Yamha rider Ben Spies took 1st place again in the Superpole knockout and while was at it also broke lap record at the Losail circuit in Qatar.Spies took his Yamaha YZF-R1 to a best time of 1.57.280 ahead of Guandalini…
Almost all the World Superbike teams (except for Honda) are currently testing at Phillip Island as the 2012 season kicks off at the end of the month, but Crescent Fixi Suzuki rider John Hopkins who just returned to action after…
The second day of WSBK testing at the Misano World Circuit ended up with Carlos Checa leading the six rider time chart. The Althea Ducati rider and standings leader completed over 140 laps in the two day session and with…
First qualifying practice at a sunny Monza saw Leon Haslam take the provisional pole. The English rider lead for most of the session until first Eugene Laverty and then Max Biaggi grabbed it away from him. Haslam wouldn’t be denied…
Max Biaggi Italian fans: How fitting is it for an Italian rider like Max Biaggi to take a double victory at Misano the day after the circuit adopted the name Marco Simoncelli, and with his crewchief Aligi Deganello being Marco’s…
After dominating most of the practice and qualifying practices during the weekend, Michel Fabrizio wasn’t able to transform his performances into a win, but he did obtain a third place podium in race 1 and a fourth place in race…
After the video highlights, the rider quotes and two great galleries of pics, the only thing missing from this World Superbike weekend at Silverstone were the brolly girls, but now we’ve got a fantastic gallery of those pretty English paddock…
With a very brief press release Team Guandalini Racing has confirmed that they have excersied their option on Jakub Smrz for 2010.This is the second season that the Czech rider is with the Guandalini team and his third in the…
In this afternoon’s final World Superbike free practice at Monza, Tom Sykes when through the speed traps (in Max Biaggi’s draft) on board his Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R recording 339.5 km/h (210 mph)!This new record beats the previous one of 334.8…
After the likes of Noriyuki Haga, Anthony West and Luca Scassa, Italian rider Alex Polita will also be joining this season’s British Superbike championship.Polita is a former Italian CIV Superstock and Superbike and FIM Superstock 1000 Cup champion, and has…
BMW Italia concluded their first winter test at Jerez hampered by cool and wet weather conditions, however Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies were able to complete 149 laps over the two-day test.The Italian team, which has taken over BMW’s factory…
The 2013 World Superbike calendar will be back to its usual fourteen rounds in 2013 according to the FIM website, and not an expected fifteen as indicated in the provisional calendar released last October.The round that has been dropped was…
While we thought that Grillini Progea Superbike team wouldn’t be at Miller Motorsports Park for this weekend’s sixth round of the World Superbike season after parting ways with Mark Aitchison, instead they’ve gotten AMA Pro Road Superbike racer Jake Holden…
After Michel Fabrizio’s departure from the Red Devils Roma Aprilia team, the Italian based squad has decide to replace him with Toni Elias for the rest of the season.The former 2010 Moto2 World Champion will ride the Aprilia RSV4 and…
Why does Troy Bayliss keep saying certain things, if he doesn’t really mean them and keep illuding his millions of orphaned Superbike fans?Last year, the former three times World Superbike champion was at the World Ducati Week at Misano and…
Most of the Ducati fans are looking for news and nice pictures about the new 2009 Ducati models, and they might forget the award Troy Bayliss received. The Superbike and Ducati hero won the 2008 World Championship title in his…
When World Supersport winning team ParkinGO lucked out on taking over the Yamaha Superbike team effort, it seemed that the squad would move into the 2012 Superbike championship with Chaz Davies and field a Ducati, however yesterday at Portimao, in…
Regis Laconi wants to return to racing and his testing during the World Ducati Week at Misano wasn’t just a courtesy ride by DFX Corse, but a full blown personal fitness test for the French rider.During the Monza round, Laconi…
There could soon be an Italian superbike cup, reserved exclusively for Italian brands, called the Made in Italy Cup 2010. Organisers will release more information soon, but the idea is a rather patriotic one, described thus:“If you go to the…
World Superbike team, BMW Motorrad Motorsports has released their first official studio images of this season’s 2012 S1000RR team livery.As you can tell they’ve haven’t changed and kept the usual and classical BMW blue, white and red colours they debuted…
Leon Haslam crushed the opposition today in WSBK race 1 at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, taking a spectacular win with an almost two second advantage over the rest of the field.The Brit rider was faultless in conducting his…
Jorge Lorenzo believes his calmness and patience in today’s MotoGP race at Catalunya was the key to his third victory of the season. Going to silly season, it seems that Lorenzo has been offered a two year contract by Honda…
Following the rumors that the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve circuit in Portimão (Portugal) was in dire financial difficulties and 13th round of the World Superbike season next month was at risk, Infront Motor Sports has stepped in and confirmed that…
Check out the video highlights of Round 6 of the WSBK races in South Africa, where the Samurai of Slide, Noriyuki Haga takes both races and the Kyalami circuit becomes Haga’s Land and Ducati Xerox rules.Haga now leads the championship…
The World Superbike season has finally started and in today’s first two sessions at Phillip Island, Althea Racing team started very well despite the high track temperatures (53°C). The Italian team was able to take the 3rd and 4th positions…