Formula 2 Sidecar team Nick Crowe Racing/Team Dave Hudspeth Carpets/Q8Oils are pleased to announce their new line up for the 2012 season. Three times World Champion and current Formula 1 British Champion Tim Reeves (Lisburn-Ireland) will be the team’s new driver with regular team passenger Dipash Chauhan (Gowdall –Yorkshire), who is now back to full fitness after a badly broken leg sustained earlier in the season.

The new line up was announced at last weekend’s Festival of sidecars at Mallory Park in Leicestershire. The team competed for the first time and won all three formula 2 races in near lap record time despite damp track conditions. This was the first time Tim had driven the machine, which was set up by Nick Crowe. They also won the Tony...

Quay Garage Tyco Honda rider Patric Muff finished fourth in the BSB Evo championship in his rookie season of racing in the British series.

Muff had the best weekend of his year, finishing third in Sunday’s first race and fourth in the other two races of the triple-header meeting at Brands Hatch that concluded the series.

The highlight of Sunday’s first race, which was held in very testing damp conditions with a very narrow dry racing line, was also finishing 11th overall among the fully-tuned BSB bikes – his best finish all year.

Muff said: “I’m really happy with this weekend. We had already raced on the Brands GP circuit so we had a good base setting with the bike to start the weekend and I felt confident we could do some good races.”

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Peter Hickman might have missed making the cut to be part of this year’s six-rider Showdown for the BSB title, but his continued development showed as he battled with five of the championship ‘title fighters’ in the second Silverstone race on Sunday.

Hickman was strong all weekend on the Quay Garage Tyco Honda, qualifying on the second row. He crashed out of race one but showed great determination to pick the bike up after the 120mph crash and tried to continue racing.

 

Race two, carrying a shoulder injury from the crash, Hickman rode one of his best races of the year, battling with five of the championship contenders plus factory Suzuki rider Jon Kirkham to finish an inspired seventh.

Hickman said: “It was probably good for everyone to watch...

Peter Hickman was impressive throughout the weekend as BSB returned to Donington Park for the 10th round of the championship.He qualified the Quay Garage Honda fourth on the grid and was running with the leaders in fifth place in the early stages of the race but at mid-distance he started to drop back with a tyre problem.

Hickman said: “The tyre spun on the rim on the tenth lap. It wasn’t just a little bit out but a full 180 degrees so the tyre was suddenly completely out of balance. It made the bike vibrate badly and gave really terrible chatter so it was very difficult to get the bike stopped on the brakes and into corners.”

From trackside it was obvious Hickman had a problem as his lap times dropped from consistent mid 1:30s – the same pace at the leaders)...

After qualifying in the top 6 John Pattinson was eager to gain his first top step finish of the 2011 season and after battling hard through the pack he managed to finish race on an astounding 15 seconds ahead, completely blowing away the rest of the field. Unfortunately race two didn’t go as planned and John took a fall on the first lap leaving him at the back of the pack. After picking himself up and getting back on the bike John fought his way up the standings and after an incredible fight back he finished in 5th place.  The last race of the day and John was eager to get up on the podium for the second time. After a poor start John found himself in the middle of the field however he dug deep and after a hard race he made it up to the podium in 3rd place.

John reflected...

Simon Neary and Jason Crowe (Hudspeth/Crowe Racing LCR Honda/Q8Oils) had the perfect weekend at Cadwell in the 4th round of the British FII Sidecar Championship taking pole, two wins and leaving Lincolnshire with a 39 point lead in the championship!

However pole position didn't count for too much in race one, Neary going into Coppice in fourth place behind Ian and Carl Bell , Carl Fenwick and Mark Sayers and Gary Bryan and Gary Partridge. Roy Hanks and Dave Wells and Frank Lelias and Mike Aylott completed the top six.

Lap three saw Dave Atkinson and Phil Knapton get ahead of Lelias while Neary hurtled up to Park and dived in ahead of Bryan. A lap later, same spot and Neary was up to second past Fenwick. Bryan retired on lap six with gear linkage problems which...

Persistent heavy rain at Oulton Park on Sunday brought the meeting to a premature end with only one BSB race run in the diabolical conditions. It wasn’t a great day for the Tyco Security Products Honda team with both riders falling foul of the rain-lashed track on the opening lap.

The weekend started well enough for both riders with Peter Hickman qualifying eighth and Patric Muff fifth fastest in the Evo class. Both riders got great starts Muff was leading the Evo class for the first time all season but spun up the rear tyre exiting Old Hall on the first lap and was high-sided out of the action. He was unhurt and said: “I think I got a little bit excited to be leading the class. Of course I’m really disappointed but the conditions were really bad out there.”...

Ryan Farquhar enjoyed a successful trip to the Isle of Man this week with some strong results at the Southern 100 road races. The KMR Kawasaki rider took the wins in both of the Supertwins races and backed this up with 3rd in the main Solo Championship race. He also grabbed another 3rd in the Senior race and 5th in the Open race, the only blemish coming with a retirement in the 600cc race.

With fine weather around the 4.25-mile Billown circuit, the week started slowly for Ryan with a somewhat lowly 5th place in Tuesday's 600cc/1000cc race, handling issues with the ZX-10R Superstock machine preventing him from getting near his personal best speeds but changes to the bike helped him improve to 3rd in the following days Senior race. On the same evening he won the combined...