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Staring to race with HM Plant Honda at Snetterton BSB round
Source: Motourage - Tuesday, 13th July 2010, 15:51 GMTAustralian Superbike Championship front runner Bryan Staring is heading to the UK for what he has described as the “chance of a lifetime” – a one-off ride with the HM Plant Honda Team in the Superstock 1000 class of the British Superbike Championship. The 22-year-old Cougar Bourbon Honda Racing pilot has excelled in 2010, taking debut [...] Read article
Brno – Rider Form Guide
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Friday, 9th July 2010, 8:59 GMT• Max Biaggi has always finished his Brno races in the top four, winning race 2 in 2007 and race 1 last year, for a total of five podium placements. He adds to that four consecutive wins from 1994 to 1997 in the 250cc world championship and three more wins (1998, 2000 and 2002) in 500cc/MotoGP; • Shane Byrne was able to finish both races in the points last year: fourth and eighth; • one podium placement out of four starts for Carlos Checa, second in race 1 last year. In the 500cc/MotoGP championship he never managed to finish on the podium out of thirteen races contested here; • Troy Corser won three times in Brno: both races in 1996 and the first one in 2005. Troy added two more podiums to that, with a second in race 2, 2005 and a second in race 1, 2008. Corser started from pole in 1996 and 2005; • Six podium places out of eight races run for Michel Fabrizio, who scored here his maiden podium in 2006. His only retirement is from last year, when he crashed and took out Ben Spies while fighting for the lead; • Noriyuki Haga won the second 2005 race in Brno and climbed on the podium in third in the second race the following year. The Japanese rider completed all his ten races in Brno inside the top-10. He scored pole in 2006 and 2007; • Only one finish in the top-10 in both races run here last year by Leon Haslam, seventh in race 1; • Lorenzo Lanzi obtained here his best results in the first two of the ten races he ran in Brno, in 2005 with a double sixth place. In the last two editions he retired twice in the first two races. In race 2 last year he scored his worst result, fifteenth; • Max Neukirchner obtained his best results in the last two races run here: fifth and seventh in 2008; • Broc Parkes was twelfth and sixteenth last year, he managed to climb on the podium in the 2006 Supersport race in second behind team-mate Kevin Curtain; • Last year Jonathan Rea managed to finish on the podium behind Biaggi and Checa in race 1. In race 2 he finished fourth. He was also able to climb on the podium in third in the 2008 Supersport race; • Luca Scassa is looking for his first points in this track. In the Superstock 1000 class he managed to score pole in 2006 finishing second behind Ayrton Badovini; • Jakub Smrz raced six times in Brno, finishing inside the top-10 in both 2009 races: sixth and ninth; • James Toseland has an excellent record in Brno: he won in 2007, race 1 and was second three times. He always started from the front row in Brno. In MotoGP he was able to finish in the top-10 in 2009 (ninth); • A podium placement out of two races run here for Chris Vermeulen, third in race 2 in 2005. In MotoGP he finished two times out of four in the top-10, with a fifth in 2007 and a sixth in 2008; • A problematic track for Ruben Xaus, who retired four times out of eighth, and was forced to abandon the weekend after race 1 last year. Ruben hasn't seen the chequered flag at Brno since 2007. Read article
BSS Oulton Park: Jon Kirkham takes pole for tomorrows Superstock 1000 race
Source: bikeracenews.com - Sunday, 2nd May 2010, 21:56 GMTJon Kirkham, riding his BMW S 1000 RR, has captured pole position at Oulton Park in the Superstock 1000 class Jon is leading a trio of BMWs in the top five places on the grid and is looking forward to a great result on raceday. Jon said “This is back where I want to be, at the [...] Read article
BSS: Brands Hatch-Gowland gains confidence at Brands Hatch
Source: bikeracenews.com - Thursday, 8th April 2010, 15:04 GMTPTR’S Graeme Gowland finished a superb fifth at the opening round of the British Supersport Championship at Brands Hatch on Bank Holiday Monday 5th April Gowla qualified 7th on the grid on his debut in the very competitive British Supersport Championship but after former Champion Glen Richards crashed whilst racing in the Superstock 1000 class earlier [...] Read article
Superstock classes set to start in Portugal
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Monday, 15th March 2010, 16:47 GMTWith the first European-based round of the 2010 SBK season arriving at Portimao on 28 March, the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup and Superstock 600 European Championship classes will soon get underway, with strong entries confirmed in each category. Populated by relatively young riders, and using machines which are very close to standard production models, these classes will once again run alongside the Superbike World Championship and Supersport World Championship categories at every one of the ten European-based rounds of the overall SBK series. In the 1000cc class some exciting new machines enter the fray, including the BMW S1000RR and KTM 1198RC8 R. There will be 32 regular riders representing no less than eight different manufacturers in 2010 - Aprilia, BMW, Ducati, Honda, KTM, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha. Given the strict rules of the class, each machine should be capable of running at the front. Last year three manufacturers won races, with five scoring podiums of some kind. The 600 Superstock class features four different manufacturers - Honda, Suzuki, Triumph and Yamaha - with a regular entry of 19 riders coming from nine different countries. In the Superstock 1000 class Ayrton Badovini joins Daniele Beretta in the BMW Motorrad Italia STK Team, and there will be seven riders on BMW machinery in total, making the S1000RR a popular choice in its first year in Superstock. As well as some established names there will be new threats aplenty in the Superstock categories, each of which has provided major career steps for some top riders in the SBK and WSS classes. Read article
Moto Rapido Ducati confirm line-up
Source: MCN Sport - Wednesday, 10th February 2010, 15:00 GMTMoto Rapido Ducati have completed their rider line-up for the 2010 with the signing of Brighton youngster Leon Hunt who will race in the Metzeler National Superstock 1000 class. The 21-year old, who has moved up from the Superstock 600... Read article
Steve Parrish’s MotoGP column
Source: BBC Sport - Monday, 4th January 2010, 18:11 GMT"The move from 800cc to 1000cc engines is a very good thing - they should never have come down from 990cc" Read article
Gowland fourth in Jerez Moto2 debut
Source: MCN Sport - Monday, 16th November 2009, 13:07 GMTFTR Moto’s new Moto2 machine put in its most impressive display to date as Graeme Gowland finished fourth in class and 13th overall among 1000cc Extreme class bikes at Jerez on Sunday Gowland was riding the bike in the Joe... Read article
Cadwell Park BSB: Seeley claims Superstock title
Source: MCN Sport - Monday, 31st August 2009, 15:09 GMTAlastair Seeley became the first British champion to be crowned in the 2009 season when he won today's Metzeler Superstock 1000cc race at Cadwell Park on his Relentless by TAS Suzuki. The win maintained his 100% record from the year... Read article
WSB promoters issue warning to Dorna
Source: MCN Sport - Sunday, 26th July 2009, 13:29 GMTWSB series promoter Infront Motor Sports has issued a press statement, effectively a shot across the bows, telling Dorna to ditch any idea of introducing production-based 1000cc machinery alongside the existing MotoGP machinery. The reaction comes in the wake of... Read article
