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Leon Haslam to stay with BMW for another season

24 April, 2020
Leon Haslam has decided to stay with World Superbikes BMW Motorrad Motorsport team for another season. The British rider who currently lies fifth in 2011 standings has opted to stay with German manufacturer, despite some recent rumors that he was…

WSBK Brno: Davide Giugliano takes top spot in FP1

24 April, 2020
For the moment the predictions that Brno isn’t a Ducati track was proved wrong by Althea Racing’s Davide Giugliano who took the top of the timesheests in the first free practice at the Czech circuit ahead of this Sunday’s 9th…

Leon Camier fastest on day 1 of WSBK test at Aragon

24 April, 2020
Just a week after the end of the 2012 World Superbike championship, several teams were back on track at the Motorland Aragon circuit already preparing for the upcoming 2013 season that will kick off with traditional opener at Phillip Island…

Max Biaggi announces retirement

24 April, 2020
Two time World Superbike champion Max Biaggi has officially announced this morning in a press conference at the Vallelunga circuit that he will be retiring after 21 years of racing.The Roman Emperor who is 41, has 63 victories to his…

BMW to downsize to one team in World Superbikes

24 April, 2020
Does Marco Melandri bring bad luck? Kawasaki dropped out of MotoGP after he signed up, Yamaha Superbike closed down their Superbike effort after the Italian spent a season with them and now BMW has made a suprise announcement that they…

WSBK – Chris Vermeulen on the Mend, Expects to Race at Assen

24 April, 2020
Chris Vermeulen expects to be fit enough to race at the upcoming World Superbike round at Assen on April 23-25th.The Austrialian badly injured his right knee at the season opener at Phillip Island underwent keyhole surgery to repair the extensive…

Tom Sykes on Superpole at Istanbul

24 April, 2020
Tom Sykes has taken his 7th pole position of the 2013 season during today's first ever World Superbike Superpole session at the Istanbul Park raceway.The Kawasaki rider who hasn't sat in pole position since Imola (three rounds have gone by)…

Spies, Haga and Biaggi on Races 1 and 2

24 April, 2020
Race 1 Quotes:Ben Spies (Yamaha World Superbike): “It was an extremely tough race, I had an OK start and when I got to the back of Nori and Max, we were all very strong on separate parts of the track.…

WSBK Misano: Carlos Checa on top in QP2

24 April, 2020
Carlos Checa again headed the timesheets in this morning’s QP2 at Misano. The Spaniard despite a crash at the half way mark of the session, got the best of Max Biaggi on his final run and left the reigning World…

WSBK Moscow: Davide Giugliano on provisional pole

24 April, 2020
In today’s World Superbike first qualifying session at the Moscow Raceway, Davide Giugliano took the provisional pole. In the final minutes of the session the Althea Ducati rider posted a flying lap of 1.35.074 and finished 0.210s ahead of his…

Three CIV Ducati riders to bolster Imola WSBK grid

24 April, 2020
This weekend’s World Superbike round at Imola, will be bolstered by three more riders on the grid coming from Italy’s Superbike Championship (CIV) and all three ride Ducati’s.Federico Sandi (Max Biaggi’s crewchief’s son) who rides full time for Althea Racing…

Effenbert Liberty team posts photo of Ducati 1098R

24 April, 2020
Earlier this month Effenbert Liberty Racing launched a new website and posted a photoshopped image of a BMW S1000RR in Effenbert livery saying “Team Effenbert Liberty Racing is back“, while the rumor mill continued to churn out that the Czech…

WSBK – Race 2 Results, Quotes and Videos

24 April, 2020
The second encounter was all about Haga and Spies. The duel went on until a few laps from the end when the Texan pulled out a slight advantage and powered to the flag. The runner-up slot put Haga into the…

WSBK Assen – Spies Takes Provisional Pole

24 April, 2020
Qualifying times and rider quotes from Assen:Ben Spies - 1st“It was a good session, we did half a race stint at the beginning on race tyres that already had ten laps on from free practice and were only a few…

WSBK Gallery of Pics from Misano

24 April, 2020
After reading about how the two World Superbike races went at the Misano World circuit and the rider quotes, you can now check out our gallery of pics, courtesy of our Italian cousins over at Motoblog.

Chaz Davies tests electronics at Jerez

24 April, 2020
Joining the Aprilia World Superbike team at a private two-day test at Jerez de la Frontera circuit in Spain, was also BMW Motorrad GoldBet’s Chaz Davies (GBR) who got another chance in testing the BMW S 1000 RR after the…

WSBK Misano: Super cool Carlos Checa wins race 1

24 April, 2020
Carlos Checa did it again at the Misano World Circuit, taking a comfortable victory in race 1 under a sunny Italian sky and his seventh of this seasonThe Althea Ducati rider who currently leads in the standings, had so so…

Marco Melandri bluffs Biaggi to win Race 1 at Brno

23 April, 2020
A boiling asphalt, a hot and battled out duel between the title contenders taken almost to the line, made for an exciting race 1 at Brno, in the first part of the eighth round of this World Superbike championship.However, it…