World Superbike News

Thanks to Patrick Mayon for this photograph
This weekend the World Superbike Championship takes place at the Miller Motorsports Park circuit near Salt Lake City, after an absence of an American round for four years.
The circuit was opened in 2006 and none of the World Superbike riders have ridden on the track before so riders [...]

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Karl Muggeridge, the Australiam Honda rider, has had a difficult couple of years, but now with his new team and a new Honda machine to boot, he is once again back in the frame.
Muggeridge said “The new bike is a big improvement on the old one.  If you change something on the new model it [...]

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Yesterday saw the World Superbike Championship riders race on the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza circuit with Neukirchner and Haga sharing a win.
Race One 
Max Neukirchner took the victory for the first race of the day, watched by an amazing 112,000 spectators as he sprinted to the chequered flag just 0.058 seconds in front of Noriyuki Haga.
It [...]

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Troy Bayliss not only took pole position again today, but the Ducati Xerox rider set a new circuit best lap, with a time of 1:44.931.
Second on the grid is the Suzuki Alstare rider Max Neukirchner, three-tenths of a second behind Bayliss  but ahead of Noriyuki Haga on the Yamaha.  Carlos Checa filled the last place [...]

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Max Neukirchner the Alstare Suzuki man, took provisional pole position ahead of second place man, Troy Bayliss.
Neukirchner and team-mate Yukio Kagayama, were lapping each other through the session and benefiting by getting in the  slipstream of one another along the fast straights and placing Kagayama in third place of the front row.  Neukirchner said to [...]

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