28 riders are confirmed for the 2018 Bennetts BSB season: 2018 ENTRY LIST TEAM // MANUFACTURER // RIDER // NATIONALITY // NUMBER Be Wiser // Ducati // Shane Byrne // Great Britain // 67 Be Wiser // Ducati // Glenn Irwin // Great Britain // 2 Buildbase // Suzuki // Richard Cooper // Great Britain // 47 Buildbase // Suzuki // Bradley Ray // Great Britain // 28 CF Motorsport // Yamaha // Kyle Ryde // Great Britain // 77 FS3 Racing // Kawasaki // Danny Buchan // Great Britain // 83 Gearlink // Kawasaki // Carl Phillips // Great Britain // 32 Honda Racing // Honda // Dan Linfoot // Great Britain // 4 Honda Racing // Honda // Jason O'Halloran // Australia // 22 JG Speedfit // Kawasaki // Leon Haslam // Great Britain // 91 JG Speedfit // Kawasaki // Luke Mossey // Great Britain // 12 McAMS // Yamaha // Josh Brookes // Australia // 25 McAMS Yamaha // Tarran Mackenzie // Great Britain // 95 Moto Rapido Racing // Ducati Taylor Mackenzie // Great Britain // 24 Movuno.com Halsall Racing // Suzuki Tommy Bridewell // Great Britain // 46 OMG Racing // Suzuki // Gino Rea // Great Britain // 44 Platform Hire Yamaha // Aaron Zanotti // Great Britain // 64 PR Racing Lloyd & Jones Bowker // BMW Jakub Smrz // Czech Republic // 96 RAF Regular & Reserves // Kawasaki Jake Dixon // Great Britain // 27 Ridersmotorcycles.com // BMW Martin Jessop // Great Britain // 40 Silicone Engineering Racing // Kawasaki Dean Harrison // Great Britain // 5 Smiths Racing // BMW // Peter Hickman // Great Britain // 60 Smiths Racing // BMW // Sylvain Barrier // France // 20 TAG Racing // Yamaha // James Ellison // Great Britain // 11 TAG Racing // Yamaha // Shaun Winfield // Great Britain // 8 Tyco // BMW // Michael Laverty // Great Britain // 7 Tyco // BMW // Christian Iddon // Great Britain // 21 WD40 // Kawasaki // Mason Law // Great Britain // 55
What will John Hopkins be doing this year? I know he got injured last year but was he let go from Moto Rapido or what??
Seems he has a gig as a test rider: https://www.gpone.com/en/2018/01/09/sbk/the-e-superbike-on-track-with-guintoli.html
Sylvain Guintoli will be an official Suzuki MotoGP test rider during 2018 and is expected to make some wild-card appearances.