British rider Kyle Ryde has parted ways with the Kawasaki Puccetti Racing outfit ahead of the final two rounds of the World Supersport Championship. Ryde joined the Supersport World Championship full–time in 2016 after an impressive wildcard outing on a Yamaha at Donington in 2015, in which the 2014 National Superstock 600 champion finished third. […]
Honda MotoGP test rider Hiroshi Aoyama will substitute for the injured Jack Miller at the Marc VDS squad in next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi. Australian Miller suffered a fracture to his right tibia in a training accident while out riding his trials bike in Spain last Friday. Miller – who is 12th in […]
Ducati’s World Superbike project leader Ernesto Marinelli will depart the Italian squad at the conclusion of the 2017 season to pursue ‘new professional challenges.’ Marinelli has been a part of the Ducati fold since 1995 and worked as a track engineer for WorldSBK legend Carl Fogarty, as well as Neil Hodgson in 1997. From 1998 […]
The World Superbike Championship will continue to race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the 2018 season, after circuit bosses and championship owners Dorna extended their deal by a year. The world’s premier production-based bike racing series first visited the iconic Laguna Seca in 1995 and, after a 10-year hiatus between 2004 and 2013, the […]
Marc VDS Honda rider Jack Miller will miss next weekend’s MotoGP race at Motegi after fracturing his right tibia in a training accident in Spain. The Australian suffered a fracture to the top of the tibia on his right leg when he put his foot down to save a crash while out training on his […]
Ducati’s Marco Melandri blames a lack of pace in Sunday’s World Superbike race at Magny-Cours on missing the morning warm-up session to a technical issue. While conditions on Sunday were mainly dry, the heavy rainfall on Saturday had washed away the rubber laid on the track on Friday. With a bike issue forcing him to […]
Alex Lowes branded Sunday at Magny–Cours a ‘fantastic day’ for Yamaha after he and team–mate Michael van der Mark secured the marque’s first double World Superbike podium since 2011. The British rider enjoyed a strong start to the weekend in race one, guiding his YZF–R1 through the treacherous conditions to finish fifth. Starting from second […]
Five-time World Supersport champion Kenan Sofuoglu will miss the remainder of the 2017 season as doctors set a 12–week recovery period for a hip injury sustained in a crash at Magny–Cours. The Puccetti Kawasaki rider was setting the timing screens ablaze on his final lap in Saturday’s Supersport Superpole session for the 10th round of […]
Chaz Davies took his seventh World Superbike win of the season in tricky conditions at Magny-Cours, while newly-crowned three-time champion Jonathan Rea was forced out on lap two. Davies was struck with an electrical issue in Saturday’s wet race, and finished a lowly 10th as a result while Kawasaki rider Rea crusied to a 50th […]
Niki Tuuli became the first Finnish rider in World Supersport history to win a race after taking a hard–fought victory at Magny–Cours, while Lucas Mahias retook the championship lead. Drama struck the WorldSSP 2017 championship battle on Saturday when standings leader Kenan Sofuoglu was declared unfit to ride in France due to a hip injury […]
An issue with his Ducati’s electronics in Saturday’s opening World Superbike race from Magny-Cours saw Chaz Davies struggle to a tenth-place finish. The Welshman was one of a handful of riders to opt for the development rear rain tyre for Saturday’s 21-lap encounter, and was making it work in the early stages after jumping from […]
Jonathan Rea ‘has no words right now,’ after a dominant victory at Magny-Cours on Saturday saw him clinch the 2017 World Superbike championship. The Kawasaki rider won back-to-back titles in 2015 and 2016, and came into Saturday’s first race in France needing just five more points than second-placed team-mate Tom Sykes to secure a third […]