 He also competed for five years in the World Superbike Championship and became British Superbike Champion in 1990.McElnea went on to run the very successful Rob Mac Racing team in the British Superbike Championship for over a decade until 2011.Having won the Senior Manx Grand Prix in 1980, his TT wins followed in 1983 and 1984, and he won a round of the TT Formula 1 World Championship in 1983, finishing second to Joey Dunlop in the season final standings.