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Toseland joins Hodgson in GSE world bid.
Rising British star James Toseland will form an all-English partnership with Neil Hodgson when the GSE Ducati squad enters the World Superbike Championship next year.
Yamaha/Haga turn backs on WSBK.
The World Superbike Championship was dealt a double blow on Friday when Yamaha released an official statement announcing their withdrawal from the 2001 World Superbike and World Supersport Championship.
Triple threat for Ducati Corse.
The works Ducati squad will run three bikes next season in an attempt to wrest its crown back from the Castrol Honda outfit.
Edwards finishes 2000 season in style.
Colin Edwards held off a determined challenge from Neil Hodgson and Pier Francesco Chili to take his seventh win of the 2000 season and end his Championship winning year on a high note.
World Superbike Race Two Result: Brands Hatch.
1. Colin Edwards USA Honda 25 laps. 2. Pierfrancesco Chili ITA Suzuki + 1.016secs. 3. Troy Corser AUS Aprilia + 4.766secs. 4. John Reynolds GB Ducati + 6.862secs. 5. Gregorio Lavilla SPA Kawasaki + 15.680secs. 6. Chris Walker GB Suzuki + 15.780secs.
World Superbike Race One Result: Brands Hatch.
1. John Reynolds GB Ducati 25 laps. 2. Troy Bayliss AUS Ducati + 0.458secs. 3. Chris Walker GB Suzuki + 3.556secs. 4. Neil Hodgson GB Ducati + 13.963secs. 5. Juan Borja SPA Ducati + 20.547secs. 6. Akira Yanagawa JAP Kawasaki + 20.554secs.
Haga loses CAS appeal.
Yamaha's Noriyuki Haga will not compete in this weekend's season-ending WSBK races at Brands Hatch after the Court or Arbitration of Sport ruled turned down his appeal against his three week ban and 45 point deduction which stems from the first round of the 2000 season in South Africa.
Hodgson and GSE go WSBK.
Double Y2K race winner Neil Hodgson will finally get his chance to return to the World Superbike series on a permanent basis, after the GSE Ducati team announced that it would graduate next season.
Brands outing to signal WSBK return for Gobert?
The 2000 season may not have yielded all that was expected of it after Anthony Gobert's emotional victory for Bimota at Phillip Island, the firm dropping out of the World Superbike Championship mid-season after several proposed sponsorship deals fell through but despite that set-back the fiery Au
Fogarty announces retirement.
Four times World Superbike Champion Carl Fogarty has announced his retirement from bike racing after failing to recover sufficiently from his arm-breaking accident at Phillip Island this past April.
Willis wins Bol d'Or.
Australia's Mark Willis had a successful diversion to his commitments in his year's GP500 world championship when he won the Bol d'Or 24-hour race at Magny-Cours over the weekend.
Gobert gets Virgin for end of season.
Redundant WSBK star Anthony Gobert will pilot the Virgin Mobile Yamaha in both the British Superbike series, and the second Brands Hatch World round.
Haga strikes back in race two.
With the track dry for virtually the first time this weekend, Noriyuki Haga wowed the packed Assen grandstands with a superlative performance in the final race of the day, just rewards for the thousands of supporters who braved the early morning rain.
Brands Hatch awarded Superbike finale.
Brands Hatch Leisure Group has confirmed that it will be hosting the final round of the FIM Superbike World Championship on the 13-15 October 2000.
Bayliss pips Hodgson in Race One.
With the perennially unlucky James Haydon and Haruchika Aoki being forced to withdraw from the race after the morning warm up and Massimo De Silvestro and Claude Alain Jaggi not being permitted to start due to their painfully slow qualifying times, 32 bikes lined up on a muggy startline for the f
Rider killed in Suzuka marathon.
The Suzuka 8Hrs claimed its first victim in 23 years today, after a Japanese rider was killed in a high-speed crash.
Final clearance allows Foggy to appear at Brands.
In reality it has only been three months but for Carl Fogarty it must have seemed like a lifetime. Foggy has finally been given medical clearance by his doctors to begin training once again, allowing the Blackburn rider to re-build the muscle in his broken left arm.
Haga to continue at Laguna Seca.
In the wake of the TIA's decision to uphold Noriyuki Haga's ban and loss of points following his drugs test failures at Kyalami and Monza, Yamaha have taken their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Brave Chili to race on at Laguna.
Suzuki's Italian war-horse Frankie Chili has vowed to cut into Colin Edwards' points lead at Laguna Seca this weekend despite having a badly broken collarbone and seven pins in his shoulder.
Wild cards gear up for World challenge.
In several rounds of the World Superbike Championship, the local wild card riders are considered nothing more than a nuisance, slow and untidy with a tendency not to get out of the way whilst being lapped. Not so at Laguna Seca.
Haga fails in appeal case.
On Friday afternoon the FIM released a statement saying that after careful consideration, Yamaha's appeal against Noriyuki Haga's one month ban and deduction of his South Africa points, had failed.
Gobert return imminent?
Rumours in the World Superbike paddock at Valencia suggest that Bimota could be returning to the fold in the near future, less than a month after they announced their temporary withdrawal from the championship due to a lack of finance.
WSB Preview - Rounds 15 & 16 : Valencia.
The only experience many of the World Superbike riders will have of the 2.95 mile Valencia track will be the three day test in March in which Honda's Colin Edwards emerged fastest.
Bimota withdraw - temporarily.
The troubled Bimota outfit have been forced to temporarily withdraw from the World Superbike Championship after a deal with Levi's fell through leaving the team with very little sponsorship revenue.