Jake Dixon claimed his first and second BSB wins at Knockhill last year. These remain, to date, his only BSB wins.

Shane Byrne (two thirds) and Luke Mossey and James Ellison (one second place each) were the other riders to stand on the podium in 2017.

With a maximum of 50 points, Dixon had the best results last year and was followed by Mossey (33), Byrne (32), Jason O’Halloran (22) and Ellison (20).

Leon Haslam, Christian Iddon and Glenn Irwin all missed last year’s races due to injury sustained in practice.

Josh Brookes has never won a race at Knockhill – along with Brands Indy, these are the only two circuits currently on the BSB calendar that he hasn’t won at.

Michael Laverty’s first ever BSB podium came at Knockhill, back in 2005.

Fifth place in last year’s opening race is Taylor Mackenzie’s best ever BSB result.

The current lap record, set in 2015, is held by Shane Byrne at 48.252s.

Leon Haslam will make his 175th BSB start in the opening race at Knockhill.

Richard Cooper will make his 75th BSB start in race one at Knockhill.

Michael Laverty and James Ellison have now made 233 BSB race starts each.

Laverty became the 11th rider to score more than 2000 points in BSB with three points at round two earlier this year.

Brookes needs 48 more points to reach 3000 in BSB – only three riders have reached this mark, Shane Byrne, Michael Rutter and John Reynolds.

The double has been done at Knockhill on no less than 12 occasions, the riders being Niall Mackenzie (1996 and 1998), Chris Walker (2000), John Reynolds (2001), Shane Byrne (2003, 2013 and 2015), Ryuichi Kiyonari (2005), Jonathan Rea (2007), Leon Camier (2009), Tommy Hill (2011) and Jake Dixon (2017).

Shane Byrne has taken the most wins at Knockhill with 11 followed by Niall Mackenzie (5), Ryuichi Kiyonari (4), John Reynolds (3) and Leon Haslam, Tommy Hill, Leon Camier, Jonathan Rea, Chris Walker and Jake Dixon (all 2).

Byrne also has the most podiums (19) followed by Kiyonari (10), Josh Brookes, Steve Hislop, Michael Rutter, Reynolds and Walker (all 7) and Haslam, Mackenzie and Sean Emmett (all 6).

Kawasaki (11) have won the most races at Knockhill followed by Yamaha and Ducati (both 10), Honda (7), Suzuki (4) and BMW (1).

Dixon’s double in 2017 meant Kawasaki have won eight of the last ten BSB races held at Knockhill.

Ducati’s last win was in 2016 with Shane Byrne.

BMW’s only win at Knockhill came in 2014 with Ryuichi Kiyonari.

Honda last won at Knockhill in 2012 with Michael Laverty.

Yamaha’s last race wins at Knockhill were taken in 2011 by Tommy Hill.

Suzuki’s last win at Knockhill was with Tom Sykes in 2008.