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Battling Brits, led by Tom Sykes, bid for 'wild-card' World glory
17 August 2008
Troy Bayliss is intent on a winning finale as he races Superbikes for the last time in this country at Donington Park on Sunday 7 September prior to hanging up his leathers at the end of the season, but five wild-card British riders, among them Tom Sykes, are determined to spoil the party for the Aussie ace.
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Pirelli Brands Hatch Race Review
04 August 2008
After two days of practice in an uncertain atmosphere, due to changing weather conditions, Troy Bayliss took the Superpole prize with a 1'25.656 lap, ahead of Haga, Kiyonari and Smrz, who were also on the first row. Just a few raindrops came along at the start of the Superpole laps, but that was enough for it to be declared ‘wet’; and then the sun came back… Wet Superpole is run in a different format compared to the solo lap of the ‘dry’ version: it’s a 50 minute session with a maximum of 12 pit lane exits for the riders. Bayliss only realized the fastest lap in the last moments, when the racetrack was completely dry and riders were finally running with Pirelli qualifiers. A great performance came from the English rider Tom Sykes, on the Rizla Suzuki which he races with in the BSB (British National championship) - which is also a single make Pirelli Championship. Sykes took a great 6th grid spot, behind Corser but ahead of Biaggi and the three Suzuki Alstare riders.
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FGSport & Pirelli to Renew Tyre Supply Contract
18 July 2008
FGSport is pleased to announce that Pirelli will be the official tyre supplier for the FIM Superbike World Championship for a further three years after the conclusion of the current contract, therefore until the end of 2012. The supply, as already envisaged in the current agreement, will include the FIM Supersport World Championship, the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup and the UEM Superstock 600 European Championship. Pirelli’s working method, the undisputed reliability of the tyres, which have never caused any incidents or recorded any breakages, together with the absolute quality of the service provided were all determining factors in analysing the conditions for the renewal. Undoubtedly they were also a difficult obstacle to overcome for the competitors, who were required by the public supply tender to guarantee the same level of service that Pirelli has shown it is able to offer in this particular field.
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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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Pirelli Race Review - Monza
12 May 2008
A classic Italian weekend started on Thursday 8th May with a press conference, held at the Castello della Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, inside Pirelli’s headquarters in Milan. Many riders from the different classes participated, along with Pirelli and FGSport top-level management. Fanatics around the world watched it live, on the pirellityre.com website. On the racing stage, Pirelli fulfilled its promises by bringing a range of excellent tyres, both in SBK and WSS classes; thus Parkes and Bayliss made new track records at Monza. In SBK, Neukirchner was fast from Friday and ended Superpole in 2nd position, behind Bayliss, and clearly aiming to take his first ever SBK victory at the legendary Monza.
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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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Pirelli Race Review Magny-Cours
08 October 2007
Once again a dramatic end was in store for the SBK championship, with three riders still battling for the title on the eve of raceday. James Toseland arrived at Magny-Cours leading by 29 points over Max Biaggi and Noriyuki Haga, and since the first session ‘JT’s’ idea was clear: he came here to prove he truly deserves the number 1 plate. With his fabulous Superpole time, under 1’39, Max Biaggi re-entered his pitbox celebrating, but immediately after his opponents stuck in some really fantastic laps, relegating him to 7th place.
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SBK Season Set For Awesome Finale In France
04 October 2007
For the first time since the 2004 season the World Superbike title fight will go to the very last round of the year, and once more the title decider will be played out around the 4.411km circuit of Magny-Cours, in the centre of France. After a startling series of events in the previous round, just one weekend before the season finale, three riders are still in with a chance of absolute title glory - two seasoned SBK campaigners and one 'rookie'.
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Vallelunga Pirelli Race Review
01 October 2007
A dramatic weekend for the first ever SBK event at the Vallelunga Circuit. The Roman fans came along in their droves even on Friday, despite early changeable weather and occasional showers. In World Superbike the attention was on James Toseland, here to earn the world title one weekend early, and Max Biaggi, a local hero still fighting for the championship itself. Saturday’s Superpole competition offered a theatrical show, with Toseland crashing during his flying lap and starting the race from eighth position. Pole man was Troy Bayliss, from Corser, Xaus and Biaggi.
