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You voted in your thousands, but there can only be one winner... This is Crash.net's top ten countdown to the 2012 British Superbike Rider of the Year as voted for by you!

'I'm really pleased to be joining such an elite team as Gearlink Kawasaki in 2013, I think this will be really good for me to be part of such a professional team' - Luke Hedger

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'BSB is an ultra-competitive series which is continually being proven as the place to be, so I'm very pleased to be on-board with GBmoto' - Dan Linfoot

'I am confident that the package will be competitive and hopefully we will be up there challenging at the front' - Jake Dixon

'Hopefully all the fans that came over the weekend had fun. Although I doubt they had as much fun as I did when I put a big move on Rossi in warm-up!' - Christian Iddon

Shaun Muir Racing announces former runner-up James Ellison and Australian champion Josh Waters will compete under the Milwaukee Yamaha banner in 2013.

'If you'd asked me three years ago where I'd be in racing I never have imagined I'd be riding in Paul Bird's British Superbike team' - Keith Farmer

James Westmoreland and Jon Kirkham will form an all-new rider line-up at Buildbase BMW for the 2013 MCE British Superbike Championship.

GBmoto Honda will enter into its second British Superbike Championship season with Peter Hickman at the helm.

"The option of staying with my championship winning team on a great bike in BSB was too strong a temptation to resist" - Shane Byrne.

'I can learn so much from Stuart [Easton] on and off the track. The Yamaha is a proven bike and having ridden one this season I know I can hit the ground running' - Glenn Irwin

'Even though we didn't bring the championship home it was a fantastic year' - Tim Martin

'It all depends on budget and I'm not even sure if we'll be doing a full season in the British Superbike Championship to be honest' - Nick Morgan

'It's a bit frustrating because I don't know for certain what I'll be doing next year, but Paul [Bird] has told me he will look after me whatever happens' - Keith Farmer

"It is with great sadness that I will be deciding to have a break from the sport in 2013..." - Tommy Hill.

'I'm more than happy to be back in Supersport and even though we will be racing at the North West 200 my main focus will be one hundred per cent on the British Supersport Championship' - Stuart Easton

'This has been a big part of all our lives for many years but for several reasons we have decided to end our time in the paddock' - Andrew Caygill

Robinsons of Rochdale announce plans to return the MV Agusta name to the British Superbike Championship in 2013.

Following a part-season campaign in 2012, Karl Harris will stay with PR Kawasaki full-time for the 2013 British Superbike Championship.

Race winning team WFR announces it is quitting the British Superbike Championship after two successful seasons in the series.

Noriyuki Haga picks up a trio of top ten finishes at the end of his first British Superbike Championship season.

Josh Brookes finishes all but two races inside the top four to record the highest number of points over the course of the 2012 British Superbike season.

Glen Richards and Triumph secure their second British Supersport Championship title together after a dramatic final race at Brands Hatch.