Balance of power then and now in WorldSBK While in the sour cucumber era many scribes disappoint with copied old stories and often even repetitions, we like to dig a little deeper. Above all, we are much more careful than many others in searching and evaluating our almost inexhaustible archive. Errors such as the claim […]
WSBK-history part 5
The 1st half of 1990 – 3rd year of the Superbike World Championship In the first two years, US boy Fred Merkel had triumphed on the legendary Honda VFR 750 RC30. Twice in a row, the three-time AMA Superbike national champion from 1984 to 1986 won the title in the very last race. The American […]
One year before – Feb-2020
A little look back at the almost perfect time a year ago Actually, the MotoGP would be currently testing if the Dorna hadn’t had a completely nonsensical plan for testing in Sepang. What a wonderful time, many scribes will think today, it was just a year ago in February! The motorsport journalists lurked like hungry […]
WSBK-history part 4
The second half of the 1989 World Superbike Championship There were numerous surprises in the first half of the second Superbike World Championship. One of them was Davide Tardozzi, who had no World Championship points for the first 5 races of the season and after 6 of 11 laps was third overall in the previous […]
WSBK-history – part 3
The 1st half of 1989 – the 2nd year of the Superbike World Championship Last year the American Fred Merkel snatched the title from the Italian Davide Tardozzi (Bimota) in the very last race of the season in Manfeild (New Zealand). As in the previous year, the first year of the Superbike World Championship, the […]
WSBK history – part 2
The 2nd half of 1988 – the 1st year of the Superbike World Championship After Sugo’s race in Japan, the second half and 2 European rounds continued in Europe before the final in Australia and New Zealand was approaching. Davide Tardozzi (Bimota) was ahead of US boy Fred Merkel (Honda), Fabrizio Pirovano (Yamaha), Marco Lucchinelli […]
Just the wrong thing
Ezpeleta’s visit to Doha is involuntarily ironic Even the first calendar from FIM and Dorna seemed alienating to most viewers in view of the anything but passed corona pandemic. We stayed decent at the time and cautiously called the first edition of November 6th, 2020 a “fair weather program”. But in the editorial office and […]
Krummi’s big sayings
The Krummi comeback – many empty promises? We were in Australia when the reigning WorldSSP World Champion made a mistake in the first corner that cost him the race. Actually, we would have liked to have photographed the man with hist number 1 in turn 4, called Honda Corner, as part of the leading group. […]
Cortese and his desires
Sandro and the hope of returning to racing “I am finally free of pain,” Cortese stated. “I had a tough end to last year with many months in recovery and rehabilitation and also at the beginning of this year. I couldn’t do a lot of sports, but now I can always exercise more. I have […]
WSBK history – part 1
1988 – the first year of the Superbike World Championship In the United States of America, the Superbike category has long been a cult. The 200 miles of Daytona owed its revival to this class after the two-stroke engine was over with the introduction of the superbike category in 1985. This class had become extremely […]