27 Facts About Stuart Easton

Stuart Easton announced his retirement from racing in December 2016.

Stuart Easton subsequently rode in the British Superbike Championship on Kawasaki and Hydrex Honda motorcycles, gaining his first Superbike win in 2009 at Croft.

Stuart Easton contested one Superbike World Championship and six Supersport World Championship events.

For 2015 Stuart Easton was contracted to ride with the Paul Bird Motorsport Kawasaki squad until November's Macau Grand Prix but, unexpectedly switched to a Yamaha provided by SMT Racing for the race in which he failed to finish.

In 2002 Stuart Easton took 7 wins en route to the Supersport title, finishing ahead of Scott Smart and Michael Laverty.

Stuart Easton attempted to defend his title in 2003, taking 3 wins and eventually finishing runner up to future teammate Karl Harris.

In 2004 Stuart Easton stepped up to Superbikes in the early part of the season, before returning to Supersport in the later rounds.

Stuart Easton returned to BSS in 2013 with the Mar-Train Yamaha team, as he had not fully recovered from his road racing injuries and so found it easier to ride a 600 than a Superbike.

Stuart Easton progressed full-time to the British Superbike Championship in 2008 joining the MSS Discovery Kawasaki team.

Stuart Easton finished that season in 13th place, mainly due to a crash in practice for the 5th round at Snetterton, breaking his wrist and forcing him to sit out the next 4 rounds.

At the first race of the season at Brands Hatch, Stuart Easton gained his first ever British Superbike podium finishing 3rd in the first race.

Stuart Easton continued his good start to the season with a 3rd and a 2nd in the two races of the third round at Donington Park.

Round 10 at Croft Circuit saw Stuart Easton finally take his and Hydrex Honda's maiden BSB win with a lights to flag victory.

Stuart Easton took his maiden BSB pole position in the final round of the 2009 season at Oulton Park, and took his second win of the season in Race 1, impressively beating champion Camier on the last lap.

Stuart Easton ended the season third in the championship behind the dominant Airwaves Yamahas of Camier and James Ellison.

Early speculation for 2010 suggested that Stuart Easton will ride for PBM Kawasaki in the World Supersport series, although it was later confirmed he had re-signed with Hydrex Honda for 2010.

Stuart Easton suffered tissue damage to his leg in a heavy pre-season crash, and was not fully fit for the first two meetings.

Stuart Easton took four top-six finishes in those four races however Victory in race one at Oulton Park left him second in the standings, but a poor Cadwell Park meeting dropped him to fifth after four rounds Stuart Easton would ultimately finish the season eighth, with a win and four podiums negated by poor reliability leading to eight DNFs.

Stuart Easton will participate in the official Kawasaki Superbike Racing Team test on the new factory ZX-10R at Sepang in January 2011, partly as a reward for winning the Macau GP.

Stuart Easton finished 10th in the standing in 2012, clearly not fully recovered from his injuries and returned to Supersport for 2013, winning the title, before rejoining PBM in BSB for 2014.

Stuart Easton took two top 10 finishes with fourth in the first supersport race and seventh in the second.

Stuart Easton successfully defended the title in 2009, riding for Hydrex IGT Honda, having taken pole position and broken the lap record.

Stuart Easton was set to ride Hislop's classic 1992 Rotary Norton in the 2011 Parade Lap on the day of the Senior TT.

However, on 19 May 2011, while in free practice for the North West 200, Stuart Easton crashed with teammate Gary Mason at Station Corner.

Mason was fine but Stuart Easton sustained heavy injuries including a shattered pelvis, broken femur, broken bones in his hands and a dislocated hip, this was confirmed via Cal Crutchlow's Twitter page.

However, later it was confirmed that Stuart Easton had broken both femurs, shattered his pelvis in five places, broke his coccyx, ruptured his bowel, broke some fingers and had a deep cut on his arm.

Stuart Easton returned to the roads at the Macau Grand Prix in 2014, and dominated the race to take his fourth win at the Guia Circuit, in four successive appearances having won in 2008,2009 and 2010 and missing 2011,12 and 13.