World Superbikes (October 2007)

Max Biaggi has today signed for Team Ducati Sterilgarda to ride in World Superbikes for 2008. The veteran Italian rider, who was dropped by Alstare Suzuki after the 2007 season had been...

A provisional calendar has been released for the 2008 World Superbike championship with the championship returning to America for the first time in four years. The US round will be held in Salt Lake...

BMW has confirmed in an official press release that it will enter the 2009 World Superbike championship, as revealed by MCN back in July, with a new team formed during the 2008 season under the...

Max Biaggi’s racing career could be over after his current Alstare Suzuki team revealed that they won’t be resigning him for 2008. Despite winning three races and finishing third in his debut World...

I had a wonderful day at Brands Hatch on Sunday... along with 39,999 others!! One of the many highlights of the day was James Toseland doing a lap and wearing out his rear tyre incredibly quickly!...

Makoto Tamada looks set to be the next MotoGP star to join World Superbikes, with the Japanese rider understood to be in advanced negotiations with the Italian DFXtreme Honda team. The 30-year-old...

As the departing championJames Toseland moves to MotoGP for 2008, some of the men who have been in both World Superbikes and the blue-riband class have spoken about Toseland's chances. Two-time World...

The battle was lost but he won the war, as quoted on race day, so I've been hard at it creating my own tribute to James Toseland's great victory in World Superbikes. This year WSB maybe next year...

Just returned from a camping weekend at Magny Cours. Had a fantastic time yet again (our third visit). Managed to find most of the riders in the paddock. I have attached a picture of Max Biaggi...

Check out these photographs of Britain's James Toseland as he was crowned World Superbike champion at Magny Cours yesterday. The Hannspree Ten Kate Honda rider secured his second title by...

Hannspree Ten Kate Honda has confirmed its 2008 rider line-up with both MotoGP’s Carlos Checa and defending British Superbike champion Ryuichi Kiyonari set to race in the World Superbike...

Here is our 4 month old daughter, Maddy Turner watching James win the 2007 World championship – watching the bike racing is the only thing that keeps her quiet! Well done to James.

Newly crowned World Superbike champion James Toseland paid homage to the friends he has made during his seven years in the championship. The British rider secured the title for the second time in his...

Britain’s James Toseland kept his fans’ nerves jangling until the final lap of the race on his way to his second World Superbike Championship title. An emotional Hannspree Ten Kate Honda rider...

Britain’s Craig Jones defied all the odds of some wild riding to take his third podium of the season in the final World Supersport race at Magny Cours. The Cheshire-born rider snatched third place in...

Yamaha’s Noriyuki Haga has closed the gap to 17 points in the world championship Hannspree Ten Kate Honda’s James Toseland following his win in the fog-delayed race one at Magny Cours. The Japanese...

Britain's James Toseland has recovered from recent performances to take pole position for the French round of the World Superbike championship at Magny Cours and move closer to becoming the 2007 world...

Kenan Sofuoglu smashed the outright World Supersport lap record to take his fifth pole position of 2007. Sofuoglu had to fight off strong challenges from his own team-mate Sebastian Charpentier and...

Troy Bayliss saved his best until last to take provisional pole position at the French World Superbike round at Magny Cours. The Ducati rider took the top spot on his final flying lap of the second...

Frenchman Sebastien Charpentier has gone fastes in the third qualifying session for the final round of the World Supersport championship, heading Ten Kate Honda team-mate and champion Kenan...

In a rain hit first qualifying session Lorenzo Lanzi was the surprise pole position man onboard his Xerox Ducati 999 F07. Like the majority of riders Lanzi elected to wait in the pits for the majority...

Sebastian Charpentier showed his pace a round his home track to set a blistering 1m 42.617 second lap around the Magny Cours circuit nearly half a second faster than his closest rival. Charpentier has...

James Toseland made the perfect start to his Magny Cours weekend by securing top spot in the first Free Practice. Toseland started how he means to go on and was one of the first men on track and...

Kenan Sofuoglu continued his domination of the World Supersport class by topping the time sheets in the first Free Practice session this morning in Magny Cours. Sofuoglu won last time out in...

Max Biaggi believes he lost the chance of taking an emphatic double race win and closing the points gap even further to series leader James Toseland when he nearly ran into the back of Troy Bayliss on...

Triumph and Scuderia SC Caracchi have confirmed they will partner up for the 2008 World Supersport championship. MCN revealed in the September 12, 2007 issue that Triumph would be joining the World...

Come on JT, bring home the title! Skye says thank you for having photo with her. You made her day at Silverstone.