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 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 […]
WSBK-Balance
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 […]
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 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. […]