CLIENTS
SHAKEY Says
“2024 is going to be a good year for all three SixtySeven sports management riders this year, I have high expectations for the three of them, continuity will play a big part in a consistent challenge mounted by each of them in their respective Championships and teams..”
BRADLEY RAY
- British Superbike Champion 2022
SHAKEY Says
“Moving up to the World Superbike Championship last year was exactly what Bradley deserved after winning the British Superbike Championship in 2022, Bradley has learnt a lot during the course of 2023 regarding riding his Yamaha R1 on full WSB spec electronics and I look forward to seeing him consistently progress and show what he’s made of, despite probably one of the strongest depth of talent grid’s in many years there’s no reason why Bradley can’t fight for top 10 finishes all season long and hopefully pull off a few top 5’s, there’s no doubting his speed and ability!!”
That incredible form, which also included two further podiums, was confirmation of the prodigious talent Brad has displayed ever since he started riding minimotos at the age of six, winning multiple national championships at junior level before being selected to the prestigious Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup in 2012, where he finished seventh overall in his first season.
Racing against a fiercely competitive field that included future MotoGP World Champion Joan Mir, Brad took a dominant first victory in Austin, Texas, in 2013 and was fourth in the championship in 2014.
Already an an established presence at the front of the British Superbike pack and a multiple BSB race winner, Brad put together an absolutely outstanding season aboard the Rich Energy OMG Racing Team Yamaha, riding a very similar spec bike to last year’s championship-winning Yamaha R1 saw Brad achieve 9 overall wins and a total of 23 podium finishes, his strongest season to date by far, in fact such a strong season that SSSM is looking to up the anti in 2023 with a view to taking Brad up in to the super competitive World Superbike Championship.
Brad has a strong history with Yamaha, having sensationally won six of the last ten races of the British Supersport Championship on an R6 in 2016, when he made a late entry to the domestic season following two frustrating years on uncompetitive machinery at European level.
His sensational return to the UK in 2016 caught the attention of the Hawk Racing team, who gave him the opportunity to ride a Suzuki in the British Superbike Championship in 2017, when he finished a creditable eleventh in his rookie campaign.
In 2018 he stormed to a maiden double victory in the opening round of the British Superbike season at Donington Park, becoming one of the youngest ever winners of a BSB race at the age of just 20.
Still aged just 25 and yet to reach his racing peak, the clear goal for Brad in 2023 is to reproduce his very best form and establish himself as one of the brightest emerging talents from the British Superbike paddock when he attempts to step up to the World Championship for 2023!
BRANDON PAASCH
- Back to back Daytona 200 winner
SHAKEY Says
“Brandon so nearly got to start last season on the M4 Vision wheel factory Suzuki Superbike team but it didn’t quite happen for him, however when former Moto 2 World and Motoamerica Champion vacated his seat in the team I pushed hard to get Brandon in that team, I said for the last few years Brandon would suit a Superbike and he took to the factory Suzuki like a duck to water with a number of very impressive top 5 finishes in the few rounds he got in 2023, he acquitted himself extremely well to the big class despite being thrown in head first, a full season ahead in 2024 will hopefully see regular top 5’s and podiums at many races, he’s very capable of that!!”
Two years later, Brandon switched his focus to road racing and racked up multiple junior regional championships in the USA before renowned talent spotter John Ullrich, who famously discovered MotoGP legends Kevin Schwantz and John Hopkins, took him to Europe, where he won the KTM 390 Cup and became the first American ever to qualify for an FIM Moto3 Junior World Championship race.
Brandon made more history in 2019, winning the 2019 British MotoStar [Moto3] Championship with seven race wins and fourteen podiums out of eighteen races to become the first American to win a British Championship title.
The 20-year-old from Freehold, New Jersey, has been racing since the age of three and began racing motocross just a year later, winning his first junior championship before he turned six.
Paasch headed to the MotoAmerica Supersport series for 2020, securing third overall in the Championship and scoring thirteen podiums across the season, before another season back in the UK campaigning the brand-new Triumph Street Triple RS that he subsequently rode to Daytona 200 glory, earning the British marque their first success in the event since 2014.
For 2022, the ambitious Paasch sets his sights on the big bikes with a step up in size to the YUASA batteries MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 Championship, riding the Altus Motorsports Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the Stock 1000 class and Superbike Cup however before that championship even started Paasch became back to back winner of the highly prestigious Daytona 200 race riding a TOBC team Triumph 675, a great start to a new chapter for Brandon!
Brandon got to grips with the 1000cc bike and acquitted himself exceptionally well taking 4th overall in the Yuasa Stock 1000 class despite missing out on track time due to injuries in testing eventually taking 4th overall in Superstock championship and 2nd overall in the Moto America Superbike cup championship aboard his stock bike taking a total of 14 overall podiums including 6 wins in Superbike cup!
Rhys Irwin
SHAKEY Says
“As the newest member of the team I’m really looking forward to spending a bit of time working with Rhys in 2024, Rhys showed last year that he can fight for the British Supersport Championship and with the continuity of working with the same team and the confidence that he CAN win races learning that sometimes a podium or a top 5 will help maintain a strong Championship challenge is exactly how he needs to approach 2024, the plan is to put some routine into his weekends and to keep his feet on the ground and not get flustered when things aren’t going so well, it’s all a part of the challenge and it’s a challenge I’m certain he can overcome!!”
The latest rider to sign up to SixtySeven sports management program is the super talented smiling assasin as Shane calls him Rhys Irwin, the 21 year old from Donegal in Ireland caught Shane’s eye over the 2023 season.
Rhys’s ruthless demeanour on track couldn’t be a bigger contrast to the happy go lucky chap that Shane regularly got to interview throughout the 2023 season. Rhys has a wealth of accolades and experience with countless podiums, race wins and lap records from the British Supersport Championship, Pirelli British Superstock 600 Championship, The Road To MotoGP
Rhys has raced motocross from 2008-2014 “you had to be 6 to race I had my birthday on a Thursday and first race on a Saturday” Over those few years he managed to win 10 championships along the way and in my final year in 2014 I was supported by Husqvarna UK through HTM off road and won 3 out of 4 championships that year.
British Talent cup, British Motostar Championship, British Superteens and the Irish
Superbike Championship in his career to date and has come a very long way in a very short space of time, one to watch for the future!!