First half of the 1991 season – the 4th year of the WorldSBK In Donington this time the fourth season of the near-series World Championship began again at its place of origin, where it all began on April 3, 1988. This time it was once more very early in the year when the engines roared […]
Van der Mark and 2021
Michael van der Mark on BMW and the new season Recently the first scribes came to the realization that the tests in Portugal in a week could be tight. In the meantime, the last of them have woken up from their hibernation and have understood what we had warned about last year: The races and […]
South African Testing
The Binder brothers and Steven Odendaal train together While MotoGP stars train together with WorldSBK and WSSP colleagues in Europe, the South Americans are no exception. With Steven Odendaal, this nation has a particularly hot iron in the fire in the WorldSSP 600 for 2021. The newcomer to the two-time world championship team Bardahl Evan […]
Good bye Fausto
To the MotoGP team boss’s death from Covid-19 The northern Italian was a fighter and a doer, but on the night of February 23, 2021, he lost the helpless fight against the Covid-19 virus and its destructive effects. Many only knew him as a team principal in MotoGP, but the Italian had also been very […]
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 […]
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 […]