The Bennetts British Superbike championship is regarded as the strongest domestic championship in the world. It is the place to come to cut your teeth, make a name for yourself and then move onto greater things. This season saw three world class riders battling it out for the title, which shows the level that British racing has reached. So how do our young up and coming riders get the chance to race in this class, where do they need to be to get noticed?
If you attend BSB rounds on a regular basis you will be aware of the support races namely the British Supersport Championship and the Metzeler National Superstock Championship. Both of which had nail biting on track action with Cal Crutchlow, Tom Sykes and Eugene Laverty fighting hard for the win in Supersport. Superstock also had its own key protagonists, Superstock Champion Brendan Roberts, Aaron Zanotti, Luke Quigley, Steve Brogan and John McGuinness regularly mixed it at the front.
Watching from the side lines it is hard for a lay person such as myself to distinguish which is the most talented of the riders and who is likely to move up to Superbike and make a go of it. But in my own thinking I would plump for the Superstock lads purely because they have experience of the bigger machinery, however it seems to be the Supersport class that gets the attention of the BSB teams when looking for new riders.
