Bryne: BSB rules make it impossible to escape

The new rules introduced last year into the British Superbike championship have made the series so equal that it’s now almost impossible for a rider to win a race by a big margin.

That’s the view of series leader Shane Byrne, who says that the new rules, introduced to bring down costs in the domestic series, have created a better championship for fans.

The rules see all machines running much closer to stock parts, including a control ECU like the one being introduced to MotoGP for 2014, and has saw five manufacturers make the Showdown; the Kawasaki of Byrne, Hondas of Alex Lowes and Ryuichi Kiyonari, Suzuki of Josh Brookes, Yamaha of James Ellison and BMW of James Westmoreland.

After one of the closest races in years between Byrne and Alex Lowes at Assen, the triple champion told MCN: “You have to take your hats off to the organisers. They’ve created a set of rules that are so level now – there was a time when someone could disappear up a track by two or three seconds, but that’s gone now”

“Myself or Alex, James [Ellison], Josh [Brookes]; we’re all so level that none of us can get away in a race now. It means there’s going to be five tough races to come.”

See next Wednesday October 2nd’s MCN for the latest from Alex Lowes on his race two collision with Byrne.