BSB News

Jonathan Rea completed his debut season in the Bennetts British Superbike championship with a double top ten finish. It was a positive end to the 2005 series for the Red Bull Honda competitor who has made significant process throughout the course of the season.

Ninteen-year-old Leon Camier was crowned the British Supersport champion at the weekend at the final round of the series at Brands Hatch Circuit in Camier's home county of Kent.

Karl Harris has been signed to partner 2005 Bennetts British Superbike Championship runner-up Ryuichi Kiyonari at the factory backed HM Plant Honda team next season.

The joy of announcing a deal with the HM Plant Honda team for 2006 days earlier was followed by disappointment for John McGuinness as he was forced to retire from both races of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship finale at Brands Hatch.

Karl Harris's hopes for a positive end to the season were cruelly dashed at the final round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch.

Lee Jackson is toasting his success after being crowned Metzeler Racetec National Superstock Champion after a hard-fought title showdown at Brands Hatch.

Marty Nutt had mixed results at the final round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch on board his Mark Johns Motors/Nuttravel.com Honda, winning the first BSB Privateer's Cup race before a major mechanical failure put him out of race two.

It was a stunning end to a fantastic season for the Northpoint Honda Racing team with riders Craig Jones and Cal Crutchlow finishing second and third respectively in the final round of the British Supersport Championship at Brands Hatch at the weekend.

Les Shand ended his hard fought British Superstock Championship season with an uncharacteristic but spectacular crash at Brands Hatch at the weekend, bringing his race to a premature and painful end.

James Buckingham, standing in for the injured John Reynolds at the Rizla Suzuki squad in the British Superbikes at the season finale, crashed out of the opening race and finished an impressive 14th after starting from 22nd on the grid in the second race.

The Stobart Honda Team rounded off a difficult season by packing out the points at the final round of the Bennetts British Superbike championship at a bright and sunny Brands Hatch.

With Rizla Suzuki's John Reynolds crashed out of the 13th and final round of the British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch GP circuit Suzuki's Privateer Cup Champion James Buckingham will step into the breach for this weekend.

Outgoing Bennetts British Superbike champion John Reynolds has ended his 2005 race season with a crash in practice at Brands Hatch putting the British motorcycle race star into hospital with broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken left collar bone.

Krystal Racing's Lee Jackson heads to Brands Hatch this weekend with just one thing on his mind - clinching the Metzeler Racetec National Superstock championship.

John McGuinness has today confirmed that he has signed a one-year deal with the factory HM Plant Honda squad to spearhead the Japanese manufacturer's assault at the Isle of Man TT, North West 200 and Ulster GP.

Rizla Suzuki racers John Reynolds and James Haydon are aiming for a strong finish to the 2005 season when they race at the 13th and final round of the British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch this weekend.

Vivaldi Racing Superbike team manager Richard Wilson can't believe just how quickly the first season in the British Superbikes has gone and he's eager for his riders, Scott Smart, Tristan Palmer and Ben Wilson to end the season on a high at Brands Hatch.

Former grand prix racer Jeremy McWilliams will return to BSB action, aboard a Stobart Honda, for this weekend's Brand Hatch season finale.

For the second meeting in succession, John McGuinness was in the wars as a fall during qualifying meant he was unable to participate in the penultimate round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Donington Park.

After a season that has been far from his satisfaction, British Superbike team boss Paul Bird has revealed that his has changes in store for the season finale at Brands Hatch, including a new third rider for the Stobart Honda Superbike squad.

Hawk Kawasaki team manager Stuart Hicken has admitted that the team could make the move to World Superbikes providing they can pull in the sponsorship.

AIM Yamaha's Les Shand had a high-speed excursion across the grass at Craner Curves which cost him a second successive race victory in the British Superstock Championship whilst competing in the twelfth round at Donington Park.

Donington Park is John Reynolds' home circuit and the Rizla Suzuki ace is hoping to improve on his recent run of podium results when he races there this weekend at the twelfth and penultimate round of the British Superbike championship this weekend.

Pete Ward, known as 'Pesky' to all and sundry still leads the National Superstock Cup Championship despite finishing out of the points at Oulton Park, and he's looking forward to this weekend's action at Donington Park - especially if the rain holds off...