January 2008 saw the Knight Road Race Team gearing up for a completely new challenge. Having competed for the last three years in the Desmo Due Ducati classes hosted by New Era, the team had kept a very good record throughout this period with their 2 aircooled Ducati's, culminating in winning the Class A championship and also coming 3rd in Class B at the close of the 2007 season.

The team decided to move on to a bigger capacity class, thus giving chief mechanic Alan a new challenge mechanically. Moving to a completely new race promoter for 2008: 'ThundersportGB', to compete in their newly created Junior Powerbike class, which allows up to 80bhp at the rear wheel, many engine mods, as well as the freedom of choice for tyres etc has already proven to be a very enjoyable experience for the team. With only 11 rules for the class there is pretty much a free rein for such items as engines, suspension, tyres etc!

Paul Martin (aka Bones) is back in the seat, this time on a higher capacity Ducati Monster – still proudly displaying his cherished #39. The Team warmly welcomed Clinton 'Clint' Tarnowsky in mid January. Having taken two seasons off the race track, Clint has taken up the reins on a vastly upgraded 'Tango' – previously the championship winning 620 Ducati Monster in 2007. AK & CK complete the team – with AK doing most of the spannering and CK managing the team logistics and financial affairs as usual.

26th August 2008: EXCITING NEWS
We have fantastic news that 50% of the team will be racing at the World Superbike meeting at Donington on 4th - 7th Sept. Clint has been offered a place on the grid in the support races - in the GP1/Sound of Thunder races. Due to the supreme kindness of David Pratt (one of the K RR teams sponsors), Clint will be lining up on David's 2007 Buildbase 1098 bike in the Sound of Thunder Races, with AK & I there as 'support crew'. This is so exciting and also rather scarey at the same time for us all, as we are looking forwards to the circus that is WSB but also keeping in mind the financial implications of such a meeting too. Clint will be going up from his regular 78bhp ride on Tango - to 186bhp on Daves 1098!! However, Clint is looking forwards to this challenge as he used to ride the big watercooled bikes in South Africa and did rather well on them there. Clint is a Ducati technician working at P & H in Crawley, so also has to ride shop and customer bikes for PDI/Service work etc. We all appreciate, that as we do not have any tracktime for set up between now & next week that Clint & the bike will not have time to get to know each other, so this may not produce good results - but what an opportunity!! Clint has 30 mins qualifying on the Friday, then a race on Saturday and also the Sunday. We would love to offer tickets to all our sponsors and friends but we are at present limited with paddock passes. UPDATE: Dismal set up saw Clint Qualify 31st on the grid on the GP circuit in the GP1/SOT class on the Friday in torrential rain. Change of rear shock spring and other adjustments brought Clint a 21st place on the Saturday, followed by 13th place on the Sunday, also coming 3rd over all in the SOT class with a 2nd best speed of  233.9 in the class, and a best lap time of 1.48.682 and this was on a rain sodden track. There was great delight from us all when Clint got called up onto the podium to collect his trophy.