The 28 year-old British rider, Shane Byrne will ride Troy Bayliss’s yellow Honda in the next two rounds of the World Championship, at Sepang and Doha.

As the team await the return of Troy Bayliss, and after this weekend’s appearance of HRC’s official rider Tohru Ukawa, it will be the young Englishman, who is in his second year of MotoGP, who will ride in Camel Honda team colours for the next two events.

“To ride one of the Camel Honda team’s bikes is a massive opportunity which makes me very proud indeed, and I will give everything to show my true potential. I will meet up with the team on Tuesday in Sepang, a track I know quite well after having tested there a few times. I haven’t ever ridden in Qatar so I’ll have to try and get a good feel for the track early on there.”

Details:

Date of birth: December 10th, 1976
Place of birth: Lambeth, UK
Marital status: Single
Hobby: Motocross, physical training

Career:

1988
Trial debut – takes part in 4 events, winning one.

1993
Moves on to Motocross – wins four races in five hard months

1996
Debuts in road-racing with a Kawasaki.

1997
Supersport Club Races – Wins Cadwell Park race and is 1st in championship

1998
British Supersport Championship – Wins at Snetterton and finishes 6th in championship

1999
British Superbike Championship – 15th in championship

2000
British Superbike Championship – 14th in championship

2001
British Superbike Championship – 8th in championship

2002
British Superbike Championship – 4th in championship

2003
British Superbike Champion – Wins the two Brands Hatch World Superbike races as wild card

2004
MotoGP World Championship – Aprilia

2005
MotoGP World Championship – Proton KTM