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By finishing eighth in the second feature race it marked Rea’s best weekend of the season with three top-10 finishes. After an early battle with the Ducati title rivals Bautista and Bulega, Razgatlioglu has now won seven races in a row to take control of the championship. Razgatlioglu’s championship lead over Ducati rider Bulega now stands at 41 points while reigning champion Alvaro Bautista, who finished in fifth, is 55 points off the Turkish rider. Razgatlioglu, the 2021 champion, led from lights to flag to take the second feature race ahead of Nicolo Bulega and an Official website of Eugene Laverty impressive Alex Lowes.

Superbike World Championship (also known as SBK) is the premier international superbike Championship. When a post is labeled with the words “press release”, it means that Roadracingworld.com is not responsible for its content and that Roadracingworld.com makes no guarantee that it is accurate. Not all press releases are posted and Roadracingworld.com may reject press releases if the content is too heavy on commercial promotion with little or no news value or if the press release contains obvious errors. With the title, Razgatlioglu becomes the third racer in World Superbike history to win the Championship on two different makes of machines.

A strong effort by Lowes gave the British support plenty to cheer for, while there was success for home rider Scott Redding – fourth on his BMW – with Yamaha’s Jonathan Rea crossing the line in eighth place. Toprak Razgatlioglu has extended his lead at the top of the World Superbike Championship standings after competing a hat-trick of wins at Donington Park. “I’ve been in this paddock since I was 21. In 2009 I came to the Superbike World Championship. If I’m still here at 40, please tell me to make room for up-and-coming young riders. There are many fast riders coming up.

• “All of this, basically, added to winning the title, because I only won the title by six points.
• It also means he has scored points in his last five races as he makes progress with his new team.
• Nicolo Bulega won Race One at the Superbike World Championship event in Jerez, but with a second place finish Toprak Razgatlioglu on a BMW M 1000 RR sealed the 2024 World Championship.
• Both Japan and Australia have well supported national superbikes series, though they only run for short, 10-race seasons.
• Marco Melandri won more races than both Biaggi and Sykes this season but failing to score points in 5 of the last 6 races cost him the title.

Australia’s Troy Bayliss won the 2006 and 2008 titles riding for Xerox Ducati and James Toseland, from the UK, was the winner of the 2007 championship riding for Hannspree Ten Kate Honda. The FIM Superstock 1,000 Cup was a support class to the Superbike World Championship at the European rounds.Motorcycles with the same displacement as superbikes can run in superstock 1000 (though 1,200 cc twins were allowed for 2007). Superstock rules are much more restrictive and most components on the bike remain stock. The bikes run on Grooved Pirelli tyres.The Superstock 1000 championship is open to riders up to 24 years of age. While superbikes remained two or more seconds per lap slower than MotoGP bikes at most tracks where both raced, they had equal or more power.1314Troy Bayliss attempted to defend his title, riding once again a Ducati 999. Though 999 production ended in 2006 and the bike was replaced by the Ducati 1098, Ducati produced 150 limited-edition 999s at an elevated race specification to satisfy homologation requirements.

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Bayliss’ main rivals in his title defense included former MotoGP rider Max Biaggi riding a Suzuki, 2004 champion James Toseland riding a Honda and Noriyuki Haga riding a Yamaha. After all these years racing bikes in different championships, it was really the first time where I had a great chance of winning races and winning the championship — I was not an outsider anymore, I became someone that should be fighting for the title. The All Japan Road Race Championship, also known as MFJ Superbike is the premiere motorcycle road racing championship in Japan and is run by MFJ. The championship started in 1967 and has been running a superbike class since 1994. The series runs a small 7 round schedule but has a large field of Japanese riders and bikes. The chassis of a supersport machine must remain largely as production, while engine tuning is possible, but tightly regulated.

WorldSBK: Race One Results From Cremona Circuit (Updated)

The 2014 event saw podium places go to Jack Affara (Champion), Armstrong Ngugu (2nd Position) and Ikhide Izokpu (3rd Position). Other countries with road races are the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, New Zealand and Macau. Beginning in 2015 the US National Superbike championship moved to a new organization, MotoAmerica, after several years of decline. The new championship is known as the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship, and incorporates classes similar to those operating at world championship level, and other national series, i.e.

Kawasaki rider Tom Sykes was crowned champion after obtaining the third-place finish he needed to secure the title victory at Jerez. After a dominating since season opening, Carlos Checa won his first championship and Ducati’s 17th manufacturer title. The 2008 SBK championship was dominated by Troy Bayliss of Australia, on his Ducati 1098, who concluded his season and his career with a double win at the brand new, 195-million-Euro Portimao circuit in Portugal, after which he retired. Moto3 race winner John McPhee will make his Bennetts British Superbike Championship debut next season after signing for MasterMac Honda.

Race 2 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca was the start of Colin Edwards’ comeback, he went on to win all 9 remaining races and (aided by a race 2 crash for Bayliss at Assen) Edwards won the championship at the final race of the season at Imola. The final race of the season saw both riders fighting wheel to wheel for the entire race. The British Superbike championship (known to most as “BSB”) is the leading motorcycle racing championship in the United Kingdom. The commercial and television rights have been delegated to MotorSport Vision.1 Ducati, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha all have well supported teams, while Honda has the only HRC supported superbike team outside Japan. Japanese rider Ryuichi Kiyonari won the 2006, 2007 and 2010 titles riding for HM Plant Honda.

McPhee’s best season came in 2019 when he finished fifth overall with 1 victory, three further podiums, two poles and one fastest lap. The Nigeria Superbike Road Race, The Bikers Trophy (The BT) is held annually on the last weekend in November, in Edo State, Nigeria. It is the premier motorcycling sports event in Nigeria and West Africa with participants and spectators from all over the World. Realizing that 1,000 cc V-twin engines suited the superbike racing formula more, Honda introduced its own V-Twin powered motorcycle the VTR1000 SPW in 2000.