In overall seventh place is Bayliss's team-mate
Lorenzo Lanzi, who has shown flashes of brilliance - and his double podium at Valencia, in round four, demonstrated that he still has the ability to run at the front - but he badly needs to emerge from Troy's shadow.
Thus far the most consistent, and highest scoring private rider is former
MotoGP runner
Roberto Rolfo, now at Ducati SC Caracchi. Almost crowned champion in the 250 GP class in 2003, Rolfo has powered his booming vee-twin to a personal best of fifth in Australia race one, and for him
Silverstone will be another new experience.
A talented top ten is completed by Yamaha Motor France rider Norick Abe in ninth place, with the top Kawasaki runner
Fonsi Nieto - only three points behind Abe.
Such has been the increased level of talent and equipment in World Superbike this season that many big names still reside outside the top ten places overall.
Michel Fabrizio (DFX Treme Honda),
Ruben Xaus (Sterilgarda Berik Ducati), Chris Walker (PSG-1 Kawasaki),
Regis Laconi (PSG-1 Kawasaki) and
Karl Muggeridge (Winston Honda Ten Kate) are currently, after eight races, separated by only six points.
For Walker, Silverstone is a home race, and with huge local support 'The Stalker' will be going all out to turn the Kawasaki’s obvious potential into a solid gold podium result.
One front-running name missing so far is that of Corser's team-mate
Yukio Kagayama, currently in an artificially low 16th place overall. The Japanese came within half a lap of winning race one in Qatar, before being hit by Haga, and has suffered further back luck since - but Yuki enjoys any race in the UK, having been a leading BSB rider before his move up to World Superbike, and will be looking to reverse his fortunes this weekend.
