2018 WorldSBK Season officially launched in Australia
Stunning Phillip Island track the setting for the opening round of the season
Team Suzuki ECSTAR Australia
Round 1 of the 2018 Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) kicks off this weekend along side the opening round of the World Superbike Championship at the iconic Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit and the Team Suzuki ECSTAR Australia duo of Josh Waters & Markus Chiodo are fi
Sykes Better Prepared Than Ever
Tom Sykes has seldom had a great season start at the awesome and undulating Phillip Island circuit in Australia. But after the final winter tests of the year at PI he feels relaxed and confident. “I am more than ready and this is the best kind of pre-season we have ever had in
Rea Fastest But Fortunate After Huge Highside
Jonathan Rea (KRT) is still the hottest bet possible to win a fourth consecutive championship this season, but the rider himself knows his final pre-season preparations may have gone very differently just a few days before the start of a new season. Fastest of all after two days
Yamaha Riders Run Riot In WorldSSP Testing
After a superbly combative and ever-changing 2017 WorldSSP season saw a new champion crowned in Frenchman Lucas Mahias (GRT Yamaha Official WorldSSP Team), after some last round heroics from himself and five time champion Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing), 2018 looks like
Last Testing Hurrah Sees Rea On Top at Phillip Island
If Dorna and the FIM wanted to slow down the ultimate lap times of the three-time World Champion Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team), thanks to the new 14,100rpm rev limit imposed on all the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR machines on the grid at the start of the 2018 season, it has not w
Sykes Escapes After Massive Highside
Phillip Island’s high winds and high speeds proved a bad combination for many riders on the first day of official testing, with even some world champions being caught out and crashing in a big way.
WORLDSBK Official Tests 19-20 February 2018
The final salvos of the winter testing ‘phoney war’ started today at the unique Phillip Island circuit in Australia. The top WorldSBK and WorldSSP teams made their track debuts down under in dry but intensely windy conditions. Gusts got so bad at times that some riders opted
AUSWorldSBK: How will the teams fare in Australia as 2018 season kicks off
Aprilia is the third most successful manufacturer at Phillip Island, with six wins. The first victory came with Troy Corser in 2000 and, after their return to racing, they won five times from 2012 to 2015. Last year the best result for Aprilia was scored by Eugene Laverty in Race
WSBK Phillip Island test
Ready for the kick off What to expect in the final pre-season test
Rea torques his way around it
Three-time defending WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea believes the new technical rules introduced for the 2018 season won’t make a huge difference to the speed of his Kawasaki ZX-10RR as final preparations begin for the Yamaha Finance-backed season opener at Phillip Island next w
Blue Sky Thinking For WorldSBK Green Guys
Yoshimoto Matsuda, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Senior Manager for power sports, motorcycles, motocross and jet skis, is the Project Leader not only for KRT in WorldSBK but also the man behind the development of the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R and RR models over the past few years. Durin