World Superbike News

Last weekend saw the first round of the World Superbike Championship of 2010 take place at the Phillip Island circuit in Australia.
Leon Haslam claimed his first ever win in race one at the opening round after crossing the line in a photo finish alongside Italian rider Michel Fabrizio.  Noriyuki Haga followed the pair to take [...]

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Andrew Pitt has signed a two-year deal to ride alongside Roland Resch for the Reitwagen Motorsport BMW team for the 2010 World Superbike Championship.
The double World Supersport champion and former MotoGP rider has been out of the World Superbike series for four-years but is keen to get back in the championship.
Pitt said;
“After four years I’m [...]

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It has been confirmed that the Stiggy Honda team will not be taking part in the 2010 season in either the World Superbike  or the World Supersport series due to financial difficulties.
An official team statement read;
‘The Stiggy Racing Honda team has over its five years of participation been very successful, but nevertheless found itself put [...]

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Many of the top World Superbike riders will begin testing today in a two-day test session at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain.
Max Biaggi and Leon Camier will be on track to test the Aprilia Racing team bikes along with the teams test rider Alex Hofmann.
The Moto2 and the World Supersport series are also [...]

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In 2009 the introduction of the new Superpole format took place aimed at cost cutting to help the financial crisis but for 2010 further changes have now been scheduled.
For the Superbike series there is to be a 14-minute session for Superpole 1, 12-minutes for Superpole 2 and 10-minutes for Superpole 3 but the 7-minute break [...]

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