The 2026 Ulster Superbike Championship is just around the corner, and it’s time to take a first look at what lies ahead. With another season of top-class racing planned across the Kirkistown and Bishopscourt Circuits the championship is set to deliver plenty of fast, competitive action.
Below you will find the provisional 2026 calendar, full details of each event and the round name will be available as soon as it is released on the TBNI.Blog Road Racing Calendar…
The Sunflower Trophy signifies the end of the Northern Irish motorcycle racing calendar, with the final round of the Ulster Superbike Championship and was held this year on the weekend of 18th and 19th October 2024 at Bishopscourt Circuit, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
Things kick off on the 16th March 2024 with Round 1 of the Championship at Bishopscourt and concludes on 19th October 2024 with the Sunflower Trophy. There are nine further events during the season between Kirkistown and Bishopscourt to keep you entertained and none of those will clash with Cookstown, the North West or Armoy.
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The event will be held at the Bishopscourt Race Circuit, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland on 3rd and 4th August 2024.
To wet your appetite the 2023 festival featured over 230riders on 280bikes on track over the weekend.
The packed programme is likely to follow on from the last year’s event and should include classic racing, sidecars, parade laps and modern race bikes. Some superb racing is also expected and after last year’s exciting events there will surely be something for all motorcycle race fans to enjoy.
The 2023 Sunflower Trophy was held at Bishopscourt Race Circuit on 21st and 22nd October 2023 and marks the end of the Ulster Superbike Championship.
With horrendous weather stopping activities on Friday 20th October 2023 (main qualifying day) the organisers made the difficult (but absolutely correct decision) to amend the schedule, cancelling the Friday sessions and moving them to the Saturday. The Saturday’s schedule was then shifted to Sunday.
The result was two excellent (maybe a little chilly, but we can’t complain about that) days that enabled the full schedule to run and 2 brilliant days of track racing action to wind up the 2023 Season.
TBNI.Blog is happy to bring you an absolutely huge gallery from the 2023 Sunflower Trophy Races.
Over 450 photos are on the Official TBNI Facebook Page, the album is public so you don’t have to ‘Like’ the Page, but of course that would be very welcome too!
I was unlucky, in that I was only able to visit on the Sunday, but the overall set up was excellent. I have also heard and read only positive things for the live entertainment on the Friday and Saturday evenings and on may arrival on Sunday I couldn’t help but feel a little jealous of all the campers and campervans that were parked up for the weekend and had had the opportunity to enjoy the previous evenings’ entertainment.
As for the Sunday event. It was great. From things getting underway at around 09:30 am there was rarely a time that there was not bikes on the circuit, and there is the secret to a good biking event – get bikes out there and keep things moving.
The only noticeable break, was for lunch, and I am a big fan of how Bishopscourt plans a lunch break, it means you don’t have to decide what session you are going to miss.
Paddock, parade laps and racing…
A quick walk through the paddock early on Sunday morning was a mixture of bikes getting prepped and bacon baps getting made. Bacon, brown sauce and fumes… What more do you want on a Sunday morning?
In 2018 The Revival Racing Motorcycle Club was founded when Phillip McCallen and Robin Titterington decided to turn their shared interests into an official Motorcycle Club. After a couple of quick meetings, we were on our way to creating something extraordinary – The Classic Bike Festival Ireland.
https://www.classicbikefestireland.com
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