winning the coveted Sunflower Trophy<\/a> at Bishopscourt in October and now has a busy schedule planned for next year as part of the Lion Heart Moto Racing team.<\/p>\nHe will be joined in the team by fellow Ulster Superbike rider Ryan Gibson.<\/p>\n
“We set out to win the championship and the way everything worked out was amazing,” reflected Phillips.<\/p>\n
“To win two races at the resurrected Celtic Races and then pick up the Sunflower Trophy put the icing on the cake of a successful season,” he told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n
“Next year I plan to do the first Ulster Superbike round at Easter, then the first round of BSB [at Oulton Park in early May], and then the North West 200, then take it as it comes. I’ll see how we get on in the first few rounds at the BSB.”<\/p>\n
Phillips has previously participated in the Superstock 600cc class, the Superstock 1000cc category and the feature Superbike events in BSB, the latter with the renowned Gearlink Kawasaki team in 2018.<\/p>\n
For next season, he will switch to BMW machinery, and will also have a Ducati at his disposal for the Supersport outings at the North West 200 in May.<\/p>\n
Phillips made his North West debut in 2019, achieving an eighth place finish in the first Supertwins race and returned in 2022, finishing seventh in the opening Superstock event.<\/p>\n
“The bike I rode this year was quite old but the BMW has a lot of speed to it so I’m confident we can go well.<\/p>\n
“I last rode at the North West in 2022 so to be going back there is a big bonus.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster Superbike champion Carl Phillips says he is excited about his plans for the 2026 season which will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-204805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}