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	Double Top - MotoGP & WSBK at Donington Park Again in 09 23 October 2008 Donington Park will be hosting the only World Championship motorcycle race action in Britain next year with the confirmation that both the MotoGP and Superbike events will be held at the Leicestershire parkland circuit. “We are delighted to be once again hosting these prestigious events,” said the circuit’s Chief Executive Officer Simon Gillett. “In the World Superbikes we will have one of the strongest ever British challenges while in MotoGP our local hero James Toseland will be taking on the world’s best led by the six times champion Valentino Rossi.” The ninth and British round of the World Superbike Championship will be held over the weekend of 26-27-28 June. Heading up a major domestic bid for honours in the production based championship will be twice British Superbike Champion Shane Byrne, riding the Sterilgarda Ducati. Tags: motogp wsb, sbk, donington park, simon gillett, james toseland …

	Prime July Date for 2009 British MotoGP 25 July 2008 \| 2 Comments Donington Park has been given a prime mid-season date for the 2009 British Motorcycle Grand Prix – in the calendar announced by the FIM, the sport’s worldwide governing body, the Leicestershire circuit will host the tenth round of the premier series over the weekend of 24/25/26 July, a month later than this year’s record breaking event. Next year’s event will be the 23rd consecutive running of Britain’s rounds of the FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix at Donington Park, the first being held on August 2nd 1987 when Australian Wayne Gardner took the premier honours and the most recent, last month, won by Casey Stoner. Tags: motogp, wayne gardner, casey stoner, simon gillett, dorna …