They don’t call the British Superbike showdown for nothing, and it became a final showdown between Tommy Hill and John Hopkins in yesterday’s final round of the season in the triple header at Brands Hatch, where Swan Yamaha’s Tommy Hill became the new British Superbike champion by 0.006s and two points.

In Saturday’s Race 1 it was Michael Laverty standing tall in first place and taking his third win of the season, while Josh Brookes took second and John Hopkins edged out his closest rival for the title in a stunning duel to the finish line to take third.

With his third place in race 1 Hopkins was still leading in the championship standings going into race 2 on Sunday. The race was won by a dominating Shane Byrne, while Hill grabbed fourth, as Hopkins suffered some sort of technical glitch on lap 1. The Anglo American rider managed to overcome the problem, but he was already behind the field, but the race had high attrition, he managed to fight back to take 12th.

Going into race 3, Hopkins had dropped 9 points in the standings lead and was leading only by two. Shane Byrne again won the race, but it became a dog fight between Hill and Hopkins in the final lap, that produced one of the best races of the season which would see the two cross over the finish line side by side, only for Hill to win the title in a photo finish by 0.006s.

Race 1 and Race 2 highlight videos, with quotes from Hill and Hopkins and final championship standings after the jump.

Continue reading: Tommy Hill is the 2011 British Superbike champion by 0.006s (w/videos)

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Here’s all the action from last weekend’s British Superbike round at Croft, from the guys at Bike Channel. Another Silverstone round is coming up on September 24th, the second last of the season, and Michael Laverty’s win on the weekend (Relentless Suzuki) has him in second position in overall standings, trailing Tommy Hill on his Worx Crescent Suzuki by 16 points. It should be an exciting final couple of rounds for the riders - check out highlights from race one above and race two after the jump.

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The guys from BikeChannel have done it again it putting together some fabulous race footage and interviews from the British Superbike round at Cadwell Park over the weekend. Race 2 was won by Josh Brooks who now trails Tommy Hill in the overall standings by just 36 points. Hill came in second in Race 2, followed by Michael Laverty, Michael Rutter and John Laverty closing out the top five. The next round takes place at Mallory Park from June 25-27.

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The next British Superbike round takes place this weekend from May 21-23 at Cadwell Park and it looks like Tommy Hill from the Worx Crescent Suzuki team could run away with the title. He sits on 13 points overall at this stage, after three wins, and is followed by Josh Brookes with the HM Plant Honda team on five points. James Ellison and Stuart Easton are sharing third spot on four points each at this stage but with another six rounds to go before the top six contenders battle it out, it could prove an exciting few months. Check out all the action from Oulton Park with Race 1 above, Race 2 below and a couple of interviews with Leon Haslam and Chris Walker for all the inside view on riding techniques, bike set-ups and more. Thanks to the guys from BikeChannel for the videos.

Continue reading: BSB Race 1 and 2 video action from Oulton Park: on to Cadwell

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Here’s Race 1 and 2 in video from the British Superbike round at Thruxton. Again the guys at BikeChannel have got themselves some great pit lane and grid access for a few interviews before the racing. Josh Brookes from the HM Plant Honda took out the top spot in the second race, followed by Tommy Hill with Worx Suzuki, Stuart Easton with Swan Honda and closing out the top four was Ryuichi Kiyonari also with HM Plant Honda. In overall standings, Hill is in first place followed by Brookes and Easton. See the Race 2 video after the jump.

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With the 8th round of WSBK Championship just around the corner and will take place at the Italian circuit of Misano Adriatico, here is some up date news from the teams and about the riders.

Tommy Hill has split from his Althea Honda team and won’t be racing at Misano this weekend. Hill has been at odds with Italian crew and was not allowed to race at the Miller, even if he the passed medical check after a practice crash where he injured his foot. According to Hill: “There was a lot of politics involved and we just couldn’t get it all together.”

Genesio Bevilacqua, General Manager of Althea Honda has replaced Hill with French rider Matthieu Lagrive who already rides for Althea Honda, while Italian Flavio Gentile will replace Lagrive in Supersport.

Lagrive is a five times Endurance world Champion and at the present is 11th in Supersport and Gentile is the leader in the Italian Superbike Championship.

Continue reading: WSBK News - Waiting for Misano

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