HAWK RACING SUPERBIKE STALWARTS
The Buildbase Suzuki BSB team, run by Hawk Racing are set to take on the BSB 2019 championship with Brad Ray and Luke Stapleford, but it’s taken 20 years for Hawk Racing to get to where they are today; they have had plenty of success but a few tricky seasons along the way. After a strong 2018 season in the British Superbike Championship which saw Ray securing a place in The Showdown, finally finishing sixth in the championship and teammate Rich Cooper ending the season in twelfth place, we caught up with Steve Hicken, boss of the Mallory Park based Superbike team.
Hawk Racing has been a pretty big name in the British Superbike Championship for a lot of years now, but we wanted to know where it all started.
“It all started with my old man in 1999, or that’s when Hawk Racing started anyway,” said Steve. “He had done loads of racing and decided to come back to the paddock as a team principal. We won the privateers cup straight away in 1999 with a lad called Phil Giles, just running out the back of a Transit van and working from home. A few years later in 2002 there was an opportunity to become the lead Kawasaki team but things really took off when Glen (Richards) joined the team in 2003, even though we were still on the underpowered 750. We got the new ZX-10R in 2004 and Scott Smart took the first ever race win on it which was a really
