. Kiyonari is doing everything right for Honda at the moment and even if he doesn't win the British Superbike title, he's proved that he's the strongest package in it. Kevin Schwantz told me that there is a lot of talk about him going to the States

With every top British Superbike team changing either bikes or riders for 2009, it was always going to be tricky predicting the outcome of the season opener at Brands Hatch.But with my vast experience of racing, my inside knowledge and my no

For a few years it has worried me that bikes have got to a point whereby they are just too powerful and too fast to allow any youngster - 16- to 20-year-olds - to make such a huge jump from even a 600, and ride competitively. In previous eras

privateers in the series, doing a brilliant job and it's not going unnoticed.Back to the Celts, and the star of the 125 British Championship this year is 16-year-old Kev Coghlan from Perth. A first place at the season opener at Brands Hatch followed by a

there will be pressure on him and the team. I wouldn't want to be in those boots. It is not clear-cut at present, and if the GSE team has the best 2004 World Superbike equipment from the factory right now, then they cannot simply magic-up another couple of bikes to run a