Ryan Dixon has just one race weekend left before he brings down the curtain on his fulltime racing career, he finished as runner-up in the No Limits Racing series in 2025.

He just has the Lord of Lydden race weekend to come, but ahead of that he has been reflecting on his 2025 season, which was successful all in all.

“So, as the dust settles and I come to accept my three second place finishes at Donington we’re not enough to secure the championship, I thought I’d do a bit of a summary of what went down in 2025.

“No Limits Racing NLR 2025 super series 1000 championship, the main title I was aiming to claim overall was a positive season. On the pace everywhere, challenging some British championship riders who entered as wildcards at selected meetings and beating my personal best lap times at 5 of 7 circuits we visited, some by quite a margin, I firmly believe I have been/am riding as well as I ever have. Also showing that the Yamaha, which is not the preferred bike of choice in the 1000 class currently, can still be competitive against some of the other models on track. Here are some statistics from the season.

22 races, seven wins, seven second places, four third places, three DNF, which was one crash and two technical issues.

“Overall, I had more race wins than anybody else as well as more podium finishes overall. The two technical DNF’s (a broken chain and then a DNS with fried ECU) probably cost me a real shot at the title and also put more pressure on towards the end of the season as I had to try and claw points back wherever I could. But there’s plenty of ifs, buts and maybes in racing and that’s the way it goes sometimes.

“It’s disappointing to have to accept 2nd (known tongue in cheek, as the first loser by us for those that were worrying, I was calling myself a loser in my previous post) but Max Lofthouse rode fast and consistently all season and is a deserving winner (even if it is hard to admit). I do however take some comfort in the fact that I could take the challenge to him and others at pretty much all meetings and was able to run a pace that would be competitive for points scoring positions at most British championship events and that I couldn’t really have done any more.

Then we have the roads meetings with Trickbits Racing…

Olivers Mount for the first time at the cock o’the north meeting then followed up with the Gold cup. Very mixed weather across both meetings but happy enough to secure some podium finishes in both Supersport and supertwin classes and really enjoyed racing there. Ended up with the following overall positions despite only competing in two of the three meetings of the year…

King of the Mount (feature races) – 7th

Supersport class – 9th

Supertwin class – 3rd

And then we have Aberdare Park Road Races which we won’t talk about too much as Paul still gets a little emotional about it but I won all Saturday races and was on for some overall wins until some brake issues in Sunday’s finals caused me some problems and dropped me out of contention.

Thank you as always to my long-suffering partner Laura (and now my little lad Max of course!), family, friends, sponsors and supporters for making this possible and helping me chase the dream over the years, I can’t express how appreciative I am of your support over the years!”

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