RON HASLAM has been invited to the Queen’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace next Wednesday in recognition of his services to motorcycle sport.Rocket Ron's invitation to meet the Queen and members of the Royal Family is in notice to his “outstanding

After two podium finishes at Donington Park Carlos Checa extended his championship lead ahead of pack.With Marco Melandri securing his debut win in the WSB class he was promoted to second in the championship ahead of Leon Haslam in third position

but still manages to hold third spot after two rounds.Hard charging Melandri looks solid in fourth place, while Tom Sykes can't seem to maximise on his out-and-out one-lap pace that he and the ZX-10R are capable of in qualifying. Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam

) will be going to Stiggi in WSB.Stiggi, if all this is true, will be retaining the services of Leon Haslam. These rumours are further substantiated by the sighting of Mr and Mrs Haslam with key Yamaha and GSE personnel.Earlier last week we published news

HM Plant Honda’s Leon Haslam has said that the reason he lost his impressive lead in the second race at Brands Hatch was because his bike’s back wheel came round on him in the entry to Surtees. Haslam, who now lies sixth overall in the championship

LEON HASLAM has just completed two days of testing at Cartagena in Spain for the Stiggy Honda team.Haslam spent the test getting his Honda Fireblade set-up in preparation for the 2009 World Superbike Championship.He and team-mate Roby Rolfo were

LEON HASLAM says he's happy with the progress made by his Stiggy Racing Honda team during their test sessions at Brno circuit.Haslam - runner-up in the last World Superbike race at Donington Park 10 days ago - worked on suspension and electronics

THE BMW pairing of Leon Haslam and Marco Melandri have completed a two-day test at Valencia.Preparing for the 2012 season, the BMW team focussed on developments made to the latest version of the engine, as well as the updated electronics

to take the roads, joined by Leon Haslam, the second Airwaves Ducati of Leon Camier, Rizla Suzuki's Tom Sykes and Atsushi Watanabe, Relentless Suzuki by TAS rider Michael Laverty, North West 200 Ducati's Michael Rutter and team-mate John Laverty, MSS

2009 CHAMPIONSHIP standings following this weekend's action from Donington Park:Noriyuki Haga Ducati 308 Ben Spies Yamaha 294Michel Fabrizio Ducati 257Jonathan Rea Honda 177Leon Haslam Honda 167Max Biaggi Aprilia 155Tom Sykes Yamaha 141Jakub Smrz