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Jerez Test: Alex Lowes closes opening day at Jerez on top

Pata Yamaha WorldSBK rider leads day one of testing at Jerez with Jonathan Rea close behind Making their final preparations ahead of the 2019 season opener, 16 WorldSBK and 12 WorldSSP…
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Oli Bayliss To Race Supersport

Motorcycling Australia made an amendment to the rules in late 2018 to allow racers under the age of 16, who demonstrate ability to race at a high standard safely to…
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Bayliss To Ride With 32 on the DesmoSport Ducati

With the 2019 Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) underway at the end of February, alongside round one of the World Superbike Championship (WSBK), Troy Bayliss will ride with the number he…
WorldSBK

The WorldSBK Championship’s early years - Part 2

The first season of World Superbikes had been an unexpected success. For 1989 the Japanese factories upped their support big-time, while Ducati hired ex-500cc GP rider Raymond Roche and made…
History

The WorldSBK Championship’s early years - Part 1

In the mid-1980s production-based racing was booming around the world. It came in many forms and with varying eligibility rules, the most radical of which involved ‘silhouette’ classes for highly-modified…
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TEAM SUZUKI ECSTAR AUSTRALIA EXPANDS TO THREE RIDER LINE-UP FOR 2019

Alex Phillis, who finished eighth overall in this year’s championship and was the top privateer aboard his Suzuki GSX-R1000, will join Josh Waters and Wayne Maxwell…
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Wayne Maxwell to Team Suzuki ECSTAR Australia

Wayne Maxwell will join Team Suzuki ECSTAR Australia for the next two years. Maxwell, who finished runner-up in this year’s Australian Superbike Championship will join Josh Waters aboard the factory…
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Rea continues to lead at Jerez test

Sun shone down on Circuito de Jerez Angel Nieto once again for the second of a two day test in Southern Spain, where four MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship teams…
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Jonathan Rea finishes on top at day one of WSBK test at Jerez

Sun shone down on the opening day of testing around Circuito de Jerez Angel Nieto and the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship riders were out to make some strong steps…
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Super-yikes

So that’s it then. Jonathan Rea has joined the ranks of giants, stomping imperiously to a fourth successive World Superbike title after already breaking legend Carl Fogarty’s total of 59…
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Provisional suspension of rider Anthony West to remain in place

Following is a Press Release by The FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) – the governing body for motorcycle sport and the global advocate for motorcycling. The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM)…
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WSSP - Cortese the new champion after mad final round

On a track surface that featured fully wet rivers of water on some sectors, after an afternoon sandstorm and then rainstorm of disaster movie proportions, Sandro Cortese (Kallio Racing Yamaha) finally…