BSB Features

Tyres play a huge role in motorcycle racing, the wrong choice can be a disaster for the rider - Michael Rutter at Cadwell Park last year anybody? Rutter ran full wets and then the track dried out, so it was game over for him.

It's fair to say that it's been an interesting start to the Bennetts British Superbike Championship for James Haydon. Crash.net caught up with James after the announcement was made on his signing for the Rizla Suzuki squad for the rest of the year.

Crash.net managed to collar one very busy man at the recent Croft round of the Bennetts British Superbike championship and that Rizla Suzuki's Mark Hanna, chassis technician to John Reynolds.

Simon Green, Rizla Suzuki's Team Coordinator, recently held a technical lecture for the students of Kingston University's Motorcycle Engineering Design course, covering all behind-the-scene aspects of top level Superbike racing.

During the 2004 season Crash.net took a trip down to Verwood in Dorset to Crescent Suzuki, the home of the Rizla British Superbike racing team.

Next season could see the biggest entry of British Superbike contenders with eleven teams possibly taking to the track.

Crash.net's Adam Arnold tested British Superbike Championship's Nvidia 125 at Donington Park earlier this year, and it changed his life (a little)... I'm sure we've all done it at some point, giggling to ourselves at the 'tidders' screaming round the circuit.

ValMoto Triumph won the last round of British Supersport Sunday at Donington Park following the release of their intention to stop racing after this season the previous week.

This season sees the biggest attack of the British Superbike championship by the four Japanese manufacturers ever. All four manufacturers have chosen to go a different way to the V-Twin of Ducati by using an inline four-cylinder engine.

The British Superbike Championship takes on elite status next year with the organisers introducing new regulations amid major initiatives to ensure its continued growth and popularity - with the added incentive of the overall winner being the only domestic racer to be crowned as the "British Cham

The British Superbike Championship is to become even more affordable and more competitive for the 2002 season.

The Daily Star has been appointed as the official newspaper of the 2001 British Superbike Championship, which begins at Donington Park this Sunday, 1 April.