WSBK News

2014 Moto2 World Champion Tito Rabat switches to WorldSBK after five seasons in MotoGP with the Barni Racing Ducati squad

Johann Zarco shares memories of former Moto2 rival and 2020 Avintia Ducati team-mate Tito Rabat, now confirmed as moving to WorldSBK next season.

Michael van der Mark shakes down the brand-new BMW M 1000 RR during a private test in France ahead of its debut in the 2021 WorldSBK Championship

Christophe Ponsson will make a full-time return to the WorldSBK Championship in 2021 on Yamaha machinery with the family-run Gil Motorsport team

The 2021 WorldSBK calendar is revealed with a return to 13 planned rounds, a late April start in Assen and a first event in Indonesia for 24 years 

Chaz Davies will directly swap with Michael Ruben Rinaldi for the 2021 WorldSBK Championship season after securing a deal with Team Go Eleven Ducati

Thirteen-time race winner and 2013 runner-up Eugene Laverty secures a 2021 WorldSBK deal with the factory-backed satellite RC Squadra Corse BMW team

Ex-MotoGP rider Jonas Folger will step up to the WorldSBK Championship full-time in 2021 with the BMW-factory supported Benovo Action satellite team

Jonathan Rea continues to punch in the miles on the new Kawasaki ZX-10RR as he officially brings a sixth title-winning WorldSBK season to a close with a two-day Aragon test

The 2021 WorldSBK Championship grid is filling up but there are some notable names yet to source a ride for next season, including Chaz Davies and Loris Baz

Fresh from his MotoGP endeavour, 2020 WorldSBK rookie standout Garrett Gerloff is aiming high ahead of his second season in the championship

Andrea Locatelli makes his WorldSBK debut with Pata Yamaha during the two-day test in Jerez alongside Toprak Razgatlioglu

Jonathan Rea wasn't giving too much away about his first impressions of the new Kawasaki ZX-10RR despite setting an impressive pace on his debut outing in Jerez

The brand-new Kawasaki ZX-10RR makes its world premiere on day two of the Jerez WorldSBK test and immediately comes close to breaking the Jerez lap record...

Confirming a 2021 racing calendar in the current climate is an impossible task, but the World Superbike Championship has at least sketched out the main features of next year's intended line-up.

Pata will continue to back the factory Yamaha World Superbike team for a sixth season in 2021, after agreeing a further one-year contract extension.

Chaz Davies says he has been given 'no good reason' for his axe from Ducati's WorldSBK line-up, adding that the unanswered calls suggest he won't move to a privateer set-up either

Isaac Vinales - younger brother of MotoGP race winner Mavierick - will get his first big break on a big bike in 2021 after sealing a WorldSBK deal with the Orelac Kawasaki team

A technical DNF for Scott Redding means Jonathan Rea is automatically crowned a WorldSBK Champion for a sixth time in a row

Toprak Razgatlioglu starts on his maiden WorldSBK pole as both Scott Redding AND Jonathan Rea suffer huge crashes in WorldSBK Superpole at Estoril

Scott Redding completes a dominant sweep of free practice at Estoril as he sets his sights on WorldSBK pole position for the 2020 finale in Estoril

Scott Redding did what he needed to do in free practice at Estoril to top both FP1 and FP2, with Jonathan Rea following in fourth position

Scott Redding is half a second quicker than his rivals as the WorldSBK finale in unfamiliar Estoril gets underway; Champion-elect Jonathan Rea in sixth

BMW confirms it will add a works-supported satellite team to its 2021 WorldSBK effort using the incoming new BMW M 1000 RR machine