Peter Hickman signs Superbike deal for 2021 road races and British Superbike Championship

The 33-year-old, who set the world’s fastest road racing lap at 136.415mph on his way to winning a record seven races at last year’s Ulster Grand Prix, has been competing under the Global Robots BMW banner this year with the Smiths Racing team.

Hickman has enjoyed stellar success with the family-run Gloucester-based outfit in recent years, celebrating race wins at the North West 200, Isle of Man TT, Ulster GP and Macau Grand Prix, and reaching the BSB Showdown three times on BMW S1000RR machinery.

However, it is unclear whether or not that partnership will continue next year, with Hickman stating that all will be revealed soon.

He said: “2020 definitely hasn’t gone the way we had hoped. It has been a really tough year for us, but we’ve had three incredible seasons recently where we’ve been very lucky so I guess we were due some bad luck, so you’ve got to take the rough with the smooth and 2020 was probably the best time to have it.

“It’s a shame we haven’t been able to showcase our full potential this year but we’re all heading to Brands ready to end the season on a bit of a high.

“Having a contract in place for next season already is brilliant and means I can head into the off-season focusing solely on next year.”

The North West 200 and TT were cancelled this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while Hickman is also set to miss the Macau Grand Prix in China in November, which is hanging in the balance after many of the leading names due to compete in the 54th edition of the famous motorcycle race have withdrawn.

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