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New Crescent Suzuki British Superbike signing Sylvain Guintoli completed a successful first test on the 2008 GSX-R1000 at Brands Hatch recently, declaring Suzuki’s Superbike an ‘impressive package.’

We flew out on Wednesday so that Row would have a day to chill before Friday’s first foray on track. Thursday was spent in Estoril town having a look around.
Friday
Signing on started at 08:00 so it was up early and out to the track. Signing on and briefing was completed, the group lists were put [...]

The sun came out on Saturday in Estoril for a beautiful second day of the Final Selection Event for the 2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup. Riders came from around the world, from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia and across Europe from Sweden to the Czech Republic putting 32 young talents on the line [...]

Rizla Suzuki’s Tom Sykes finished the 2008 Bennetts British Superbike Championship in fourth place after putting on a brave and battling performance at the 12th and final round at Brands Hatch in Kent today.
In the second race he was holding fifth place when, with five-laps remaining, his Rizla Suzuki simply stopped. The Yorkshireman desperately tried [...]

Andrew Pitt today won the 2008 World Supersport championship by taking victory in a thrilling 12th-round race at Magny-Cours in France. Pitt’s second world title – he was the last non-Honda rider to win the title in 2001 – is the seventh successive championship for the Ten Kate team and the Honda CBR600RR machine.
Pitt and [...]

Seven-time Formula 1 Drivers’ champion, Michael Schumacher, today tested the HANNspree Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade currently being campaigned by Carlos Checa in the World Superbike championship.
Checa and the Ten Kate team are testing at the French circuit of Magny-Cours, which will host the next round of the championship (3-5 October) and Schumacher was given [...]

The Red Bull Riders Cup was seized by the visiting MotoGP Rookies Team as they swept the leaderboard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In tricky damp to wet conditions 16 year old Norwegian Sturla Fagerhaug rode superbly to head home 16 year old South African Mathew Scholtz and 17 year old Briton Matthew Hoyle.
The MotoGP [...]

Rizla Suzuki’s Tom Sykes took two hard-earned podium places at today’s 10th round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Croft in North Yorkshire while his team mate Atsushi Watanabe came home 12th twice.
In the opening dry race, Sykes got a lightning start and by the end of the first 2.12-mile lap he had taken [...]

Seasons Best from Gault
Round 10 of the British Super Bike Championship hosted round 9 off The National Super Stock 600 championship which saw 52 entered for the event vying for the 40 places on the grid for Saturday’s race to be held at the Croft Circuit located just outside Darlington in North Yorkshire.
Free Practice held [...]