British Supersport Championship is a support series to the

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(BSB) for engine capacities smaller than Superbike. British Supersport runs one or two rounds per weekend at each BSB event. The BSS championship is seen as a stepping stone for the younger talent to progress to the British Superbike Championship or to World level classes. Riders such as:

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and

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all raced in this championship during their early careers. From 2018, a new ''British GP2'' class was introduced to be run within existing Supersport races. Devised by MSVR, it is based on

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Honda-engined machines.British GP2 Class in BSB from 2018
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Race weekend

Friday * Practice 1 (40 Mins) * Practice 2 (40 Mins) Saturday * Qualifying (30 minutes) * Sprint race (reduced laps) Sunday * Warm Up (10 Mins) * Full race

Scoring system

Current machines used

Supersport

Ducati Panigale V2 The Ducati Panigale V2 is a 955 cc (58.3 cu in) V-twin engine sport bike manufactured by Ducati as the successor to the Panigale 959. The motorcycle is named after the manufacturing district of Borgo Panigale. It was announced in 2019 for ...

Honda CBR600RR The Honda CBR600RR is a sport bike made by Honda since 2003, part of the CBR series. The CBR600RR was marketed as Honda's top-of-the-line middleweight sport bike, succeeding the 2002 Supersport World Champion 2001–2006 CBR600F4i, which was th ...

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R The Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R is a ''636 cc'' class motorcycle in the Ninja sport bike series from the Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki. It was introduced in 1995, and has been constantly updated throughout the years in response to new products ...

Suzuki GSX-R600 The Suzuki GSX-R600 is a ''600 cc'' class, or supersport, sport bike in Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. History ;1992–1993 Launched with a water-cooled inline-4 engine. The first model had the same body specifications as the 1 ...

Triumph Daytona 675 Introduced in 2006, the Triumph Daytona 675 is a three-cylinder sport bike, and the smallest of the Triumph triples. Built by Triumph Motorcycles, it replaced their four-cylinder Daytona 650. The 675 proved to be remarkably light, nimble an ...

Yamaha YZF-R6 The Yamaha YZF-R6 is a sport bike, produced by Yamaha as a 600 class from 1999 to 2020. From 2021, production availability is limited to race-only specification in most global markets, causing race organisers to re-align their engine eligibility ...

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British GP2

* Various chassis makes, as seen in

; when previously competed in Moto2, using only Honda 600 cc engines * Any other chassis (or modified stock chassis) * Four cylinder engines over 400 cc to 600 cc * Three cylinder engines over 500 cc to 675 cc

British Supersport Champions

British GP2 Champions

References

External links

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