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BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK team launches 2013 title bid

26 March, 2020
At BMW’s headquarters in Munich, the BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK team officially launched their 2013 Superbike and Superstock 1000 FIM Cup title bids, after BMW announced last season that they would handing over their SBK racing efforts to BMW Italia.The…

Max Biaggi dominates Race 1 at Phillip Island

26 March, 2020
Max Biaggi kept a low profile this weekend working hard with his completely renovated team and it payed off as the Roman Emperor conquered the first race of 2012 World Superbike season at Phillip Island. Tom Sykes sitting in pole…

WSBK Assen Preview

26 March, 2020
The WSBK PR is also revving up for this weekend’s double header in Assen:Hannspree Ten Kate HondaJonathan Rea:“After what’s been a sluggish start to the season, we needed to look at making some changes to the bike to improve the…

WSBK Donington Race 1 – Spies takes 9th win

26 March, 2020
Ben Spies took his ninth World Superbike victory of the season in race one at Donington Park.Off the starting line Ben Spies race pace was impressive as it was all weekend, but the surprise came from Max Biaggi and his…

Toni Elias talks about testing the BMW S1000RR

26 March, 2020
Toni Elias still has no idea what he’ll be doing next year after a very dismal return to MotoGP, after winning the Moto2 championship in 2010. The Spaniard was invited by BMW Italia to take part in the World Superbike…

WSBK Valencia – Max Biaggi takes provisional pole in QP1

26 March, 2020
Max Biaggi with the new Aprilia RSV4 took the provisional pole for round three of the 2009 World Superbike Championship, at Valencia.Biaggi set the quickest time of the day ten minutes before the end of the session with a time…

Comic: Ducati is a 1200cc at Silverstone

26 March, 2020
Luca Ruggeri, Motoblog’s resident comic artist applied his wicked humor to this weekend’s World Superbike double header at Silverstone.One of the best quotes was from Aprilia’s Gigi dall’Igna after Saturday’s Superpole when he matter of factly stated that the Ducati…

Chris Vermeulen to skip Nurburgring round

26 March, 2020
Things are not looking good for Kawasaki rider Chris Vermeulen, the affable Aussie has been ruled out of this weekend’s WSBK round at Nurburgring after doctors refused to give him a clean bill of health on his lingering elbow injury.Vermeulen…

Mark Aitchison to replace Lundh at Silverstone

26 March, 2020
Mark Aitchison will be returning to the World Superbike championship for this weekend’s Silverstone round.The Australian, after his ill fated return with the controversial Effenbert Liberty team for just three rounds (Aragon, Assen and Monza) before the squad’s definite pullout…

Marco Melandri writes shoulder recovery going slow

26 March, 2020
Marco Melandri knows he won’t be 100% fit when the second round of the season at the Motorland Aragon ciruit in Spain rolls around in mid April, but he certainly expected to be a little further along in his recovery…

Eugene Laverty sets new pace in FP2 at Silverstone

26 March, 2020
A little rain that started at end of the Superstock 600 qualifying session seemed like it would hamper World Superbikes second free practice, but it did not cause any problems as everyone headed out on slicks as the clouds opened…

Tom Sykes continues to rule testing at Jerez on day 2

26 March, 2020
Tom Sykes continues to be the fastest rider at the private World Superbike test at Jerez despite not being officially included on the timesheets as Kawasaki isn’t carrying transponders. Sykes stopped the clock in 1.41.000 despite suffering a harmless crash…

WSBK: Nurburgring to be replaced by Lausitzring or Sachsenring?

26 March, 2020
The World Superbike round at the end of August at Nurburgring may be the last for the financially troubled German circuit.According to Speedweek.de, Dorna is going to start talks with both the Lausitzring and Sachsenring owners, in order to change…

WSBK Portimao Race 1 – Max Biaggi flies to Victory

25 March, 2020
It was Max Biaggi on his Aprilia RSV4 Factory who took the win in race 1 at Portimao after an exciting duel with Leon Haslam that lasted until almost the chequered flag, leaving Haslam in second and two tenths behind…

Liberty Racing to miss final round of the season?

25 March, 2020
If it was any other team announcing they won’t be taking part in the final round of the World Superbike season at Magny Cours this upcoming weekend, we’d probably be saying what a pity, that’s a shame, but since the…

WSBK Donington: Jonathan Rea leads in FP2

25 March, 2020
This afternoon’s World Superbike second free practice at Donington Park saw Jonathan Rea pip Carlos Checa by just 0.049s to take the top of the timesheets in his last flying lap and the two were the only ones to dip…

WSBK Misano QP1 – Fabrizio comes out on top

25 March, 2020
It was Michel Fabrizio with his Xerox Ducati that took today’s provisional pole at the Misano Adriatico circuit clocking in at 1.037”016 in the last seconds of qualifying. While it was Ben Spies showing again that he just has to…

Sylvain Guintoli takes maiden Superpole at damp Monza

25 March, 2020
Althea Ducati boss Genesio Bevilacqua had been doing a rain dance at Monzaso the Ducati’s could recover something against the top speed of the four cylinder machines and the Gods listened to him as today’s Superpole was declared wet -…

Casey Stoner becomes poster boy for a tractor company

25 March, 2020
When we read that Casey Stoner has recently signed a two year deal with an Italian tractor company to become their testimonial, we couldn’t imagine someone better than the two time World MotoGP Champion as their poster boy.As Stoner is…

Barracuda, Gresini Racing's new sponsor

25 March, 2020
We were kind of wondering why we didn’t see Jorge Lorenzo posing for Barracuda’s calendar this year with super hot Russian model Vera Sapojnikova and now we know why. Barracuda has stepped up its game and has become one the…

Tom Sykes to stay with Kawasaki for another season

25 March, 2020
While in MotoGP all the factory bikes and satellite teams - minus one (Gresini Honda) have already settled their 2013 line-ups, World Superbikes silly season is still very much up in the air.Only Marco Melandri has another year on his…