World Supersport
2010 Nurburgring WSS QP1 Result – Sofuoglu On Provisional Pole By Slimmest Of Margins
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that Ducati out of WSBK is almost as big as Rossi to Ducati - Friday, 3rd September 2010, 17:03 GMTTen Kate Honda's Kenan Sofuoglu is on provisional pole for the German round of World Supersport, but the Turkish rider has only the smallest of advantages. Sofuoglu finished just one thousandths of a second ahead of ParkinGO Triumph's David Salom, who took over 2nd spot from Intermoto Czech's Gino Rea. Katsuaki Fujiwara rounds out the provisional front row, while Sofuoglu's main challenger for the title, Parkalgar Honda's Eugene Laverty, ended the day in 5th. Results: Read article
2010 Nurburgring WSS FP1 Result – Laverty Takes Lead With Late Charge
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that Ducati out of WSBK is almost as big as Rossi to Ducati - Friday, 3rd September 2010, 12:49 GMTEugene Laverty took charge of the first session of Free Practice for the World Supersport class at the Nurburgring, taking over the top spot with late fast lap with a few minutes left in the session. The Parkalgar Honda man demoted Ten Kate's Kenan Sofuoglu in the process, the Turkish rider taking 2nd ahead of Motocard Kawasaki's Katsuaki Fujiwara. The young Londoner Gino Rea continued his improvement, setting the 4th fastest time on the Intermoto Czech Honda. Results: Read article
Germany WSS: Iddon gets a second World Supersport chance
Source: Bike Sport News RSS Feed - Friday, 3rd September 2010, 0:00 GMTThe Supermoto specialist gets another crack at World Supersport Read article
Crutchlow Closing In On Tech 3 Deal
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that Ducati out of WSBK is almost as big as Rossi to Ducati - Thursday, 2nd September 2010, 16:16 GMTThe return of a British MotoGP draws ever nearer. Cal Crutchlow has been linked to a MotoGP ride for several months now, but the Englishman now looks set to finalize the deal in the next couple of weeks, with an announcement possibly coming as early as this weekend at Misano. Talks are expected to take place here in Misano to settle the last few details with Yamaha bosses, but a deal now looks to be certain. Crutchlow is so sure of securing the deal that he has broken off talks with World Superbike teams, and is focused on switching to MotoGP with the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha squad, MotoMatters.com understands. An announcement by the Sterilgarda Yamaha rider is now merely a formality. Crutchlow has made no secret of his desire to move up to MotoGP. The Englishman came close to signing a Moto2 deal with Fausto Gresini in the middle of last year, while Crutchlow was still racing World Supersport, but Yamaha held him to the second year of his two-year deal, which saw Crutchlow join the Sterilgarda Yamaha team in World Superbikes. Crutchlow has an option to stay with Yamaha's WSBK squad, but has decided to turn it down for a shot in MotoGP with Tech 3. read more Read article
Editor’s Blog: Racing’s Dark Side – The Death Of Peter Lenz
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that Ducati out of WSBK is almost as big as Rossi to Ducati - Tuesday, 31st August 2010, 20:08 GMTWhen you arrive to pick up your credentials at a motorcycle racing event, they make you sign a form. On that form, you are informed that motorsports are dangerous in whatever capacity you attend, and you do so at your own risk. If you don't sign the form, you don't get your passes, that's how seriously they take this. For this is something that race fans tend to forget: motorcycle racing really is dangerous. For years now we've been spoiled, with riders invariably getting up and walking away, or at worst being flown out to the nearest hospital in a medivac helicopter, making their return with steel pins holding broken bones together, after missing just a handful of races. Only occasionally does it end badly, such as when Craig Jones was killed in a World Supersport race at Brands Hatch in 2008, or when Daijiro Katoh suffered fatal injuries during the 2003 Japanese MotoGP round at Suzuka. But even those accidents were a sign of how things have changed. In the early years of Grand Prix racing, all the way through to the mid-1970s, Grand Prix racing would lose a handful of riders every season. Protective gear has improved vastly over the years, and the track especially have seen huge changes, with street circuits disappearing, hard obstacles being removed and walls being pushed back as far as possible, and then covered in air fence for good measure.read more Read article
Parkes steps in for Lascorz
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Tuesday, 31st August 2010, 15:18 GMTBroc Parkes, who parted company with the Echo CRS Honda Superbike team earlier this week, will not be out of action for much longer as he immediately steps into the Spanish Kawasaki Motocard.com World Supersport squad this weekend to replace the injured Joan Lascorz. Parkes will take part in the final three races of the season in Germany, Italy and France. World Supersport runner-up in 2007, the 28 year-old Parkes is one of the most expert riders around in the category and he comes to the Nurburgring on the back of a test last week at Almeria on the Kawasaki ZX-6R with which he will tackle the final part of the championship. The rider he replaces, Lascorz, who crashed and was injured at Silverstone, is continuing to recover at the Deseux Institute in Barcelona and will undergo surgery this week to speed up the healing of his left leg. Read article
Video: World Supersport star Chaz Davies does Supermoto
Source: Bike Sport News RSS Feed - Sunday, 29th August 2010, 0:00 GMTThe Welsh wizard mucking about with his Supermoto Read article
Parkes and ECHO CRS Honda go separate ways
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Friday, 27th August 2010, 8:08 GMTAustralian rider Broc Parkes and the ECHO CRS Honda team have reached a mutual agreement to dissolve their partnership in the 2010 Superbike World Championship. Broc was released from his contract on Tuesday 24th August, and is now looking for opportunities to continue his racing involvement, for this season and the future. Still only 28 years old, Broc has been a fixture in the Superbike World Championship paddock since 2001, alternating between the World Superbike and World Supersport series. He has 23 World Supersport podiums to his credit, including five race wins, and was runner-up in the WSS series in 2004 and 2007. Read article
Parkes and ECHO CRS Honda go separate ways
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Friday, 27th August 2010, 8:08 GMTAustralian rider Broc Parkes and the ECHO CRS Honda team have reached a mutual agreement to dissolve their partnership in the 2010 Superbike World Championship. Broc was released from his contract on Tuesday 24th August, and is now looking for opportunities to continue his racing involvement, for this season and the future. Still only 28 years old, Broc has been a fixture in the Superbike World Championship paddock since 2001, alternating between the World Superbike and World Supersport series. He has 23 World Supersport podiums to his credit, including five race wins, and was runner-up in the WSS series in 2004 and 2007. Read article
Laverty and the perfect Silverstone storm
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Friday, 6th August 2010, 8:57 GMTThe World Supersport race at Silverstone once again turned into another two-way battle between Irishman Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) and his Turkish rival Kenan Sofuoglu (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda), and this time, in the fluctuating fields and fortunes of this year's series, it was Laverty's turn to have a perfect weekend. Spurred on by his numerous British and Irish supporters, the Parkalgar man clinched the win on UK soil with a superb pass on the last lap, after letting Sofuoglu make all the running in the run-up to the chequered flag. This was Laverty's sixth win of the season and it shaved away a further five points from his Honda rival's lead. Said Eugene in the post-race interviews: "It is nice to win our home race and it was a tough one. My plan had to change several times through the race. First I made a break but then Kenan put in some quick laps and then I decided to drop back and see where he was weak. I spotted his weak areas but he could have been sandbagging so I passed him again on the last lap with plenty of corners to spare and found that he really was weaker and not pretending. It is especially nice to beat Kenan in this sort of race because he is not used to losing this sort of fight and that makes it an important psychological win. My Parkalgar Honda was brilliant, we ran faster lap times than I expected and it was the best bike on the day." Read article