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Two Troys Go To War On First Day Of Vallelunga Hostilities
29 September 2007
The penultimate round of the 2007 World Superbike Championship kicked off at Vallelunga with two riders enjoying a clear early advantage over their peers - Australian's Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italia) and Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox). Only 0.041 seconds separated their best time at the first ever qualifying session at the Vallelunga circuit near Rome, with Corser the early best on 1'37.537. Next closest rider to the top two was Corser's team-mate, Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia) on a 1'37.951.
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Competition History To Be Made In The Eternal City Once More
27 September 2007
For the first time since World Superbike competition began back in 1988, Vallelunga - the 'home' track of series organisers FGSport - is set to host SBK weekend, with track action beginning on Friday 28th September and culminating on Sunday 30th. Work at the 4.110km circuit, located some 30km north of the Italian capital city of Rome, has been ongoing for months to get the paddock and facilities ready for the biggest event the track has ever held. The circuit will feature some unique challenges for both local riders and the massed nations of World Superbike competitors, and it includes ultra-slow and ultra-fast corners. Despite most of the top teams and riders having tested at Vallelunga at some stage, this will be a new experience for many of them in real race conditions.
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Toseland The Target For The Rest
05 September 2007
With three rounds and thus six individual points scoring races left to run in the SBK championship, an overall season strategy can be put aside by the top contenders. For long-time championship leader James Toseland (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) all he needs to do is keep racking up points and podiums to maintain or increase his impressive 66-point championship lead. For the rest of the top five (the only riders still in with even an arithmetical chance of the championship win itself) have to make up Toseland’s advantage, without worrying about the progress of any other rider. This simplification of the rules of engagement should heighten, not reduce the ferocity of the front running competition, which recommences after a month’s lay-off since round ten at Brands Hatch. At that event Toseland scored a double win, his first in World Superbike, but his rivals will be hoping that a change to the flat, featureless and generally tight EuroSpeedway Lausitz circuit will allow them to get back into closer company with Honda’s top rider.
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Pirelli Race Review - Brands Hatch
07 August 2007
This was the last race before the summer break, as usual held at Brands Hatch: perhaps the most eagerly anticipated circuits on the calendar, and featuring one of the most difficult track layouts for the riders and teams. Once again the British weather in August was kind to SBK, despite Friday’s worries of rain. On Saturday a warm sun took the riders through the qualifying sessions, with a great result for Pirelli: both SBK and SSP riders made long runs with positive outcomes and most of all they did it using tyres sold on the everyday market. Bayliss set Superpole, while in Supersport the rejuvenated world champion of 2005 and 2006, Charpentier, scored pole position in front of his team-mate Sofuoglu, the real 2007 title pretender.
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Toseland Sets Personal Bests And Edges Ahead
07 August 2007
After the wettest summer ever in the UK, the local British crowd got to worship their latest local sun god in perfect conditions at Brands Hatch, as James Toseland (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) basked in the glow of his first ever World Superbike double win, scored his first ever wins at Brands Hatch, and took a huge 66 point lead into the final three rounds, which appear after the traditional summer break. Toseland’s wins were his seventh and eighth of the year, and he has now won three of the last four races.
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London Calling To The SBK Hordes
31 July 2007
The legendary status of London's closest racetrack in the collective memories of the SBK world is quite simply unsurpassed. The natural restrictions which make Brands Hatch one of the more difficult venues in which the teams have to work are also what make it one of the most entertaining and rewarding short circuits imaginable. By and large nature has dictated the shape and layout of the 4.197km Brands long circuit, and, as is often the case, nature has proved the best designer of all. From the impossibly challenging Paddock Hill Bend to the high-speed turns of Hawthorn's; from the uphill/downhill Druids Hairpin to the main straight - which is not in fact straight at all - Brands Hatch is a natural amphitheatre to the deities of the internal combustion engine. Other tracks, such as Assen and Monza, have had longer Motorsport lives, but for SBK racing Brands Hatch is its own true place of devotion. This is, in large part, thanks to the endless enthusiasm for SBK racing shown by the British spectators, and the close proximity of Brands to Britain's most populous city.
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GR Motosport - Team Scan Join’s WSB
30 July 2007
GR Motosport are pleased to announce that they will feature as one of the very few wild card entries at the World Superbike Championship event to be held at Brands Hatch on the weekend of the 5th of August. They have an entry for the FIM Cup Superstock race and will field the Teams regular rider Jon Boy Lee. 21 year old Jon Boy’s performances over the season have shown a constant marked improvement and they now feel that it is right to show case at this event with a view to the future as we evaluate their racing plans and for which series in 2008.
