Aprilia will join forces with Shaun Muir’s SMR team for a factory return to the World Superbike Championship next season, headlined by Eugene Laverty. The Irishman is switching back from MotoGP, having previously won ten races and finished 2013 WorldSBK title runner-up for Aprilia. In a video interview released by the official World Superbike website, […]
Former World Superbike and Grand Prix ace Pierfrancesco Chili will be a special guest at this year’s Classic TT.The Italian fan-favourite will be attending the festival for three days and is sure to be a hit with the British spectators, who were huge fans of the rider during his career. The 52-year-old had an illustrious racing […]
The SuperGP Champions Trophy returns to the track after the winter break when the fifth round of the 2016 season takes place at Red Star Raceway in Mpumalanga on Saturday, 30 July.SuperGP championship leader Mathew Scholtz (ETR Nashua Yamaha R1) spent the winter break in America competing in the MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 championship where he […]
Tom Sykes cut Jonathan Rea’s lead at the top of the World Superbike series standings to 46 points by winning race two at the Laguna Seca round on Sunday. Rea retired with a technical problem after five laps, having run off the track while battling for the lead.The Northern Irishman’s Kawasaki team-mate, Yorkshireman Sykes, went […]
Inspired by the success of the Northern Ireland football team in France, Jonathan Rea took a double victory over the weekend at Misano in Italy, during round eight of the World Superbike hampionship.His faultless 50-point haul, increased his series lead to a healthy 66 points over Kawasaki Racing team-mate Tom Sykes, who was second in […]
Spanish rider Xavi Cardelus’ bike exploded on the raceway track after he lost control during the European Superbikes race in Spain today.Petrol-fire inferno engulfs superbike riders after horror crash Four riders were lucky to escape with their lives after being engulfed by a fireball in Spain. Source: nine.com.au Cardelus was thrown from his bike after […]
Sheridan Morais will return to the World Superbike Championship and the Grillini Kawasaki team after being called up ahead of round seven at Donington Park. Having made sporadic race appearances over the years, the South African stepped up to World Superbikes full-time in 2014 with the Italian team, scoring regular en route to 18th in […]
Nicky Hayden claimed his first World Superbike victory and his first at any level for ten years with a masterful performance in wet conditions at Sepang. The American coped best with a sodden track in race two to see off Ducati’s Davide Giugliano while Jonathan Rea finished third to extend his championship lead. The heavy […]
Jonathan Rea has paid credit to his Kawasaki crew for providing him with the platform to claim a classy double victory weekend at Assen as he and the team kept their cool in tricky conditions. The defending World Superbike champion produced a measured ride to claim victory in the opener at Assen to maximise his […]
Ducati rider Chaz Davies made it a perfect weekend on Sunday as he claimed victory in Race Two of the World Superbike Championship at Motorland Aragon in Spain.The Welshman secured his second win in as many days after his commanding victory on Saturday with a fine repeat performance finishing six seconds clear of the field. […]
Defending champion Jonathan Rea stretched his lead in the World Superbike series to 29 points over new second-placed rider and team-mate Tom Sykes after round two of the series in Thailand.With high air temperatures of 34°C at the 4.554km Chang International Circuit, race one was hard work for everyone, but it was the KRT pairing […]
Tom Sykes says the Thailand round of the World Superbike championship is one which should play to his Kawasaki’s strengths at the Chang International Circuit. The Kawasaki Racing Team rider is looking to put the frustrations of the season opener behind him, where he slipped from a podium place in the closing laps of each […]
World champion Jonathan Rea has completed a stunning double in the opening round of the 2016 superbike world championship at Phillip Island by narrowly winning both 22-lap races. The Kawasaki pilot defeated Honda’s Michael van der Mark and Ducati’s Davide Giugliano to complete the clean sweep on Sunday. But it was a disaster for Chaz […]
