Wednesday Afternoon Moto News - BMW and BSB & Tom Sykes

BMW has announced that they have teamed up with Jentin Racing to compete in the National 1000 Superstock with Richard Cooper and in the BSB Evo series with rider Steve Brogan. All parties are quite happy with the arrangement and it looks like BMW will be racing their S1000RR against the best in the world on at least four continents.

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Tom Sykes is very happy with his new Kawasaki World Superbike Team, and Paul Bird Motorsport, so far. He will be competing on the World stage very soon and feels that the Kawasaki team has what it will take to get him to the top. Sykes has some strong competition, though, so even doing very well may not be enough...

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BMW May Enter S1000RR in 2010 British Superstock Championship

We did hear that BMW would be taking their new S1000RR into the World Superstock series in 2010. Now we have a new rumor that they will also compete in the British Superstock Championship. The rider involved in the potential race team is said to be Richard Cooper, who is known to have a good relationship with BMW. The idea appears to be that they will race in Superstock and then move into British Superbike in 2011...

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Richard Cooper Will Ride in BSB Silverstone Round

Cooper only sits 8 points back of John McGuinness in the Metzeler National Superstock 1000 Championship standings, so he has a chance to improve on that and move forward if he does as well this weekend as he did Mallory Park. He is back from a ride on the WSBK BMW team, where he replaced injured rider Ruben Xaus.

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