BSB News

With the announcement of the provisional entry list for the 2005 British Superbike season, a number of suprises crop up.

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.

Dorna UK and MCRCB Events Ltd have chosen Metzeler Racetec as the official tyre and title sponsor for the 2005 National Superstock Championship and National Superstock Cup.

Stuart Easton has signed to ride a Ducati UK supported 749R in the 2005 British Supersport Championship. The Scot has agreed a deal with his team boss of last year, John Hackett, and new team partner Phil Jessopp, of Ducati Bristol, to ride for the newly formed Supersport team.

Team Nvidia have confirmed to Crash.net that they will enter the 2005 British Superbike championship, with a one rider team.

MonsterMob Ducati's John McGuinness will start tomorrow's 38th Hotel Fortuna Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix from Pole Position having scorched around the twisty Circuito da Guia nearly one and a half seconds faster than team mate Stuart Easton who will start alongside the Lancastrian.

Hawk Kawasaki has exclusively announced to Crash.net that it will operate as a satellite factory team during the 2005 British Superbike season.

Fourteen-year-old Chris Jones from Worcestershire was selected yesterday from among 12 aspiring young riders to join the Red Bull Rookies Honda British 125GP team in 2005.

Paul Denning, who has handed over day-to-day control of his championship winning Crescent Suzuki team to take up the position of team manager at the factory Suzuki MotoGP team, believes his appointment is a massive accolade for the British Superbike series - and warned that, despite his loss, the

Vivaldi Racing was delivered a blow on the opening day of the NEC bike show in the UK when John McGuinness announced that he would not ride for the team. Speculation suggested that it was because he would not be allowed to ride at the TT. However team manager Richard Wilson said:

Former Koji Renegade Ducati World Superbike rider, Leon Haslam, has exclusively confirmed to Crash.net that he will be riding in the British Superbike Championship next season.

MonsterMob Ducati team owner Paul Bird has announced that his highly successful four-year partnership with Ducati Corse will come to an end with the Cumbrian-based team's participation in the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix race on November 20th.

Following Thursday's announcement by Crash.net Honda Racing has confirmed its team line-up for the 2005 British Superbike Championship which includes an increased entry for the world's leading domestic series.

John McGuinness has announced his withdrawal from the Vivaldi British Superbike team at the NEC show.

Honda announced its 2005 British Superbike championship plans today at the NEC International Motorcycle and Scooter show which includes four riders in the BSB series.

After finishing third in the 2004 British Superstock championship with Ben Wilson, Vivaldi Racing have today confirmed that they will graduate to the premier British Superbike class next season.

World Enduro Championship runner-up David Knight set the pace on the exciting opening day of the Moto1 event at Donington Park on Saturday. Consistent Knight finished fourth in the trials segment, won the motocross, finished second in the supermoto and took 13th place in the road race.

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.

Some of the UK's leading motorcycle sports stars are set to do battle as the 24-rider line-up was announced last night for the first ever Moto1 challenge at Donington Park on October 30-31.

Crash.net can exclusively reveal that former Hawk Kawasaki rider Scott Smart has signed a contract with Rizla Suzuki for 2005 following weeks of speculation.

With expectation growing that Troy Bayliss will leave the Ducati Marlboro MotoGP team at the end of this season, despite Ducati insisting that a final decision has yet to be made, some 'insiders' are now linking the Australian with a move back to BSB - with his former GSE team.

The Virgin Mobile Samsung Yamaha British Superbike team have recently confirmed Seam Emmett will be joining 2003 R6 Cup winner Tommy Hill and 2004 R6 Cup winner Richard Wren as their 2005 British Superbike riders.

Red Bull and Honda Racing have confirmed the structure for their ongoing partnership in the 2005 British Superbike Championship series. At the end of the first season of their three-year agreement, the team's overall goal of developing future champions remains on course.

The British Superbike Championship Paddock helped raise nearly ?3000 for charity when two members of the MonsterMob Ducati team competed in the BUPA Great North Run recently.