Vent-Axia Sponsorship

Vent–Axia has announced that it will return its “Brand” to the 2010 British Superbike Championship, with personal sponsorship to Tommy Hill, who will ride for one of the leading teams in the series, Worx Crescent Suzuki. The “Vent-Axia Brand” will also appear on the bikes and team wear. Vent-Axia were last associated with the Championship in 2007 with the Paul Bird Stobart Honda Team, and have since then, continued its association in the World Superbike Championship with PBM and the Kawasaki Team.

After nine years of waiting, Penrith rally driver Paul Bird finally got his hands on the winner's trophy with a comprehensive start to finish victory in today's Coniston-based Coppermines Grizedale Stages Rally in his native Lake District.

Driving the www.supercasino.com, Vent-Axia and Kick Energy-backed Ford Focus WRC07, Bird and new Scottish co driver Kirsty Riddick won all six stages to emerge victorious by a minute and forty-seven seconds ahead of the Subaru of Alex Allingham.

In their final rides for the Kawasaki Superbike Racing Team, Broc Parkes and Makoto Tamada posted their best cumulative score of any race meeting this season together when they contested the final round of the Hannspree World Superbike Championship at Portimao in Portugal today.

Following on the recent announcement that Chris Vermeulen will race a factory-backed Kawasaki in next season's World Superbike Championship, team owner Paul Bird has today announced that it will be Yorkshireman Tom Sykes who will partner the Australian aboard the works Ninja ZX-10Rs.

The final round of the Hannspree World Superbike Championship takes place this forthcoming weekend with the Kawasaki Superbike Racing Team looking to end the season on a high note in Portimao.

The impressive new circuit on the Portuguese Algarve was introduced into the calendar last year and riders Broc Parkes and Makoto Tamada have good experience of the track, especially 27-year-old Australian Parkes who finished in a strong fifth place in the World Supersport race last season.

Chris Vermeulen, one of the few riders to win both MotoGP and World Superbike races, has joined the Kawasaki World Superbike Racing Team for the 2010 season.

Currently racing in MotoGP, Vermeulen will soon apply his talents to the official WSB Ninja ZX-10R and will get his first chance to ride the machine during tests in November.

The last round of the British Superbike championship kicked of this weekend at Oulton Park. As most of the riders are still unsigned, every rider and team where out to do the best job possible as contract time was just around the corner.

The penultimate round of the Hannspree World Superbike Championship at Magny-Cours in France saw a weekend of frustration yield just a single point for the Kawasaki Superbike Racing Team duo of Broc Parkes and Sheridan Morais today.

Round eleven of the Hannspree World Superbike Championship proved to be one to forget for the Kawasaki Superbike Racing Team as they came away from the Nurburgring in Germany with just three points after a difficult weekend.

With Japanese rider Makoto Tamada returning after injury, and Australian Broc Parkes buoyed after a superb performance at the Brands Hatch BSB round where the team was guesting last month, the Paul Bird Motorsport Team was hoping to continue where they left off but it wasn't to be.

Paul Bird Motorsport rider Broc Parkes made the most of his guest appearance ride in round eight of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch this weekend by recording a hat trick of runner-up placings aboard the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R.