WSBK News

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.

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Jordi Torres has joined the MIE Althea Honda team for the 2020 World Superbike campaign, starting from the Jerez round.

Honda has officially launched its new World Superbike championship effort ahead of the 2020 season, revealing the team colours of the factory HRC squad and satellite team MIE Althea.

Honda has officially launched its new World Superbike championship team ahead of the 2020 season with help from Leon Haslam and Alvaro Bautista.

The World Superbike championship has started a charity auction to raise funds for the Australian bushfire crisis ahead of Phillip Island hosting the 2020 season-opener.

Sandro Cortese will contest the 2020 World Superbike championship after agreeing a deal to race for Team Pedercini Kawasaki.

The Aruba.it Racing Ducati squad has unveiled its 2020 World Superbike livery with help from new rider Scott Redding alongside Chaz Davies.

Former World Superbike winner and 500cc Grand Prix rostrum-finisher Takuma Aoki will make history by becoming the first disabled driver to compete in the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy at the upcoming Mexico City round.

Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes have revealed Kawasaki’s 2020 World Superbike colours as the team looks to defend its world titles.

The initial rev limits for each World Superbike manufacturer has been confirmed ahead of the start of the 2020 season.