BSB News

After contesting the Bennetts British Superbike championship last season, Team nVidia have opted to return to the Superstock championship for the season ahead.

Dean Ellison has penned a new deal with the Slingshot SMT Racing team to ride a 2006 Honda CBR1000RR in this year's Bennetts British Superbike Championship.

The Dienza Performance British Superbike Team has signed Steve Plater to compete for top honours in the 2006 Bennetts British Superbike Championship.

The Vivaldi Racing Superbike team endured mixed fortunes on the first two days of their winter testing schedule at Cartagena in south-east Spain ahead of the 2006 Bennetts British Superbike season.

Vivaldi Racing has completed a chilly shakedown test of their new Suzuki GSXR1000 and GSXR600 K6 machines - with which they will contest the 2006 Bennetts British Superbike and Supersport championships - at the Croft circuit, in Yorkshire.

In association with Front magazine and Gridmodels.com model agency, leading British Supersport rider Jamie Robinson and the BykerBabe Racing Team are offering a fantastic opportunity for aspiring models.

Virgin Mobile's investment in young racing talent - through the Virgin Mobile Cup - has paid off for 2006, with all three Virgin Mobile Yamaha BSB riders having passed through the series.

It has been difficult twelve months for Jon Kirkham, after having to cope with an injury to his finger that required surgery and the loss of his place at the Sendo Kawasaki team with which he spent the first half of 2005 of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship.

The full British Superbikes package of six races will be shown on Sky Sports from all thirteen race meetings this season it has been announced.

Bennetts British Superbike Championship fans get good news in 2006 with the announcement that the highly popular two wheel race series will be televised live on British terrestrial channel, ITV1 , for all thirteen rounds.

His 2005 Bennetts' British Superbike championship season may have been very far from what defending champion John Reynolds would have wanted, but the three time BSB champ has told Crash.net he has no regrets of the year which brought about his retirement from top level motorcycle racing.

The final calendar for next year's Bennett's British Superbike Championship has released with some minor tinkering to the dates released on the provisional calendar.

Isle of Man TT ace John McGuinness is used to 'flying' on two-wheels, but nothing could prepare the Brit - who also rode for AIM Yamaha and then Vitrans Honda in the 2005 BSB championship, before rounding off his racing season with second in the recent Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix - for flying hig

2005 British Superstock race winner Les Shand has signed to ride for Uel Duncan Racing for the 2006 road racing and British Superstock seasons.

A number of British Superbike Championship riders are planning to take on the UK's best Supermoto riders after signing up to compete in the final round of the Vivaldi British Supermoto Championship, at the Three Sisters Circuit in Wigan, on the 4th of December.

Over ?30,000 raised at a benefit auction held last Sunday night will be held in trust for 11-year-old Yasmin Scott, the daughter of motorcycle racer and journalist Ian 'Gus' Scott who lost his life at this year's Isle of Man TT.

BSB race winner Scott Smart has re-signed with the Vivaldi Racing Team for the 2006 British Superbike Championship, where he will ride alongside Ben Wilson and Ollie Bridewell, plus the team's Supersport rider Tommy Bridewell.

A host of bike racing legends both past and present will be attending Club Amadeus in Northallerton, UK, this Sunday (27th November) as part of the Gus Scott Tribute Auction.

Metzeler Racetec will continue to be both the title sponsor and official tyre of the British National Superstock Championship and National Superstock Cup during the 2006 season.

2005 British Superstock race winner Les Shand completed his racing season on a high by joining Michael Rutter and John McGuinness on Saturday's Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix podium.

Attention all avid race fans, collectors and motorcyclists! The biggest sale of motorcycling memorabilia outside the Day of Champions is up for grabs in just over a week's time. And like the Day of Champions, this star-studded auction also has a charitable cause.

Shane Byrne will make a return to the British Superbike championship for 2006, the 2003 champion joining 2004 champions Rizla Suzuki. The move marks the end of Byrne's MotoGP foray that has lasted the past two seasons, without significant result.

The provisional calendar for next year's British Superbike Championship has been released, featuring all the usual suspects in terms of race circuits visited this season. Bank Holiday Monday meetings at Oulton Park and Cadwell Park are included.

Rizla Suzuki triple British Superbike Champion John Reynolds has been has been talking about his recovery to health following his season-ending accident at Brands Hatch, saying he's looking forward to being the 'sport's newest fan' for the 2006 season.