After 15-years, Andrew Pitt has officially retired from racing. The two-time World Supersport champion announced today that he’ll be hanging up his helmet. Pitt started his career road racing in Australia before joining the Autralia Supersport championship series. Pitt claimed the title in the Australian Supersport Championship series before moving on to the World Championship [...]
Swan Yamaha has to feel pretty confident about their chances in the British Superbike Championship in 2012. Defending champion Tommy Hill will be racing for the Swan Yamaha outfit, as well as TT record-breaker Ian Hutchinson. “At the end of last season after winning the title I was speaking to different teams and looking at [...]
Alastair Seeley will be moving back to the British Superbike series after proving his talent at the British Supersport level in 2011. Seeley will ride with the Tyco Suzuki team alongside Josh Brookes in 2012. Seeley has won both the British Supersport title and the National Superstock 1000 title. Now the Irish rider has his [...]
Martin Jessop will be competing in the 2012 World Supersport series this year with the PRT Honda team. Jessop, a proven British Superbike rider, will bring motorcycle retail chain Riders with him as he joins the WSS. Jessop has raced in both the British Superbike and British Supersport series and is now ready to move [...]
The 2012 British Superbike season is only 136 days away. (They have a countdown clock on their site.) The BSB has just released the 2012 calendar, which will take the British Superbike Riders around Britain for 26 races during 12 rounds. 32 riders will be filling out 16 teams from 6 different manufacturers during the [...]
Michael Laverty and Jon Kirkham will be racing for the HM Plant Honda team during the 2012 British Superbike season. Laverty, who was a title fighter during the showdown last year, took three winds and five podiums in 2011. Laverty will be racing the Honda Fireblade and hopes to fight for the title again in [...]
John Hopkins will be riding in the World Superbike series in 2012 for the Crescent Suzuki team. Hopkins and the Crescent Suzuki team nearly claimed the British Superbike Championship in 2011 and they are excited to compete on the world stage. “I am really happy to be joining up with the Crescent guys again, we [...]
Tommy Hill is back in business. The Swan Yamaha rider signalled his return to fitness with a sensational winning double at Knockhill to put his MCE Insurance British Superbike title bid firmly back on track. It was major triumph for Hill who had powered to his second pole start of the season in the difficult wet [...]
Shortly after making her historic debut in the British Superbike series, Jenny Tinmouth has split from the Splitlath Motorsport team. Tinmouth, who was the first woman to compete in the British Superbike series, has had trouble finding competitive settings on her bike this year. Tinmouth failed to qualify during the opening rounds of the BSB [...]
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