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David McFadden (World
Superstock 1000)
Number: 69
Born: 04/05/1990
From: Cape Town
Bike: Agro On-Benjan-Kawasaki ZX-10R
Starting out at five years old, David
McFadden already has vast racing
experience. In 1995 he was racing PW
50’s. He moved his way up through almost
every class. 50cc, 60cc, 80cc, 125,
250, 450 right through to the National
Supersport 600 and 1000 classes. In 2014,
McFadden joined the FIM Superstock 1000
championship and finished 5th overall in
the championship with some fine results.
The 2015 season would not be as fruitful,
however he managed some respectable
top 20 results and has shown that he has
what it takes to race on the world’s biggest
stages.
2016
David McFadden was again a consistent
and solid performer during the season.
Let’s not forget that this is a guy that is
travelling to and from South Africa between
races that take place all over the world.
A seventeenth place finish in round 1 at
Aragon was followed up with an eighteenth
in round 2, the Dutch round. McFadden
had unfortunately finished outside the
points thus far, but not by much. He would
finish just one place outside the top fifteen
in the UK, narrowly missing out on his first
points of the season. Then coming home
in twenty-third in Italy. The Riviera di Rimini
round saw McFadden take twenty-sixth.
McFadden then took up a seat in the CEV
Championship with Team Tack Bosoli
Kawasaki. It was tough going for McFadden
as he picked up a couple DNF’s. Let’s
see what 2017 will have to offer for David
McFadden.
Bjorn Estment (British
SuperSport Championship)
Number: 27
Born: 11/08/1986
From: Johannesburg
Bike: East Coast Construction Racing
Triumph
Bjorn Estment has taken a different route
in his racing career to the others I have
mentioned thus far. Racing in South Africa
earlier in his career, Bjorn was Regional
600cc runner up and achieved fourth
the following year in the National 600cc
championship. He has since moved over
to the UK in order to further his career in
racing. In 2013 he was runner up in the
British Supersport Cup, further proving his
talents.
2016
It was a consistent season for Bjorn
Estment. Consistent may not be the word a
rider would like to be described by however,
with the quality and competitiveness of the
British Championship, mixing it up where
Bjorn has this season and as regularly as
he has, shows the ability he possesses.
Round 1 of the season was a sign of things
to come. Estment placed eleventh with a
small gap to the top ten. Round 2, and here
is where you can see the quality of riders
in the field. Estment placed tenth ahead
of a certain Ian Hutchinson. Round 3 and
another solid performance from Estment,
coming home in eleventh, that followed up
with a twelfth in round 4. Round 5 brought
about the first real disappointment of the
season, a DNF. This however would not
effect him much as he bounced back with
a brilliant seventh in round 6. Two thirteenth
place finishes is rounds 7 and 8 for Estment
and more points on the board, seven races
out of eight in the points. Estment would
improve again in round 9 with an eleventh
place finish. Rounds 11 and 12, the final
two rounds of the season saw Estment
finish strong with a tenth and fourteenth
respectively. Estment finished the season
fifteenth overall with seventy points.
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