July – month of hope for the real Superbikes While Bautista was able to dominate at will for the first 5 rounds of the season on Ducati’s MotoGP Replica, the weekend at Donington Park kicks off the month of hope for his real Superbike competitors. Here and of course two weeks later in Imola, as […]
Donington WSBK preview
Where it all began – Round 6 of WorldSBK at Donington Park It was 1988 when, on April 3rd, the first of nine rounds of the newly introduced Superbike World Championship started here. You can find out more about this in our richly illustrated history, with all the results and lots of additional information, as […]
Fake numbers
How sprint races and recent Ducati successes are distorting and jeopardizing WorldSBK Of course, the discussions since 2019 about two serious innovations in the Superbike World Championship that started this year have not stopped. One of them was the introduction of the Tissot Sprintrace, which was very interesting and attractive for fans and visitors. We […]
Assen MGP Sunday flashback
Grand Prix without Marquez and with ridiculous rules After his disaster at the Sachsenring and the day before, Marc Marquez, the statistically most successful driver in the field, decided not to start a GP in the Netherlands. However, the FIM commissioners shot the bird off on Sunday morning. In all seriousness, they announced a change […]
Assen MGP Saturday
Chaotic weekend opener at MotoGP Round 8 in the Netherlands We have the FIM and their officials to thank for when a race is flagged down and there is prolonged confusion about the composition of the podium. For drivers, teams and fans, the so-called track limits are an absolute horror. The functionaries of the FIM, […]
MotoGP Assen preview
Round 8 at the “Cathedral of Speed” with the Dutch GP As so often in the past, MotoGP comes to Assen a week after the German Grand Prix. Unfortunately, the prices are steep and a ticket for 3 days costs 135 EUR for standing room. Grandstand seats are of course even more expensive and some […]
Sachsenring Sunday
Without Marquez, Jorge Martin also won the Grand Prix after the sprint After his fifth crash this weekend, in which Marc Marquez had gone off in the warm-up on Sunday morning with a highsider in the Queckenberg finish curve, the Repsol Honda Star decided not to start. The day before he had only finished eleventh […]
Sachsenring Saturday
Bagnaia and Marquez badly beaten Both the world championship leader and Sachsenring serial winner Marquez had something to oppose the unleashed drive of privateer Jorge Martin. As a polesitter, many saw Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia as the favourite, who will start the races from pole position for the second time since last year. In the end […]
Forgotten Heroes 1
Rudi Felgenheier – the first German 250cc Grand Prix winner German two-wheeler heroes such as Ewald Kluge, H.P. Müller, Werner Haas, Horst Fügner or Georg “Schorsch” Meier from the times shortly before or after World War II are still well known to many motorsport fans today. If you don’t know them, you will find very […]
Clumsy arithmeticians
KTM and their constant rider problems At KTM, Motorsport Director Pit Beirer and Big Boss Pierer have a lot in common. In particular, your public statements often seem to many as if you have eaten wisdom with spoons and your opponents are mostly fools. In fact, however, it’s not that simple when it comes to […]