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Michael Laverty is dreaming of a seventh Sunflower Trophy triumph after being confirmed as Tyco BMW's sole representative at the prestigious end-of-season meeting at Bishopscourt on Friday and Saturday.
There is just no stopping four-time World Champion Jonathan Rea.
Dean Harrison, the lap record holder for both the Isle of Man TT and Ulster Grand Prix Superbike, has confirmed he will be taking part in the Sunflower Trophy race meeting next weekend at Bishopcourt.
After two practice sessions on the brand new 2.672 miles of tarmac at San Juan in Argentina, newly crowned four-time World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea came out on top after an unpredictable second session when no less than nine riders set a fastest time at some stage of the 40-minute practice.
The penultimate round of the World Superbike Championship heads to Argentina for the first ever South American round, due to be held at a brand new 2.666mile facility, Circuito San Juan Villicum, and it is there that history-making four-time world champion Jonathan Rea looks to continue his record-breaking achievements.
The BBC has rejected claims that changes being made to the Sports Personality of the Year award have been made in response to Jonathan Rea's run to second place last season.
The Paul Bird Motorsport team have pieced together their dream team for the Be Wiser Ducati attack on the 2019 British Superbike Championship with the announcement that 2015 champion Josh Brookes has signed to ride alongside returning Grand Prix contender Scott Redding.
The Hillsborough Club end-of-season Sunflower Trophy meeting at Bishopscourt is just over a week away and already top competitors from the British Superbike Championship have been announced for the event.
Doubles were the order of the day during the ninth and penultimate round of the AJ Plumbing Ulster Superbike Championship held around the 1.208mile St Angelo Airfield circuit outside Enniskillen on Saturday.
If you're going to win a record-breaking fourth successive World Superbike title, you have to celebrate in style.
The penultimate round of the AJ Plumbing Ulster Superbike Championship takes place at St Angelo Airfield tomorrow - under the auspices of Enniskillen and District Motorcycle Club - with third place in the series still up for grabs.
It's a tale of his rise to the very top of the world. Jonathan Rea has gone from Ballyclare to become the most successful rider in World Superbike history, but still his favourite story from his new book isn't really about racing at all.
World Superbike Champions Jonathan Rea is hoping his donation can help to boost the funds being raised for William Dunlop's family.
The Dunlop family have released the first picture of the newborn daughter of the late motorcycle racer William Dunlop.
Motorcycling legend Philip McCallen has piled praise on Jonathan Rea, who wrapped up an historic fourth successive World Superbike title at Magny-Cours in France over the weekend.
Jonathan Rea has donated his leathers to the William Dunlop fund after clinching his fourth successive World Superbike title.
The greatest World Superbike rider in history… Ballyclare's Jonathan Rea has no peers after clinching his fourth successive title in true champion style by comfortably winning Saturday's opening race at Magny Cours in France and completing a double in Race Two yesterday.
History-making, fast-riding, family man Jonathan Rea last night dedicated his record fourth successive World Superbike title win to watching wife Tatia, sons Jack and Tyler, mum Claire and dad Johnny.
Alastair Seeley, riding the EHA Racing Yamaha, scored a scintillating British Supersport double at Assen's cathedral of speed in Holland over the weekend after two classic battles with old adversary Jack Kennedy, second in both, and Ben Currie.
Jonathan Rea has clinched another historic World Superbike Championship title in Magny Cours.
Jonathan Rea is on the brink of clinching another historic World Superbike Championship in Magny Cours this weekend.
Glenn Irwin, from Carrick, will switch from PBM Be Wiser Ducati to JG Speedfit Bournemouth Kawasaki for a full-scale attack on the 2019 British Superbike Championship, replacing Leon Haslam who joins Ulsterman Jonathan Rea in the Kawasaki World Superbike team.
Marc Marquez moved closer to claiming his fifth MotoGP world title after securing a thrilling victory over rival Andrea Dovizioso at Aragon in Spain.
The proposed 2019 World Superbike round scheduled for the new Lake Torrent circuit, currently under construction in Coalisland, will not take place as the course will not be ready in time.
World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea will be one of the star guests at next year's Cornmarket Motorbike Awards. The Kawasaki rider will undoubtedly be favourite to retain the event's most coveted prize, the Irish Motorcyclist of the Year, when the winners are revealed on January 18 in Belfast's Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Jonathan Rea has laughed off astonishing criticism from a World Superbikes chief who claims the Ballyclare rider lacks charisma.
