World Superbike News

The Yoshimura Suzuki team have confirmed that they will now make their first of three appearances at the next round of the World Superbike championship, having missed out on their planned outing at Assen due to the grounding of airlines after the Icelandic volcano eruption.
The Japanese rider Yukio Kagayama will be on the modified version [...]

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The FIM have now released the provisional calendar for the World Superbike Championship of 2010, with no Qatar round for the first time in five-years.
February 28                                 Australia                                                               Phillip Island
March 28                                       Portugal                                                               Portimão
April 11                                             Spain                                                                   Valencia (*)
April 25                                          Netherlands                                                           Assen
May 9                                               Italy                                                                          Monza
May 16                                            South Africa                                                          Kyalami
May 31                                            United States                                                        Salt Lake City
June [...]

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The World Superbike series headed to France this weekend with Ben Spies and Noriyuki Haga sharing the wins at the Magny-Cours circuit.
Race One
It was Ben Spies on the Yamaha World Superbike that led into the first corner of race one with Max Biaggi, Jonathan Rea, Leon Haslam and Michel Fabrizio, all fighting for second place.
Rea [...]

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Sheridan Morais is returning to the Kawasaki World Superbike seat this weekend, replacing the injured Makoto Tamada at the Magny Cours round of the championship.
Tamada was side-swiped off of his Kawasaki at the last round of the championship at Imola by wild-card rider Luca Conforti, after only five laps of the opening race at the [...]

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The latest casualty of the economic crisis is the Celani Suzuki team, who have decided not to take part in the next round of the World Superbike Championship at Nurburgring on September 6.
The team are planning to make a come-back for the following three rounds at Imola, Magny Cours and Portimao with a more competitive [...]

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