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Westmoreland, Francis sign for Team Traction Control in British Supersport

Former British Superbike star James Westmoreland will return to the Motorpoint-backed Supersport class in which he was twice runner-up in 2009 and 2010 with Keith Flint’s Team Traction Control squad and will be partner by Joe Francis.

Westmoreland had a torrid year in the blue riband class last season so shifts back to the middleweight division while Francis moves into Supersport permanently after standing in for the injured Andy Reid at the end of the 2015 campaign.

The team will also return to the three major international road races in 2016 with Ian Hutchinson again lining up for Keith Flint's squad in the Supersport class at the Isle of Man TT, North West 200 and the Ulster Grand Prix. The 11-time TT race winner celebrated success with the team this year when he completed a dominant double in the Monster Energy Supersport TT races.

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"I am really excited to be joining Team Traction Control next season. Before the end of this year I decided that I wanted to be back in the Supersport Championship, and with the rules how they are, I wanted to be back onboard a Yamaha again. That is where I feel like my heart is and so this is fantastic for me as it is a very similar situation to when I last races in the championship with Raceways Yamaha and we had a lot of success,” said Westmoreland

"This does feel like I am coming home and I have come close to winning the title before, but I knew the move had to be right and with PJ (Pete Jennings) and Keith Brown working with me in the garage I feel we have an unbelievably strong technical team. I have never been so excited to get testing and start the season and I really believe we will be ready to fight for the championship in 2016."

Francis added: "I am really looking forward to next season and to be back working with Team Traction Control again in the championship. I feel that it will be a really good year for us as I have never had the consistency of remaining with a team for a second consecutive season and I really feel that we can build on last season and come out fighting.

"The move into the Supersport Championship last season was a new challenge and I felt that I really learnt a lot but that has also given me confidence to start 2016 where we finished this year, moving up the order and getting closer to the podium. I feel that we have a strong team and I can't wait to get started; I want to be up at the front and I think with Westy in the team as well we should be one of the teams to watch out for.”

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