British Superbikes

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Two DNFs don’t dampen Michael Laverty’s spirits

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Two DNFs don’t dampen Michael Laverty’s spirits

Despite not finishing either of the weekend’s British Superbike races at Mallory Park, Michael Laverty said he was taking something positive away from the race weekend. The reigning British Supersport...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: New slicks cost Cal Crutchlow in race two

Mallory Park British Superbikes: New slicks cost Cal Crutchlow in race two

Cal Crutchlow said a late decision to switch from wet rubber to slicks for the second British Superbike race at Mallory Park this weekend could have cost him the win. With race two deemed wet by...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Michael Rutter takes first win of season in tricky conditions

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Michael Rutter takes first win of season in tricky conditions

NW200 Ducati rider Michael Rutter has taken his first victory of the season at Mallory Park in race two which started wet and ended dry. Michael Laverty led the race from the beginning until he...

Mallory Park British Supersports: Hudson Kennaugh wins wet race

Mallory Park British Supersports: Hudson Kennaugh wins wet race

Hudson Kennaugh has taken the win in the wet British Supersport race at Mallory Park with a lead of over 20 seconds from second place man Steve Plater. The supersport race was delayed after a sudden...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Shane Byrne takes win despite colliding with Michael Laverty

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Shane Byrne takes win despite colliding with Michael Laverty

Airwaves Ducati rider Shane Byrne has extended his championship lead after winning the first race at Mallory Pak after colliding with Relentless Suzuki rider Michael Laverty. Shane Byrne collided with...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Tom Sykes backs up pole by topping Warm Up

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Tom Sykes backs up pole by topping Warm Up

Tom Sykes has shown that yesterday’s pole in qualifying was no fluke by ending morning Warm Up fastest. The Rizla Suzuki rider set a best of 56.071 in the last minute of the 15-minute session. His...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Cal Crutchlow disappointed not to be on pole for home race

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Cal Crutchlow disappointed not to be on pole for home race

Cal Crutchlow has kept his run of consecutive front row starts going this weekend at Mallory Park, but couldn’t hide his disappointment at not being at the top for his home race. Crutchlow, who sees...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Tom Sykes reaction on second BSB career pole

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Tom Sykes reaction on second BSB career pole

Tom Sykes heads into tomorrow’s British Superbike races at Mallory Park full of confidence after securing his second career British Sueprbike pole on his spare bike. Sykes, whose first pole came last...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Turn one mistake costs Shane Byrne in qualifying

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Turn one mistake costs Shane Byrne in qualifying

Shane Byrne couldn’t make it five pole starts out of six attempts this weekend at Mallory Park British Superbikes after being pushed down to third by Tom Sykes’ and Michael Laverty’s Suzukis. Byrne,...

Pictures of my son with the BSB guys

Pictures of my son with the BSB guys

Just got back from Saturday BSB Qualifying at Mallory Park. As always the riders gave time to give autographs and have photo’s taken. Here are some pictures of my nine year old son, Josh, with the BSB...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Michael Laverty: “I thought it was in the bag”

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Michael Laverty: “I thought it was in the bag”

Michael Laverty thought he was well on his way to his career first British Superbike pole position at Mallory Park, only until Tom Sykes denied him the closing seconds of today’s qualifying...

Mallory Park British Supersport: Pole number two for Glen Richards

Mallory Park British Supersport: Pole number two for Glen Richards

MAP Embassy Triumph’s Glen Richards has secured pole position number two of the season at Mallory Park today. The Australian reigning British Superstock 1000 Champion will start tomorrow’s 28-lap race...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Qualifying one two for Suzuki

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Qualifying one two for Suzuki

Suzuki machinery will be starting from the top two positions on the grid for tomorrow’s BSB races at Mallory Park, headed by Tom Sykes on the Rizla Suzuki. Sykes denied fellow Suzuki rider Michael...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Stuart Easton to miss Oulton Park

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Stuart Easton to miss Oulton Park

Stuart Easton will miss round seven of the British Superbike championship at Oulton Park on July 18-20 after getting an update on his broken right wrist today. The MSS Discovery Kawasaki rider has...

Mallory Park British Supersport: Glen Richards provisional pole

Mallory Park British Supersport: Glen Richards provisional pole

Glen Richards has put himself in provisional pole position for tomorrow’s 28-lap British Supersport race at Mallory Park. The MAP Embassy Triumph rider set a 57.572 in this morning’s session, good...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Cal Crutchlow continues top weekend form

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Cal Crutchlow continues top weekend form

Cal Crutchlow has topped the second dry free practice session of the weekend at Mallory Park. The HM Plant Honda rider set the fastest lap with a 56.454 in the last five minutes of the 50-minute...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Rizla Suzuki duo hoping for dry conditions

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Rizla Suzuki duo hoping for dry conditions

Both Rizla Suzuki British Superbike representatives have said they’ve both got their fingers crossed for dry weather at Mallory Park for the rest of the weekend. Tom Sykes and Atsushi Watanabe ended...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Tom Sykes heads diminished field in FP2

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Tom Sykes heads diminished field in FP2

Rizla Suzuki’s Tom Sykes has jumped to the top of the pile in the British Superbikes Free Practice two session in mixed conditions at Mallory Park. Sykes was one of just 16 riders who took part in the...

