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Pata Racing World Superbike team switches from Aprilia to Ducati

18 April, 2020
World Superbike Pata Racing after confirming Lorenzo Zanetti late last month as their rider for the 2012 season has now also confirmed the rumors that they would be switching manufacturers, dropping the Aprilia RSV4 and returning to Ducati and specifically…

WSBK Donington – Spies on Superpole

18 April, 2020
Ben Spies has set his eighth World Superbike pole position of the season at Donington Park this afternoon after doing a 1:29.846 to best Aprilia’s Max Biaggi’s 1:30.080.Spies timing was perfect because a light rain began to fall towards the…

WSBK – Davide Tardozzi has to defend himself

18 April, 2020
Ducati Xerox team manager Davide Tardozzi has been getting a lot of flak from Italian Ducatisti fans (we’ve personally read them) since Sunday afternoon, when Noriyuki Haga lost the WSBK championship to Ben Spies by only six points.Many were angrily…

Carlos Checa celebrates another victory at Silverstone

17 April, 2020
Carlos Checa celebrated not only Ducati’s 300th victory in World Superbikes with his win in race 1 at Silverstone, but in race 2 he also celebrated his own 100th Superbike race with another comfortable victory, with Eugene Laverty and Marco…

World Superbikes 2012 Awards ceremony

17 April, 2020
The 2012 World Superbikes season concluded with the traditional awards ceremony, which was held in the Auditorium of the Magny-Cours circuit in France. Hosting the traditional event was Paolo Flammini (Infront Motor Sports CEO) and Stephane Desprez (FIM CEO), with…

Moto Rapido Ducati is rapido in changing an engine (w/video)

17 April, 2020
Rizla Suzuki’s time lapsed videos must have impressed British Superbike EVO team Moto Rapido Ducati enough to have filmed their own, showing how they changed the engine on Scott Smart’s 1198R during last weekend’s Brands Hatch round.Smart managed a 9th…

Update on Regis Laconi

17 April, 2020
From DFX Corse Press Release:Regis Laconi’s medical state remains unchanged. The French rider, currently in the intensive car department of the Sunninghill Hospital in Johannesburg, is still in a drug-induced coma and breathes only with assistance. In the medical consultation…

Images from Round 7 WSBK at MMP

17 April, 2020
Check out this gallery of pics from this weekend’s seventh round of the World Superbike Race at Millersports Park, Utah.Images from WSBK at MMP

BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team videos

17 April, 2020
On Monday, the BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team officially launched their 2013 World Superbike effort with Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies, and after the photos and interviews, the team has now released two videos.One is the team presentation that took…

World Superbikes to change racing format?

17 April, 2020
According to British website Bikesportnews.com World Superbike boss Paolo Flammini is proposing a new racing format.Flammini is thinking of eliminating in the future the two race format for several rounds and in its place add one single and longer race…

Valencia Tests for WSBK and Moto2

17 April, 2020
The Ricardo Tormo Circuit at Valencia will see a number of different racing teams out in full force for two days of testing, tomorrow and Thursday.Many top WSB teams will be out on the track as well as host of…

Ducati to kill SBK for Valentino Rossi contract?

17 April, 2020
As the Rossi to Ducati rumours really take off, the Italian press is reporting that Ducati will cut its SBK team to acquire the world champion Italian rider. If Valentino Rossi moves to Ducati it will be under a Marlboro…

WSBK Monza: Damp track in QP2 confirms QP1 chart

17 April, 2020
The expected rain hit the the North of Italy and Monza’s track conditions for World Superbike’s second qualifying practice started damp and then started to dry out, however there was no improvement on yesterday’s lap times whichconfirmed QP1 positions.Remaining outside…

WSBK quotes from Brno Superpole with highlight video

17 April, 2020
Tomorrow’s World Superbike double header at Brno will be all about the weather, it’s expected to rain at some point which could mix up things and tire management, with some riders still unsure on which tire to use.Here’s what some…

Update on Noriyuki Haga's Conditions

17 April, 2020
For all you NitroNori fans we have and update from Italian website GPone.com regarding the Xerox Ducati rider who was suspected to have fractured his T8 e T9 vertebrae and was airlifted to a hospital in Derby. At the hospital,…

Exclusive interview with Troy Bayliss at Assen 2008

16 April, 2020
You don’t meet every day a hero or World Champion. During the SBK 2008 @ Assen I was able to talk to Troy for some minutes.Troy Bayliss talking about his age, about the way he’s thinking before and today. His…

Troy Bayliss at Phillip Island

16 April, 2020
Troy Bayliss, the reigning World Superbike Champion who retired after last year after his third championship win, couldn’t stay away from WSB for long, as he returned to the Phillip Island paddock as a spectator this weekend, and was interviewed…

Guintoli and Laverty talk about the first day at Assen

16 April, 2020
The first day of World Superbike practice sessions at Assen was cold and rainy and the weather conditions hampered everyone, except for Tom Sykes who didn’t seem bothered by the weather conditions nor was he afraid to take any risks…

Niccolò Canepa to wildcard in WSBK Donington round

16 April, 2020
Niccolò Canepa, who currently leads the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup championship standings will be racing in next weekend’s World Superbike Donington Park round as a wildcard entry.The Italian will be racing a 1199 Panigale R in SBK trim and will…