William Dunlop's partner Janine Brolly has announced the birth of the couple's second daughter.
Jonathan Rea is closing in on a fourth successive World Superbike title and was voted as runner-up in last season's BBC Sports Personality of the Year award - but a leading figure in WSBK has hinted that Rea's character may be stunting the sport's growth.
Northern Ireland's defending World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea moved a step closer to the 2018 title and an historic fourth-in-a-row as he raced to a tremendous double during the 10th round at Portimao over the weekend.
In a record-breaking weekend for Alastair Seeley he won the British Supersport sprint race on Saturday, his 27th career win in the class making him the most successful ever rider in the British championship class, before going on to finish third in yesterday's feature race.
Jonathan Rea has return to World Superbike action with a win in Portimao.
Jason Lynn will be the man to beat when the Motorcycle Road Racing Club of Ireland promotes the IFS David Wood Trophy races at Bishopscourt today and tomorrow, an event that incorporates round eight of the Ulster Superbike Championship.
After a 10-week summer break, Jonathan Rea returns to World Superbike action this weekend in Portimao off the back of a podium at the Suzuka eight-hour race and setting the quickest lap at an official test at the Portuguese venue.
Alastair Seeley was back on the top step of the podium at Silverstone on Saturday - his first win on the mainland this season.
The final Irish road race of 2018 takes place this weekend with the Mrs Brown's Boys-sponsored East Coast meeting - formerly Killalane - just outside Skerries, north of Dublin.
The final six Title Showdown riders will be confirmed after this weekend's 'triple header' ninth round of the British Superbike Championship at Silverstone.
Some brilliant racing during the seventh round of the Ulster Superbike Championship at Kirkistown on Saturday saw Gerard Kinghan complete a double in the Ards Council-backed Superbike races with the main silverware going to Roslea rider Andrew Brady, who lifted the Crown Prince of Kirkistown award for his victory in the second Pre-Injection eight-lap race.
Darryl Tweed, in his second year racing in the Manx Grand Prix, made it a double win in the Ultra Lightweight class this week by taking victory in yesterday's three-lap race.
William Dunlop's North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix-winning cousin says he is giving up road racing.
What a day for the Irish at the Manx Grand Prix yesterday, Ballymoney's Darryl Tweed winning the Ultra Lightweight race, while in the Lightweight it was a 1-2-3-4 clean sweep for southern Irish riders, with Hillsborough's Gareth Evans fifth, plus James Chawke from Rathkeale won the Junior Manx Grand Prix.
Yesterday's Manx Grand Prix Newcomers A race was won by the Republic of Ireland's Thomas Maxwell.
Charles Leclerc would have required a "miracle" to avoid a potentially fatal injury if the 'halo', Formula One's controversial new safety device, had not been on his car in Belgium.
After frustrating weather delays, yesterday's Locate.im Junior Classic TT was reduced to three laps from four, eventually getting under way at 4pm with Dominic Herbertson clinching his first Mountain Course victory on his Davies Motorsport 350cc Honda.
After the trials and tribulations of practice week, racing got underway on the Isle of Man on Saturday and the two races staged produced some great action with two local riders, Lee Johnston and Adam McLean, battling for the Dunlop Lightweight Classic TT victory, which Johnston claimed.
At long last there was a full practice session for the Classic TT and Manx Grand Prix last night after a week of rain, mist, more rain and a road traffic accident hit qualifying.
Four-time Manx Grand Prix winner Alan 'Bud' Jackson has been killed during a practice for the Classic TT.
The weather continued to play havoc with schedules in the Isle of Man yesterday with the first session of last night's practice cut short by heavy rain and the second cancelled.
For the third evening running, practice for the Classic TT and Manx Grand Prix was cancelled, not due to the weather this time, but because of a serious road traffic collision at Guthrie's Memorial just before roads were due to close.
MCE Ulster Grand Prix fans dug deep in their pockets to give generously to the Injured Riders' Welfare Fund, a charity close to the event organisers, race fans and racers' hearts.
It's sure to become a treasured memento of a much lamented sporting hero - a new pencil portrait of the late William Dunlop.
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