Jonathan Rea will begin his bid to retain the World Superbike crown he won in style last season at this weekend’s first round of the series in Australia.The Northern Ireland rider will be aiming to emulate the achievement of Carl Fogarty, who successfully defended his title twice in the 1990s. Rea, 29, won 14 of […]
Last time the SuperGP brigade went anti-clockwise around the Red Star Raceway in Mpumalanga was back in June 2015. On that occasion Mathew Scholtz (ETR Nashua Yamaha R1) took two comfortable wins from eventual champion Clint Seller on the NeoLife Africa Yamaha R1. On Saturday 20 February 2016 the duo, joined by more than a […]
Jonathan Rea expects the limit of performance with the new Kawasaki ZX-10R to be much higher compared to his World Superbike championship winner of last year and the Northern Irish says this will be vital against a more competitive grid in 2016. With the return of the Yamaha factory outfit and a step up in […]
The Milwaukee BMW World Superbike Team are completing preparations for their debut in the 2016 FIM World Superbike Championship. Ahead of their first test in Jerez, the team are proud to announce an exclusive 3-year deal with Gulf Oil International as the official lubricants partner of Milwaukee BMW. The agreement will see the iconic oil […]
Five Australian riders will compete as wildcards in the opening round of the World Superbike Championship (WSBK) at Phillip Island on February 26-28, 2016.Australia will be well represented with two riders in the World Superbike (WSBK) Class and three competing in the World Supersport (WSS) Class. World Superbike Mike Jones – DesmoSport Ducati, Ducati Jed […]
The South African National Off-Road Motorcycle and Quad Championship will in future be run under the auspices of SANORA. SANORA administers the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship and has now also acquired the rights to organise the South African National Off-Road Motorcycle and Quad Championship. This is in terms of an agreement between SANORA […]
Jonathan Rea has given a positive first evaluation of the new Kawasaki ZX-10R following two days of testing in Jerez. The new World Superbike champion, who dominated the 2015 campaign in his first season as a Kawasaki rider, got to sample the full race specification of the 2016 model in Spain after skipping last week’s […]
Tom Sykes wants to give Kawasaki the perfect World Superbike season in 2015 by claiming the runner-up spot in the riders’ championship at the season finale in Qatar. The 2013 World Superbike champion currently trails Ducati’s Chaz Davies by 16 points for second place heading into the last round with his team-mate Jonathan Rea having […]
Jonathan Rea will head to the final round of 2015 in Qatar with the chance to break the all-time World Superbike points record for a single season after winning race two at Magny Cours. Rea’s fourteenth win of the season brings him to within 24 points of Colin Edwards’ 2002 record with two races remaining […]
In only his second outing on a near-standard Suzuki GSX-R1000 L5, local motorcycle racer David ‘McFlash’ McFadden from Cape Town took a double victory at Killarney. McFadden, who had his very first outing on the bike – and winning the event – at the Mike Hopkins Regional Superbike Championship event at Killarney on Saturday 5 […]
The official return of Yamaha Motor Europe to the World Superbike Championship will come in 2016 In collaboration with their partner Crescent Racing and title sponsors PATA, Yamaha Motor Europe will make its official return to the World Superbike Championship in 2016.Crescent Racing will partner Yamaha as their fully-support Official WSBK Team from 2016. As […]
Kajetan ‘Kajto’ Kajetanowicz has a great chance to extend his lead in the FIA European Rally Championship when round eight, the CNP ASFALISTIKI Cyprus Rally 2015 (25-27 September), gets underway next week.The Polish LOTOS Rally Team Ford Fiesta R5 driver lands on the sun-kissed Mediterranean island with a 23-point lead in the standings – and […]
Having fallen just a few corners short of wrapping up the 2015 World Superbike Championship title before the summer hiatus, Jonathan Rea is all-but-certain to complete the inevitable when the series resumes this weekend in Jerez. With three rounds and six races of the 2015 season remaining, Rea needs just six points to assure himself […]
