Having missed last year’s Laguna race Dani Pedrosa had an important session on Friday at round eight, riding the American circuit for the first time on Bridgestone tyres.
Almost 8 weeks after the operation in Monza and after a close check-up by Dr. Kupfer the wires have been taken off from Max Neukirchner's foot in a Chemnitz hospital. The small surgical procedure was carried out under anesthetic without any complications and took about 15 minutes. Max was then able to leave the clinic a couple of hours later. The Alstare Suzuki rider will now embark on a tough training program during the next couple of weeks in order to be ready for the test at Imola in a fortn...
PSG-1 Corse have announced their decision to abandon the 2009 Superbike World Championship with immediate effect due to the current economic climate. In the last seven years of participation in World Superbike, the best result for the team was Chris Walker's win at Assen in 2006.
Aprilia Racing have wrapped up two days of testing at Brno, the Italian manufacturer team's designated SBK test track. Conditions were generally good although the rain fell on the afternoon of the final day, cutting short the session by a couple of hours. The team tested numerous components on the RSV4 in view of the upcoming Brno round and the second part of the season. Despite a hairline crack in his right foot, Max Biaggi completed a total of 122 laps in the two days, the Italian getting dow...
Red Bull Racing's Formula 1 driver Mark Webber was present at the Donington World Superbike round last Sunday to check on all the racing action. When WorldSBK.com caught up with Webber, who currently lies fourth in this year's F1 championship, for a chat on the grid before the start of race 1, the 32-year-old Australian had no doubts whatsoever about the outcome of the two races. So Mark, what are you up to here on the starting-grid? "I'm here to watch the racing. It's great to be here, it's...
Even shortly after he had won his first World Superbike race at Misano, with no small degree of aplomb to boot, Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) was already thinking about how to win his next race. For many outside observers, his home race of Donington Park would offer the perfect opportunity to score at least another podium, but for Rea, he knew Donington would be a difficult circuit for his Honda to handle, or one section of it at least. He proved himself right, despite trying several...
