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CSS... Latest News & Availability
09 May 2008
The California Superbike School have more dates for the fab courses! All of the dates are booking fast and we are approaching close to 75% full for the year. If you haven't taken the plunge and booked a Level 1 course with us yet, or still not got round to taking further levels - time is running out to perfect your Cornering for the warm sunny summer ahead ;-)
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KTM X-Bow Wins Twice on Race Debut
21 April 2008
Last weekend, the KTM X-Bow celebrated its racing debut in the GT4 European Cup at Silverstone Circuit in the UK.
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Iddon & Hodgson Are Crowned Champions At Silverstone
24 September 2007
The Final round of the British Supermoto Championship held at Silverstone on a heavily modified Stowe Circuit, saw some decent weather, with both the Saturday afternoon qualifying and Sunday’s racing held in breezy, but otherwise almost perfect conditions. Saturday qualifying saw several riders heading the provisional leader board, as the times tumbled on the flowing Northamptonshire tarmac, Christian Iddon (Factory Aprilia SXV550) set the expectations for the weekend as he produced the winning 1.06.21 lap, to claim the overnight Pole Position.
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2007 British & National Supermoto Championships - Silverstone Preview
17 September 2007
Round 6, the final round of the British Supermoto Championship and Round 9, the penultimate round of the National Supermoto Championship, both take place this coming weekend; the 22nd / 23rd September, at Silverstone Circuit near Towcester.
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Extra CSS Date Added Due To Demand...
17 August 2007
California Superbike School have now managed to squeeze one more UK date into their very hectic 2007 schedule, it is going to be on the 1st October at Silverstone, Stowe. Places are filling up very quickly, so please get booking now to save dissapointment. All of the schools until October are Sold Out, if you would like to be added to a cancellation list please email lynnb @ superbikeschool.co.uk or give her a call on the number provided below.
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Roberts Secures Win At Soaking Silverstone
28 May 2007
The tables finally turned for young Australian Brendan Roberts, after taking a stunning win in the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup (formerly the European Superstock Championship) at Silverstone Circuit this weekend, 25th – 27th May. The appalling wet weather conditions played into the hands of 22-year-old Roberts, who is still suffering the effects of a badly dislocated right wrist and breaking the connecting socket, which he sustained during testing back in March. Having surgery to pin the wrist, Roberts still only has 60% movement back after tearing the ligaments and tendons.
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Emeric Jonchiere Wins In Rain-Sodden Silverstone
28 May 2007
Frenchman Emeric Jonchiere mastered appalling conditions in the third round of the Suzuki GSX-R European Cup at Silverstone today. The race had been cut from 12 laps to 10 because of the very wet conditions and there was a big surprise when series leader, and pole sitter, Dominic Lammert crashed out before completing a lap. Italian Simone Saltarelli led the opening two laps chased by Swiss rider Patric Muff and Jonchiere. Jonchiere took the lead on lap 5 and from then on in he was never headed on his way to victory. At the end, he finished over three seconds ahead of his nearest rival, Muff. Third went to Hungarian Gabor Rizmayer, with Raphael Chevre fourth, Pete Ward fifth and Lee Hodge sixth.
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Yamaha Second And Third In A One-Race Round
28 May 2007
The British weather tried to spoil the seventh round of the World Superbike Championship at Silverstone today but it couldn't take away two podium positions from the Yamaha Motor Italia Team. In a rain-soaked single-race day Haga took second while Corser took his 110th podium position in third. The second race was cancelled after a 30 minute delay to clear water from the track failed to improve conditions. The day started with a twenty minute warm up session that doubled up as the first opportunity for all the teams to find their wet set up. Corser showed his wet race confidence in the YZF-R1, going second fastest overall in the session. Haga went fifth fastest but had a small crash at the end of the session.
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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 (Ducati Xerox) Takes Only Superbike Win At Silverstone
27 May 2007
Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) took the only win of the day at a rain-lashed Silverstone circuit as appalling weather conditions caused the second race to be called off. This was the third time a Superbike race has been cancelled due to bad weather, following previous events at Phillip Island in 2001 and Imola in 2005. Troy battled throughout the 28-lap race with the Yamaha pair of Noriyuki Haga and Troy Corser for his third win of the year, which enabled him to make up 17 points on leader James Toseland (Honda), who crashed but remounted to finish eighth.
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Bayliss Wins But British Weather Has The Last Say
27 May 2007
Heavy rains made for an unpredictable first race at Silverstone but at the time of its completion no one knew that race two would also have to be cancelled because of the atrocious weather. The only eventual race winner was also the Superpole winner, Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) who took a margin of victory over Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia) of two seconds. Third on the podium was early leader, Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italia), four seconds down after some great games of high risk between the leading trio in treacherous conditions.
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Sofuoglu Maintains Lead At Silverstone
27 May 2007
The rain poured down at Silverstone today for the seventh round of the 2007 World Supersport Championship. The wet weather made riding conditions treacherous as seven riders - including HANNspree Ten Kate Honda's Kenan Sofuoglu - crashed out of the 28-lap race. Sofuoglu's team-mate Sébastien Charpentier retired from the contest after eight laps. Sofuoglu secured a good start to the race and took an early lead, only to crash out almost immediately at the first corner when he lost the rear end of the bike. Despite this, the Turkish rider still maintains an impressive lead in the championship with 145 points - 45 points clear of nearest rival Fabien Foret.
