Chaz Davies like Valentino Rossi – back to being a private driver The careers of the Englishman and the MotoGP icon could hardly be more different. Nevertheless, there are some interesting parallels between the two long-time pilots in the different championships. After many years as works drivers, you will both be back at the start […]
MotoGP sham
Is Dorna fooling its customers for the second time after 2020? Last year, the corona pandemic not only put teams, drivers and fans to a tough test, but almost all of humanity. In addition, there was the problem with Red Bull Media for TV consumers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Instead of Sport1 and Eurosport […]
Rea wants to know
Kawasaki goes to Portugal on 4th & 5th March on the track According to Kawasaki’s preliminary report on the Portimão Test in early March, Alex Lowes is still protecting his shoulder, while the reigning world champion wants to know exactly. This year the teams were largely unlucky with the previous conditions. January was cold and […]
WSBK-History part 11
The first half of the 1993 season – year 6 of WorldSBK The Superbike World Championship had become well established since its inception in 1988. Even in the USA, the near-series World Cup was noticed from the start and its popularity in Europe was set to increase even further. It was clear that there would […]
The new privateer
Valentino Rossi and his new existence as a “private driver rookie” MotoGP press conferences are a horror for many riders. A driver who never made a secret of it is or was Andrea Dovizioso. For the coming season everything looks like the Italian won’t have to do this to himself in 2021. He sometimes made […]
WSBK-History part 10
The second half of the 1992 season – year 5 of the WorldSBK The first 7 laps in Europe in his second season in the Superbike World Championship were no longer an easy walk for Doug Polen on his Ducati 888, as it had looked like for many observers the year before. Together with Raymond […]
Australia 1 year ago
When we witnessed the WSBK kick-off on site in Phillip Island It should be the start of a World Championship season that was memorable in many ways. We flew to Melbourne via Singapore and treated ourselves to a night in the Asian city-state on the way there and back. Never before had we already booked […]
WSBK-History part 9
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 […]