Lee Jackson

Interviews with Kawasaki factory BSB racers in Fast Bikes are a bit like buses. None for ages – then you get two at once… Last month we spoke to Max Cook, the new rider for the Cheshire Mouldings team about his career so far and his relationship with SHARK. And this month we’re doing the same with Lee Jackson, the senior rider in the Kawasaki UK-backed team (Team Green completists can also read about Jackson’s ZX-10R race bike on the Addiction pages this month).

We say ‘senior’, but Jackson is actually just 27 years old. His seniority comes from an almost precocious rise to the BSB paddock: he was racing in the British 125 championship/ACU Academy Cup back in 2010 aged just 14, moving to Superstock 600 two years later and taking the title in 2012. He then moved up to Superstock 1000, before bagging a Superbike ride with Buildbase BMW alongside Ryuichi Kiyonari in 2015, moving on to the Smiths BMW team in 2017 as Peter Hickman’s teammate, before dropping back down to Superstock 1000 again in 2018. A third place finish in the 2019 title chase then saw him back on a Superbike for 2020 with the FS-3 Kawasaki team, where he’s been ever since. In the 2022 BSB season, Lee achieved eight podiums in total - two of which he was stood on the top step.