World Superbike News

Doug Polen won the World Superbike Championship in 1991 and 1992 after joining the ‘Fast by Ferracci’ Ducati team in 1990.
The American began his career in the late 70’s before reaching the top of the American Road Racing  series in the early 80’s.  He decided to retire from the sport in the Summer of 1982 [...]

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The three times World Superbike champion title holder Troy Bayliss, has taken the next step in his motor-racing career but this time on four wheels.
The Australian has been testing with different teams in the V8 Supercar endurance series and is hoping to get a drive in this years rounds.
Bayliss said;
“It was my first time with [...]

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Fred Merkel was the World Superbike Champion in 1988 and 1989 and now, at the age of 46, is living with his family on a ranch in New Zealand.
Merkel started his career as a young boy, taught by his father, and by the age of 19, was racing a 250cc Grand Prix bike.  After going [...]

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Anthony Gobart, one of Australia’s most talented motorcycle road racers, with a promising career ahead of him in the World Superbike Championship, is now in a personal struggle with drug abuse.
Gobart began his career on motorcycles as a teenager starting with Motor-cross before progressing onto road racing, winning his first World Superbike race as a [...]

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Blake Young, 21, will be riding the Suzuki Alstare machine this weekend at Donington Park replacing injured rider Max Neukirchner for this World Superbike Championship round.
Young is currently negotiating a ride with American Suzuki for the Rockstar Makita Suzuki Team in the American Superbike series and had gone along to the Misano World Superbike race [...]

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