The second half of the 1992 season – year 5 of the WorldSBK The first 7 laps in Europe in his second season in the Superbike World Championship were no longer an easy walk for Doug Polen on his Ducati 888, as it had looked like for many observers the year before. Together with Raymond […]
Australia 1 year ago
When we witnessed the WSBK kick-off on site in Phillip Island It should be the start of a World Championship season that was memorable in many ways. We flew to Melbourne via Singapore and treated ourselves to a night in the Asian city-state on the way there and back. Never before had we already booked […]
WSBK-History part 9
The first half of the 1992 season – the 5th year of the WorldSBK The 1990 world champion Raymond Roche had to relinquish his place in the Ducati factory team to the newcomer from the USA after his significant defeat. Therefore, he had founded the team Raymond Roche Ducati, with which he tried on a […]
Tests and presentations
Team presentations will be over soon – tests in many places We stand by the fact that we are only marginally interested in the presentations by teams and drivers, especially before the coming season. Basically this time it is all the more old wine in new bottles. In other words, technically almost unchanged bikes are […]
WSBK-history part 8
The second half of the 1991 season – year 4 of the WorldSBK Doug Polen traveled to Japan as World Championship leader. The American had won all the 12 races in which they had competed in the first half of the season with the team from his country, with two exceptions, and had finished second […]
WSBK-history part 7
First half of the 1991 season – the 4th year of the WorldSBK In Donington this time the fourth season of the near-series World Championship began again at its place of origin, where it all began on April 3, 1988. This time it was once more very early in the year when the engines roared […]
Van der Mark and 2021
Michael van der Mark on BMW and the new season Recently the first scribes came to the realization that the tests in Portugal in a week could be tight. In the meantime, the last of them have woken up from their hibernation and have understood what we had warned about last year: The races and […]
South African Testing
The Binder brothers and Steven Odendaal train together While MotoGP stars train together with WorldSBK and WSSP colleagues in Europe, the South Americans are no exception. With Steven Odendaal, this nation has a particularly hot iron in the fire in the WorldSSP 600 for 2021. The newcomer to the two-time world championship team Bardahl Evan […]
Good bye Fausto
To the MotoGP team boss’s death from Covid-19 The northern Italian was a fighter and a doer, but on the night of February 23, 2021, he lost the helpless fight against the Covid-19 virus and its destructive effects. Many only knew him as a team principal in MotoGP, but the Italian had also been very […]
WSBK-history part 6
2nd half of the 1990 season – the 3rd year of the WorldSBK In the first half of the year, Raymond Roche had proven to be the strongest and most consistent driver. But the reigning world champion Fred Merkel wasn’t as bad as we recently read on Wikipedia. Anyone who published there that Merkel was […]