Bruce Birnie is planning his Manx grand prix debut this year. Bruce who is the current Scottish superbike champion is a rider already with road racing experience having competed for a few years at the North West 200. This year Bruce has been racing a BMW SR1000 superstock bike in the Scottish superbike championship, for this years Manx grand prix it looks like Bruce will race a supersport 600 bike of which is yet to be known what make of bike that it is.
It looks like Bruce Birnie will be one of the most high profile newcomers at this years Manx grand prix and also looks like starting as one of the favourites for the newcomers A Manx grand prix race of 2013.