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Toseland Still Leads The Points
27 May 2007
Wet weather played havoc with the racing at the seventh round of the 2007 World Superbike Championship at Silverstone today, with the second race of the day being cancelled. In spite of this, HANNspree Ten Kate Honda's James Toseland maintained his championship lead, while team-mate Roberto Rolfo continued his recent good form with another impressive performance. Race one took place in treacherously heavy rain that caused nine riders to crash out during the 28-lap contest. Just three laps in, Toseland parted with his CBR1000RR after losing the rear end at Priory corner. Despite spilling all the water from the bike's engine and damaging the right handlebar, the British rider re-joined the race in last place and proceeded to battle his way through the pack. He put up a truly admirable fight to secure an eighth place finish, collecting an invaluable eight points towards his standings tally.
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Max Defies Pain And Rain To Take Sixth
27 May 2007
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Max Biaggi had to fight pain and atrocious conditions but still managed to take a gritty sixth place in the first WSBK race at Silverstone today. The pain happened as a result of a dramatic highside in the race. Max went up into the air, but somehow was able to land back on the bike. But as he did, his right leg hit the footpeg with such force that the peg was broken! He also hit the inside of his left leg on the fairing and was in discomfort for the rest of the race. In the event, that was Maxs only action for the day, as the second race was cancelled on safety grounds. The riders went out on their inspection lap for race two, but standing water and a risk of aquaplaning was enough for the start to be delayed. After a 30 minute delay, the organisers decided that conditions had not improved and so cancelled the race.
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Nieto Just Outside The Top Ten After Tense Superpole Fight
27 May 2007
Having qualified seventh after the pre-Superpole sessions, Fonsi Nieto (PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse Ninja ZX-10R) expected to make a similar showing in Superpole at Silverstone. Nieto was ultimately disappointed to finish 11th quickest in what was a blistering Superpole contest, after finding that he had made a less than perfect tyre choice almost as soon as his out lap had started. Nieto now knows that he needs to make two good starts in Sunday’s 28-lap races to get into contention for a top finish, but is prepared to meet the challenge of Silverstone head on, after finding good settings in race trim.
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Foret Recovers From Crash To Secure Top Five In Qualifying
27 May 2007
After a sometimes-eventful final day of practice at Silverstone Fabien Foret (GIL Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R) ended up fifth on the grid for Sunday’s 28-lap Supersport race. Foret had taken a high-speed tumble in the untimed morning session, but recovered well to score a top five in the final pre-race rankings. The 2002 World Champion and all his peers will probably find the circuit wet for the race, but in the final dry qualifying session today he was just over a second from pole.
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Yamaha WSS Secure Third And Fourth Qualifying Positions
27 May 2007
Today's Supersport race will start with two Yamahas on the front row thanks to Broc Parkes and Massimo Roccoli who are third and fourth respectively. The weather stayed dry but cool for today's second qualifying session after mixed conditions yesterday. Yamaha World Supersport Team rider Broc Parkes made progress on finding a good set up in this morning's practice and ran in the top three for the duration of the session. Broc then went on to secure his third qualifying position, knocking almost 0.4 seconds off his best time in the process.
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Yamaha Qualify Second And Fifth At Silverstone
27 May 2007
The rain held off just long enough today for Haga and Corser to take second and fifth qualifying positions respectively for tomorrow's races at Silverstone. This morning's qualifying session was dry with the track temperature slightly higher than yesterday and both riders quickly improved on their best times from yesterday, dropping down into 1'25 lap times. The lap times continued to tumble with the first sub 1'25 lap occurring during the session. Corser posted the fastest time with minutes to go - 1'24.731 - and went into Superpole in first position. Haga started Superpole in sixth.
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Xavs Silverstone Struggle
27 May 2007
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Xavier Simeon struggled to find a good bike set-up at Silverstone today and could only manage the fifteenth quickest time in qualifying. The team made many changes to Xavs bike, but the young Belgian still couldnt get it to change direction as he wished. Xav and the team will try something more in the warm-up tomorrow and hope that they find a solution to their problems. Michele Pirro (Yamaha) posted the fastest lap, with a time of 1:28.300. Second fastest is Nicolo Canepa (Ducati) with Claudio Corti (Yamaha) third.
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Bayliss Takes Pole For Ducati Xerox At Silverstone
27 May 2007
Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) powered his way to a sixteenth Superpole win with a blistering new circuit best lap of 1m24.558s at an overcast Silverstone today. Slightly down on the first two sectors, Troy then went green in the final split to edge out Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha) from the top slot by a fraction. Team-mate Lorenzo Lanzi has also been on the pace throughout the weekend and he crowned a good qualifying performance with the fourth quickest time of 1m24.810s which puts him on the front row of the grid for tomorrow's two races.
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