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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…
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MotoGP: Seville aiming to be added to race calendar
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It has been revealed that the city of Seville has begun work to mount a campaign to be added to the MotoGP calendar. Of course, according to Dorna’s big cheese Carmelo Ezpeleta, there are already around a dozen countries on the waiting list to join the MotoGP calendar – but a new candidate has popped…
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WSB: Aragon this weekend, here’s some performance stats to warm you up with
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Aprilia have stood on the podium on ten occasions at MotorLand Aragon, and are second only to Kawasaki in this area. Their last podium came three years ago with Leon Haslam, who was third in Race 2. Last year the best result for Aprilia here was a seventh place by Leandro Mercado in Race 1.…
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Rea joins Haslam and Watanabe on Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR’s for the 2018 Suzuka 8 Hours
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Triple World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea will partner Leon Haslam and Kazuma Watanabe at the 2018 Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race – as Kawasaki looks to topple three time consecutive winners Yamaha. Last year, Kawasaki finished in second place at the iconic Japanese endurance – with Haslam, Watanabe and Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman coming in just…
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Laverty on top in Thailand WSB FP2
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Five different manufacturers occupy the top five positions in FP2, separated by just over two tenths of a second. Eugene Laverty (Milwaukee Aprilia) topped the timesheets in FP2 with a 1:33.851 lap time, as the pace continued to hot up and the top runners were separated by ever-narrowing margins at the Chang International Circuit. With…
