BSB 2024 Grids

If PBM decide not to continue, that is going to throw a spanner in the works BIG time. For me own personal thoughts, maybe they won't continue as they are now but maybe continue as either a whole new entity or split into two seperate teams.
The way things are going in BSB, i think the days of big teams are almost over, McAms are folding at the end of the year, so for what i would class as a big team that only leaves FS-3, Honda, OMG and PBM. TAS have been a one rider team this season and everyone else is running a much much smaller budget these days for obvious reasons and i think the likes of Moto Rapido, Kent Lovell, Mar Train etc will be the way forward for the future

So it looks like IWR are stepping up to BSB with a Pathway spec Fireblade ridden by Alex Olson - certainly for the last two rounds but i expect them to be on the grid next year.
Same goes for Marvel/HCL with Franco Bourne
I think this is going to be the future of BSB, single rider teams on the less powerful bikes leaving the likes of FHO, Honda UK and PBM IF they continue as the big teams.

Exactly and it doesn't mean they are bad riders, i still maintain that Kennedy is one of the best riders of a 600 anywhere right now.

Kent has been announced as riding for Mar Train Yamaha for 2024, good ride for Danny is that.

Good, would love to see them get a 10th title for her dad to cement his legacy

As someone mentioned above, they can only run this spec for one year and then have to step up to full superbike spec if they want to stay in BSB of course. I guess if it proves too expensive they could always step down to Superstock again but i doubt they would then get the Pathway option a second time but who knows. It's certainly going to make the series interesting next year, battles all over the place and if we get some nasty weather, who knows, maybe a Pathway bike could mix it up with the full on Superbikes.
Didn't i read somewhere that at last years TT Hicky ran a Superstock engine in his Superbike chassis as it meant he could go all but flat out when he needed to whereas the full on Superbike he couldn't?

FS-3 has gone from Cheshire Mouldings FS-3 to Completely Motorcycles FS-3 with a new title sponsor

I'm fairly sure i either read somewhete or heard somewhere - possibly from Birdy himself - that it isn't family money that runs PBM. Maybe in the beginning it might have been but it has to stand on it's own two feet, as a seperate entity not part of the family business.

It's a bit of a kick in the nuts though, wins the tilte - just - and knows he is already out of a job at the team.
Wonder who they will get to partner Glenn if that is the case? Lee Jackson? Jack Kennedy?

That's all allwoing for Tommy going to Honda if the rumour is true but you have to think that Honda will definitely be up to the front of the field next year, two years as also runs won't sit well.

I think the best relationship he had with a team was with Moto Rapido/Oxford Products, he was there for what was it? 3 seasons? Last year he was top performing Ducati if i remember rightly so he was obviously at home there but i can see him being difficult to manage and he's ridden for a few teams over the years
Vivaldi
Didn't he ride for TAS at one point?
I remember him riding for Milwaukee Yamaha in 2013 but was that the year he was seat warmer in three different teams?

I do like him but it's a reaction to his time with NB Suzuki when his brother was still alive but i can also see why people like Gelnn Irwin too, he came across far more mature after their Donington incident and yes, did seem like Jordan was in Glenn's pit garage but maybe they've put their efforts behind him going forward and it's their team so they can do whatever they decide is right for the team.
I can also see Tommy calling it a day before long, i know he said he wants to defend the title next year but everything he's done has leading up to this point and now he's achieved what he said he wanted to, what is there left to do?

I think a lot of that is that Glenn is a publicists dream, he talks about the race, he praises the bike and the team, he isn't tattooed, he doesn't ramble on about weird things, for want of a better phrase he is professional.
Tommy on the other hand is a wildcard, always has been and always will be. Not that he isn't professional but he isnt a professional if that makes sense.
He waffles on about all sorts of things, mentions the team now and then, occasionally slips a bit of profanity in when he is excited and teams don't necessarily want that these days. I guess in a way he is a throw back to the bygone days of James Hunt and his badge that read
Sex, The breakfast of Champions
But like i said, he is professional, he's just a different kind of professional to Glenn.

If that all makes sense.