Tarran Mackenzie (born 29 October 1995, often known as Taz) is a professional road racer of solo

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s, based in

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ashby-de-la-Zouch, sometimes spelt Ashby de la Zouch () and shortened locally to Ashby, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The town is near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire ...

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, England. For 2023, he will contest the

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for Japan-based MIE Honda run by Midori Moriwaki. Mackenzie won the 2021 British Superbike Championship at the final round in October 2021. With an ambition to eventually compete at

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level, no full-season opportunities were available for 2022. Mackenzie's British Superbike 2022 racing season started at the third event at Donington Park in mid-May, after missing the

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and

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rounds with injury. Riding only partially recovered at Donington, he rode conservatively for points, finishing the races in tenth, sixth and eleventh, further hindered by arm pump for the first time in his career, due to excessive arm use when steering, to compensate for his inability to switch-direction using leg pressure on the footrests. Mackenzie's 2022 BSB season ended on 25 September with a crash at

, when he fell at the chicane and slid across the track under an oncoming motorcycle, breaking his left

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Nationality

Together with his brother,

Taylor Mackenzie Taylor Mackenzie is a former Grand Prix motorcycle racer based in Leicestershire, England. In late 2021, Mackenzie announced his intended retirement from racing at the end of the season. Shortly afterwards, it was announced that from the 202 ...

, also a motorcycle road racer until retiring in late 2021, they are the sons of

Niall Mackenzie Niall Macfarlane Mackenzie (born 19 July 1961) is a Scottish former professional motorcycle road racer. Career Mackenzie, who hails from Fankerton, near Denny, Stirlingshire; won the British Superbike Championship three times from 1996 to ...

, a former motorcycle road racer. All three were born in the

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area of Scotland.Speed runs in the family for Stirling Superbike stars
'' Daily Record'', 28 April 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2021 Writing in 2017, Steve Day's feature was headed "MotoGP™ commentator Steve Day looks at the Scotsman ahead of his Moto2™ debut", and, as of 2021, the local newspaper was still referring to "...Stirling's Tarran".

Racing background

Mackenzie started racing in 2012, competed in the Monster Energy Motostar Championship during 2013, and was the 2016 British Supersport 600 Champion. He entered the

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world championship in 2017 as a replacement for

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, scoring one championship point from a best finish of 15th, achieving 37th overall.Getting to know: Tarran Mackenzie
motogp.com, 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2021Tarran Mackenzie
McCams race team. Retrieved 15 August 2021

British Superbikes

Mackenzie has been active in BSB since the 2018 British Superbike Championship season, winning the series in 2021.

2022 World Superbikes

Mackenzie continued in British Superbikes, but received an offer of a factory world superbike Yamaha machine for potentially three

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events, at

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, and a third unconfirmed circuit, during 2022. He sustained a leg injury in BSB early-season practice and could not participate in the scheduled wildcard entry at Assen. After missing Assen, Netherlands in April, at the Donington Park event with three wildcard races in July 2022, Mackenzie placed 14th, and then 15th in the last race after crashing into

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in the sprint race in between, resulting in a DNF. Mackenzie received a five-place grid penalty for the third race-start.Mackenzie ‘in discussion’ about WorldSBK ride in 2023, "great experience" as a wildcard
worldsbk.com, 22 July, 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022

Career Statistics

British Superbike Championship

Races by Year

* * Season still in progress

Superbike World Championship

By season

Races by year

(

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^* Season still in progress.

References

External links

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At home with the Mackenzies
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