A Dutch motorcyclist has been killed during a qualifying session for the Manx Grand Prix held on the Isle of Man TT course, organisers have confirmed. Hoogkarspel racer Dennis Hoffer, 42, died following a crash near the 13th Milestone at about 18:30 BST on Wednesday. Hoffer had been making his debut at the Isle of […]
Clint Seller (NeoLife Africa Yamaha R1) made his intentions clear during SuperPole and went on to take two comfortable wins in the sixth round of the 2015 DEOD SuperGP Champions Trophy held at Red Star Raceway on Saturday, 22 August. The defending champion now has a 27 point lead at the top of the log […]
August 2, 2015 Chaz Davies ensured Jonathan Rea’s championship coronation will have to wait until Jerez in September after snatching victory at the final corner of race two at Sepang. After the early demise of Tom Sykes, Rea simply needed victory to be crowned champion and looked set to deliver on the approach to […]
Clint Seller (NeoLife Africa Yamaha R1) rode a superbly controlled race in atrocious conditions to take a well-deserved win in the first of two scheduled SuperGP races at the East London Grand Prix Circuit on Saturday, 25 July 2015. Unfortunately, after his win, the weather conditions deteriorated to such an extent that the remainder of […]
Chaz Davies is targeting second place in the World Superbike championship after winning both races at Laguna Seca, California. Welshman Davies trails series leader Jonathan Rea by 144 points, but is only 19 behind second-placed Tom Sykes. Ducati rider Davies, 23, led from start to finish with Sykes second and Rae third in both […]
Two motorcycle racers have been killed in an accident at the start of a Superbike/Superstock 1000 race that supported the World Superbike Championship event at Laguna Seca.The multi-bike accident happened on the first lap of Sunday’s second MotoAmerica race, with Spaniards Bernat Martinez, 35, and Daniel Rivas Fernandez, 27, both badly injured. The pair were transported straight […]
World Superbike leader Jonathan Rea says he will not let up and will focus on winning every race despite having a 133 point lead over Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes.Rea told bikesportnews.com, that he would love to win at Laguna as he has never won there before. “I want to win. Especially at Laguna, because it […]
Jonathan Rea extended his lead in the World Superbike series to 133 points by winning race two at Misano after taking second behind Kawasaki team-mate, England’s Tom Sykes, in race one. Sykes led all the way to win the opener at the Italian venue, with Rea pipping Welshman Davies for the runner-up spot. Rea, 28, […]
Jonathan Rea coped best with a late downpour to win a dramatic first race at Portimao. The championship leader came through from eighth on the grid to lead before the rain came with an engine problem for teammate Tom Sykes eventually swinging things decisively in Rea’s favour. Given the events of Superpole, Sykes would have […]
Popular Portuguese holiday destination the Algarve debuted on the eni FIM Superbike World Championship calendar at the end of 2008, shortly after the circuit inauguration. Nowadays, it can be found in the middle of the season: in this case, very much in the middle as, after Race 1 in Portugal this weekend, the 26-race campaign […]
Tom Sykes led home series leader Jonathan Rea in both races at Donington Tom Sykes made it six wins in a row to equal Carl Fogarty’s record at Donington as the Kawasaki rider claimed a double at the British Grand Prix. Sykes has won every race at the Leicestershire circuit in the last three […]
Jonathan Rea soared to yet another two victories in the World Superbike races at Imola on Sunday.The Northern Irish rider had been outqualified by Davide Giugliano, but when the action got under way the 28-year-old was unstoppable, winning both races at a canter. The victories made it four wins in a row for Rea, and […]
World Superbikes heads to Assen this weekend for the second European round in succession and we take a look ahead to the weekend’s action. Jonathan Rea enters round four of the World Superbike Championship this weekend as the man with the arrow on his back once again. Rea heads the championship by 26 points […]
Jonathan Rea extended his lead in the World Superbike Championship after another exceptional performance at Motorland Aragon, where the Ulster rider sealed a race win and runner-up finish in Spain. The new Kawasaki signing has won four of the six races held this season so far, twice finishing as the runner-up on the Ninja […]