World Superbikes

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Ito wins Suzuka 8 Hrs

29 July 2006

The Suzuka 8 Hours has been won by the F.C.C. TSR Honda team of former GP racer and now triple Suzuka winner Shinichi Ito, and five-time 125cc GP winner Takeshi Tsujimura, on a CBR1000RR. The duo...

Haga takes Brno pole

22 July 2006

Noriyuki Haga has taken his first pole position since 2002 after setting the fastest lap in the superpole session for the Brno round of the World superbike championship. The day’s practice and...

Neil Hodgson took a fine third place in the AMA Superbike round at Laguna Seca, which formed part of the MotoGP weekend. Hodgson rose from sixth place in the early stages to pressure Kawasaki’s Tommy...

Brits take on Suzuka

22 July 2006

The British-based Diablo 666 team has begun the battle against the top Japanese factory teams at the Suzuka 8 Hours event in Japan. The team has been busy preparing since the previous round at...

Top ten for McWilliams

22 July 2006

Jeremy McWilliams took eighth place at the AMA Formula Xtreme round at Laguna Seca on Sunday, July 23, 2006. McWilliams was riding the Warr’s Harley-Davidson Buell XBRR in the race, which was part of...

Suzuka qualifying

22 July 2006

Yoshiteru Konishi is on provisional pole for the Suzuka 8 Hour event on the No 101 Toy Story Honda, ahead of Akira Watanabe and Noryuki Haga. Although the morning qualifying sessions were dry, the mixed weatehr for the afternoon sessions saw them declared officially "wet" sessions, which meant teams could use more than the usual four sets of tyres for qualifying, despite little rain actually...

Kagayama takes race 1

22 July 2006

Yukio Kagayama has ridden to his second ever World Superbike win at the Brno round of the championship. The Japanese Suzuki rider stormed through the pack to take the lead and win comfortably. The...

Double for Kagayama

22 July 2006

Yukio Kagayama has taken his first ever double win at the Brno round of the World Superbike championship. Spurred on by his race one win the Japanese Suzuki rider stormed past his team-mate and...

Kagayama tops practice

15 July 2006

Yukio Kagayama has set the fastest time in the opening practice session for the Brno round of the World Superbike championship. The Suzuki rider just 0.06 of a second ahead of former champion James...

Toseland on prov. pole

15 July 2006

James Toseland has topped the first qualifying session for the Brno round of the World Superbike championship. The former world champion took his Honda Fireblade to a new fastest lap of the circuit...

Toseland takes pole

24 June 2006

James Toseland has taken a surprise pole position for the Misano round of the World Superbike championship. The Brit had finished all the previous qualifying sessions in eighth place but put in an...

Pitt takes first WSB win

24 June 2006

A dramatic days racing at Misano sees Troy Bayliss and Andrew Pitt share the race wins. James Toseland lead the first half of the first race after starting from pole but lost out to Troy Bayliss on...

Podium hopes crash

17 June 2006

Continued from page 2 “A great shame after the Team had done so fantastically this weekend and been lying in third with just two hours to go!” was all Miles needed to say. Alex was unhurt but totally...

Bayliss tops first day

17 June 2006

Troy Bayliss has taken provisional pole for the Misano round of the World Superbike championship. The Ducati rider topped the first qualifying session that saw exactly the same top three as the...

Hodgson secures fourth

17 June 2006

Neil Hodgson had to settle for staying static in fourth place in the American Superbike championship after fourth and sixth place finishes. The former world champion fought to fourth place in...

Bayliss top at Misano

17 June 2006

The two Troys are again battling it out for the top spot after the first practice session for the Misano round of World Superbikes. Troy Bayliss took his Ducati to the fastest lap but Troy Corser was...

Bayliss tops Brno times

10 June 2006

Troy Bayliss has topped the three days of World Superbike testing at Brno with a fastest time of 2:00 on qualifying tyres. The current WSB title leader also recorded a time of 2:00.8 on race rubber,...

Bayliss flies at Brno

10 June 2006

Troy Bayliss has embarrassed the rest of the World Superbike field by setting an incredibly quick lap at Pirelli’s Brno test. The Ducati rider ended the first of three days with and amazing 2:01.5...

