WSBK News

Despite taking over fourth from Andrea Locatelli in the WorldSBK championship at San Juan, Michael Rinaldi feels ‘a lot of work’ needs to be done to make a step in 2022

What’s been an extremely disappointing 2021 WorldSBK season for Garrett Gerloff has finally shown signs of turning around following three top tens at San Juan; ‘we just need to put the pieces together so we can use the pace that we have and try to move up the leaderboard’.

Unable to find ‘the feeling to fight for a good position’ results in impressive WorldSBK rookie Andrea Locatelli missing out on a top five finish for the first time since round four at Donington Park.

While battling for podiums in the dry is a stretch too far for BMW at present, Michael Van Der Mark believes the team's current situation is not that bad; ‘you want to make steps and finish on the podium but sometimes you have to look at the reality. I think we’re not doing a really bad job’.

Axel Bassani rises to the fore to challenge Toprak Razgatlioglu, Jonathan Rea and Scott Redding in WorldSBK race two at San Juan; ‘I had the possibility to learn a lot of things from the other riders, from Scott, Jonny and Toprak. They are the best riders in WorldSBK at the moment’.

Although Toprak Razgatlioglu struggled with ‘chattering and some grip problems’ in WorldSBK race two at San Juan, the championship leader has extended his points lead to 30 over Jonathan Rea.

While Jonathan Rea managed to get the better of title rival Toprak Razgatlioglu in race two at San Juan, the six-time WorldSBK champion felt he could have challenged Scott Redding for victory had he not focused solely on Razgatlioglu. 

After an incredible four-way battle with Jonathan Rea, Toprak Razgatlioglu and Axel Bassani, Scott Redding seals a dominant San Juan WorldSBK race two win.

With team-mate Scott Redding crashing early on and squandering a likely WorldSBK podium, Michael Rinaldi salvaged race one for the Aruba.it Ducati team by claiming third at San Juan.

While not mathematically out of the championship battle, Scott Redding believes his San Juan WorldSBK race one crash has eliminated him from contention; ‘The championship is too far away now, that’s out the window, so every race is just a battle for the win’.

Toprak Razgatlioglu enjoyed a birthday to remember after thoroughly dominating San Juan WorldSBK race one. Title rival Jonathan Rea finishes second.

Six-time WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea misses out on a valuable FP2 race simulation at San Juan after suffering yet another crash; ‘I’m frustrated because we lost a lot of time in the session; I went down quite early on and the bike wasn’t salvageable to get back’.

Championship leader Toprak Razgatlioglu heads into today’s first of two WorldSBK race days at San Juan as the firm favourite after dominating Friday free practice.

Third in the championship, Scott Redding says ‘I’m there to make it as difficult as possible’ for Jonathan Rea and Toprak Razgatlioglu, while overhauling the Kawasaki rider for second is a ‘more realistic’ aim than claiming the WorldSBK title.

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.

After ‘probably the most difficult weekend in my life’ at Portimao, Jonathan Rea’s crew chief Pere Riba says taking it one race at a time is now ‘our philosophy’ ahead of this weekend’s penultimate World Superbike round of 2021. 

Oli Bayliss, son of former World Superbike champion with Ducati, Troy Bayliss, is in talks to join the Italian manufacturer’s new WorldSSP project for 2022.

Ahead of WorldSBK’ season finale in Indonesia which is set to take place on November 19-21, MGPA (Mandalika Grand Prix Association) has stated that construction of the new Mandalika Circuit has reached 97%.

As World Superbike returns to Argentina for the first time in two years, home favourite Leandro Mercado arrives in good form after securing just his second top ten of the year in Portimao.

World Supersport rookie Luca Bernardi will move up to World Superbike in 2022 after agreeing to join Barni Racing Ducati.

Toprak Razgatlioglu has a mathematical chance of winning the 2021 World Superbike title in Argentina this weekend.

Argentina was the scene of Alvaro Bautista's most recent World Superbike victory, for Ducati, back in 2019. He returns seeking to build on his recent podium form for Honda.

Tom Sykes sidelined for third WorldSBK event in a row following severe concussion; 'I have missed more races in the last four weeks than in my 21 years of racing'

WorldSBK’s best title battle in years between Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea receives plaudits from some of MotoGP’s biggest stars including Valentino Rossi, Franco Morbidelli and Brad Binder.