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Max Biaggi fends of Melandri to win race 2 at Brno

11 April, 2020
Race 2 at the Czech circuit of Brno was almost an exact carbon copy of race 1, with Max Biaggi and Marco Melandri duelling for the entire race and Carlos Checa hanging on, but never actually getting between the two…

WSBK MMP: Leon Camier leads in QP2 washout

11 April, 2020
The expected rain and cold hit the Miller Motorsports Park track right on schedule and qualifying practice 2 was a total washout, with the riders venturing out for a lap or two and then wisely electing to return to their…

WSBK Portimao QP1 – Jonathan Rea takes provisional pole

11 April, 2020
Jonathan Rea edged out Jakub Smrz to take Friday’s provisional pole position at Portimao. Smrz on a satellite Ducati, who lead the first free practice finished second.Ben Spies jumped up from his 7th place in FP session to take third,…

WSBK – Regis Laconi Seriously Injured

11 April, 2020
During the first lap of this morning’s free practice session at Kyalami, Règis Laconi (Ducati DFX) crashed in the section between turn 11 and turn 12. Unfortunately in the crash the French rider, despite not hitting any obstacle, suffered a…

Tom Sykes fastest at WSBK Pirelli tire test at Aragon

11 April, 2020
The World Superbike riders stayed on a full extra day at Aragon to test the new Pirelli 17″ tires and rims that will be debuting next season (this will be the first and only collective test). Tom Sykes was the…

WSBK Assen: Carlos Checa flies to his third Superpole

11 April, 2020
We shall never doubt Carlos Checa again, after a difficult Friday and so so Saturday morning at Assen, the Spaniard got his mojo back and flew into pole postion in this afternoon’s Superpole shoot-out, taking his third Superpole of this…

Marco Melandri undergoes shoulder surgery

11 April, 2020
Marco Melandri certainly will not be having a comfortable Christmas, as he underwent shoulder surgery yesterday morning, confirmed by the same Melandri on his Twitter page, “surgery on rt shoulder went well.. long way to work to be fit at…

Ducati fans in the middle of London!

11 April, 2020
This is a great video of Davide Tardozzi and Ducati ‘tifosi’ invading Carnaby Street in London. It’s the start of the next SBK round and Ducati has really kicked off. Brands Hatch is in the UK for this time. Troy…

Chaz Davies breaks left radius, will miss opening round

11 April, 2020
ParkinGO MTC Aprilia’s Chaz Davies crashed out at the Southern Loop during QP2 at Phillip Island and fractured his left radius and has been ruled out of Sunday’s races.The Welshman who was due to make his official WSBK debut and…

World Superbikes Magny-Cours image gallery

11 April, 2020
The 2012 World Superbike championship still isn’t over for us, we’ve got several galleries of stunning photos from the entire weekend at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours that gave us one of most gripping and dramatic final rounds in recent…

WSBK Portimao: Cal Crutchlow Pulverizes Superpole

11 April, 2020
Cal Crutchlow took his first ever Superpole this afternoon at Portimao. The Brit pulverized the track record in Superpole 3 with a blistering lap of 1’42.092, an amazing 0.320 of a second faster than Ben Spies’ Superpole time in last…

Noriyuki Haga testing the BMW S1000RR at Mugello

11 April, 2020
Noriyuki Haga has started testing in preparation for his wildcard entry for the seventh round of the World Superbike championship, that takes place at Imola later this month.‘NitroNorì’ who will be racing under the Grillini Dentalmatic SBK team banner, got…

WSBK Phillip Island rider quotes

11 April, 2020
To wrap up this Sunday’s WSBK round one at Phillip Island we have a bunch of rider quotes for you to go through and find out what your favourite rider finished in the double header and his personal comment regarding…

Chaz Davies debuts with BMW at Jerez

11 April, 2020
Chaz Davies finally got a chance to test his BMW machine yesterday in a two-day private test session at Jerez de la Frontera under the banner of BMW Motorrad Italia - which has now become BMW’s official World Superbike team…

Tom Sykes grabs another Superpole at Misano

11 April, 2020
A thunderstorm and some rain at the Misano Adriatico Marco Simoncelli circuit, half an hour before the start of the Superpole forced the race direction to declare the session wet, so it was just two twenty minute splits that decided…

Carlos Checa to test Ducati 1199 Panigale

11 April, 2020
As everyone knows Ducati is not running the 1199 Panigale in World Superbike’s this year as they are using the World Superstock and several national championships in different countries to be used as a further development basis before its debut…

WSBK Assen – Rider Quotes and Spies Crash Video

11 April, 2020
More from the two races at Assen:Noriyuki Haga (2nd, 1st):“It’s been a great day for us and after nine years I have finally won again at Assen; I am very happy. In Race 1 I was a little disappointed to…

Randy de Puniet heading to World Superbikes?

10 April, 2020
When Randy de Puniet climbed on board the Ducati Desmosedici for the first tests everyone was saying how well his loose riding style seemed suited for the beast from Borgo Panigale; which statistically has overwhelmed more riders than we can…

WSBK Valencia: Cal Crutchlow takes Second Superpole of the Season

10 April, 2020
Cal Crutchlow took his second-straight suprise Superpole in Valencia besting the more quoted Max Biaggi and Carlos Checa for the pole postion.The Sterilgarda Yamaha rider putting in a scorching lap of 1’33.615 in the final Superpole 3 session leaving Carlos…

WSBK Donington – Superpole rider quotes

10 April, 2020
What WSBK riders had to say after the 9th Superpole at Donington Park.Ben Spies - 1st“It was a good Superpole session for us, we almost got caught out as I think I was the last one to leave the garage.…