Jake Gagne will make the full-time switch to the World Superbike championship for 2018 with the Red Bull Honda squad as Leon Camier’s team-mate after impressing during replacement riders this season.
Leon Camier has produced his best results for the 2017 World Superbike championship to demonstrate MV Agusta’s development progress at the Lausitzring.
"Good luck to Leon - I am happy the team was able to find such an experienced rider with his credibility to hold the fort until I get back" - Nicky Hayden.
You voted in your thousands, but there can only be one winner... This is Crash.net's top ten countdown to the 2013 World Superbike Rider of the Year as voted for by you!
Carlos Checa joins Max Neukirchner, Jonathan Rea and Loris Baz on the sidelines in Turkey after suffering chest and wrist injuries, while Ayrton Badovini is also walking wounded...
A year after celebrating his first-ever World Superbike win at Silverstone, Loris Baz notches up another victory around the British circuit, ahead of Jules Cluzel and Eugene Laverty.