Peter Hickman and Davey Todd have confirmed that they may proceed with the 8Ten Racing staff for the 2026 BSB season.
Hickman and Todd put collectively an 8Ten staff within the ultimate weeks of the 2025 preseason. The BSB marketing campaign then started after the FHO staff that each gamers have been scheduled to play for final season disappeared.
In highway racing, the staff had a powerful season, profitable the North West 200, Isle of Man TT, Southern 100 and Macau Grand Prix with the BMW M1000 RR. That is all due to Todd and Hickman, who have been each injured throughout the TT apply week.
However for BSB, like all BMW groups in 2025, the scenario was harder, with Todd, whose first full season within the Superbike class was in 2025, reaching a finest results of 14th place and scoring factors solely thrice, whereas Hickman, who missed a lot of the season because of the aforementioned damage, achieved a finest results of thirteenth place.
Regardless of the challenges of the quick circuit in 2025, Hickman is optimistic that he can count on higher efficiency within the 2026 season.
“I am actually trying ahead to 2026,” he mentioned. “2025 was a whole rush for us, particularly originally of the season, however we instantly confirmed a number of promise by nearly reaching a PB (private finest lap) at Oulton Park and matching our private finest lap at Donington Park, regardless of having by no means been on a motorbike earlier than the primary spherical.
“That allowed us to enhance fairly a bit, however clearly I had a reasonably severe damage on the TT, which was actually disappointing, for lots of causes, after all, as a result of I felt the very best I’d felt shortly on a Superbike throughout the apply week.”
Hickman continued: “The staff has achieved a terrific job all season and BSB particularly is clearly very tough, however we’re actually trying ahead to doing a number of testing and getting some good outcomes on the bike earlier than going to the primary spherical in 2026. It is nice to have the help of BMW once more. We are the official staff for BSB, the North West 200 and the Isle of Man TT, so that is clearly good for us.”
Chatting with Crash.web on the penultimate spherical of the 2025 season at Oulton Park, Davey Todd urged he may not return to BSB subsequent yr. This finally proved to be clearly not the case, with the British rider aiming to enhance his efficiency in his second full season with BSB.
“It has been a terrific first season for 8Ten Racing,” he mentioned. “It hasn’t been with out its ups and downs, however the entire staff has achieved a terrific job and I’m extraordinarily pleased with everybody concerned in making it occur.
“The roads have been nice and I received the NW200, TT, Southern 100 and Macau GP. I actually couldn’t have requested for extra!”
“BSB was difficult for us and we didn’t have teammates for a lot of the yr, however we’re working onerous to maneuver ahead and be much more aggressive in 2026. I can’t wait to be again trackside with the complete 8Ten Racing staff quickly.”
Group supervisor Darren Jones added that the staff will obtain extra help from BMW in 2026 and {that a} full pre-season will put the staff in higher form to start out the 2026 season.
“After a really busy 2025, we’re actually excited and looking out ahead to 2026,” he mentioned.
“There have been many ups and downs, however general, constructing a staff from scratch in a brief time period and making it to the primary spherical of BSB was an achievement in itself.
“BSB’s season has actually been tough with Pete (Peter Hickman) sadly lacking a big a part of the season and Davey (Todd) in his first full season on this class, however he regularly turned extra comfy and confirmed enchancment all through.
“With a full season of winter testing deliberate and elevated help from BMW, we’re assured that we are able to hit the bottom operating this time and be in a greater place. On the highway, we took wins and podiums at each assembly we took half in final yr, which was actually nice and a testomony to the entire staff.”
“We couldn’t have made it by means of 2025 with out our nice sponsors and suppliers. We wish to thank them, particularly BMW Motorrad, for his or her continued belief and help and for supporting us all through.”
