | 208pts |
| 4 | Luke Stapleford (Macadam Triumph Racing) | 204pts |
| 5 | Joe Talbot (Binch Pro Ducati) | 201pts |
| 6 | Eugene Mcmanus (MMB Racing Ducati) | 135pts |
| 7 | Dean Harrison (Honda Racing UK) | 119pts |
| 8 | Lee Johnston (Sencat by Swan Racing Triumph) | 103pts |
| 9 | Zak Corderoy (Dan Cooper Motorsport Honda) | 93pts |
| 10 | TJ Toms (G&S Racing Kawasaki) | 86pts |
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