Team news and race reports from NP Racing, plus press coverage from the wider BSB paddock — with links back to original reporting where we're referencing it.
Australian Brayden Elliott will return to NP Racing for the 2027 ZYN British Superbike Championship, with a change of manufacturer to be announced in due course.
The 2026 British Superbike Championship is done. A year of challenges ended on a massive high at Brands Hatch, with a team that started the season as new faces and finished it as a race family.
NP Racing's best weekend yet: quickest lap of the weekend in warm-up, a 1:29.1 personal best in the sprint race and a row gained on the grid for Race 3, which ended in a non-start after a technical problem on the out lap.
Invited to speak at Breakthrough T1D UK's biggest ever Discovery Day, I gave two talks — one to young people on the Young Person's Pathway, and one on a panel for parents and adults living with Type 1 diabetes.
A technical issue in qualifying, an overnight gearbox change and a late fuel pump failure made for a bruising Round 8 at Cadwell Park — but the team kept the bike on the grid for every session and picked up another finish in the sprint race.
Brayden Elliott bettered his Brands Hatch personal best in a strong Round 5 sprint race, before a Race 3 crash at Stirlings ended the weekend early while running P18. NP Racing thanks Tim Gibson of Tidan Ltd for his help across the round.
A gearbox issue and a hose clip failure cost the team track time on Friday at Snetterton, but NP Racing fought back to a first point of the season in Race 1 before late retirements in the sprint race and Race 3.
Rain kept pushing the team back at a Donington Park test day, forcing a paid-for evening session just to get Brayden out on track. It turned into the day NP Racing first met Brayden and Ted — and the day the race family started.
