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World Superbike championship organisers have cancelled the Imola round as part of the 2020 season overhaul, while also rescheduling both the Aragon and Misano rounds for later in the year.

The Aruba.it Racing Ducati team manager Serafino Foti says Scott Redding has instantly adapted into the squad and made a lasting impression on his World Superbike debut at Phillip Island.

Honda team manager Jaume Colom concedes the unexpected pause to the 2020 World Supebike championship enforced by the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a negative effect on its development with the new CBR1000RR-R.

Defending Suzuka 8 Hours champions Kawasaki have confirmed their three riders for the 2020 race, as Jonathan Rea is joined by new World Superbike team-mate Alex Lowes with Xavi Fores completing the line-up.

Looking to keep his followers entertained during the ongoing widespread shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, Marc Marquez hosted a live Q&A covering a wide variety of topics including how he sees the 2020 MotoGP season shaping up.

The Dutch round of the 2020 World Superbike championship has been rescheduled to August 21-23 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Reigning World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea says he doesn’t care about fighting for another title during the coronavirus pandemic and while he concedes he misses racing he accepts it’s “not that important right now”.

Troy Bayliss may have retired but it hasn’t kept him out of the paddock as he supports his son Oli climbing the racing ladder to emulate him.

While the coronavirus pandemic has put the sporting world on hold, teams are doing what they can to prepare for the eventual resumption of the season which is keeping Leon Haslam and Honda’s World Superbike efforts busy.

It has been an unprecedented time amid the worldwide fight against the coronavirus and motorsport has been critically hit by action taken to halt its spread.

During the coronavirus shutdown, Alex Lowes says he has opted to “switch off from bikes for two weeks” to stay mentally ready once the World Superbike season restarts.

While Alvaro Bautista fully backs the government and health authority measures taken to halt the spread of the coronavirus, he says he can only complete half his usual training programme because of restrictions.

Assen has cancelled all its events for the next three weeks amid coronavirus prevention plans ordered by the Netherlands’ government and health authorities, which threatens the running of the Dutch World Superbike round later in April.

The FIM President Jorge Viegas says the 2020 racing season will be extended into the start of 2021 if necessary to ensure a full completion of campaigns following the coronavirus outbreak.

The ongoing coronavirus disruptions have caused the Spanish round of the 2020 World Superbike championship to be postponed from March 29 to October 25, where it is now set to become the season finale.

The Qatar World Superbike round has been postponed until further notice amid the coronavirus outbreak. With travel restrictions enforced arriving into Qatar, organisers have moved to reschedule the World Superbike round which was initially set to take place on March 13-15.

Garrett Gerloff and Eugene Laverty will both miss the remainder of the 2020 World Superbike championship opener at Phillip Island after suffering concussion in separate crashes during warm up.

Full Phillip Island World Superbike Warm Up Results

Jonathan Rea says he couldn’t help but feel frustrated at being pushed off track on the opening lap by former Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes, before a fall trying to overtake Michael Ruben Rinaldi prematurely cut short the start of his World Superbike title defence.

Toprak Razgatlioglu says the stress of making his Pata Yamaha debut was worth it as he held on to take victory on his first outing with the YZF-R1 at the 2020 World Superbike opener at Phillip Island.

WorldSBK Phillip Island - Superpole Qualifying Results Tom Sykes has stormed to a dominant pole position for the opening round of the 2020 WorldSBK Championship a

Leon Camier has been forced to withdraw from the opening round of the 2020 WorldSBK Championship after failing to make sufficient recovery from his troublesome shoulder injury.

Scott Redding maintained his grip on proceedings ahead of the first Superpole for the 2020 WorldSBK Championship season at Phillip Island as he topped FP3.

Full Phillip Island WorldSBK FP2 results Scott Redding has enjoyed the perfect start to his World Superbike debut by topping Friday practice following rainy conditions and a brief red flag.