After retiring from racing Ruben Xaus is now busier than ever.
He’s currently working for Bimota as their sporting director in their R&D department, while following Edo Racing who is taking part in the Italian CIV championship fielding a Bimota HB4 Moto2 (Edo Racing’s Robbin Harms won the wet race at Imola in the Moto2 class)He’s teaching riders who are partecipating in Dunlop Cup and Trofeo Motodiserie, and dreaming about returning to racing as a wild card in the CIV on board Bimota’s DB8 Superbike while promoting the upcoming World Superbike Championship in Russia.
The inaugural WSBK round at the new Moscow Raceway will take place on 24-26 August and Xaus was at the 2012 Moto Park Exhibition in Moscow, as a guest of Russian monthly magazine Motoreview who had a stand at the event.
As part of the promotion of World Superbike, Xaus will also give several master classes in Russia (he also has a riding school there), which will be organized by Motoreview magazine and which will take place in July and at the start of August on the Kazan Ring racetrack.
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