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New Livery for 2009Yamaha WSBK

21 March, 2020
The Yamaha World Superbike Team has unveiled their new racing livery for 2009, showing its new sponsors and ‘war paint’ for the upcoming season. The team now fully belong to the Yamaha Motor Europe operations and so have been renamed…

ParkinGo MTC World Superbike team reveals livery

21 March, 2020
With the official Infront Superbike tests due to kick off on Monday at Phillip Island and ahead of the openining round next Sunday, WSBK newbie ParkinGO team has revealed via the team’s Facebook page, the livery that they will be…

Althea Racing to continue with Unibat as sponsor

21 March, 2020
While some World Superbike teams have trouble finding paying sponsors (just think of the problems Alstare Suzuki has had over the years) others like Althea Ducati renew their agreements.Althea Racing announced yesterday that they will continue with their key sponsor…

Niccolò Canepa in World Superbikes with Ducati Roma Team

21 March, 2020
Ducati Roma Team was born on the ashes of Supersonic Racing and the new World Superbike team will be fielding former MotoGP, Moto2 rider, Superstock 1000 FIM Cup rider Niccolò Canepa in the 2012 Superbike championship.Canepa won the 2007 Superstock…

Red Devils Roma Superbike team switches to Aprilia

21 March, 2020
Red Devils Roma Superbike team debuted in World Superbikes this season with Niccolò Canepa using a Ducati 1198, but next year has decided not to use the new 1199 Panigale (that replaces the 1198 in the championship) and will be…

WSBK Phillip Island test: Carlos Checa fastest on Day 2

21 March, 2020
Today’s second day of World Superbike private testing at Phillip Island saw lap times drop considerably for all the riders, and leading the top of the Day 2 timesheets was reigning World Champion Carlos Checa who set the best unofficial…

Fabrizio fastest in Day 1 Testing at Imola

21 March, 2020
Xerox Ducati’s Michel Fabrizio headed the top of chart in today’s first day of testing at the Imola edging out Ben Spies by 0.098 seconds in the final minutes of the test. Spies putting in 62 laps against Fabrizio’s 48…

Kawasaki introduces 2013 World Superbike team

21 March, 2020
Provec Racing officially unvieled the team’s 2013 Kawasaki Ninja’s and World Superbike riders Tom Sykes and Loris Baz (who turns 20 today) in a live, but very jumpy streaming presentation on their Facebook page from the FAD (Fostering Arts and…

Francis Batta wants Max Biaggi as a test rider – UPDATE

21 March, 2020
Max Biaggi joked all weekend long at Assen regarding the rumor that he’ll be at Monza in two weeks time as a wildcard. The former rider also displayed a scrap book with all the clippings from Italian newspapers and websites…

Tom Sykes blazes into pole position at Assen

21 March, 2020
Tom Sykes decimated the field in today’s Superpole at Assen. The Kawasaki rider who lead all the timesheets so far this Dutch weekend except for QP2 that went to Davide Giugliano, posted a stunning 1.35.0143 in SP3 that was virtually…

WSBK Nurburgring: Carlos Checa leads in the drying conditions

21 March, 2020
Today’s first free practice at Nurburgring for the World Superbike riders started on damp track and several riders didn’t hit the tarmac until the halfway mark when the German circuit started to dry out completely, and it was points leader…

Ducati Rome Team to debut in WSBK in 2012

21 March, 2020
World Superbike team Supersonic Racing announced last month that they would be withdrawing from the championship at the end of the season, however team owner Danilo Sonicini has managed to sell the team’s entire technical package to Andrea Petricca, who…

PBM loses Kawasaki factory contract

21 March, 2020
About a week ago the French media were reporting that Paul Bird has lost the bid to field factory backed Kawasaki’s next season in World Superbikes and that it had been assigned to WSS team Provec Motocard who was one…

Videos Nurburgring gyrocam Kawasaki ZX-10R

21 March, 2020
This video shows rider Tim Röthig take on the Nurburgring with a Kawasaki ZX-10R and a set of Battlax Racing R10 Bridgestone tyres. Along for the ride is a gyrocam, so we can really see what it means to ride…

WSBK: Sylvain Guintoli confirmed with Liberty Racing

21 March, 2020
Yesterday we posted that Sylvain Guintoli was in talks with Liberty Racing and now we can confirm that the French rider has officially signed with the new Czech team.Guintoli finished his rookie season with Alstare Suzuki, seventh overall in the…

Marco Melandri troubled with continuing shoulder pain

21 March, 2020
Marco Melandri has injured himself more times than we can count and runs a very close second to Dani Pedrosa for riding injured; even this year he highsided during Friday’s practice session at Assen, dislocating his shoulder and had to…

WSBK Assen Superpole quotes

21 March, 2020
Three Superpoles in three rounds is a perfect record for Carlos Checa, but it all came down to the tires for the other riders. Times were so close in the second stint that the majority of the riders had to…

WSBK Assen: Sylvain Guntoli leads wet QP1

21 March, 2020
The usual changeable weather at Assen threw a wrench in this afternoon’s World Superbike QP1. Rain hit the Dutch track just a few minutes before the start of the session, the riders headed out for a few fast laps before…

Carlos Checa fit and ready to take on Nurburgring

21 March, 2020
Carlos Checa heads into this weekend’s 13th World Superbike round at Nurburgring with a pretty impressive 62 points over reigning World Champion Max Biaggi and he’ll be looking to gobble up even more of those 200 points that remain.During the…

MotoGP, Indianapolis: here come the paddock girls

20 March, 2020
Some of you was probably waiting for it, and so here it is: our usual photo gallery picturing some of the Paddock Girls spotted out and about at the recent MotoGP round of Indianapolis, US. We are pretty sure you…