Yamaha put on impressive showing in Navarra as the 🌱opening round of the British Superbikes season got under way.

There are only three Yamaha bikes🌄 on the grid this season, but they find themselves in the desirable position of a front row lockout after Saturday’s superpole action.

Danny Kent claimed pole, but he was pushed all the way by the OMG Grilla pair of K👍yle Ryde and Ryan Vickers.

Vickers came closest, finishing just 0.039s behind the McAMS bike and frusඣtratingly he was faster in practice, but was still not satisfied with that lap, feeling there was more timไe to come:

“If you actually try for a lap, then you normally end up going slower and when I was commentating on thꦫat lap I did this morning - it was quick e꧙nough to put me quickest - but you know it wasn’t actually a great lap when you actually analysed it”. 

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The 🌟#7 went into greater detail on where time is won and lost at🧜 the Spanish track:

"Missing the apex by a foot on one of those tight, hairpin, first gear corners is probably four feet on t𒆙he exit and it just changes the point where you can get on the gas𒆙 - so it’s easy to lose time by making a small mistake".

Vickers instead chose to concentrate on running a solid lap after three of their rivals failed to get around their flying lap, notably a crash for Leon Haslam and the red flag incident involving 𒆙Tommy Bridewell - instead concentrating on “not doing anything stupid, not braking any later, not trying to set the world on fire" concluding "and that’s what I did, I just hit my marks, it wa൲s a pretty clean lap”.

Teammate Kyle Ryde had arrived as a strong favourite after his pre seaso🔯n form had s🦄een him finish both the Donington and Navarra tests on top of the timesheets.

Ryde, already not a massive fan of the Superpole format, saw his nerves go through the roof after the red flag🅘 for Tommy Bridewell’s mechanical:

“The appro𓆏ach was all going sweet, the heart rate was down, I felt like I was chilled out and ready 🧔to do a good job. I mean, it’s not a bad job anyway in third, but I felt like I could do a little bit better - but the red flag came out!”

The #77 ride༺r continued : “ suddenly my heart r꧑ate went from about 120 to 160 - without even getting on my bike!”

“It’d have been nice not to have the red flag, but apart from that I’m v✨ery pleased with 🔯third, the job today was to get on the front row".

Mission achieved, Ryde took the time to give c✅redit to Danny Kent, the pole man headed out on track directly after Bridewell and would have been first to find any oil re♎sidue:

"Fair play to Danny, he was the first one out an🐷d obviouslyඣ the first sector of the track is very fast as most people know…I’m sure Danny’s team said the same, obviously if it was not safe they’d have pulled in".

All three Yamaha riders will aim to make th▨e most of their front row starts with two races scheduled in Navarra to get the BSB season started.