Six mm for a championship

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The English Championship Superbikes, BSB, arrived in the last race at Brands Hatch with our famous John Hopkins (Samsung Crescent Racing Suzuki) preceding the Tommy Hill (Swan Yamaha) by just two points in the Rankings. It was clear that the battle between them would be defined by a single parameter: Who will finish ahead of another.

The third classification, Shane Burne (HM Plant Honda) went ahead to an easy victory, leaving the two gladiators of the title to fight in the third and fourth position for each victory. In the second half of the race both cleared the James Ellison (Sorrymate.com Honda) to carry hot duel in the two lower positions of the pedestal.

The wood was abundant and the two continued to battle turn-turn ever, changing places with each other until the second last bend of the track, where the Hill passed for the last time Hopkins and reached the checkered flag with six milliseconds forefront of his opponent. The photo finish shows how great spectacle offered by the two riders in a league that does not resemble anything in the World and especially with the ineffable boredom of the MotoGP usually considered closed even before the first third of each match.

Although he lost the title to this, exciting for the audience too bitter for him, so, this year can be considered quite successful for John Hopkins, who managed to make a resounding comeback after a disastrous four years and while the whole world considered him finished.

Now his name playing too hard to return to MotoGP, as the two wild card appearances with Suzuki this year showed how talented and fast is (when not injured). Has a very strong candidate for the team LCR Honda, so strong that the Lucio Cecchinello not hesitated to declare publicly that the preference by Andrea Dovizioso-as the U.S. accompanied by personal sponsored by Monster. I think it is highly likely if not inevitable, to see him in 2012 to a group of MotoGP.