Hope for the turnaround before the summer break Before the eighth round of the Superbike World Championship, many fans of Toprak and also of the Superbike World Championship are hoping for a turning point. However, following Bautista’s capital error on lap one of the last race at Imola, the little Spaniard still has a whopping […]
Imola WSBK Sunday
Toprak wins third sprint of the season The day before, the Turk’s disappointment was clearly visible that he still has to wait for a “real” race win after race 1 in Imola. The sprint that is decisive for the starting grid in the second run is not a full-fledged race, which can also be seen […]
Imola Saturday
Yawning boredom again in the seventh round of WorldSBK It looked like a real race early on as Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha R1) and Kawasaki ace Jonathan Rea battled for the lead with the championship leader until half-time. However, you didn’t have to be a fortune teller to be able to name the clear winner before […]
WSBK Imola Friday
Long overdue – further slight throttling of the Ducati When Jonathan Rea dominated the WorldSBK on the Kawasaki ZX-10RR, the FIM stewards throttled his machine very early on. We remember one case when this happened in one step at about 500 rpm. This suddenly made the Northern Irishman and his teammate Tom Sykes a good […]
Imola preview
Planning madness for WorldSBK Round 7 Holding a race for the Superbike World Championship in the middle of summer on the edge of the Po plain in Emilia Romagna is absolute nonsense, to put it mildly. However, we have long been used to this from FIM and Dorna, see as an example their cancellation of […]
WorldSBK halftime
WSBK 2023 – a uniquely one-sided season We have reviewed and documented the history of WorldSBK in great detail from its beginnings to the present day. We dare say that nowhere else is there such comprehensive and richly illustrated research into the history of the Superbike World Championship as on this site. Every viewer can […]
Terrible tendencies
Increasingly dramatic series of injuries in MotoGP To anticipate one thing, we and many fans are looking forward to the newly introduced Tissot Sprintrace on Saturday morning. This short race, which has been known from WorldSBK since 2019 and will also be adopted for the MotoGP for the 2023 season, definitely brought a breath of […]
Donington Sunday
Tissot Sprint Race – Victory for Toprak Jonathan Rea on the Kawasaki ZX-10RR was leading until just before the end of the penultimate lap, after passing championship leader Bautista again in the second turn, who had only led briefly in turn 1. While Toprak Razgatlioglu managed to pass the record world champion with a lot […]
Donington Saturday
Rea wins Superpole with surprising front row After not risking much on day one, Alvaro Bautista set the best time in FP3 on Saturday morning as the track dried out. However, the Spaniard on his Ducati was a bit slower than Kawasaki ace Jonathan Rea the day before. With Toprak Razgatlioglu completing his final season […]