After team boss Paul Bird had recently spoken about replacing James Ellison with Shane Byrne for the next round at Le Mans, talking to the media at the British Superbike round in Oulton Park, the team has now issued an official statement denying this and confirming that James Ellison will indeed continue to ride for [...]
Britain’s James Ellison’s quest for his and the PBM UK team’s first points of the 2012 MotoGP World Championship season continues after the 31-year-old from Kendal retired with ten laps to go in yesterday’s Portuguese Grand Prix. Aboard the CRT specification Aprilia ART, the former double European and World Endurance Champion struggled with set up [...]
PBM UK rider James Ellison saw his and his team’s hopes of an encouraging result dashed when he was forced to retire from today’s Spanish GP at Jerez less than two laps from the finish. After qualifying on the final row of the grid due to a couple of problems in practice as well as [...]
PBM UK rider James Ellison hopes to put into practice the experiences of the opening round in Qatar when he contests round two of the MotoGP World Championship in Jerez this weekend. The 31-year-old from Kendal returned to the Grand Prix arena for the first time since 2006 at the opening round where he brought [...]
Britain’s James Ellison got the Paul Bird Motorsport Team’s latest venture underway with a solid finish in round one of the MotoGP World Championship in Qatar. Aboard the CRT-specification Aprilia ART, the 31-year-old Cumbrian and the PBM UK team headed by Phil Borley, continued their on-going development work at the Losail circuit and emerged with [...]
Cumbrian James Ellison returns to the Grand Prix arena for the first time since 2006 this weekend where he will kick off a brand new era for the Paul Bird Motorsport Team. The 31-year-old from Kendal will be in action in the opening round of the MotoGP World Championship in Qatar where he will race [...]
Five and a half years after his last ride on a MotoGP bike when he was a Tech3 Yamaha team rider in 2006 James Ellison concluded his first two days of testing the MotoGP CRT bike he will ride for the British Paul Bird Motorsports team in 2012. Ellison and his team spent the first [...]
Finally joining the new Claiming Rule Team bikes on track during the second day of testing at the Jerez Circuit was Briton James Ellison of the Paul Bird Motorsport Team, who today made his first laps on the ART bike ahead of his return to the World Championship five years after finishing his last race [...]
With the opening round of the 2012 MotoGP™ season just six weeks away, several MotoGP CRTs shared the Jerez circuit today in a private test that continues through Wednesday. Monday at the Circuito de Jerez closed with a private test that saw several CRT (Claiming Rule Team) riders aboard the bikes that will debut in [...]