WSBK News

Italian Lorenzo Lanzi caused a major sensation in World Superbike Saturday afternoon as he stormed to pole position on the Xerox-backed Ducati 999F05; not bad for a stand-in rider and the Italian spoke of his 'great pleasure' is beating 2005 pole specialist, Troy Corser.

Mike Edwards has been racing for over twenty one years and it is that wealth of experience that the Foggy Petronas team had hoped to exploit during a test day at Snetterton.

Race day at Assen lasted little more than a few corners for PSG-1 Kawasaki's Chris Walker, the hard charging Brit colliding with local wild-card Jurgen van den Goorbergh on lap one of race one - the impact breaking the Brit's elbow in two places even before he even fallen from the bike.

It hasn't happened much in 2005, but Troy Corser finally endured a difficult weekend in the Alstare Corona Extra World Superbike Championship as he failed to finish on the podium for the first time this year.

While using a recent British Superbike Championship race at Silverstone to get in some valuable testing miles, Renegade Honda's Ben Bostrom suffered impact injuries to his back and internal organs after a massive highside, but hopes to recover sufficiently by Assen to improve on his overall 15th

Dutch racer Jurgen van den Goorbergh sampled the performance of the Rizla Suzuki GSX-R1000 that he will campaign at the Assen round of World Superbikes during a private test at Silverstone yesterday (Wednesday) evening.

Racing at high speeds in front of thousands of fans doesn't concern current World Champion James Toseland, however the Xerox Ducati rider admitted to Crash.net that meeting the stars still makes him star stuck - especially when that star is Jools Holland.

Fresh from finishing second in last weekend's Suzuka 8 Hours World Endurance race, riding a full factory HRC Fireblade on Michelin tyres, Chris Vermeulen returns to his Winston Ten Kate Honda on Pirelli tyres for this weekend's eighth round of the Corona Extra World Superbike championship.

2005 Corona Extra World Superbike championship leader Troy Corser extended his points advantage after retuning his GSX-R1000 to the top step of the podium during race one at Brno, but was forced to yield the race two victory to a charging Noriyuki Haga.

Noriyuki Haga claimed the first ever World Superbike race win for Yamaha's YZF-R1 after charging from just 16th on the grid to beat world championship leader, and race one winner, Troy Corser in the final outing at Brno on Sunday.

One of the Alstare Corona Extra mechanics summed up this weekend's antics as the "weekend of punching" and one of the riders involved in the incidents was Jose Luis Cardoso of the DFXtreme Yamaha team.

The Misano race committee has decided to impose a $3000 fine on Fonsi Nieto following his unprovoked attack on rival Lorenzo Alfonsi towards the end of the second Superbike qualifying session at the Italian circuit.

An on, and then off, track clash between Yukio Kagayama and Jose Luis Cardoso today at Misano has landed them both with a fine of 1000USD.

Gianluca Nannelli on the SC Carrachi Ducati has taken provisional pole in this afternoon's first qualifying for the Alstare Corona Extra Suzuki Supersport Championship at Misano.

Alstare Suzuki's Troy Corser managed to increase his Corona Extra World Superbike championship lead at the British round of the series last weekend at Silverstone. In his exclusive Crash.net column he explains what he has been up to in the build up to the races...

Team Alstare Suzuki rider Troy Corser took a pair of hard-fought for seconds at Silverstone, and in doing so extended his lead in the Corona Extra World Superbike championship to seventy-eight points.

Yamaha France rider Sebastien Gimbert has suffered a chipped ankle after an accident during the second race of the fifth round of the Corona Extra World Superbike at Silverstone.

Yukio Kagayama, Ben Bostrom and Andrew Pitt have all bee slapped with penalties after infringements with the Corona Extra World Superbike championship rules.

Silverstone Circuit is the venue for round five of the World Superbike Championship this weekend, but it won't be the legendary Formula 1 track that greets Ducati Xerox Team riders James Toseland and R?gis Laconi as they attempt to build on their positive Monza form.

Renegade Koji Honda rider Ben Bostrom is looking forward to attacking the new short circuit at Silverstone with a virtually new spec Fireblade that is hoped will give him much more speed over the undeveloped machine he has been using so far this year.

It was a weekend to forget for the Yamaha Motor France team at the Monza races for the fourth round of the Corona Extra World Superbike championship with a catalogue of incidents.

Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Yukio Kagayama gave himself the best possible birthday present by taking Superpole Saturday at Monza for the fourth round of the Corona Extra Superbike World Championship with a faultless lap of 1min 47.143secs which beat his team mate Troy Corser by just 70

Factory-supported SC Carrachi Ducati Supersport rider Gianluca Nannelli will be riding in both the World Supersport and the World Superbike championship races this weekend at Monza.

Foggy Petronas riders Garry McCoy and Steve Martin both saw their Monza first qualifying efforts obstructed during an incident-packed afternoon session at the Italian circuit.