Edwards to race Suzuka

10 June 2006

Colin Edwards is teaming up with Yamaha WSB rider Noriyuki Haga to take on the Suzuka 8-hour endurance race in Japan. The pair will ride a factory backed Yamaha R1 on Michelin tyres at the event...

Hodgson still in title hunt

03 June 2006

Britain’s Neil Hodgson took a fourth and fifth place at the AMA Superbike meeting at Road America on Saturday June 3 and Sunday June 4, 2006, as championship leader Mat Mladin took a double win. In...

Bayliss does Brit double

27 May 2006

Troy Bayliss has completed a World Superbike double with two wins at the Silverstone round of the championship on Sunday, May 28, 2006. Bayliss had to fight hard in both races to overcome a strong...

A weekend with Toseland

27 May 2006

Motorcyclenews.com’s Angus Farquhar has spent the weekend working as part of James Toseland’s pit crew and you can read his account here. Click the links below to follow Angus through the weekend and...

WSB: Hill on pole

27 May 2006

World Supersport free practice 2: 1 Lagrive M. 1’37.530 2 Leblanc G. 1’37.673 3 Sofuoglu K. 1’38.043 4 Andersen K. 1’38.055 5 Vizziello G. 1’38.126 6 Parkes B. 1’38.643 7 Veneman B. 1’38.930 8 Fores...

WSB: Silverstone Friday

20 May 2006

WSB First qualifying: Troy Bayliss and Troy Corser dominated the first qualifying session for Silverstone WSB despite big crashes for Bayliss and Toseland. Toseland, Chris Walker and Bayliss all...

Suzuki wins at Albecete

20 May 2006

The Suzuki Castrol team of Keiichi Kitagwa, Matthieu Lagrive and Vincent Philippe has won the Albacete 8 Hour endurance race. The team ran a consistent race despite drama from the start when a...

Hodgson's year improves

20 May 2006

Britain’s Neil Hodgson had a positive race weekend at the Infineon Raceway on May 20-21, as Suzuki’s Ben Spies took a fifth and sixth consecutive win. Spies led from the start of both 28 lap races to...

Corser takes Monza pole

06 May 2006

Troy Corser set the fastest ever qualifying lap at Monza to take pole position for Sunday’s World Superbike race. It looked like fellow Aussie Troy Bayliss was going to take pole with a sensational...

Bayliss dominates Monza

06 May 2006

Troy Bayliss has taken the double race win in at Monza, his second in a row and his sixth Monza win. Race 1: Bayliss took his fifth Monza World Superbike win after dominating the majority of the...

McWilliams to race AMA

06 May 2006

Jeremy McWilliams will race a Buell XBRR at the fourth round of the AMA Superbike championship at the Infineon Raceway on Saturday, May 20, 2006. However, he won’t be up against fellow Brit Neil...

WSB drops South Africa

06 May 2006

The South African round of the World Superbike championship has been cancelled. The final race of the season was scheduled to be held in the country on October 22, but no circuit was ever confirmed...

Brookes splits with team

01 May 2006

Josh Brookes has split from the SC Caracchi Ducati World Supersport team, in a mutual decision. Brookes is in final negotiation with a number of teams to be on the grid for the next round at...

Haga tops Monza times

01 May 2006

Friday afternoon’s rain-affected qualifying practice for Sunday’s Monza WSB round has finished with Noriyuki Haga fastest. The top four didn’t change in the last half hour of the session. Many riders...

Four in a row for Spies

29 April 2006

Suzuki’s Ben Spies took his fourth consecutive victory in today’s (Sunday) AMA Superbike race at Fontana in California. Spies drafted team mate and six times AMA Champion Matt Mladin on lap 18 and...

Mladin slips further

29 April 2006

Matt Mladin’s dominance of the AMA Superbike championship slipped further today as he finished second to team mate Ben Spies at today’s race in Fontana, California. After his third non-win of the...

Honda win at Le Mans 24

22 April 2006

National Motos Honda won the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race after an eventful day of racing. The Suzuki 1 and 2 teams looked set to clear up but the number 1 team crashed out halfway through and had...

Spies does US double

22 April 2006

Yoshimura Suzuki’s Ben Spies raced to his first-ever double-header victory at the weekend’s two US Superbike races at Barber, Alabama, taking the lead in the series after three rounds. Neil Hodgson...