January

Year: 2010

Month: January

Extensive Brands resurfacing project

28 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

MotorSport Vision has carried out a major resurfacing project at Brands Hatch, improving the quality of the track surface for competitors, trackday participants and driving experience guests on over...

Mainwaring on Kawasaki superstocker

28 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

MSS Colchester Kawasaki have signed Howie Mainwaring to race a ZX-10R in the National Superstock Championship. Twenty-two year old Mainwaring has raced in the BSB and Superstock series for many years...

Hastings joins Team Green in Junior Superstock

28 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Reigning British GP125 ACU Academy Cup champion Tim Hastings will step up to the National Superstock 600 Championship as one of Kawasaki’s Team Green Junior Superstock riders. As part of their Team Green initiative in Junior Superstock, 17-year old Hastings will be building on an already impressive career. He started racing via mini-moto in his native Scotland, and won the Scottish Championship...

Peter Hickman steps up to BSB proper

25 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Louth-based Peter Hickman is to remain with the Northamptonshire-based Ultimate Racing team and will make the step up from the British Superbike Cup series to contest the full British Superbike...

Johnson joins AIM Suzuki for BSB Evo

22 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Roads star Gary Johnson will race an AIM Suzuki in the new BSB Evo class this year as well as in the three major international road races at the North West 200, TT and Ulster Grand Prix. Johnson said:...

Barn Corner gets run-off

22 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

It’s one of those things you never thought possible. The exit of Barn Corner at Cadwell – with proper run-off. While everyone has been wrapped up, concentrating on who’s riding what in 2010 and how...

2010 HM Plant Honda: talking tech

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

MCN talked to the team’s two crew chiefs Adrian Gorst (with Ryuichi Kiyonari in 2010) and Chris Pike (in Brookes’ corner this year) to find out what they think about their rider’s chances in 2010 –...

Honda Racing’s stats makes them top team in BSB

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Honda Racing, based in Louth since 1990 (and home to the HM Plant Honda team), is Britain’s most successful racing team. Don’t believe it? Check out the stats! 57 – WSB race wins between 1994 and 2002...

Michael Laverty signs for Relentless Suzuki

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Michael Laverty has signed to ride for the Relentless by TAS Suzuki team in BSB this year. He joins National Superstock champion Alastair Seeley in the all-Irish team line-up. Laverty won the 2007...