
wSBK Press Release: After two of the most unpredictable Superpole sessions of the season, Tom Sykes will start tomorrow's two 21-lap races at the Misano World Circuit "Marco Simoncelli" from Pole Position. The Kawasaki rider powered to the top spot, claiming a new outright circuit best lap of...
With two rounds and four races remaining, Northern Ireland's Jonathan Rea clinched the 2016 WSBK Championship with a fourth place in the first leg at Jerez, Spain, yesterday. The Championship was Rea's first, and in only his first season with the Kawasaki factory team following six years on...
The Kawasaki World Superbike line up will remained unchanged for the next two years. On Monday morning, the Kawasaki Racing Team announced they had signed Tom Sykes to another two-year contract for WorldSBK. Sykes will line up alongside Jonathan Rea in 2017 and 2018, as he has for this season...
Tom Sykes, determined to reaffirm his leadership role at Kawasaki, rode his ZX10-R to a new lap record at Misano World Circuity on Satutrday, grabbing pole position with a lap of 1:34.214. That's six-tenths of second quicker than last year's Superpole time. His performance was perfect, but the...
Ducati's Davide Giugliano has topped the opening day's Jerez World Superbike test timesheets with a laptime only four-tenths slower than Eugene Laverty's pole time from last season. The Roman went round in a 1'41.056 to be a little less than half a second clear of team-mate Chaz Davies. The...
A week after the eni FIM World Superbike Championship season finale at Jerez, several riders and teams came back to the Spanish track to continue their work for 2014 pre-season work. The two-day test held yesterday and today was also first chance of seeing some riders with their new bikes and...
As the world of motorcycle racing has gone mad with speculation over who is to replace Jorge Lorenzo at Yamaha, and by extension, either Maverick ViƱales at Suzuki or Dani Pedrosa at Honda, focus has also turned on the World Superbike paddock. There has been much talk of which riders could make...