BASILDON-BORN Danny Buchan has lined up a ride in the British Superbike championship in 2015 after winning the National Superstock 1000 crown.

The Tsingtao Kawasaki ZX10 looked set to be in control after qualifying on pole position for the full-length Brands Hatch GP circuit.

Mechanical gremlins meant he started the race on the back of the grid but Buchan, who now lives in Burnham on Crouch, carved his way through the field to finish second behind title rival Jason O’Halloran, who was 0.041 seconds up the road.

But it was not enough to stop the Honda rider being runner up to Buchan in the championship as the Essex rider won the title by 28 points.

It has not been announced which team Buchan will be riding for yet.

Jesse Jones moved up from the Triple Challenge to the British Supersport Challenge for the final round and qualified 31st, a place ahead of his Collision Kawasaki Belfast team-mate Carl Phillips.

But the Basildon rider only completed two of the 10-lap first race and seven of the 18 laps in the second race.

Jones finished the Triple Challenge in 12th place, 232 points behind champion Freddy Pitt, while his two points in the National Superstock 600 championship race he competed in saw him finish 32nd in the standings.

Mason Law signed off his National Superstock 600 season with an eighth place, finishing 5.426 seconds behind race winner Kyle Ryde, with pole sitter Andy Reid second.

The Benfleet rider had improved on his 18th place in qualification and the eight points he collected at Brands saw him finish seventh in the championship, 123 points adrift of champion Reid.

Rayleigh’s Lee Watson and driver Ben Holland finished ninth in the British Sidecar Championship following a disappointing round at the Kent circuit.

Passenger Watson and his Hampshire team-mate qualified 15th on their RCN Yamaha/Finning Cat machine, 4.175 seconds behind pole sitters Tim Reeves and Greg Cluze.

Holland and Watson finished 15th in the first race, which was won by Reeves and Cluze, while they completed just one lap of the second race, which Reeves and Cluze also won.