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Misano Cauldron Awaits World Superbike Contenders
26 June 2008
The action in the 2008 HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship is undoubtedly set to heat up this weekend as the runners and riders head for the Misano World Circuit cauldron on Italy’s Adriatic Riviera coast for Round 8, the San Marino Round organized in collaboration with the motorcycling federation of the tiny, Italian-speaking but independent, Republic state. With 7 rounds done and dusted, the season now enters its second half and the revised Santamonica circuit could not be a better place for this next phase of the championship, with scorching weather expected at the holiday venue to liven up proceedings. The last two rounds have produced two double winners in Carlos Checa (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) at Miller Motorsports Park and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB) at the Nurburgring, but more to the point they have seen Troy Bayliss’s leadership grip on a championship gradually come under threat.
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Haga Scores Magnificent Double Win at the Nurburgring
15 June 2008
Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB) scored a fantastic double win at the Nurburgring on World Superbike’s return to the German track for the first time in ten years. Just two weeks after breaking his collarbone in the USA, Haga fought off Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) to win race 1, and then got the better of his team-mate Troy Corser in a rain-shortened second encounter to take the double. Max Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki) took two thirds in front of his home crowd. Despite unfavourable weather conditions, the German Round of the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship, reached a satisfactory overall attendance of 41,000 over the 3 days.
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Neukirchner Powers to Superpole in Home Round
15 June 2008
Max Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki) powered to a second Superpole win of the season in his home round of the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship at the Nurburgring. The 25-year-old from Stollberg in the former East Germany, set an incredible time of 1 minute 55.471 seconds around the 5.137 km circuit on his Suzuki GSX-R1000. The remainder of the front row was made up of riders from three different manufacturers; Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) was three-tenths of a second down in second place, followed by Carlos Checa (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB), who ten days ago was undergoing surgery on a broken collarbone.
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Checa’s Double Win Leaves All to Play for at Nurburgring
11 June 2008
The double win by Carlos Checa (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) in Round 6 of the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship two weeks ago at Miller Motorsports Park in the USA succeeded in shuffling the cards in the points standings somewhat as the series reaches the mid-point of the season. With Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) failing to score in both races, the Spaniard has now cut the gap to the top man to just 28 points. What seemed a healthy points cushion for the Australian just a couple of races ago, is now not such a large gap after all, proving that anything can happen in the unpredictable world of Superbike racing. The second new circuit in the space of two weeks is the Nurburgring, which has not hosted a round of the Superbike World Championship since 1999, when the German Round made its second and last visit after the first event in 1998. Four riders in the current world championship line-up have raced Superbike there before – Troy Corser, Noriyuki Haga, Ruben Xaus and Gregorio Lavilla – with the Australian powering to a race 2 win in 1999, while Carlos Checa and Max Biaggi have raced in 500 and 250 respectively and Max Neukirchner in the German championship. Almost one decade has passed since then and this weekend’s Nurburgring race is sure to throw up a few surprises.
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Neukirchner & Haga Share the Wins in Monza
12 May 2008
Max Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki) and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia) shared the wins in the IDS Italian Round of the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in front of a record crowd of 112,000 spectators. The first-ever win for a German rider in World Superbike history came at the end of a sprint finish to the line with Haga, just 0.058 seconds behind at the flag. The final podium place went to championship leader Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) after a late attack by Yukio Kagayama (Suzuki Alstare), who finished fourth despite a couple of errors at the chicane.
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Bayliss Takes Healthy Points Margin to Monza
08 May 2008
Following his double victory at Assen, Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) will come to Monza for the IDS Italian Round of the HANNspree FIM Superbike World Championship this weekend with a healthy 70 point lead in the table over his closest rivals as the series reaches third distance. In eight races so far on his Ducati 1098 F08, the 39-year-old from Taree has taken the chequered flag on five occasions, finished second twice and has only been off the podium once, in race 2 at Losail. This sort of steamrolling form will guarantee Bayliss an ample cushion from his 178 points in the next few races should a challenge be mounted by the chasing four-cylinder contenders.
