After the flyaway trip to Qatar and Australia, the Superbike World Championship returns to European soil with his weekend’s third round in Valencia.
The race will be a special one for Team Suzuki Alstare rider Fonsi Nieto, as it will be his home race, and will also be an important one for one of the [...]
After their win in Qatar last weekend, Team Suzuki Alstare headed to Australia in good spirits, with Fonsi Nieto and Max Neukirchner, but without Yukio Kagayama.
The Japanese rider crashed in the second race and broke his left collarbone and is forced to give the Phillip Island round a miss, but he will be back [...]
Team Suzuki Alstare rider Fonsi Nieto took his maiden World Superbike Championship victory in the second 18-lap race at the Qatar season opener today.
Despite having to start from the third row of the grid, Nieto stormed through the field to take the lead just four laps from the end. Ruben Xaus and Max Biaggi [...]
The first day of the 2008 World Superbikes season went to the Australian pairing of double world champion’s Troy Corser and Troy Bayliss as they took the top positions in the opening qualifying session amid tricky track conditions. Violent gusts of wind made the Losail track conditions extremely difficult, the two Troys were the only [...]
The first race of the World Superbikes season gets underway in Qatar on Saturday and Aussie Troy Bayliss has fired a warning shot across the bows of the other competitors as he set the fastest lap of the final pre-season at the Qatar circuit.
Second spot went to an ever improving Noriyuki Haga onboard the Yamaha [...]
Max Biaggi lowered the unofficial lap record at Phillip Island as his Sterilgarda Ducati team returned to the track for two extra days of pre-season testing.
The 36-year-old Roman and his Spanish team-mate Ruben Xaus both remained at the circuit while most of the rest of the World Superbikes field headed back to Europe, in a [...]
Xerox Ducati’s Troy Bayliss will be fighting to be fit for the opening World Superbike round in Qatar next month after breaking his right collarbone in the final day of testing at Phillip Island.
The dual world champion highsided at Turn 10 before his machine torpedoed into the Kawasaki of Regis Laconi. The Frenchman came out [...]
Team Alstare Suzuki’s Yukio Kagayama, Fonsi Nieto and Max Neukirchner have completed the first of three days of World Superbike testing at Phillip Island in Australia positive and confident with their new GSX-R1000s.
The team worked mainly on suspension and engine settings and settled into a good rhythm with Kagayama just three-tenths-of-a-second off the fastest unofficial [...]
The 2008 World Superbike Championship has been announced with new races at the Nurburgring in Germany and Sentul in Indonesia making it a provisional 15 round series.
The addition of Sentul in Indonesia makes it four fly away rounds alongside Qatar, Phillip Island and Salt Lake City.
2008 also sees a return to the USA where [...]
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