Maverick Vinales reckons Marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso are his main rivals in the championship at this stage of the season, and reckons both will be ‘dangerous’ at Assen. The Yamaha rider had his championship lead cut to just seven points following a difficult weekend in Barcelona in which he finished 10th. Ducati’s Dovizioso tallied […]
Marc VDS Honda rider Jack Miller will make his debut at the prestigious Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race later this year with the MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO Honda team. The Australian, currently in the third and final year of his HRC contract in MotoGP, has been keen to contest the iconic endurance race and eluded at the […]
Marc VDS rider Jack Miller is looking forward to returning to the TT Circuit Assen this weekend, the scene of his memorable debut MotoGP victory 12 months ago. The Australian mastered the tricky conditions of the fragmented 2016 Dutch TT to score his first MotoGP win and the first for a satellite rider since 2006, […]
Cal Crutchlow will remain with the LCR team through to the end of 2019, after signing a two-year deal with HRC to become a factory-supported Honda rider. Crutchlow moved to LCR and Honda in 2015 following a tricky year with the factory Ducati outfit, scoring a maiden rostrum with the marque in just his second […]
World Superbike tyre supplier Pirelli is investigating the cause of several rear tyre issues during the Rimini round, and has confirmed it will revert to a stiffer construction SC0 rear tyre for the US round next month. During the closing stages of the first race at Misano, Yamaha’s Michael van der Mark suffered a failure […]
Althea BMW’s Jordi Torres was denied a first World Superbike podium since Qatar 2015, when an issue with his rear tyre forced him to retire four laps from the end of the second race at Misano. After finishing a fine fourth on Saturday, Torres started from pole for Sunday’s second outing of the Rimini weekend. […]
Marco Melandri says his debut Ducati win in Sunday’s second race of the Rimini World Superbike round was ‘payback for all the sacrifices’ he and his team have made this season. 2002 250cc world champion Melandri made a much-questioned return to the WorldSBK this year with Ducati, following a year on the sidelines when he quit Aprilia’s fledgling MotoGP project […]
The World Superbike Championship will continue to visit the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli through to 2020, after series owners Dorna Sports agreed a three-year extension with the Rimini venue. WorldSBK first visited Misano in 1994, when Giancarlo Falappa delighted the home crowds with a victory in the weekend’s second race. The series has returned […]
Ducati’s Marco Melandri took a first World Superbike win since 2014 after cruising to victory at Misano, with Jonathan Rea fending off Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes for second. After crashing out of third in Saturday’s race, Melandri had work to do from 10th on the grid. Getting off the line well, the Ducati rider soon […]
Kenan Sofuoglu capitalised on a early fall for championship leader Lucas Mahias at Misano to close the gap in the standings to just five points, after the Turk held of fJules Cluzel for his fourth straight win of 2017. Pole man Sofuoglu got the holeshot into Turn 1, but a mistake at the Rio corner allowed GRT […]
A rear tyre failure on lap 15 of the first race of the Rimini World Superbike round denied Yamaha’s Michael van der Mark a maiden Yamaha podium finish. Van der Mark made a blinding start from fifth on the grid and was up to second by the first corner, the Dutchman proceeding to take the […]
Aruba.it Ducati’s Chaz Davies will miss the second race of the Rimini World Superbike round, after he sustained a fracture to his back in a collision with championship rival Jonathan Rea in race one. Davies and Rea were battling hard on the final lap of a dramatic opening race from Misano when the Ducati rider […]