BSB Season Heats Up!
The 2021 Bennetts British Superbike Championship made its first of two visits to Donington Park at the weekend, and the three races proved to be some of the most exciting in BSB history. The incredible races proved an incredibly successful weekend for our many R&G sponsored riders and teams.
For us, the highlight of the weekend was seeing Tommy Bridewell and the Moto Rapido team return to the top step of the podium in the weather-hit final race. That race also marked career-best results for Dean Harrison and Storm Stacey, while Donington also proved the best weekend of the year for Dan Linfoot and the TAG Honda team.
The success did not end there though. Ben Currie returned to the podium in the British Supersport class, while Casey O’Gorman and Josh Day also took wins in the British Talent Cup and Ducati TriOptions Cup, respectively.
2021 R&G Rookies’ Trophy
After climbing the rostrum for the first time in the British Supersport class with a pair of third places, Brandon Paasch is our R&G Rookie of the Meeting for Donington Park.
Open to all riders making the step up to compete in their first full season in any Championship class, the 2021 R&G Rookies’ Trophy is beginning to heat up. The top two rookie riders in each class at the end of the season will be out in front of a panel of industry experts, who will choose their overall top three. These three winners will receive a host of prizes from R&G, Pirelli, LS2 Crash Helmets and WD-40, to support them in their next racing steps.
The standings following Donington Park are:
|
Class
|
Rider
|
Points
|
|
Bennetts British Superbike
|
Rory Skinner
|
100
|
|
Danny Kent
|
49
|
|
Ryo Mizuno
|
4
|
|
Takumi Takahasi
|
1
|
|
Brian McCormack
|
0
|
|
Brad Jones
|
0
|
|
Joey Thompson
|
0
|
|
|
|
Quattro Group British Supersport
|
Kyle Smith
|
133
|
|
Eunan McGlinchey
|
109
|
|
Brandon Paasch
|
91
|
|
Jamie Van Sikkerus
|
56
|
|
Rhys Irwin
|
53
|
|
James Hind
|
48
|
|
Sam Munro
|
39
|
|
Scott Swann
|
25
|
|
Joe Duggan
|
16
|
|
Ben Tolliday
|
7
|
|
Conor Wheeler
|
0
|
|
Peter Wright
|
0
|
|
|
|
Pirelli National Superstock
|
Tom Oliver
|
33
|
|
Richard Kerr
|
16
|
|
Brent Harran
|
5
|
|
Sam Holme
|
0
|
|
Caolin Irwin
|
0
|
|
George Hogton-Rusling
|
0
|
|
Richard White
|
0
|
|
|
|
Pirelli National Junior Superstock
|
Max Cook
|
35
|
|
Franco Bourne
|
34
|
|
Owen Jenner
|
28
|
|
Charlie Farrer
|
27
|
|
Jake Bednarek
|
13
|
|
Seth Crump
|
10
|
|
Michael Owens
|
0
|
|
Kier Armstrong
|
0
|
|
Andrew Cairns
|
0
|
|
Lewis Jones
|
0
|
|
Lynden Leatherland
|
0
|
|
Charlie Atkins
|
0
|
|
Max Smith-Halvorsen
|
0
|
|
Kevin Coyne
|
0
|
|
Toby Reynolds
|
0
|
|
Joe Holdsworth
|
0
|
|
Andrew Smyth
|
0
|
|
Jake Hopper
|
0
|
|
|
|
Honda British Talent Cup
|
Carter Brown
|
138
|
|
Troy Jeffery
|
42
|
|
Rhys Stephenson
|
20
|
|
Luca Hopkins
|
13
|
|
Holly Harris
|
0
|
|
Peter Willis
|
0
|
|
Ross Moore
|
0
|
|
JJ Cunningham
|
0
|
|
Alfie Davidson
|
0
|
|
|
|
Ducati TriOptions Cup
|
Daniel Boucher
|
16
|
|
Jacque Foley
|
10
|
|
Oliver Savage
|
4
|
|
Max Lofthouse
|
3
|
|
Simon Bastable
|
0
|
|
Matt Venn
|
0
|
|
Ian Tune
|
0
|
|
Matt Bainbridge
|
0
|
|
Andy Houghton
|
0
|
|
Christopher Watkins
|
0
|
|
David Fletcher
|
0
|
|
Craig Kennelly
|
0
|
|
|
|
Hel Performance British Junior Supersport
|
Mike Hardie
|
37
|
|
Joe Farragher
|
30
|
|
Harry Cook
|
17
|
|
Chris Moffitt
|
7
|
|
Jake Stephenson
|
6
|
|
Charlotte Marcuzzo
|
0
|
|
Katie Hand
|
0
|
|
Christian Smith
|
0
|
|
Oliver Morgan-Edwards
|
0
|
|
|