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Fourth for Roberts in Misano
6 Days ago
Despite a serious groin injury, which required five stitches, Brendan Roberts fought through the pain barrier to finish fourth in the FIM 1000 Superstock Cup round at Misano at the weekend. The young Australian crashed heavily during free practice on Friday morning and sustained injuries, which required stitches on Saturday evening. Not letting this trouble him too much Roberts still managed to qualify in fourth position on the grid for the 14-lap race. Using the same gearing he used at Nurbergring a couple of weeks ago Roberts was unable to get the Ducati 1098 R off the line and fell back to seventh place after the opening lap. Avoiding the melee of first lap incidents he soon got his head down and was working his way back through the field. Eager to narrow the margin between him and Championship leader Simeon, who was also riding injured. Roberts knew that he had to finish ahead of his nearest rival.
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Hot Superstock Race for Team KTM Maehr in Misano
01 July 2008
The fifth from ten races in the FIM Superstock 1000 World Cup ended better than the twenty-fifth place than the 14-lap reflected for the young Austrian René Maehr and his two cylinder KTM 1190 RC 8. Maehr had already found a good basic chassis setup for his KTM in the first training session on the 4.18 km long, very curvy racing circuit on the Adriatic, even in temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius. And in the hot Italian summer temperatures the 21-year-old student was able to reduce his training time in the decisive last session on Saturday by a second. With the real aim of gathering important experience with the newly launched RC8 in very tough racing conditions, Maehr went into the heat of the Superstock battle at twenty eighth of 40 riders.
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Broken Collarbone Fails to Stop Xavi
01 July 2008
Not even a broken left collarbone could deter Team Alstare Suzuki rider Xavi Simeon’s title challenge in the fourth round of the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup at Misano today. The young Belgian was obviously in pain during the 14-lap race, but somehow he managed to take a superb fifth place and maintain his position at the top of the points standings. Alessandro Polita (Ducati) won the race, with Michele Pirro (Yamaha) second and Maxime Berger (Honda) third.
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Pirro Pecond at Misano
30 June 2008
Michele Pirro (Yamaha Lorenzini by Leoni) remains the top Yamaha YZF-R1 rider in the championship after a fine second place at his home round in Misano. He sits on 63 points, 21 points from leader Xavier Simeon. Race winner Alessandro Polita is only four points up on Pirro, who led the first lap and was always in contention for the podium places over all 14 laps. Claudio Corti (Yamaha Motor Italia Junior Team) was unable to match his set-up to the Misano circuit and thus finished 12th in the race, and is now 10th in the championship.
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Team Co-ordit Head to Mallory
26 June 2008
Co-ordit Racing heads to Mallory Park, Leicestershire, this weekend to contest the sixth round of the 2008 Bennetts British Superbike Championship (27-29 June). As one of the team’s local circuits, expectations will be high, as will local support, for Dean Ellison and Pete Bradshaw to show their mettle as they battle for points around the testing 1.41 mile circuit. Now based in Leicester, Mallory Park has become a local circuit for Dean Ellison, who makes his first visit to the circuit since 2006. Recovered from injury, Dean has set himself high targets ahead of the weekend and will use his world and domestic race experience to elevate his Co-ordit Racing Yamaha YZF-R1 into the top ten for the first time this season. With two long 30-lap races scheduled for Sunday, Dean will use the full potential of the Co-ordit Racing Yamaha’s power to challenge at the sharp-end.
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Corser & Haga Take Winning Form to San Marino
26 June 2008
After incredible rides at the Nürburgring in Germany both Noriyuki Haga and Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team) will be relishing another chance to compete for top honours at Round 8 of the World Superbike Championship at the Misano circuit on the Adriatic coast of Italy this weekend. Despite suffering from a broken right collarbone, plated and pinned before the Nürburgring race, Haga won both races in the German round, only just beating his team-mate Corser in race two. Arguably Corser looked favourite for the win until the track surface started to become wet, but it was still a miracle for Haga to be anywhere near a double win so soon after his big crash in America.
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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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LB's Sam Middlemas' R6 Inferno Disaster
17 June 2008
You can help - Fancy your name on the bike from just £10? - This past weekend, disaster struck for LB’s national Superstock 600 rider Sam Middlemas who was racing at Mallory Park after just getting a Yamaha R6. Middlemas crashed after hitting some brake fluid left on the exit of the bus stop during qualifying. His new R6 caught fire after the fuel-tank split and allowed petrol to flow out, which in turn ignited. The marshals were quickly on the scene and did their up-most to put the inferno out. Unfortunately this lasted for what seemed like an eternity and left Sam with a very swollen knee and a very burnt and looking R6.
