Czech rider Karel Abraham will remain with the Aspar MotoGP team for the 2018 season alongside Alvaro Bautista, the Spanish outfit has confirmed. Abraham returned to the MotoGP World Championship this season with Aspar following a disappointing year in World Superbikes with the Milwaukee BMW team. Having made his premier class debut in 2011 on […]
Chaz Davies says he ‘loved every minute’ of the second race of the German World Superbike, the Ducati rider tallying up his second win of the weekend at the Lausitzring. Davies cruised to victory on Saturday despite suffering an issue with his rear brake on the way to the grid. Starting from ninth as a […]
Chaz Davies tallied up his second double victory of the season after winning the second race of the German World Superbike round from ninth on the grid. After winning Saturday’s encounter in dominant fashion, Davies was forced to fight hard in the opening stages on Sunday from the third row of the grid. His Ducati […]
Pole man Sheridan Morais was declared the winner of the German World Supersport round after the race was halted on lap 18 due to a collision between GRT Yamaha duo Federico Caricasulo and Lucas Mahias. Kallio Racing’s Morais made the most of his pole position and took the holeshot into the first corner ahead of […]
Takaaki Nakagami will make his MotoGP debut in 2018 after penning a factory deal with Honda to join the satellite LCR team alongside Cal Crutchlow. The Japanese rider’s promotion to the premier class with Lucio Cecchinello’s team has been long rumoured as the squad looked to expand to a two-bike effort in 2018. It was […]
Davide Giugliano’s return to the World Superbike Championship ended prematurely thanks to a technical issue with his Honda Fireblade at the Lauistzring on Saturday. The Italian – who was dropped by Ducati for 2017 and made a disastrous appearance in the British Superbike series earlier this year – has been brought in by Honda for […]
Sheridan Morais will start on pole for the first time in his career after smashing the Lausitzring lap record in qualifying for the German World Supersport round. Morais, along with Kallio Racing team-mate Niki Tuuli, has the new Yamaha R6 for this first time this weekend and has been on fine form with it throughout […]
Chaz Davies cruised to a second-successive race one win at the German World Superbike round, while Jonathan Rea extended his championship lead over Tom Sykes. Davies had struggled throughout practice at the Lausitzring, and could only manage sixth on the grid in qualifying. The Ducati rider transformed his poor Superpole performance with a blinding start […]
Tom Sykes annihilated the Lausitzring lap record to claim pole position for the first race of the German World Superbike round later today. Sykes has been in imperious form all weekend, topping Friday’s timesheets despite a crash in second practice, and ending final practice this morning as the man to beat. Milwaukee Aprilia’s Eugene Laverty […]
Aprilia World Superbike rider Lorenzo Savadori will ride the Noale firm’s MotoGP bike at a test at Misano next week, according to Autosport.com. Savadori stepped up to the Superbike World Championship last season with ex-MotoGP outfit Ioda on a an Aprilia RSV4, the Italian winning the European Superstock series with the manufacturer in the year before. […]
Yamaha’s Michael van der Mark faces SP1 on Saturday after a red flag and heavy shower soon after left him unable to improve on 11th in practice for the German World Superbike round. The Pata Yamaha team missed the two-day test at the Lausitzring during the summer break as both van der Mark and Alex […]
Tom Sykes remained on top of the timesheets at the Lausitzring despite a session-ending crash during second practice for the German World Superbike round. The session was brought to a halt with 35 minutes on the clock after fluid was deposited on circuit at Turn 12, which caught Stefan Bradl out and left bits of […]