Finally Paul Young has secured what he described as “the best ride of my career.” Yes, Young has secured a berth on a team with pukka factory backing, an enthusiastic sponsor and full team backup for the 2008 British supersport championship.

Young had tested a Triumph Dayonta 675 for the Italian Caracchi team, set to race in world supersport, but expected funding for the Italian team failed to materialise. However, Young, a sometime tester for SuperBike between his racing commitments, is clearly delighted with the way things have worked out.

“Embassy had Glen (Richards) riding with them in superstock last season for their first time in British bike racing, but the team, Embassy, has been car racing for years at a high level and they decided to expand their racing programme to Embassy moto,” explained Young. And very well they did too, with Richards winning the superstock title aboard a Yamaha R1.

“This ride has been a long time coming but, as the cliché has it, good things come to those who wait. I've never been as sorted so early in the pre-season with a team and bikes and a test programme, so it's going to be good – although now I have to beat my team mate, which isn't going to be easy,” laughed Young.

Young had a hand in the genesis of the Triumph Daytona 675 as part of his bike development work with the British company and he's raced the 675cc triple in British supersport for two years – as a privateer. Young was working with a limited budget which curtailed his engine development work as well as engine and fuel-management systems which the British supersport championship demands if (dry weather) podiums and titles are to be a realistic proposition.
“I'll be running my two 2007 bikes until such times as we no longer need them, but the first thing that will happen is that they will have Motec systems fitted, which is something that I could afford to do for the past two years. I know the bike still has a lot of potential and although I had some good results (a podium at Knockhill in 2007), I know there's more to come.”

With Young and fellow Australian Richards on the bikes allied to a good backroom team and a, decent budget behind them, we're saying that the Embassy Racing Triumphs will be seen on the podium in 2008.