WSBK News

Full results from race one, of the World Superbike Championship at Sugo, Japan. Sugo: WSBK Race 1 results.

Team Caracchi NCR Nortel Networks rider Regis Laconi scooped the first pole position of his world championship career today [Saturday] at Sugo, Japan.

After yesterday's trying weather conditions, the final day of qualifying saw a big improvement and it was virtually dry in both sessions today.

Carl Fogarty is confident that James Haydon is set to prove his abilities to the Superbike world after suffering a difficult return to the WSBK stage, having previously ridden as a privateer in the 1997 series.

Last weekend at Phillip Island, it was announced that Peter Ingley had lost his position as riders representative for the World Superbike and Supersport championships.

James Toseland made up for his first race disappointment by narrowly beating his team-mate Chris Walker across the line at the end of the second race at Phillip Island.

The first race at the second round of the Superbike World Championship produced mixed fortunes for the HM Plant Ducati team and riders Chris Walker and James Toseland.

Aussie Troy Corser will be on home territory this weekend at Phillip Island, and here the man who holds both the Superpole and race lap records from 1999, talks us through a flying lap of the coastal circuit - which he will attack this weekend on his Foggy Petronas FP1.

The World Superbike Championship moves to the other side of the globe this weekend for the second round at Phillip Island, Australia with HM Plant Ducati riders Chris Walker and James Toseland eager to build on their joint best result - a third - taken at the first round in Valencia.

Two time world 500cc motorcycle champion Barry Sheene will be remembered during a special two-wheel tribute at this weekend's World Superbike round at Phillip Island.

"Second place - It were all right weren't it?" - so said reigning Sidecar World Champion Steve Abbott in his usual understated fashion.

Carl Fogarty made a surprise return to the track at Malaysia yesterday, when he performed demonstration laps on the FP1 Superbike - just one hour before the start of the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix [pictured].

James Haydon has decided to set up his new home base in the Pyrenees principality of Andorra. The Foggy Petronas pilot will join a host of motorcycling stars when he moves to the tax haven in the next few weeks.

A rather amusing story has emerged from the race debut of the Foggy Petronas FP1 at Valencia last weekend - or more precisely, it's spectacular habit of throwing flames a foot or more from the under seat exhausts when the throttle's shut off.

Foggy Petronas Racing's Troy Corser and long-time girlfriend, Sam Davies, have made their engagement official and also revealed that they are expecting their first child.

A crash in the first race wasn't enough to dampen a great start for Troy Corser and the new Foggy Petronas FP1 at Valencia yesterday, as the only former World Champion on the grid took a battling seventh in his second outing.

The top ten WSS riders World Championship standings after round one at Valencia, Spain.

Factory Ducati rider Neil Hodgson scored a perfect double race win today at the opening rounds of the World Superbike Championship, at Valencia, Spain.

Ruben Xaus was unable to match his team-mate Neil Hodgson in Superpole this afternoon, but while that wasn;t much of a shock given the Brit's pace all weekend, Xaus also lost out to James Toseland.

In a meeting held yesterday at Valencia, the Superbike Commission, unanimously approved the following proposal concerning the restrictors for 1000cc Superbike machines, for the 2004 season. The engines must be fitted with restrictors as follows:

Katsuaki Fujiwara held on to pole position for tomorrow's opening round of the 2003 World Supersport championship, despite not improving on his best lap from yesterday.

Troy Corser was straight on the pace during Foggy Petronas Racing's first day of competitive action at the Valencia World Superbike season opener.

Hosting its fourth World Superbike/Supersport event, Valencia's modern and spectator-friendly facilities provide an ideal venue for the first round of the 2003 season.

Ducati's 'third' chapter in the World Superbike Championship gets underway with the new 999, officially launched today in Milan.