James Toseland took another step towards relaising his dream of wining his second World Superbike title by claiming his first ever Double in front of a spectacular 126,000 people at a sweltering Brand Hatch.  The weekend was almost perfect for all Brits in attendance, at one of the best Motorcycle racing venues in the world.  Toseland looked comfortable and proved the time to make the move to MotoGP is now with two dominant wins to thrill the UK crowd.  I say almost perfect as the Brits didn’t manage to make a clean sweep of victories in the 3 big races as the talented Craig Jones lost control of his Honda at Clearways while leading the Supersport, although it was not all doom and gloom as Tommy Hill managed to finish a fine 5^th in his first ever World Supersport outing.

A mention must go out to Max Biaggi who rode fantastic all weekend on a Track he had never even see before he arrive earlier in the week, to get a rostrum in the first race and controversially loose out on the possibility of a second rostrum in Race 2 due to what seemed like a very harsh decision to award him a ride through penalty showed the Italians class.  I didn’t understand why Bayliss was not given a ride through in race 1, as he appeared to move twice the distance that Biaggi did for the infringement that was punished!  However Bayliss did crash, my mate Gray Silva who was with us at Brands actually believes that all the Ducati riders are currently being paid big bonuses to hold back and not do anything this year to help get he new 1098cc Ducati in Superbike next year, ha !!

The title is possibly completely now in the hands of Toseland as his rivals have fallen by the wayside over the last 2 Rounds over which Toseland has racked up 3 wins, a second to extend his lead to 66 points.

Congratulations from Bike-Racing.net to Kenan Sofuoglu who secured the Supersport World Championship by finishing second in the World Supersport race, he really has dominated this year although it may be argued that he hasn’t really had any consistent challengers but still respect is due and many rumours are around suggesting he could make the jump to WSBK for 08 although I am not convinced, I think it depends on if the team are planning on keeping Rolfo as they need someone on the HANNspree Honda who is capable of winning the WSBK crown next year and I don’t believe Rolfo or Kenan Sofuoglu at his first attempt will be able to achieve this.  Maybe this will open up an oppertunity for Hodgson who would fit the bill at HANNspree Honda although he is also rumoured to be linking up with Foggy on the MV's.

Also this weekend it was announced that Corona would be withdrawing all support from Motorsport at the end of this season, next year the WSBK rounds in the UK will be sponsored by Bennett’s. Corona have been in the series in some form for 10 years.  The best reason I can come up with for them withdrawing came from Carol, who writes Caz’s corner and she reckons it because everyone’s tried it now and Corona’s work at WSBK is done !!