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The GMT94 Yamaha team has announced it will make its return to the World Supersport Championship in 2018 with ex–MotoGP rider Mike Di Meglio. 2008 125cc world champion Di Meglio has spent the last year contesting the Endurance World Championship with the GMT94 team and acting as a test rider for the factory Aprilia squad […]
Jake Gagne will partner Leon Camier at the Red Bull Honda World Superbike squad for the 2018 season, and is the second American rider confirmed to race in the series next year. 24-year-old Gagne made his WorldSBK debut at his home round at Lagua Seca this year as a replacement for the late Nicky Hayden, […]
Four premier class world championships in five years has rightly brought people to hail Marc Marquez as one of grand prix racing’s greats. While to the outside world the Honda rider’s statistics suggest a stranglehold on the series, Marquez’s journey to the MotoGP crown over the last two seasons has been anything but straightforward. After […]
KTM MotoGP test rider Mika Kallio has been rewarded for his efforts in developing this season’s RC16 with five wildcard outings at European rounds in 2018. The Finn has been the Austrian marque’s test rider since the first laps of the RC16 towards the end of 2015, and gave KTM its MotoGP debut as a […]
Valentino Rossi has revealed Yamaha will base its 2018 YZR-M1 on the 2016 frame following a troubled 2017 MotoGP campaign plagued by chassis problems. Yamaha struggled all season with its chassis, with both Rossi and team-mate Maverick Vinales suffering in hot and wet conditions. Several updates throughout the year produced mixed results, with a new […]
World Supersport race winner Roberto Rolfo will return to the World Superbike Championship in 2018 after signing a deal with the Grillini Suzuki outfit. Rolfo last contested a full season in WorldSBK in 2011 on a Kawasaki, and switched to WorldSSP in 2013 where he remained through to the middle of 2017. Despite winning the […]
American PJ Jacobsen will step up from World Supersport to the World Superbike Championship in 2018 with the TripleM Honda team. After a season in the British Superbike Championship with Tyco Suzuki, Jacobsen stepped over to WorldSSP on a Kawasaki before switching to Honda machinery halfway through 2015 – which he took to two wins […]
Just a week after announcing its immediate departure from the Moto2 World Championship, Swiss chassis manufacturer Suter will join forces with Forward Racing for the 2018 season. After a tough 2017 campaign – in which the manufacturer’s first win since 2014 was revoked following a technical infringement with the Kiefer Racing team at Misano – […]
Leon Camier hailed his first test with the Red Bull Honda World Superbike team as a ‘great start’, after making strong progress with the troubled CBR1000RR SP2 Fireblade during the Jerez test. 2017 proved a difficult year for Honda in WorldSBK. Delays in production of the new Fireblade put the team on the back foot […]
Dunlop has announced it has agreed a new three–year deal with MotoGP series owners Dorna Sports to continue supplying tyres to the Moto2 and Moto3 World Championships. Founded in Birmingham, England, in the late 1800s, Dunlop has been a fixture on the grand prix grid since the first days of the world championship – the company […]
Triple World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea has been shortlisted for the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, the first motorcycle racer to have been nominated in 10 years. Northern Irishman Rea enjoyed a banner third season with the factory Kawasaki Racing Team in WorldSBK, becoming the first–ever rider in the series’ 30–year history […]
Swiss chassis manufacturer Suter has announced it has withdrawn from the Moto2 World Championship effective immediately. Suter proved to be the dominant force in the intermediate class upon its switch to the 600cc Honda–powered four–stroke formula in 2010, with the firm winning the manufacturers’ title for three seasons in a row. In 2012, providing the […]