Pirelli will continue to be the Presenting Sponsor and Sole Tyre Supplier for the MCE British Superbike Championship for the next five years.

The partnership between Pirelli and the BSB began in 2008 and the agreement covers the Superbike, Supersport, Superstock 1000 and 600 classes, plus sinlgle marque races including the Ducati TriOptions Cup.

Series organiser MotorSport Vision Racing aimed to continue the consistency and fairness that Pirelli, as the control tyre supplier, has given the series. It also retains the link between the World and British Superbike championships, as the World series has been supplied solely by Pirelli since 2004.

“Pirelli is very happy to continue their adventure in this prestigious championship for the next five seasons and to carry on the successful partnership with MSVR,” said Giorgio Barbier, racing activities director of Pirelli’s Business Unit Moto. “Year after year BSB has become a reference for all the other national championships and has also created some of the most important riders in the yearbook of the Superbike World Championship.

“The relationship between the production bike derived World Championship and the British Superbikes has always been strong as we can also notice from the nationality of the first four riders in the World Superbike Championship standings this year. They are all UK riders and all with a past in BSB and for us this is an important message: we will continue supporting promising riders, offering them the chance to do wild cards in some rounds of World Superbike so that they will have the possibility to show their talent to a worldwide audience.”