Tuesday, May 21 2013
The eni FIM World Superbikes paddock heads to Donington Park this weekend for the fifth round of the Championship and competition is high! Fixi Crescent Suzuki’s Leon Haslam is still recovering from a leg injury he sustained at the Assen round, but he has said he will do all he can to take part in [...]
Tuesday, May 21 2013
With the fifth round of the eni FIM World Superbike Championship at Donington Park just a few days away, the BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team is gearing up for the circuit which was the home of their first ever WSBK victory and 1-2 result. Rider Marco Melandri gave BMW its first ever Championship victory in [...]
Friday, May 17 2013
Team SBK Ducati Alstare will be welcoming a brand new wildcard rider for the fifth round of the World Superbike round at Donington Park next week, in the shape of Team Barni’s Niccolo Canepa. Currently, Canepa is leading the Superstock 1000 Championship but is available for Donington because the Stock motorbikes don’t compete at the [...]
Monday, May 13 2013
With only one rider on track for Team Ducati Alstare this weekend, it was all down to Ayrton Badovini to perform well at Monza. By the end of the day, he’d managed to finish Race One in ninth position and Race Two in eleventh. Race One Beginning from twelfth, Ayrton lost a few spaces through [...]
Monday, May 13 2013
The fourth round of the World Superbike Chamionship 2013 took place at Monza yesterday, with Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad GoldBet) and Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) taking a race win each. It wasn’t all plain sailing however, with Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) and Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) keen to keep the winners on [...]
Friday, May 10 2013
Monza’s Autodroma Nazionale is set to welcome the eni FIM World Superbike paddock this weekend for the fourth round of the 2013 Championship. The Italian track is the fastest on the WSBK calendar, so current leader Sylvain Guintoli of Aprilia Racing Team will be looking forward to increasing his lead. Competition comes in the form [...]
Friday, May 3 2013
BMW Motorrad factory rider, Chaz Davies, headed straight to Munich after last weekend’s World Superbike round at Assen, in order to spend time in a wind tunnel to work on his lean positions. With the next round scheduled for Monza, Davies worked on optimising his riding position minimising drag – key if he is to [...]
Monday, April 29 2013
It was a mixed affair for Team Ducati Alstare at Assen this weekend, with riders Carlos Checa and Ayrton Badovini battling to stay ahead. Race One saw Carlos starting from eighth position on the grid, a position he managed to hold onto until competition from FIXI Crescent Suzuki riders, Jules Cluzel and Leon Camier pushed [...]
Monday, April 29 2013
Local wildcard rider, Bo Bendsneijder claimed a well-deserved victory in the second round of the European Junior Cup powered by Honda this weekend at Netherland’s Assen circuit. In such a fast-paced race, the leading positions changed quickly, with Bendsneijder fending off challenges from Activbike’s Guillaume Raymond, Swisscare’s Adrien Pittet, Colors Experience’s Michael Canducci and Newton [...]
Monday, April 29 2013
This weekend’s World Superbike round at the Netherland’s Assen TT Circuit saw Tom Sykes and Eugene Laverty take a win each, with Sykes providing the Kawasaki Racing Team with its first WSBK win in seven years. Race One Kawasaki Racing Team’s Tom Sykes dominated Race One, maintaining his front position for the majority of the [...]
Friday, April 26 2013
The third round of the World Superbike Championship taking place at the TT Circuit Assen this weekend is the home round of the Pata Honda team, with the Ten Kate workshops just 60km south of the Netherlands track. Both Pata Honda riders, Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam, have experienced success at the circuit in the [...]
Thursday, April 25 2013
We all know how talented and skilled the World Superbike riders are, but it was time for them to go back to basics today when they were given lessons in trial biking by world level rider, Rick Koekoek. Rick, who hails from the outskirts of Assen, (home to the next round of the WSBK Championship [...]
Thursday, April 25 2013
Just over a week after their fantastic result at the Motorland Aragon circuit, the BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team duo of Marco Melandri and Chaz Davies are heading to the TT Circuit Assen. After his double win at Aragon, Davies landed himself in second position in the Riders’ Championship, with a total of 63 points [...]
Wednesday, April 24 2013
This weekend, the eni FIM World Superbike paddock heads to Assen for the third round of the 2013 championship. Assen’s TT Circuit has been home to the championship since 1992 and has the second highest tally (42) of races, along with Monza and Phillip Island. Aprilia Racing Team’s Sylvain Guintoli has always had a good [...]
Tuesday, April 23 2013
Team Ducati Alstare riders Carlos Checa and Ayrton Badovini are heading to Assen in time for this weekend’s World Superbike round at the famous TT Circuit of Assen. Round Two at Aragon saw the team getting some good results aboard their Ducati 1199 Panigale bikes, and the duo even managed to score their first Championship [...]