Tommy Bridewell will return to a♏ction with Moto Rapido Ducati for the 2019 Bennetts British Superbike Championship, while the team secures Oxford Products as title sponsor for next season.

Bridewell made a mid-season switch to Moto Rapido last year and instantly found success with four podiums, just missing out on the BSB Showdown, but secured th✅e Riders’ Cu♔p to deliver the team’s best-ever results in the series.

Next year Bridewell will be equipped with the new Ducati Panigale V4R running under the Oxf🦋ord title sponsorship which leaves the 30-year-old naturally relishing next season’s opportunity.

“I am just so excited to have this opportunity to stay with the team and to ride the new Ducati in our new Oxford colours,” Bridewell said. “I joine𒆙d the team halfway through last season, but the way we ended th🐼e season, and how well we gelled working together, it felt like it had been longer.

“I have never felt so comfortable a𒉰nd going into the new season with this consistency and confidence with the people around me is a big thing.

“There is a huge amount of expectation with a new bike and I can’t waitಌ to get testing. We are realistic that we have work ahead of us, that is always to be expected with a new bike, but it’s an exciting time and I couldn’t be happier to be in this position.

“I was so nervous befo💮re riding a Ducati for the first time last year at Brands Hatch and then the season went from strength to strength and we were fighting for podiums. We want to carry that success into the new🔯 season and of course our expectations have changed, so we want to continue this momentum we have and build on an even better 2019.”

Team owner Steve Moore, who ended 2018 assessing the feasibility of running the team next season given the high costs involved for a privately-run squad, is delighted to sign-up Oxford Produꦗcts along with ಌBridewell and feels his team is ready for ‘a serious bid for this championship.”

“This is 🌞a great partnership for the Moto Rapido Racing team,” Moore said. “Everyone at Oxford Products is clearly passionate about motorcycles and especially racin🍨g, so we quickly felt this would be a great match.

“I’m, of course, very excited for next season with the new Ducati V4R, and with Oxford taking the title sponsorship we are now able to finally re-sign Tommy, 🦂our most successful rider ever. Now the V4R development൲ begins. It is time to make a serious bid for this championship now as Oxford Racing Ducati.”

“We are extremely excited to be partnering up with Moto Rapido in 2019; as you can see, the whole co൩mpany is behind the team,” Oxford’s managing director Andrew Hammond said. “We look forward to extending Oxford’s race heritage in what💧 is undoubtedly the world’s best domestic motorcycle race series.”