World Superbike News

KTM, who are originally famous for it’s off-road machines are now recognised for their road racing grand prix programme with the 125cc and 250cc classes.
The team expects to spend only two seasons in the Superstock series before joining the World Superbike Championship.
Philip Habsburg said “We want to be here for sure in 2008 and 2009 [...]

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This is the BMW prototype for it’s first World Superbike, which will be racing in 2009.
The German manufacturer’s are releasing 10,000 models for general sale in order to meet homologation rules.  The bike, known as the S1000RR, has a weight of 190kg in road trim and delivers 190bhp.
BMW are hoping to be consistently in the [...]

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After taking a win in race one of the Valencia Grand Prix, at the last round of the World Superbike Championship, Lorenzo Lanzi is planning on doing it again.
Lanzi said “I was having a good race and was hoping to pass Bayliss to get onto the podium, because beating Troy on this track is almost [...]

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The weather badly affected the two day testing session at Monza, near Milan for the Xerox Ducati, Yamaha Italia and the Altea Honda teams.
The three teams had very little time on the track and none at all on Friday due to heavy rain.  The teams were hoping to develop their latest Pirelli tyres but it [...]

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The first day of private testing at the Jerez track for the Kawasaki team on Wednesday, was almost entirely called off due to heavy rain.
The team however, used the time to verify the functionality of the ZX-10R straight from the pit garage, making some changes to the set-up of the bike and preparing for testing [...]

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