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Wins For Lanzi & Haga In SBK Round 3 At Valencia
06 April 2008
Lorenzo Lanzi (RG Ducati) and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB) took the wins in a spectacular day of action at Valencia in front of 60,000 spectators, a record attendance for World Superbikes at the Spanish circuit. Carlos Checa (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) and Max Neukirchner (Suzuki Alstare) were the protagonists of the first race. Neukirchner led every lap from pole position until the final corner, when Checa dived inside, but the Spaniard crashed and took his German rival down with him. Neukirchner suffered a broken left collarbone in the incident and failed to take part in race 2, while Checa remounted to finish fifth.
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Suzuki Take 1-2 In Thrilling Valencia Superpole
05 April 2008
Suzuki Alstare riders Max Neukirchner and Yukio Kagayama finished first and second in today’s thrilling Superpole session at the Valencia circuit. The young German rider has been on the pace all weekend and he took his first ever Superpole, Suzuki’s 16th pole position, with a time of 1m33.805s, the new outright circuit record. His Suzuki team-mate Yukio Kagayama was just a fraction of a second behind, the Japanese rider almost back to full strength after his recent collarbone injury. Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) was the first rider this weekend to dip under 1m34s, but he was outpaced in the one-lap sprint and had to settle for third place.
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Giugliano Misses The Points After Hard Weekend
25 July 2007
After qualifying on the eighth row of the grid at Brno Davide Giugliano (Lightspeed Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R) expected to struggle hard to get into the points, and his 20th placing on raceday confirmed his pre-race expectations. In the race itself his lack of a good set-up on his machine and a sliding rear made things difficult from the outset, but he improved 10 places on his qualifying place of 30th on the grid.
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Giugliano And Lightspeed Ready For Brno Challenge
18 July 2007
Lightspeed Kawasaki’s 2007 signing Davide Giugliano (Lightspeed Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R) will use his recent Vallelunga testing experiences as a springboard for the run-in to the last five races of the year, the first of which takes place at Brno this coming weekend. Giugliano, still only 17 years-old, will be looking to get back to the form which saw him a top six finisher at Donington Park in round three, but his first priority is simply to finish in the points at Brno, to kickstart his overall championship campaign once more.
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Giugliano Makes Progress In Vallelunga
09 July 2007
Davide Giugliano (Lightspeed Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R) did not get the chance to set the kind of lap time he expected to leave his home circuit with, but after two days of testing he made improvements to the set-up of his new-for-2007 machine. The Roman rider, still only 17 years old, was limited in his choice of rubber at the beginning of the test and this contributed to the issues he found with overall machine set-up.
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Davide Giugliano Pulls Out Of Home Race
19 June 2007
Davide Giugliano (Lightspeed Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R) ended his second home race of the 2007 season in pitlane, having retired from what was an aggregate Supersport race at Misano after only 17 laps had been completed.
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Lightspeed Kawasaki's Giugliano 12th
16 April 2007
The ever-improving Davide Giugliano (Lightspeed Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R) used updates in his rear suspension set-up to help him score points at Valencia, in only his fourth WSS race on his new machine. Once more in a World Supersport weekend weather conditions played a hand in proceedings, with Giugliano not being able to get in as many dry laps as he would like, and yet still being able to set good times for most of the race.
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Kawasaki's Giugliano Wins With His Ninja ZX-6R
04 October 2006
Davide Giugliano, the Italian Lightspeed Kawasaki rider won for the second time this season with his Ninja ZX-6R the European Supersport 600 race. At his home track, Imola, the talented Italian rider won the 9-lap race with just 2 seconds before the Belgian Champion Simeon.
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Kawasaki's Giugliano Wins With His ZX-6RR At Misano
26 June 2006
Kawasaki Lightspeed rider Davide Giugliano could not be stopped by the Superstock 600 pack to win his first race in 2006 at the Misano Adriatico race track in San Marino. After a succesfull qualifying session on Saturday, resulting in a front row position, the Italian Kawasaki rider had a very good start at Sunday's race.
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