BSB News

This weekend sees the Cresent Suzuki squad open its doors for 'the best celebration of motorcycling ever held at the Crescent Performance Centre' as the Cresent Suzuki Open Weekend takes place at the team's base in Verwood, near Bournemouth in Dorset.

American Superbike rider Ben Bostrom achieves a career dream later this month when he rides in the British Superbike championship at Silverstone.

As reported by Crash.net after the recent Cadwell Park British Superbike test, John McGuinness has taken up residence with the Vitrans team, replacing John Laverty.

John McGuinness is to test the Vitrans Honda at Tuesday's official British Superbike test day at Silverstone, with a view to riding for the team for the remainder of the year.

Tommy Hill more than achieved his objective this weekend at Castle Combe - he wanted a race win and he walked away with two.

Jonathan Rea has stolen Castle Combe pole position from provisional pole sitter Tommy Hill in this afternoon's second qualifying session at the Wiltshire circuit.

The Castle Combe Superbike Grand National is the ideal opportunity for young riders to prove their worth: It isn't a championship round, so they are under no pressure to pick up points, and with a lot of the more experienced riders not taking part, it leaves the field open to the new talent.

Honda Racing has announced its final line-up for the 2005 Superbike Grand National at Castle Combe this weekend.

John Laverty has revealed exclusively to Crash.net that he no longer has a ride with the Vitrans Racing team for the rest of the Bennetts British Superbike season. Speaking at the Cadwell BSB test, the young Irish rider was very down - having only just heard the news himself.

As the World Superbike paddock prepares to descend on the UK for the eighth round of the Alstare Corona Extra World Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch, the Nvidia British Superbike team are getting ready for their world debut.

British Superbike privateer championship leader James Buckingham will race for Rizla Suzuki at the Grand National at Castle Combe Circuit in Wiltshire this weekend alongside James Haydon.

John McGuinness will line up at the Ulster Grand Prix next month in the colours of the Paul Bird-run Stobart Honda team and the Morecambe man has one thing on his mind and one thing only - winning.

Paul Veazey rode his Astro Racing Kawasaki ZX-10R immaculately all weekend, culminating in a 'gentleman's set' as he took pole position, a fine race win and posted the fastest lap of the race in round six of the Metzeler Racetec National Superstock Cup Championship at the ultra-fast Snetterton ci

Peter Ward continues to top the National Superstock Cup Championship table after a hard-fought third place at Snetterton last weekend.

The Rizla Suzuki team are looking to the future of racing and helping develop new talent in the form of William Dunlop, nephew of the late Joey Dunlop.

Ryuichi Kiyonari and Gregorio Lavilla may have taken the victories at Snetterton on Sunday - but the real hero was Michael Rutter, who defied a broken collarbone to race on and increase his lead in the BSB title stakes.

Former Sendo Kawasaki rider Steve Plater has moved to the Hydrex Honda team for the remainder of the 2005 British Superbike season.

TAS Suzuki's Tom Sykes was the fastest Supersport rider in this morning's free practice session at Snetterton in Norfolk.

This weekend sees the Bennetts British Superbike championship take to Snetterton for the eighth round of the championship and for the Virgin Mobile Samsung squad there's plenty of work to do for a team shorn of their No.1 rider, Sean Emmett.

Ex-GP racer Chris Burns will make a return to the British Superbike championship after signing a deal with AIM Yamaha and will compete with them for the rest of the 2005 season.

John McGuinness endured a tough weekend at Knockhill, the AIM Racing Yamaha rider failing to start race one and then returning after five laps into race two.

Rizla Suzuki's James Haydon set the fastest unofficial lap time in Tuesday's Dunlop arranged Croft Circuit test as he found extra performance from his GSX-R1000.

Ryuichi Kiyonari secured his third double victory of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship season at Knockhill to move second in the championship standings behind HM Plant Honda team-mate Michael Rutter.

It's been a while but John Reynolds secured his first front row start of the season after qualifying fourth for the latest round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Knockhill.