The curse of a consequential misdecision in WorldSBK and its aftermath The performance difference between Alvaro Bautista’s Ducati and the rest of the field on the long straights of the Circuito de Cataluña near Barcelona and at the Autodromo do Algarve near Portimão could be seen by any layperson with the naked eye. When Jonathan […]
The 2022 WSBK season
Who will be WorldSBK Champion next year? It is actually strange that this question has to be formulated completely differently for the first time in many years. So far, it has usually only been open when the old new world champion will be determined this time. Neither a Tom Sykes, nor Chaz Davies, Alvaro Bautista […]
End of a difficult season
Some thoughts on the 2021 annual statements At first glance, it was an exciting season with many surprises, which the fans of MotoGP and WorldSBK were able to experience. Because FIM and Dorna had learned nothing from the first year of the pandemic, it began with many unplanned changes in the second. In the Grand […]
Bad role models
Deniz Öncü punished – his role models remain unmolested On the same weekend MotoGP competed in Austin / Texas and WorldSBK in Portimão and there were highly questionable incidents at both events. One of them happened on Saturday in the first race of the Superbike World Championship. Toprak Razgatlioglu apparently deliberately hit Jonathan Rea with […]
The bad planning
The second clash of this year – MotoGP cannibalizes WorldSBK At the clash between MotoGP Spielberg and WSBK in Most, one can only shake one’s head in view of the bold original planning by FIM and Dorna for the 2021 season. As if there had never been a corona pandemic and mutations, they published a […]
The Track-Limit-Shit
New unword track limits – also referred to as “track shit” in the paddock For us as motorsport fans for as long as we can remember, a piece of motorsport was finally buried last Sunday. So soon after Jason Dupasquier’s tragic death, we were still in shock at how brutal the sport can often be. […]
What does Misano bring?
Expectations for the Italy round of WorldSBK Ducati and Yamaha are under particular pressure, respectively two of their drivers in the factory team and their managers. Not only we were surprised that Chaz Davies was relegated and replaced by Michael Ruben Rinaldi in the works team. The veteran Welshman had been better than the young […]
The double program
How do you reconcile MotoGP and WorldSBK? With its planning chaos, Dorna laid an egg itself at the two championships. For the spectators, the double program with the Italian GP and the WSBK event in Estoril would only have been a problem if someone had wanted to watch the races on site. Fortunately, because no […]
A black day for WSBK
Bayliss with an accident and FIM tramples the idea of sport First, the good news: Troy Bayliss fell badly on his racing bike and suffered vertebral injuries, but he reported from Australia and gave the all-clear, except for a long period of convalescence. The 52-year-old Australian suffered a bicycle accident in his native Australia, but […]
Moto3 Le Mans look back
Review of the Moto3 Grand Prix of France at Le Mans Even before the start it was clear that there would be no race as we had experienced in the 4 laps before. Because there is no really long straight at Le Mans, there are no slipstream battles, as is common in Losail and Portimão. […]