BSB News

Honda Racing's Steve Plater had an unlucky start to his first British Superbike race aboard the VTR1000 SP-2. Having qualified on the second row at Silverstone's International Circuit, the 30-year-old Lincolnshire rider was taken off on the first lap when three riders had a collision.

Complete British Superbike championship standings following round 1 of 12 [races 2 of 24] today [Sunday] at Silverstone. BSB Riders championship (after round 1 of 12):

Team Renegade Ducati's Leon Haslam stormed to a front row grid position during today's final qualifying session at Silverstone, despite not having even sat on his Ducati 748 Supersport machine before free practice for this weekend's opening round got underway on Friday morning.

Barry Sheene will be paid another compliment by the premier British motorcycle championships when the organisers of the national Superbike series and its supporting classes 'retire' his number seven from active service.

With just a week to go before the 2003 British Superbike Championship gets underway, Team Renegade Ducati's Michael Rutter blitzed the opposition during the final pre-season test at Donington Park, shaving almost half a second off the existing lap record on his way to posting the fastest time of

Members of the ACU Academy's road race stars got their season off to a brilliant start at the first major race meeting of the season last weekend at Snetterton, host of the first Motorcycle Racing Organisation (MRO) meeting of 2003.

The D&B Ducati team will start their third British Superbike season at Silverstone this weekend with Dean Ellison retained as sole rider.

2002 Aprilia Superteen Champion Jonathan 'Jon Boy' Lee used the ACU's first Junior Practice day of the year at Cadwell Park to try out his new bike and team.

Team Renegade Ducati got their 2003 British Championship campaign off to a spectacular start - in more ways than one - during the official launch of the team in Manchester yesterday.

Jamiroqui front man Jay Kay and film actress/model Lisa Barbuscia have joined Rizla Suzuki's British Superbike team for 2003.

Actress/model Lisa Barbuscia has spoken of her delight at being a part of the Rizla Suzuki British Superbike team for 2003.

Racing fans turned out in their hundreds last night to pay tribute to North Yorkshire racer Simon 'Ronnie' Smith, with a charity auction held in his memory raising over ?15,000.

The first of the ACU junior training days took place last Friday at Cadwell Park, with nearly 50 young riders helped by a host of top-level coaches including Leon Haslam [pictured], Garry Dickinson, Chris Pearson, Jeff Tansley, John Pearson and Chris Sammons.

The final touches are being added to tonight [Tuesday]'s Ronnie Smith Charity Evening, with the list of lots to be auctioned and raffled as a result of the various pledges taking on an interesting appeal.

British Superbike team, T.D.B. Recruit.com recently returned from Valencia, Spain where they completed their three-day test program and riders Paul Young and Jon Kirkham were delighted with the results they achieved aboard their Colin Appleyard run Yamaha R1s.

Triumph, Britain's only remaining major motorcycle manufacturer, has announced its return to competition after an absence of 30 years.

John Crockford and Adrian Coates have been confirmed as riders for the Padgett's Motorcycles team in the BSB-supporting 2003 British Supersport Championship.

Colin Appleyard Racing has announced that the on-line recruitment and selection agency T.D.B recruit.com will be the title sponsor of their 2003 British Superbike Team.

The UCL Honda team has been reborn for the 2003 season as Red Piranha Racing, and announced a return to the British Supersport Championship, with Simon Andrews [pictured last year], as an Official Yamaha UK team.

Team Rizla Suzuki finished its three-day test session at Almeria in Spain yesterday with riders John Reynolds and Yukio Kagayama giving the new GSX-R1000 the thumbs up.

Five young hopefuls have been identified as the latest batch of Red Bull Rookies to hold the future of British motorcycle road racing, following exhaustive trials throughout December.

Although no secret that they were to keep Rizla backing for 2003, Suzuki have waited for fans to decide the race colour of John Reynolds and Yukio Kagayama's GSX-R1000 machines.

2003 will be a hectic year for MonsterMob Ducati team owner Paul Bird with the news that as well as his existing BSB commitments, he will be contesting a full national rally programme throughout the season.

Team Renegade Ducati has ended weeks of speculation by confirming that Red Bull is to join forces with the team as title sponsor for the 2003 British Superbike Championship.