World Superbike News

For the 2009 World Superbike Championship, there is to be a shoot-out qualifying session rather than the one-lap sprint currently in place.
The new Superpole will be for the top twenty riders following the two qualifying sessions instead of the current sixteen.
There is to be three elimination sessions consisting of twelve minutes each with two seven [...]

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Troy Bayliss is set to retire at the end of this season, which leaves the question of who will replace the retiring double world champion at the Ducati Xerox team.
Max Biaggi, currently riding for the Sterilgarda Ducati team in 2008, has shown interest in the riding seat but confessed to not having had much direct [...]

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Superbike fans the world over have been devastated by the tragic accident that took the life of the young rider Craig Jones, who died from the injuries he received at Brands Hatch on Sunday August 3rd.
Craig’s funeral will take place on Monday, August 18th at 13.00 at St Mary and All Saints Church, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire [...]

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At round eleven, of the Hanspree World Superbike Championship at Donington Park, Leon Haslam, Cal Crutchlow and James Ellison will all be racing as Wild-Card riders.
Ellison, currently running in sixth and riding the Hydrex-Bike Animal Honda in the British Superbike Championship, is to use a World Superbike engine while the HM Plant Honda riders in [...]

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World Supersport rider, Craig Jones, 23, was hospitalised on Sunday after an horrific accident in the British leg of the Championship.
The Honda rider from Peterborough, suffered serious head injuries when fighting for the lead at the Brands Hatch track, he lost control of his bike at Clarke curve and was hit by Andrew Pitt on [...]

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