World Superbike News

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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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 Japanese rider Yukio Kagayama, will be the sole team rider for the Suzuki Alstare crew, after it was decided not to put a replacement on the grid for the injured Max Neukirchner.
Neukirchner was due back to work at the Brno round of the World Superbike Championship after recovering from a broken leg received at [...]

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The World Superbike team Guandalini Racing, have announced that they will be racing with only one rider at the coming round of the championship at Brno, Jakub Smrz.
The latest victim of the economic crisis as well as waiting for payments from their sponsor, has seen the team having to scale down their operation.  However, the [...]

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The returning Alstare Suzuki rider Max Neukirchner, has suffered further injuries after crashing out in the three-day test at Imola.
Neukirchner, made his first track appearance this week after breaking his leg at the Monza round of the World Superbike Championship.  It was unsure, up until recently, whether the German rider would recover before the end [...]

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