BSB News

John McGuinness and his AIM British Superbike team have flown over to America to take part in the first round of the AMA Superbike championship at Daytona Raceway in Florida.

By Louise Cain Bouncing back from big bike smashes is, unfortunately, part and parcel of being a bike racer. They've all been there, done that and got the scars. But every once in a while there is a crash that makes us all think - 'he was lucky to get away with that'.

Crash.net can exclusively reveal that ex-factory Suzuki rider Gregorio Lavilla will replace British Superbike champion John Reynolds for the Rizla Suzuki team at the second official test at Brands Hatch on Tuesday March 15th.

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The Vivaldi Racing British Superbike team have recently returned from a further spell of winter testing in Spain where the team concentrated on further set-up of their Kawasaki machinery and tyre testing.

The factory supported Coventry Ducati Supersport team conducted its second test of the year at Knockhill in Scotland recently.

Hawk Kawasaki fans will be pleased to hear Yorkshire based TV programme providers Two Twenty Films will be following the team for the 2005 season offering a unique insight into the team.

The Ekerold Honda British Supersport team have recently announced their full team line-up for the coming 2005 season.

Team Nvidia had their first shake-down test of the season yesterday, with the only woman in the British championship line-up Lisa Thorn at the controls of her new Yamaha TZ125 at a very cold Mallory Park.

In its 50th anniversary year, Yamaha has made it no secret they want to win every major motorcycle championship of the world in 2005, and they have a very cunning plan that may enable them to do this.

Rizla Suzuki's British Superbike Champion John Reynolds broke his right leg during his first day at the teams first test this year at the Valencia circuit in Spain.

Rizla Suzuki recently confirmed to Crash.net that its British Superbike racing machines will continue to be sky blue for 2005, despite strong rumours suggesting otherwise.

Top British motorcycle racer Phil Giles is putting himself up for sale on e-bay in a unique move to fund his 2005 British Superbike campaign and raise money for development charity Riders for Health.

The Sendo Superbikes Team has officially launched its 2005 BSB campaign, which will see the team field Steve Plater and Jon Kirkham on Kawasaki ZX-10s run by Dienza Performance Racing.

National Superstock Cup champion Peter Hickman recently attended the ACU awards ceremony where he was presented with the ACU Academy Road Racer of the Year trophy after heading a shortlist if young talent which included MRO GP125 champion Chris Jones and Aprilia Superteen champion Kev Coglan.

The full 2005 British Supersport championship entry list has now been announced. It shows that MSS Kawasaki have two grid slots, but have only announced one rider so far.

Paul Bird Motorsport has officially announced that, as reported earlier on Crash.net , Ulsterman Jeremy McWilliams will ride for the Stobart Honda team in the 2005 British Superbike Championship.

It has been announced that Steve Plater and John Kirkham will join the Sendo team aboard Kawasaki ZX-10s in the forthcoming British Superbike Championship.

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Britain's top teenage motorcycle racers Kev Coghlan and Danny Webb will ride for UK1 Racing in this year's 125cc British Championship as the team chases a second successive title.

Shell Advance recently announced its intention to sponsor British team Rizla Suzuki, heralding the brands first venture to sponsor a Superbike team in the British chamionship.

Suzuki is staging a series of four specialist Yoshimura GSX-R Seminars this month, the first of which kicked off at Crescent Racing in the UK Monday (today).

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.