The next instalment of the Principal Insurance Masters Superbike Championship takes Ireland’s top Motorcycle Racers on to the Mondello Park International Track for the first time since the 2022 season finale. The longest Mondello Park layout always shakes up the results and the July 27^th and 28^th event should be no exception as the series completes the final event before the end of season Shoot-Out.

Backed by leading Motorcycle Insurance provider Principal Insurance, part of Howden, the 2024 Masters Championship has once again been a close and tense contest, particularly in Superbike and Supersport, where the top riders can barely be separated. July’s rounds 10, 11 and 12 will be a pivotal point in this years championship as once they are completed each rider must drop their lowest scoring weekend, before heading into the championship Shoot-Out over the final two events of the season.

In the Superbike class Waterford’s Brian McCormack, on the Roadhouse Macau BMW, leads the way by a single point, from the Daracore Racing Yamaha of Offaly’s Kevin Keyes with TAG VTL Honda mounted Kerryman Emmet O’Grady third. The Superbike Cup class is similarly close with Dubliner Declan Madden on the DM Groundworks BMW just six points clear of Wexford’s Ronan Waters. In Supersport the AKR Thomas Bourne Racing Honda team mates Emmet O’Grady and Oisin Maher are hot on the heels of Daracore Yamaha rider Keyes. All three have won races this year and the top three are separated by just four points heading into July’s races. The Supersport Cup battle is between Meath’s Jack Whearty and Wexford’s Brandon Kavanagh with relative newcomer Gary Reilly, from Meath, in third.

Across the support classes Brian O’Malley has marked himself out as one of the rising stars as the Mayo teenager sits second in the Moto 400 championship and also leads the DM Groundworks, Sorcon Plant and Motorland backed Future Stars Championship, for riders who are twenty years old and younger. In the Megabikes Ballymount Supertwin class Oisin Maher has emerged as the standout rider taking victory in eight of the nine races held so far with Dubliner Michael Sweeney the only rider who has got the better of the Tipperary youngster.

While Rounds 10, 11 and 12 take place on the longer International Track, spectators will still be able to follow more of the action than normal, with the Sunday livestream also being shown on the Megabikes Big Screen opposite the main straight Grandstand. As the season builds to a climax the screen will be in place for the first time at the July event and will then continue to be used for Sunday racing right through to the final event of the season.

Tickets for the July 27^th and 28^th Masters are now available, along with all of the event information, on www.masterssuperbike.ie.