World Superbikes (Jan - Dec 2017)
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30 December 2017
by Oli Rushby
After another epic season of racing, MCN’s sports team of Michael Guy (Sports Editor), Simon Patterson (MotoGP Reporter) and Oli Rushby (Superbike Reporter) sat down to discuss who impressed them the...
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28 December 2017
by Oli Rushby
After another epic season of racing, MCN’s sports team of Michael Guy (Sports Editor), Simon Patterson (MotoGP Reporter) and Oli Rushby (Superbike Reporter) sat down to discuss who impressed them the...
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26 December 2017
by Oli Rushby
After another epic season of racing, MCN’s sports team of Michael Guy (Sports Editor), Simon Patterson (MotoGP Reporter) and Oli Rushby (Superbike Reporter) sat down to discuss who impressed them the...
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23 December 2017
by Oli Rushby
After another epic season of racing, MCN’s sports team of Michael Guy (Sports Editor), Simon Patterson (MotoGP reporter) and Oli Rushby (Superbike reporter) sat down to discuss their favourite races...
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22 December 2017
by Oli Rushby
After another epic season of racing, MCN’s sports team of Michael Guy (Sports Editor), Simon Patterson (MotoGP Reporter) and Oli Rushby (Superbike Reporter) sat down to discuss who impressed them the...
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15 December 2017
by Oli Rushby
Three-time World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea will go up against sporting stars such as Lewis Hamilton, Anthony Joshua, Chris Froome and Johanna Konta at this weekend’s BBC Sports Personality of...
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07 December 2017
by Oli Rushby
American racer Jake Gagne will join Leon Camier to complete the Red Bull Honda line-up for the 2018 Superbike World Championship.
The 24-year-old made his World Superbike debut with the squad at...
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07 December 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
After another year of total domination, Jonathan Rea is fast becoming the Valentino Rossi of World Superbikes.
Winning three WSB crowns in a row had never been one before – not even by former series...
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29 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Three-time World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea has said the ZX-10RR Kawasaki have produced for him to suit the 2018 regulations feels better than previous iterations of the bike.
World...
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28 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
For the first time in ten years a motorcycle racer has been recognised by the BBC with a nomination for the prestigious Sports Personality of the Year award.
Three-time World Superbike champion...
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27 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Last week’s Jerez test saw a big change for Alex Lowes with double World Supersport Champion Andrew Pitt joining the PATA Yamaha team as his crew chief.
Lowes will be joined by Pitt, who won the World...
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23 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Marco Melandri led the way as the Kawasaki Racing Team took a rest on the penultimate day of this week’s joint Superbike and MotoGP test at Jerez.
With KRT at the Andalusian circuit for all five days,...
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22 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Leon Camier has said he was pleasantly surprised by Honda’s Fireblade after testing with his new Red Bull Honda team for the first time in Jerez today.
Swinging his leg over his new steed for the...
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21 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Loris Baz enjoyed a productive debut with the Althea BMW squad as he makes his return to the Superbike World Championship at this week’s Jerez test.
Having spent most of his career on superbikes, Baz...
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21 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Tom Sykes topped the second day of this week’s World Superbike test in Jerez in the absence of team-mate Jonathan Rea.
Rea had to head back to London on Monday evening to collect his MBE, leaving...
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20 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Jonathan Rea started off the 2018 World Superbike season where he left off as pre-season testing got underway at Jerez today.
The three-time world champion took to the top of the timesheets from his...
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16 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Loris Baz will return to the Superbike World Championship in 2018 with Althea BMW, it has been announced.
The former factory Kawasaki rider, who achieved a best finish of 5th place in 2014, returns to...
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04 November 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) added another unique achievement to his long list of 2017 records with the all time best points score of 556 in a single season, after beating Chaz Davies...
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04 November 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
Lucas Mahias (GRT Yamaha Official WorldSSP Team) won the 2017 WorldSSP title after a front-running race win at Losail. He is the first Yamaha WorldSSP champion since Sam Lowes in 2013.
He won the...
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03 November 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) won his 15th World SBK race of the season under the floodlights of a Friday night in Qatar, setting a new personal best in terms of races won in a single...
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03 November 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) set an early leading marker in Superpole 2 but finally won his sixth pole of the season with a record of 1’56.228, set nearer the end of the 15 minute session.
One...
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03 November 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) relied on his opening session time of 1’57.666 to secure the fastest qualifying time of the first evening of action at Losail in Qatar, the final round of the...
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03 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Jordi Torres will move to the MV Agusta Reparto Corse outfit for the 2018 Superbike World Championship, it has been confirmed.
The Spaniard will replace Leon Camier in the Italian squad, with the...
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02 November 2017
by Oli Rushby
Dorna and the FIM have today released the calendar for the 2018 Superbike World Championship, which shall again be contested over 13 rounds beginning in February and ending slightly earlier in...
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25 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
World Superbike bosses have finally announced the changes they will introduce to take steps towards evening out the field in 2018.
While the announcement comes later than expected, the changes are...
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22 October 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
After a first lap collision between Chaz Davies and Eugene Laverty the first attempted run of the Jerez race was red flagged and restarted over 19 laps. The result was a clear win for Jonathan Rea...
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20 October 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) relied on his morning lap time to outpace his nearest rival by 0.597 seconds on the opening day of action at Jerez, after falling just a few minutes into the FP2...
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17 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
Sylvain Guintoli will make a return to the Superbike World Championship for the final two rounds of the season with the Puccetti Kawasaki team.
As reported by MCN earlier this month, the 2014 World...
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12 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
Leon Camier will join the Red Bull Honda World Superbike team for the 2018 season, it has been confirmed.
The 2009 British Superbike Champion has been linked with the team since earlier this year when...
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12 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
Leon Haslam looks set to stand in for the injured Kenan Sofuoglu for the last two rounds of the Supersport World Championship.
According to multiple MCN sources, Haslam, who is favourite to win the...
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10 October 2017
by Jonathan Rea
Kawasaki Racing Team rider Jonathan Rea reflects on a busy two weeks after clinching a record third World Superbike crown in Magny Cours...
I had a few PR events to do in Paris before the...
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06 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
A petition for three-time World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea to be shortlisted for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award has been signed by more than 6000 supporters.
Started by Rea’s...
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05 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
Alex Lowes made a welcome return to the World Superbike rostrum in Magny Cours this weekend, matching his best result of the year with an impressive second-place behind race winner Chaz Davies.
While...
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04 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
Sylvain Guintoli could make a return to the Superbike World Championship before the end of the 2017 season with the Puccetti Kawasaki team he’s in talks with for next year.
With Puccetti’s World...
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03 October 2017
by Oli Rushby
Ducati Corse Superbike boss Ernesto Marinelli will leave Ducati at the end of 2017, the Bologna factory has announced.
Marinelli joined Ducati in 1995, before working as a track engineer for names...
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01 October 2017
by Gordon Ritchie
The chance of the glory of a double win was cruelly robbed from new triple champion Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) as eventual race winner Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati) took advantage of...
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