Antrim’s John Simpson picked up  his third consecutive win at Cadwell Park during round nine of the Metzeler National Superstock 600 Championship.

Despite difficult weather conditions the lively Ulsterman put his Trickbits T3 Racing Triumph on pole position and as the lights went out he settled into second place. By the end of lap one he had been pushed back to third place but that didn’t last for long as he returned to second a lap later.

He was just 0.04secs off the back of Josh Wainwright and made a decisive move to take the lead at the gooseneck. As he was getting in the groove the red flags came out halting the race due to an incident on track.

Simpson had to do it all again on the re-start which would see the race run over just seven laps. Once again he got away second but by three laps in he was in the lead by a good 2.32secs. He got his head down and gapped the chasing pack who were battling amongst themselves.

He won the race by 2.542secs and came over the line punching the air in delight.

Simpson said: ”I was a bit frustrated that we had a re-start but I got out there and did it. I go good at Cadwell, this is my third win here, but I can go well at the other rounds too, I’m not just a one trick pony. I’d like to thank T3 Racing, Tony Scott and Dave Harris for giving me a great bike. I’d also like to thank everyone who has helped out over this wet weekend it has been fantastic.”

Simpson will be back on track at Croft in North Yorkshire on the 10^th – 12^th September  for round ten of the Metzeler National Superstock Championship.

Source:  (Louise) Triumph Triple Challenge

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8th August 2010 – Ulster man John Simpson raced to second place aboard his Trickbits T3 Racing Triumph at round eight of the Metzeler National Superstock 600 Championship at Brands Hatch in Kent.

He put his machine on pole position with a superb lap time of 1min 30.776secs, the only rider to get into the 1min 30s. His nearest rival was Danny Buchan who was just 0.7secs off his time so it was a close run qualifying.

Off the line Simpson slotted into fourth place and started to work his way forward. By lap four he was into podium contention taking third place just as the Safety Car was deployed due to an incident on track.

When the Safety Car pulled in Simpson got stuck back into the race promoting himself to second place. He tailed race leader Buchan for five laps before overhauling him for the lead. Unfortunately for Simpson the red flag came out due to fluid on track, the race result was taken back a lap and he was relegated to second place.

Simpson said: “Qualifying was awesome I got pole by just 0.7secs, but the race, well I’ve just been robbed, I was in the lead when the red flag came out. The Triumph felt good so thanks to Dave Harris and Tony Scott at T3 Racing, they built me a really good bike. It was very slippery out there and the tyres were not coping with the heat. I had to change my riding style to deal with it. I felt smooth and when I got the opportunity I took the lead. I’m not happy to have missed out on the win but I guess these things happen.”

Simpson will be back on track at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire on the 28^th-30^thAugust for round nine of the Metzeler National Superstock 600 Championship.

Source:  Triumph Triple Challenge

6th August 2010 – Trickbits/T3 Racing’s John Simpson is back to unstoppable mode as he dominated every session that he took part in before taking pole position in the seventh round of the Metzeler national Superstock 600 championship at Brands Hatch.

Looking at the Antrim rider’s performance through the practice and qualifying session’s this season, he is a rider you would expect to have more than one win against his name, but race day just hasn’t gone his way. It seems that the team have finally turned a corner with resolving bike issues that allowed Simpson to take his second race win last week at Silverstone.

That form seems to have continued onto Brands. Simpson took pole by under seven tenths of a second after only doing four laps in a session that was approximately a 25 minutes session; and was the only rider to enter the 1’30s.

Simpson said: “We have got the bike setup better now, after Snetterton where we had a lot of problems with the clutch. At Knockhill, we had the two races cut down to one, but it was working well. I qualified second, as soon as I got off the line in the first race the clutch went, that ruined it for me, but I managed to hold on to eighth place, luckily it was wet.”

“At Snetterton we had the same problem in the first race and I had to pull out. In the second race we had even more bad luck. Off the line I was into second, by the end of two laps I was into first and I managed to pull a little bit of a gap; then the rear shock went so the tyre was ruined after that and I managed to hold onto fourth.”

“I got the bike sorted and ran at Aberdare Park races. I won two races and set the fastest lap of the weekend and was ready for Silverstone [BSB]. I won that and managed to get a two second gap and hold it to the end. This weekend I am looking for the win. If I get the hole shot at the start, I’ll just pull a gap, I am feeling pretty confident. Then I have my favourite track coming up, Cadwell.”

It is true what he says, and probably annoying to others, but whenever Simpsons resolves the issues with his Triumph, he wins. Simpson said: “If I hadn’t had any bad luck, not being big headed, I think I would be in the lead. The problems have made it really hard for me, but we’ve worked round them. We’ve sorted the bike out, the team has been fantastic and we’re not very fast. I am 25th in the speed traps [last sector]. I am just riding it well, the suspension is set up and I am really enjoy the way it is handling at the moment.”

Simpson, who also returns to the championship, this year admits the competition is ‘so crazy compared to last year’ and that ‘everybody has upped their game’. Off track he regular runs events to help raise funds to support his racing and to help him continue in some championship, unknown at this time, next year. But now his focus is on tomorrow and standing on the top step to gain maximum points towards the title chase, which he still thinks is ‘doable’.

Source: Bike Sport News (BSB Reporter Tammy Milsom)

1st August 2010 – John Simpson riding the Trickbits T3 Triumph took the victory in the seventh round of the Metzeler National Superstock 600 Championship, a race that had been held over from the weather and delay ravaged Oulton Park round of BSB back in May.

The starting grid for the race was as it would have been at the Cheshire circuit, putting Josh Day on pole, with Jimmy Hill alongside him on a front row completed by Simpson and Adam Lyon.  Behind them, Anthony Rogers, Matt Bilton, Conor Behan and Luke Stapleford lined up.

Day made the running from the start with Simpson just adrift and Behan, Hill, Danny Buchan and Stapleford chasing them hard but by the third lap, Behan was on the ascendancy, charging into the lead, though not for long before Simpson had nosed in front, making the move stick as he completed his second victory of the season.

Behan and Buchan traded places with Hill running consistently in fourth ahead of Day who was seeing his lead in the title stakes cut to 22 points by Team Green Kawasaki rider Buchan who was maintaining his rich vein of form with second place in a race stopped after eight laps when Matt Bilton tumbled, escaping serious injury in an incident that left his bike in a dangerous position on the circuit.

Behan took third from Hill, Day, Stapleford, Nikki Coates, Jonny Blackshaw, Josh Wainwright and James East who completed the top ten finishers. Liam Lyon, Tom  Young, Grant Whitaker, Rogers and Jonathan Lodge completed the points scorers.

Witnessing again the chaos in the final lap of the British Superbikes Superstock 600 race at Cadwell Park in 2010