WSBK News

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

A 100th career WorldSBK win in race one at Estoril would see Jonathan Rea and Kawasaki seal a sixth consecutive WorldSBK title

Chaz Davies reacts to the news he won't be retained by Ducati for the 2020 WorldSBK Championship season, saying he had hoped he would continue after 7 seasons together

Honda confirms an unchanged rider line-up for the 2021 WorldSBK Championship season with Leon Haslam partnered with Alvaro Bautista

Aruba.it Ducati announces Michael Ruben Rinaldi will join Scott Reding in the factory set-up for the 2021 WorldSBK Championship; Chaz Davies exits after seven seasons with team

South African Sheridan Morais gets a surprise return to the WorldSBK grid for the 2020 finale at Estoril aboard the Orelac Kawasaki

Eric Granado will become the first Brazilian to start a WorldSBK race since Alex Barros in 2006 at Estoril this weekend, while MotoE rival Matteo Ferrari will also line up in Portugal

Garrett Gerloff earns a second year at GRT for the 2021 WorldSBK Championship but is upgraded to 2021 Yamaha R1 machinery; Japanese Kohta Nozane joins him

Andrea Locatelli will join the factory Pata Yamaha team for the 2021 WorldSBK Championship, replacing Michael van der Mark

2017 WorldSSP Champion Lucas Mahias switches to Superbike racing for the first time with Puccetti Kawasaki 2021 WorldSBK promotion

Eugene Laverty scores his first WorldSBK pole position in eight years at a soggy Magny-Cours with Tom Sykes completing a BMW 1-2 on the grid

Loris Baz earmarks himself as the rider to beat in Superpole at a wet Magny-Cours by topping the WorldSBK FP3 session, while Jonathan Rea suffers a fall

Garrett Gerloff tops the timesheets on a day for ducks at Magny-Cours as the penultimate round of the 2020 WorldSBK Championship gets underway

Champion elect Jonathan Rea kicks what could well be another crowning WorldSBK at Magny-Cours with the fastest FP1 time in treacherous weather conditions

Jonathan Rea tees up his sixth WorldSBK Championship title, needing to out-score Scott Redding by 11 points in Magny-Cours to get the job done with a round in hand

Jonathan Rea denies Toprak Razgatlioglu his long awaited maiden WorldSBK pole position by snatching the top spot in the closing stages in Spain