Jonathan Rea further extended his World Superbike championship lead after cruising to his 10th win of the season in the opening race in Portugal. Just prior to the 20-lap contest, the ‘A’ soft compound Pirelli tyre was withdrawn from the allocation on safety grounds, and this threatened Rea‘s charge on Saturday as he was forced […]
World Superbike tyre supplier Pirelli has withdrawn one of its soft tyres ahead of Saturday’s first race of the Portuguese round due to safety concerns. Pirelli has come under fire this year following a number of high profile tyre failures at Donington Park and Misano prior to the summer break. The tyre in question – […]
Kenan Sofuoglu pipped World Supersport championship leader Lucas Mahias and PJ Jacobsen to his fourth pole of the year in a tight Portimao Superpole session. The early pacesetter in the second part of Superpole was Lausitzring pole man and race winner Sheridan Morais, whose 1m45.688s kept him top of the pile for much of the […]
Jonathan Rea stormed to his fourth World Superbike pole of the season, while Chaz Davies will start ninth following a late crash in Superpole at the Algarve circuit. Rea made his intentions clear from the off, posting his best lap of the weekend on his race tyre run with a 1m42.385s, though Milwaukee Aprilia’s Eugene […]
Kawasaki Racing’s Tom Sykes will miss Saturday’s World Superbike Superpole and first race after sustaining a broken finger in a fiery third practice crash at the Algarve circuit. The British rider was on his out-lap at the beginning of the 25-minute session when he lost the rear end of his ZX-10RR cresting the brow of […]
Kenan Sofuoglu ended the opening day of World Supersport practice ahead of the Portuguese round top of the timesheets from first practice pacesetter Sheridan Morais. Lausitzring race winner Morais was in imperious form as the day’s running got underway this morning, the South African eight tenths clear of the field in first practice on a […]
Jonathan Rea held onto top spot at the Algarve circuit, after a dominant lap in second practice for the Portugal World Superbike round put him 0.568 seconds clear of the field. After a delayed start to proceedings – caused by an oil spill towards the end of the preceding Superstock 1000 session – improvements on […]
World Superbike championship leader Jonathan Rea topped the opening practice session of the Portuguese round from Kawasaki team–mate Tom Sykes. After a year’s absence from the WorldSBK calendar, the series returns to Portugal and to the Algarve circuit in Portimao. KRT was one of only a few teams not to test at the Portuguese circuit […]
Honda’s World Superbike operations manager Marco Chini believes HRC test rider Takumi Takahashi’s feedback on the bike will prove crucial in its development over the remaining rounds. Honda has drafted in experienced Honda tester Takahashi to partner Stefan Bradl for this weekend’s races in Portugal, as well as for the Jerez round next month. Takahashi […]
Michael van der Mark says he is ‘fully focused’ on this weekend’s Portugal World Superbike round despite increased attention following his MotoGP call-up with Yamaha. The Dutch rider will make his MotoGP debut at next weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix as the replacement for the injured Valentino Rossi at the factory Yamaha team. While thrilled at being afforded the […]
The provisional calendar for the 2018 MotoGP World Championship has been launched, revealing a 19-race schedule that will begin on March 18, though no venue for the British Grand Prix. Continuing the tradition set since 2007, the season will begin at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar, and is still set to be an evening […]
Australian Ant West will stand in for the injured Randy Krummenacher at Puccetti Racing for the rest of the 2017 World Superbike season. World Supersport race winner Krummenacher stepped up to WorldSBK this year with Puccetti after a strong rookie campaign in the 600cc class in 2016. 2017 has proven tough aboard the Puccetti-run ZX-10RR, […]