After missing Jerez and Portimao due to injury, Chaz Davies is back for this weekend’s penultimate WorldSBK round of 2021, a round that is also Davies’ penultimate event before retiring at the end of the season.
Loris Baz impresses during World Superbike return for GoEleven Ducati by claiming sixth place in race one at Jerez. Could his stand-in ride be a rehearsal for a full-time ride in 2022?
Chaz Davies officially announces his retirement from WorldSBK at the end of this season; ‘this will be my last season in WorldSBK. It’s obviously a decision that has not come easily’.
After being out of action since Donington Park (round four) of the 2021 World Superbike championship, Eugene Laverty makes his return in place of the sidelined Tom Sykes.
Alvaro Bautista ‘happy’ after achieving his best WorldSBK points haul of the season at Magny-Cours; ‘We worked really well. We made some small modifications to the bike especially on the setup and also on the electronics’.
Michael Rinaldi’s struggles for Aruba.it Ducati continue at WorldSBK Navarra as a lack of ‘feeling’ persists; ‘we need to understand why we don’t get the feeling sometimes and we lose so much time trying to get it.”