Team owner Jason McCaw has high hopes for 2021 after unveiling new three-man team for Ulster short circuit assault

McCaw has been building team’s presence over the past number of years and has been involved with a number of high-profile riders.

J McC Racing was instrumental in Carl Phillip’s 2019 Ulster Superbike title success, with the Lisburn rider winning every race he started on the team’s 1000cc Suzuki bar one before they parted company.

Former Grand Prix winner Jeremy McWilliams and top road racer Derek McGee also rode in the J McC Racing livery in partnership with Ryan Farquhar’s KMR outfit in 2019.

Lynn, who won the Ulster Supersport title for the fourth season in succession in 2018, will ride a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the Superbike class and showed his credentials at Kirkistown in September, where he was right in the mix at the front with big guns Derek Sheils and Michael Dunlop.

Teenager Dawson, who finished fourth overall in the British Junior Supersport Championship this year, twice finishing on the rostrum on a KMR Kawasaki, will ride a Kawasaki ZX-6 in the Ulster Supersport series. The Killyman rider will also continue racing in the Junior Supersport class in England in 2021.

Team owner Jason McCaw revealed that a third rider, Glenn Walker, will join Lynn in the Ulster Superbike Championship on a Kawasaki ZX-10, while the former Manx Grand Prix competitor will also contest a number of road races, including the North West 200.

McCaw told the News Letter he rates Lynn as the favourite for the USBK title next year, despite the Co Londonderry rider’s lack of experience on Superbike machinery.

“Jason Lynn made the step up to the Superbike class this year and immediately proved himself at Kirkistown, when he run with Derek Sheils and Michael Dunlop,” he said.

“I made my decision there and then and got in contact with him and that was it.

“I think Jason will win the title because there’s nobody of his class and talent. To do what he did in his first race on a Superbike against those guys was something else.

“Cameron is going to do the whole Supersport championship if it works out that he can, because there’s usually one round of the British that clashes.

“It’s a big stepping stone for him because the Supersport machine is a fully-tuned 175mph bike, but he rode a 650cc Supertwin and was quite good on that at the Sunflower [in 2019]. I’ve been sponsoring Cameron for a year or two now and I thought it would be good to give him a shot because he’s definitely got the talent and he’s a big prospect,” McCaw added.

“Glenn Walker is going to do a bit of road racing for us and he’s never really had the opportunity to ride a really good bike before. The ’stock bike that he’s on might as well be a Superbike because there’s been so much money spent on it, so it will be a good chance for him next year.”

Only one short circuit meeting was held in 2020 at Kirkistown in Co Down in September as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Next year, the Ulster Superbike Championship is tentatively scheduled to commence at Bishopscourt on March 23 against the backdrop of ongoing restrictions caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.

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