WSBK News

Triple 2006 race winner Yukio Kagayama edged out new superstar team-mate Max Biaggi to lead the Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra challenge by the end of the three-day Phillip Island test.

PSG-1 Kawasaki team-mates Fonsi Nieto and Regis Laocni made a promising start to the three-day Phillip Island test, setting the third equal and sixth fastest lap times - despite a severe case of jet lag.

Pictures from the opening day of World Superbike testing at Phillip Island in Australia are already online.

The FIM has released an updated version of the 2007 World Superbike calendar, and the good news for British fans is an additional round in the UK - with the return of Donington Park.

Reigning double World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss has responded to Neil Hodgson's claims that he blocked the Briton's return to the factory Ducati team.

Despite enjoying its most successful WSBK season to date, Team Klaffi Honda will be missing from the grid in 2007 having failed to secure the necessary sponsorship to compete.

There is no Christmas rest for the teams of the World Superbike Series - well, not just yet anyway - as the final Pirelli test of 2006 sees at least one team from each of the major manufacturers heading to Qatar for a three-day session at Losail.

Earlier this week, representatives of the PSG-1 Kawasaki team, based in San Marino, met with the region's secretary of state for foreign affairs, Fiorenzo Stolfi.

Two World Superbike legends have proved as much of a hit off the race track as on it, getting together to raise more than ?4,000 for Children In Need with an end-of-season charity auction.

Following Winston's withdraw from international motorsport, Ten Kate Honda has announced Hannspree as its new title sponsor for the 2007 season - and confirmed Roberto Rolfo as its second World Superbike rider.

Cigarette manufacturer Winston has officially confirmed that it will withdraw from international motorsport sponsorship with immediate effect - thus ending its two-year association with the Ten Kate Honda World Superbike and Supersport teams.

Former World Supersport champion and Ten Kate Honda World Superbike rider, Karl Muggeridge, will remain in the premier-class next season after signing to ride a Bertocchi Honda in 2007.

Newly retired WSBK star Pierfrancesco Chili has left the door open for a tantalising team-up with former arch rival Carl Fogarty.

World Superbike star Yukio Kagayama clinched a last gasp victory during a one-off appearance in the final round of the Japanese Superbike Championship, at Suzuka on Sunday.

Former racer and currant Eurosport commentator Jamie Whitham believes Max Biaggi's World Superbike switch is fantastic for the production based championship - partly because he is 'as mad as a box of frogs'!

Alex Barros' surprise decision to return to the MotoGP World Championship, on a d'Antin Ducati, for 2007 has left the Klaffi Honda Team seeking two new riders for next season.

The FIM has used its 2006 Congress, held at Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, to announce the 2007 World Superbike calendar - although mystery still surrounds some of the intended 15 rounds.

The Ducati Corse World Superbike team has extended its title sponsorship with Xerox for a further two years.

Lorenzo Lanzi may be facing an uncertain future with the Ducati Xerox Team but the young Italian - together with Frenchman Yoann Tiberio - will at least head into the off-season with a cash prize from Pirelli.

This is the moment, unseen on TV, that Kevin Curtain lost the front of his Yamaha Motor Germany R6 - and with it the 2006 World Supersport championship.

Foggy Petronas Racing's final races in the Corona Extra Superbike World Championship ended in disappointment at Magny-Cours on Sunday.

James Toseland was a main player in two of the best races witnessed this season at Magny Cours on Sunday, winning race one then setting for a close third in race two - securing second in the championship.

Brendan Roberts confirmed to Crash.net that he has been in talks with Ducati and is moments away from signing for the Italian Marque to ride in the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup.

Sebastien Charpentier took the win that he needed while Kevin Curtain crashed out at Magny-Cours, allowing Charpentier to retain his number one plate.