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Buckmaster sees a whole new set of challenges ahead

Wednesday, 9 January 2013 17:08 GMT
Buckmaster sees a whole new set of challenges ahead

Performance Technical Racing (PTR) have been so far one of the major players in the Supersport World Championship and, over the years, the racing teams in the series have provided some of the most talented names in the sport - as an example Eugene Laverty, Jules Cluzel and Sam Lowes - with strong performing machineries to successfully participate in this highly competitive series.


As SBK saw a recent change in management Simon Buckmaster, PTR Team Manager, shared his own thoughts on which direction the series should take for the future. In his ideal recipe there are, though, two modifications that have been introduced for the past season: 'Engine rules for me are good as they are" says Buckmaster "as they allow all makes to be competitive and in the case of Supersport is only really cylinder head tuning - so not an expensive part of racing. [...] We all are wary of change but as we have seen with the one bike rule, it reduced the cost of racing and made it possible for teams like us to run more riders out of one truck, allowing more teams in and rejuvenated the grid in Supersport'.


PTR will contest the upcoming World Supersport season with a completely new rider line-up, that once again will be a good mix of experience and youth: 'It will be hard to repeat the fantastic job we all did as a team with Cluzel and Lowes' he admits 'but I sincerely believe that Sheridan Morais will be a major player and young matt Davies will go from strength to strength.'


'Luca Marconi will take a big step forward in our team and David Linortner after his impressive wild card 8th place at the Nurburgring will be working hard to carry that type of performance to all the circuits this year. Nacho Calero Perez was running very well in Stock 600 last year until injury set him back and we will all be right behind him as he makes his debut in WSS.  There will be no pressure on him so we will target points to start with and build form there'.