Mallory Park British Supersport: Steve Brogan tops wet Supersport practice

Mallory Park British Supersport: Steve Brogan tops wet Supersport practice

Steve Brogan has took advantage of the weather turn-around at Mallory Park today, setting the fastest time in wet qualifying one for the British Supersport class. A 1.03.628 was enough to put Brogan...

Video: Snetterton Think! Academy Blog Winner

THINK! Road Safety has been an official sponsor of the 2008 Bennetts British Superbike Championship since 2004 and this year we will be offering MCN readers the chance to win VIP hospitality at every BSB round to enjoy the atmosphere in style! Winners of each THINK! race promotion will be given the task of becoming an MCN video blog reporter for the day, with behind-the-scenes access, they will...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Cal Crutchlow tops opening session

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Cal Crutchlow tops opening session

Cal Crutchlow left it late in the first British Superbike free practice session to top the leaderboard. The 22-year-old, who sits third in the championship at the midway point in the season, put in a...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Leon Camier awarded with first win photo

Mallory Park British Superbikes: Leon Camier awarded with first win photo

Leon Camier has been presented with a framed picture to celebrate his first British Superbike victory at Snetterton a fortnight ago. The 21-year-old took the race one win at the last round and today...

Mallory Park British Superbikes: More front-end feel for Leon Haslam

Mallory Park British Superbikes: More front-end feel for Leon Haslam

Leon Haslam will be looking to put his problems of 2008 behind him at Mallory Park after a productive test at Cadwell Park before the sixth round of the British Superbike campaign. The HM Plant Honda...

MSS Discovery Kawasaki concentrating on ‘grunt’

MSS Discovery Kawasaki concentrating on ‘grunt’

MSS Discovery Kawasaki Team Owner Nick Morgan has stressed that Mallory Park this weekend won’t be about top speed, but all about ‘grunt’. The Factory-backed Kawasaki team hasn’t been short of top end...

Shane Byrne: “Mallory Park’s not one of my favourites”

Shane Byrne: “Mallory Park’s not one of my favourites”

Shane Byrne has offered a lifeline to those who are trailing him in the British Superbike Championship by admitting Mallory Park isn’t one of his favourite circuits. Byrne, who leads the British...

Haslams to make Castle Combe appearance

Haslams to make Castle Combe appearance

British Superbike star Leon Haslam and father Ron Haslam will be making an appearance at the Castle Combe Superbike Grand National on August 16-17. The father and son combination will take part in a...

Sean Emmett to ride for SMT Honda at Mallory Park

Sean Emmett to ride for SMT Honda at Mallory Park

SMT Honda has found their third replacement rider of the year to ride for them at Mallory Park this weekend, Sean Emmett. The 38-year-old has landed his second British Superbike ride of the season...

Henderson R1 Cup: What a brilliant weekend at Donington Park's MotoGP

Henderson R1 Cup: What a brilliant weekend at Donington Park's MotoGP

Wow, what a weekend that was! Scott Redding gave us something to cheer about, winning the 125cc Grand Prix and the Yamaha R1 Cup got to follow the still-warm tyre tracks of Valentino Rossi, as the...

Snetterton BSB

Snetterton BSB

Here are some photos of my daughter Zoe with several of the riders at Snetterton BSB. What a great bunch of guys they are, all taking the time to pose for photos amongst all the autograph signing.

Snetterton BSB pictures by teenage fan

Snetterton BSB pictures by teenage fan

Hi, I went to watch the BSB at Snetterton and it was great. While I was there I took some pictures on my dad’s camera and thought I would send some in because personally I’m quite pleased with them...

SMT Honda looking for rider for Mallory Park

SMT Honda looking for rider for Mallory Park

Robin Croft and the SMT Honda squad are currently on the hunt for a rider to replace Adam Jenkinson for round six of the British Superbike championship at Mallory Park on June 27-29. Jenkinson has...

Super Leon Camier!

Super Leon Camier!

Went to Snetterton this weekend and it was great to see Leon Camier do so well. I took some photos on the day: (http://www.pbase.com/gmccord/bsbsnet08) and this is one of them.

Henderson R1 Cup: Another rainy weekend at Snetterton

Henderson R1 Cup: Another rainy weekend at Snetterton

It was mixed fortunes for me at Snetterton last weekend in the Henderson Yamaha R1 Cup. I was really looking forward to this one as this is the first time I’ve rocked up at a track I’ve actually...

Midge Smart gets it all wrong

Midge Smart gets it all wrong

Midge Smart getting it all wrong at Russell Bends in the British Supersport race at Snetterton

Stuart Eastons Snetterton crash

Stuart Eastons Snetterton crash

I was stood at the bombhole at Snetterton on Saturday when Stuart Eastons Kawasaki motorcycle appeared! It looks like a caliper came off – check out the last pictures, a marshall has placed the errant...

Hopper and Shakey at Snetterton BSB

Hopper and Shakey at Snetterton BSB

Hopper & Shakey get their photo took with Gidds, Boz & Joker @ Snetterton BSB