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Win for Roberts at Nürbergring
16 June 2008
Australian Brendan Roberts took a stunning win at round four of the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup at Nürbergring, Germany. Roberts on the Ducati 1098R gained the full hat-trick over the weekend with Pole Position, fastest lap/new lap record, (with it being a new circuit) and also the race win, his second of the season. This places the youngster in second place in the overall Championship standings. Roberts riding for the Ducati Xerox Junior Team looked extremely strong throughout the weekend at the 5.1-km circuit. After a number of changes were made to the circuit he was eager to make an impression and did just that throughout the weekend. A strong start from the Australian saw him sitting in second place into the tight first corner and he was led by Davide Giugliano and was being hunted down by Championship leader Xavier Simeon. The trio were dicing with each other throughout the 11-lap race were swapping positions at various stages through the race.
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Bad Luck for Bruce Wilson at Snetterton
16 June 2008
Bruce Wilson encountered even more bad luck when he crashed heavily in practice ahead of Sunday’s fifth round Superstock 600 championship race at Snetterton on Sunday. Practice began well for the Gipsey Bridge rider who was circulating in second place in the opening session but as he negotiated Russell’s chicane the Team Motorcycle Racer Suzuki highsided and threw him off onto the tarmac. It was a race against time to get the bike repaired in time for the first qualifying period and although battered and bruised from his earlier mishap Wilson was up for the challenge. But he soon discovered a problem with the brakes and was forced to retire without recording a qualifying time.
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Ben Wilson Sines at Snetterton
16 June 2008
Ben Wilson rode to a brace of top seven places at Snetterton but was denied the chance to shine in the second of the two Superstock races because of the adverse weather conditions that caused a long delay earlier in the day. With two races in the Metzeler National Superstock championship to contend with, the 26-year-old Boston rider was anticipating another pair of strong finishes, but a crash in qualifying put paid to a strong grid position and he had to be content with a third row start in ninth place.
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Pirro the Top Yamaha Finisher
16 June 2008
Michele Pirro was unable to get with the leading group at the Nürburgring today and therefore had to settle for fourth place, in the fourth round of the 2008 season. He now sits fifth overall in the standings, the top YZF-R1 rider in the rankings.
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Another Podium For Xavi
15 June 2008
Team Alstare Suzuki rider Xavi Simeon notched up his fourth podium of the season at the Nurburgring today and leads the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup by ten points. Xavi had to fight hard for his third place today and spent most of the eleven laps battling with Aussie Brendan Roberts (Ducati) and Italian Davide Giugliano (Suzuki). Xavi led the race with two laps to go, but first Roberts and then Giugliano barged past in the closing stages.
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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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HM Plant Honda on Front Row at Snetterton
15 June 2008
Both Leon Haslam and Cal Crutchlow are on the front row of the grid for tomorrow’s two Bennetts British Superbike races. Podium positions are the aim for both riders in the 21-lap races. Meanwhile Steve Brogan broke the lap record en-route to pole position in the Metzeler National Superstock 1000 class – just as he said he would do before the weekend. In the Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport class Steve will start tomorrow’s 18-lap race from 6th position on the grid.
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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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HM Plant Honda Hopes for Success at High-Speed Snetterton
12 June 2008
HM Plant Honda heads to Snetterton in Norfolk this weekend as the Bennetts British Superbike Championship meets for round five of the 12-round season. The flat, former airfield circuit offers high-speed action thanks to the long Revett Straight as well as some challenging corners. Both HM Plant Honda Superbike riders have been off to Japan in the break to test for their forthcoming race at the Suzuka Eight-Hour, as well as taking part in last weekend’s Suzuka 300km race. Meanwhile Steve Brogan has been training hard in the gym so he’s in the best physical shape for the weekend. In the Fuchs-Silkolene British Supersport Championship, Steve intends to close the gap on series leader Glen Richards, while continuing to dominate in the Metzeler National Superstock 1000 series.
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Pietri On The Superstock Podium at Road America
12 June 2008
Team Roadracingworld.com overcame adversity to claim a tremendous double top-five result in this weekend's AMA Superstock race at Road America. The weekend started on a down note when Chris Ulrich, who entered the weekend ranked fourth in the Superstock points chase, was injured in a Thursday practice crash and was forced to join team-mate Santiago Villa on the shelf. However, former Latin American and Venezuelan Superbike champ Robertino Pietri and super-sub Michael Barnes came through and stepped up in his absence.
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Yamaha Riders go Back to the Future in Germany
12 June 2008
Noriyuki Haga and Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team) approach the seventh round of the 2008 World Superbike Championship, at the Nürburgring in Germany this coming weekend, safe in the knowledge that they are as experienced at this circuit as almost any of their peers. Both Yamaha factory riders have raced on the 1998 and 1999 versions of the circuit, located in the Eifel Mountains close to the Belgian border, and will have little difficulty remembering the majority of the layout.
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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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