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Paul Bird Motorsport is a British motorcycle road racing and rallying organisation. The owner Paul Bird competes as a rally driver and was formerly a competitor in motocross. The team competes in the British Superbike Championship, and managed the Kawasaki World Superbike team until 2011. They competed in the 2012 MotoGP season with an ART-Aprilia bike entered to CRT regulations ridden by James Ellison. The team competed with riders Michael Laverty and Broc Parkes in the 2014 MotoGP season before disbanding to concentrate on British Superbikes. They also competed in the 2014 British Superbike Championship as a two-rider team with Shane Byrne and Stuart Easton on board Kawasakis. Also in 2014 Ian Hutchinson joined Paul Bird Motorsport for a few rounds of Pirelli National Superstock 1000 competition on the Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki team, after which he again competed in the Macau road GP on Shane Byrne's superbike, but without his previous year's success, overshooting a corner and retiring after a low-speed fall.〔(Stuart Easton wins Macau GP ) MC News Retrieved 23 April 2015〕 The race was won by PBM rider Stuart Easton. For 2015 Hutchinson competed in selected BSB rounds and Paul Bird's first foray into racing on closed public roads in UK, involving the North West 200 and the Ulster Grand Prix in Northern Ireland and also in the Isle of Man TT races, where he won three TT races and a TT Championship.〔(Hutchinson ready to fight for the TT crown in 2015 ) Bikesport News, 20 October 2014, Retrieved 23 April 2015〕〔(2015 Supersport TT Race 1 results ) Retrieved 29 September 2015〕〔(2015 Supersport TT Race 2 results ) Retrieved 29 September 2015〕〔(2015 Superstock TT race results ) Retrieved 29 September 2015〕 On 16th October 2015 Paul Bird Motorsport announced their partnership with Be Wiser Insurance and that the BSB team for 2016 would consist of four-time BSB champion Shane Byrne and Glenn Irwin, riding Ducati Panigale Rs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PBM announce Be Wiser, Ducati and Irwin for 2016 )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Bird Motorsport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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