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Tom Sykes is confident of returning to World Superbike action without any lasting issues despite suffering an ankle injury just over three weeks ago.

While Jake Dixon is hoping for the uncertainty of the Bennetts British Superbike championship Showdown to return this year he accepts only wins will do to kick-start his title charge against leader Leon Haslam.

Full race two results for the ninth round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) at Silverstone. BSB is using the National circuit following safety concerns on the Grand Prix layout.

Jake Dixon says his only target is claiming the last Podium Points next time out at Silverstone having secured his Bennetts British Superbike Showdown spot with a round to spare at Cadwell Park.

Leon Haslam saw off a fierce last-lap battle against Jake Dixon to secure a key double victory at Cadwell Park as he strengthened his grip on the Bennetts British Superbike championship title.

Full BSB race two results from Cadwell Park

Full warm-up results for the eighth round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) at Cadwell Park. 1. Leon Haslam GBR JG Speedfit Kawasaki ZX-10RR 1m 26.706s 2. Glenn Irwin GBR Be Wiser Ducati Panigale R 1m 26.729s

Leon Haslam suffered a re-emergence of his backshifter issue during the opening session in qualifying but didn’t let it phase him to secure a front row start for the opening Cadwell Park race.

Full BSB FP3 results from Cadwell Park

Full free practice three results for the eighth round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) at Cadwell Park. 1. Leon Haslam GBR JG Speedfit Kawasaki ZX-10RR 1m 26.303s 2. Danny Buchan GBR FS-3 Racing Kawasaki ZX-10RR 1m 26.570s

Full BSB FP2 results from Cadwell Park 

Full free practice one results for the eighth round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) at Cadwell Park. 1. Leon Haslam GBR JG Speedfit Kawasaki ZX-10RR 1m 27.069s 2. Glenn Irwin GBR Be Wiser Ducati Panigale R 1m 27.078s

Leon Haslam reflects on his dramatic near-misses on the Bennetts British Superbike title, why 2018 is his year plus his hotly-anticipated return to the World Superbike championship at Kawasaki alongside Jonathan Rea.

Leon Haslam says he’s targeting wins and the Cadwell Park lap record this weekend having lost his long-standing record to Lee Jackson 12 months ago at the Lincolnshire circuit.

Hector Barbera will switch to the World Supersport championship for the remainder of the 2018 campaign with Puccetti Kawasaki as recently retired Kenan Sofuoglu’s permanent replacement.

Full BSB race one results from Thruxton

Full race one results for the seventh round of the 2018 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) at Thruxton. 1. Leon Haslam GBR JG Speedfit Kawasaki ZX-10RR 20 laps, 25m 33.822s 2. Jake Dixon GBR RAF Regular & Reserves Kawasaki ZX-10RR +0.118s

Luke Mossey wants his front row start secured in qualifying at Thruxton to act as a kick-starter to his 2018 Bennetts British Superbike championship campaign after a difficult opening half of the year.

Jonathan Rea has been left frustrated by his Suzuka 8 Hours crash which dented his Kawasaki Team Green’s victory hopes but still feels positive having demonstrated the team’s strong pace at the iconic event.

The #21 Yamaha Factory Racing Team has survived a frantic Suzuka 8 Hours to defend its title with Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark sharing rider duties with the absence of injured team-mate Katsuyuki Nakasuga, creating history with a fourth consecutive victory for the team.

Jonathan Rea has followed up yesterday’s lap record at Suzuka by securing pole position for the #11 Kawasaki Team Green for this year’s iconic endurance race with #33 Red Bull Honda with Japan Post slotting into second in front of defending champions Yamaha.

Jonathan Rea says he wasn’t expecting to blow away the previous Suzuka qualifying lap record by almost a full second but feels the lap will ultimately not prove to be too important given the challenge of the eight-hour endurance race.

Jonathan Rea has smashed the Suzuka 8 Hours pole position lap record in his second qualifying session as Kawasaki sends out a warning to its factory rivals.

Kawasaki has officially announced that Leon Haslam will be team-mate to reigning World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea for the 2019 season. As rumoured, Haslam takes over from countryman and former champion Tom Sykes, who was recently confirmed as leaving the team.