Six Brits in ’07 GPs

Six British riders will race in next year’s three GP world championships.

The FIM announced the provisional 2007 entry list today, though it doesn’t yet feature Jeremy McWilliams, who will be Britain’s lone MotoGP representative having clinched a deal with the Ilmor X3 squad yesterday.

Teen sensation Bradley Smith will continue under the wing of Spanish mentor Alberto Puig in the Repsol Honda 125 squad, while he will be joined by Danny Webb, who is set to graduate from the hugely successful MotoGP Academy.

Webb will ride for the Dutch Arie Molenaar Racing Honda squad.

In the 250 class, Eugene Laverty will be joined by Winona WCM duo Kev Coghlan and Dan Linfoot. Coghlan is another product of the MotoGP Academy while Linfoot will race full-time in 2007 having made several promising wild card appearances last season. Coghlan and Linfoot will ride Aprilia machines, while Laverty will race a Honda  for Lucio Cecchinellio’s LCR squad, that will run Spaniard Carlos Checa in MotoGP.

The new season gets underway at the Losail circuit in Qatar on March 10.