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Foggy!
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Thirty years on from his first World Superbike race win, Carl Fogarty remains one of Britain’s best-loved bikers. So what made him so good on a bike and so beloved by race fans? And how did he manage to transcend the relatively niche sport of bike racing to become a household name?
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Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK Looking for Long-Haul Points Haul in Argentina
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The Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK team and riders Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Andrea Locatelli head to Argentina for the first long-haul event of the 2022 FIM Superbike World Championship this coming weekend, from 21-23 October, at Circuito San Juan Villicum. Defending champion Razgatlıoğlu has a good record from the 4.276 km venue, finishing on the…
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Jonathan Rea, OBE! Congratulations
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Six-time FIM Superbike World Champion Jonathan Rea has added a further prestigious award to his impressive collection after he attended a ceremony at Buckingham Place in London to accept the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from The Princess Royal. Having previously been recognised for his sporting prowess with the Member of the British Empire…
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Suzuki bringing championship-winning superbikes to Stafford Classic Motorcycle Show
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Suzuki is bringing championship-winning superbikes to the Stafford Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show – which takes place on 15-16 October at the Staffordshire County Showground – with Troy Corser’s World Superbike-winning GSX-R1000 K5 on display next to John Reynolds’ 2004 British Superbike title-winning machine. The two iconic superbikes, in their Corona Suzuki and Rizla Suzuki liveries…
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Dominique Aegerter to Step Up to WorldSBK with Yamaha in 2023
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Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to announce that reigning FIM Supersport World Champion and current series leader Dominque Aegerter will step up to the FIM Superbike World Championship with Yamaha for the 2023 season. Aegerter enjoyed an utterly dominant maiden campaign in the WorldSSP class last year and has continued to be the rider to…
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The Stafford Show and the new ‘Naughty 90s’ Hall!
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October 15th and 16th at the Staffordshire County Showground (ST18 0BD) sees the huge Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show, tickets from just £14 and kids go free. It’s free to park, too! Let’s hear from CMM Mag’s editor, Bertie Simmonds, about the show: Classic motorcycles have just gotten too expensive. If you’re my age and you…
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Gardner to Join Yamaha in WorldSBK from 2023
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Yamaha has announced that 2021 Moto2 World Champion Remy Gardner will contest the FIM Superbike World Championship with Yamaha from 2023, after an agreement was reached this week with the 24-year-old Australian. This comes in the same month as Gardner was axed by KTM who told the rider he ‘wasn’t professional enough’. Gardner has previously…
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Kawasaki Prepares For Suzuka 8 Hours with a cracking team…
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The Suzuka 8 Hours EWC event will soon get underway in Japan, having been cancelled due to the pandemic for the past two years. The Kawasaki entry will features several members of the KRT WorldSBK squad combining riding talent from both WorldSBK and BSB paddocks. WorldSBK KRT riders Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes will be…
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1998: The ‘Roman Emperor’ enters the arena…
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Steve Cooper remembers… The year 1998 has probably gone down as one of Honda’s most dominant years and for good reason – the firm pretty much mopped up the vast majority of points available by taking the top five places in the championship race. Honda’s star was definitely in the ascendant and, quite rightly, most…
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Rea signs new two-year extension with Kawasaki
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Kawasaki has announced that six-times WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea has signed a two-year contract extension to race inside the official Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT), continuing the successful partnership that began in 2015. After taking over 100 WorldSBK race wins on Kawasaki machinery Jonathan has shown characteristically high levels of motivation and confidence in the future…
