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WSBK: Unstoppable Rea grabs sweet sixtieth win at Brno
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Reigning champion triumphs in Czech return and opens 81-point gap in title battle When the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship last graced the flowing hills of the Automotodrom Brno, Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) was a promising 25-year-old with 10 race wins to his name, no world championships, and still very much a diamond…
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WSBK: KRT one-two as Sykes again squeezes past Rea in closing stage
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Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) extended his historic Tissot Superpole record at the Automotodrom Brno with a brilliant final lap. The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship returned to the Czech Republic in the same way it did six years ago, in the last Saturday here: with ‘Superpoleman’ Sykes leading the way into Race 1.…
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WSB: Czech round this weekend – here’s 10 things to know about WSB, going in
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1. Michael van der Mark (Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team) recorded his maiden WorldSBK win at the same age as Chaz Davies (Nurburgring/2 2012): 25 years, 7 months, 0 days. 2. Van der Mark is the only rider in history with his first two wins separated by one day. Before the new weekend format was introduced,…
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VIDEO: British Talent Cup riders continue on the Road to MotoGP at Donington
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This weekend it was round two of the British Talent Cup at Donington Park – with 23 riders from the UK and Ireland, aged between 12 to 17 years old, fighting for the first ever British Talent Cup Championship. Part of Dorna’s Road to MotoGP program, the all-new British Talent Cup is designed as the…
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VIDEO: Getting under the skin of Honda’s WSB CBR1000RR’s electronics
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Electronics play an increasing important role in the racing world – but to an outsider looking in, it’s difficult to understand just what’s going on. And so, Honda has released a video of Vincente Pechuan Vilar, Electronics Coordinator at Honda, getting under the skin of the World Superbike CBR1000RR Fireblade SP2.
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VIDEO: Road to MotoGP – Do you have what it takes to race in the British Talent Cup?
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Another crop of young hopefuls can soon apply to join next season’s British Talent Cup – giving young talent the chance to get on the Road to MotoGP. And if you think you’ve got the skills, you can get your applications in from May 18th. One of Dorna’s key objectives is to create diverse platforms…
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WSB: SHOCK NEWS – Dorna Boss reveals plans for THREE race WSB weekends instead of the current two race system!
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Daniel Carriera, executive director of the World Superbike Championship has said that Dorna is considering running THREE Superbike races per meeting instead of the current two race system. In 2016, the races were split across Saturday and Sunday, before the ‘reverse starting grid’ for Race 2 was introduced in 2017. But it has been revealed that Dorna…
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WSB: Sykes storms to victory in Race Two at Assen
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Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) put in the most dominant performance in the 2018 season of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship so far, recording fastest lap after fastest lap to score his first win of the campaign, ending Jonathan Rea’s (Kawasaki Racing Team) Assen winning streak in the process. Behind them, Michael van der…
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WSB: Rea roars to eighth consecutive TT Assen win
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The KRT rider fends off attacks from Van der Mark and Davies to increase championship lead. Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) stormed to his third win of the season with a quintessential Assen performance, nailing his eighth consecutive Dutch win and twelfth in total, equalling Carl Fogarty’s historic dozen Assen triumphs along the way. It…
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WSB: Home heroes and history makers at Assen this weekend
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This weekend, the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship heads to the iconic TT Circuit Assen for the fourth round of the season. For the first time in history three riders have managed to pull off two wins each – meaning there’s just 18 points splitting the top three riders in the standings, so there will…
