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Max Biaggi's girlfriend Eleonora Pedron defends her man

24 March, 2020
The Biaggi vs Melandri squabble has become a national affair in Italy, just like when the Italian parliment (hey, we’ve got a PM who still in office after making out with underage girls) discussed why Biaggi could no longer race…

2013 WSBK Istanbul: Sylvain Guintoli fastest in FP1

24 March, 2020
The World Superbike riders rode for the first time the impressive Istanbul Park circuit this morning. Since it was the first time the opening practice as extended to a full 90 minutes, so the riders could have time to learn…

Jonathan Rea to sub for injured Casey Stoner (w/video)

24 March, 2020
When Casey Stoner had to pull out of the Brno GP weekend to return to Australia and undergo ankle surgery, the big question was who would Honda get to replace the injured rider. Several names popped up like Stefan Bradl…

Eugene Laverty regains top position in FP2 at Aragon

24 March, 2020
The second World Superbike free practice at the Motorland Aragon saw Eugene Laverty regain the top of the timesheets with a blistering lap of 1’57″409, that lowered Tom Sykes QP2 time by more three tenths of a second in preparation…

Ben 'Elbowz' Spies Flies in Superpole Knockout

24 March, 2020
Texan WSBK rookie Ben Spies on his Yamaha YZF R1 took his first Superpole win of the season during the new Superpole formula session at Phillip Island in Australia, also smashing the lap record to that was held by Troy…

Tom Sykes takes dominant victory in race 1 at Assen

24 March, 2020
The sun was shining at Assen for the first race of today’s double header and Kawasaki’s Tom Sykes dominated the race from lights-to-flag with a punishing ryhthm to take his first victory of the 2013 season.After taking yesterday’s pole position,…

WSBK – Fabrizio gets the kiss of death?

24 March, 2020
Take a look at this video of Davide Tardozzi hugging Michel Fabrizio at the parc ferme after race 2 at Portimao and what the guys who posted the video compared it to. Hilarious.After all the controversy surrounding the lack of…

WSBK Assen: Jonathan Rea pips Smrz in QP2

24 March, 2020
The second qualifying Superbike practice saw Jakub Smrz continue to dominate in the 45 minute session only to have Jonathan Rea snatch the first spot from him with a last lap lunge and break the Effenbert Liberty Racing Ducati rider’s…

Marco Melandri worried about shoulder fitness

24 March, 2020
Ever since his crash during race 1 at Portimao last September that sent him to the hospital with a suspected kidney injury and then kept him out of race 2, Marco Melandri has been nursing a nagging shoulder injury that…

WSBK Team Pro Ride Real Game Honda MIA at Assen

24 March, 2020
Looking over the the two World Superbike timesheets from Assen, we just noticed that there is a team missing from the list, Pro Ride Real Game Honda team.Marco Nicotari’s Pro Ride team tried to debut in 2009 which turned out…

BMW 's message to Marco Melandri post EuroCup

24 March, 2020
If you don’t live in Europe you can’t imagine how important the UEFA EuroCup soccer matches are. Cities and towns across the continent gear up with giant screens to allow huge crowds of frenzied football (soccer) fans to watch the…

WSBK Imola progressive results: Race 1

24 March, 2020
As we wait to see whether Max Biaggi can steal a win off the Race 1 winner Carlos Checa in Race 2 at Imola today, the local Italian crowd has had the pleasure of seeing Michele Pirro win in the…

Ruben Xaus promotes World Superbikes in Russia

24 March, 2020
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…

Tom Sykes to continue with Kawasaki in 2014

24 March, 2020
Did anyone really have doubts that Tom Sykes wouldn’t be staying with Kawasaki for another season? Obviously not, as it was officially announced today that Skyes will be staying on for another season with KRT, and 2014 will make it…

Carlos Checa crashes go-kart at Aragon

24 March, 2020
Alstare’s Francis Batta got a big scare yesterday afternoon at the Motorland Aragon circuit, when his rider Carlos Checa, who is still recovering from his foot fracture picked at Phillip Island, crashed his go-kart during the yesterday’s World Superbike media…

Video: Jonathan Rea's save in Race 1 at Assen

24 March, 2020
Jonathan Rea had a couple of rough moments in Race 1 at Assen, before the skies decided to start dumping rain causing it be red flagged (but only after Melandri, Smrz and Hopkins went flying out at the De Bult…

Ruben Xaus is leaving Ducati for BMW

24 March, 2020
Ruben Xaus is a great and spectacular Spanish rider who won’t be racing next year with the Ducati 1098.These days Ruben is pilot in the Sterilgarda Go Eleven team but will join the new BMW factory team to develop the…

Althea Racing presents "Our Best Lap" book

23 March, 2020
When Ducati decided to officially withdraw their factory effort in World Superbikes at the end of 2010, but continue to support private teams, there was some massive complaining from offended fans, who blamed Gabriele Del Torchio for re-routing the funds…

Liberty Racing team confirms it will skip Moscow round

23 March, 2020
Yesterday in passing we mentioned that Effenbert Liberty racing team would not be taking part in next week’s upcoming round at Moscow because they couldn’t afford the long haul to the new Russian circuit, and today the Italian-Czech team has…

Aprilia riders Laverty and Guintoli talk about Jerez test

23 March, 2020
Aprilia Racing Team concluded testing yesterday at the Spanish circuit of Jerez de la Frontera (where the squad also officially displayed ther 2013 livery that you can check out in the gallery), the last ones before leaving for Australia for…

WSBK Donington: Rea's fall sequence (gallery)

23 March, 2020
Our mates from twin site Motoblog.it got ahold of a quite interesting sequence of pics showing Jonathan Rea’s crash in Donington during this morning Free Practice. We are not allowed to publish it because of copyright reasons, but you can…

Carlos Checa: Sykes will be the rider to beat in 2013

23 March, 2020
Carlos Checa was another rider that our guy over at Motoblog.it was able to interview during Nolan’s Christmas party last week. The 2011 World Superbike champion turned 40 last October and has a few strands of white hair and a…