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Championship Battle Builds As Brno Comes On Line
18 July 2007
Considering it was built in a period where slow-paced geometric circuits were the norm, the layout at Brno still relies on natural topography for much of its character, and that fact makes it one of the most eagerly awaited venues for all SBK riders. This will be the 5.394km circuit's fifth year hosting SBK races, with two events in the nineties now added to by the 2005 and 2006 meetings. Each modern era race has been won by riders still fully active in the 2007 championship chase, making the 2007 races even more of a tantalising prospect for all. Brno is the perfect place to get competitive action back on the agenda, after two recent test sessions - one here at Brno for the top tyre development teams only, and then a more recent outing to new track of Vallelunga for all the SBK and WSS teams who wished to attend.
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Reverse Revamp For Popular Misano Circuit
13 June 2007
Given its location close to Italy's Adriatic Riviera and the fact that it is usually held in the heat of a June weekend, Misano has been a favourite on the SBK trail, ever since it first appeared in 1991. Since then SBK has only missed one appointment with summer racing Italian style, making this 17th running of the event something of a minor classic - especially in the year SBK racing celebrates its 20th year of life.
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Pirelli Race Review - Round 7 – Silverstone
27 May 2007
After Haga’s extraordinary double win at Monza recently, everybody was looking to Silverstone with great interest. Since Friday, thanks to gloomy weather forecasts which urged everyone to use every moment of dry track time to the full, the best times were improved on. SBK riders beat not only their own track records but also the BSB prototype reference times.
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Bayliss Fastest Ever At Silverstone International Circuit
27 May 2007
Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) edged out Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia) to win the seventh closest Superpole contest in the history of the SBK championship, with his 1'24.558 also proving to be the best ever Superbike lap of the 3.561km circuit in Northamptonshire. Bayliss' best, using qualifiers in Superpole, was over half a second faster than the best ever BSB Superbike qualifying time. The best Pirelli race tyre time of the weekend so far (1'24.731, for Troy Corser and Yamaha Motor Italia) was also well under the BSB best for both race tyre and qualifiers. The overall improvement in times is even more impressive when you consider that the mass-produced Pirelli race tyres are designed to do 28 laps of Silverstone, not the 18 or so required for National race events, which use prototype racing tyres.
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- Toseland Comes Home As Leader Once More
- Haga Obliterates Track Record To Win Superpole
- Toseland Goes To Italy With A Handsome Points Lead
- A Great Weekend, With Passion And Much Entertainment
- Toseland And Bayliss Share Wins After Dazzling Assen Races
- Toseland Scores Superpole Win Number Three
- Fabulous Sunshine Allows Toseland To Sizzle
- Assen Circuit Hosts SBK For The Sixteenth Time
- Valencia Superpole Taken In The Rain By Bayliss
- First Qualifying Practice - Magny Cours– 12th Round – 6th, 7th And 8th October
- Preview - Magny Cours – 12th Round – 6th, 7th And 8th October
- Pirelli - Race Review – Round 11 – Imola– 1st October 2006
- Superpole - Imola – 11th Round – 29th-30th September And 1st October
- First Qualifying Practice - Imola – 11th Round – 29th-30th September And 1st October
- Imola – 11th Round – 29th-30th September And 1st October
- Superpole; EuroSpeedway Lausitz – 10th Round – 8th, 9th And 10th September
- First Qualifying Practice - Eurospeedway Lausitz – 10th Round – 8th, 9th And 10th September
- Superpole – Assen – 9th Round - 1st, 2nd and 3rd September
- First Qualifying Practice - Assen – 9th Round – 1st, 2nd And 3rd September
- Preview - Assen – 9th Round – 1st, 2nd And 3rd September
- Race Report Brands Hatch – 8th Round – 4, 5 And 6 August
- Superpole Brands Hatch – 8th Round – 4, 5 And 6 August
- Preview Brands Hatch – 8th Round – 4th, 5th And 6th August
- Race Report - 7th Round @ Brno
- Toseland Leads The Hungry Pack
- Preview Brno – 7th Round – 21, 22 And 23 July
- WSB & WSS Misano – Superpole Round 6 – 23rd, 24th And 25th June 2006
- Misano – 6th Round – 23rd, 24th And 25th June 2006
- Silverstone–Race Report 5th Round – 26th, 27th And 28th May
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