A garage close to the New Forest is getting ready to celebrate the coveted British Superbike Championship.

The Crescent Rizla Suzuki team from Verwood took a massive step towards the title when number one rider John Reynolds secured first and second places at Mallory Park on Sunday.

The best his nearest rival, Michael Rutter, could manage on the works HM Plant Honda was sixth place and now the veteran Reynolds leads the championship by a mighty 73 points.

It's hard to believe that Reynolds broke his collarbone at Thruxton only last month.

It hasn't stopped him racing. Indeed, he has chalked up two race wins since then, the latest at the short and twisty Mallory where he and teammate Yukio Kagayama overhauled early leader Scott Smart on the Hawk Kawasaki to post a one-two for the Suzuki team.

Indeed the only serious threat to Reynolds was from his Japanese teammate, who powered ahead only for Reynolds to regain the lead in the closing laps.

Second time out the much improved Smart gunned the lime green Kawasaki to its third win of the season with Reynolds settling for second place ahead of the young Honda rider Ryuichi Kiyonari.

Winchester's Jamies Hillier still lies second in the Virgin Mobile Yamaha R6 Cup despite only finishing eighth at Mallory Park.Hillier, a winner last time out at Knock Hill, qualified an impressive second behind Jon Boy Lee, who in the race itself cleared off for the most comprehensive victory of the season.

Behind him raged a tremendous battle for second place, led initially by Hillier. But, as he dropped back, Gareth Glynn took runners-up spot from championship leader Richard Wren.

Eastleigh's Dan Bray finished 16th.

Hampshire-based motocross star Billy Mackenzie made a fantastic comeback from injury and illness when he took third place in the first of the Maxxis British Championship rounds at Hawkstone Park on Sunday.

He bounced back into action by taking third position in qualifying and then going on to grab the holeshot in his first outing. Despite missing two of the previous four championship rounds, Mackenzie still lies 11th in the standings.

His BikeIt Yamaha teammate, Andrew McFarlane, took second place behind overall winner Stephen Sword in the second of the races aboard his YZ250f four stroke machine.

It made up for the disappointment of being forced into the pits with a back wheel which started to break up as he chased leader Sword in the first race. McFarlane got back into the race and finished 14th.

McFarlane's combined efforts gave him fifth place overall and moved him up to second in the championship.