WSBK News

Carl Fogarty has welcomed the news that Eskil Suter has been appointed as the engine developer for the Petronas race and road bike projects.

Carl Fogarty has officially completed the rider line-up of his new Foggy Petronas Racing team by capturing the coveted signature of former team-mate Troy Corser.

GSE Racing has announced that HM Plant will be its title sponsor for the 2002-2004 Superbike World Championship seasons.

Australia's Troy Corser has agreed to ride for the Foggy Petronas team this year, after lengthy discussions with team boss Carl Fogarty.

The 2001 World Superbike Championship saw Ducati Infostrada's Troy Bayliss complete assent to an Australian motorcycling plateau reserved for names such as Corser, Doohan and Gardner as he became World Champion in his first full season on a bike that continued to outstrip its rivals on almost eve

With both Suzuki and Aprilia and possibly Honda running only one factory bike in the 2002 World Superbike Championship, leading privateer Neil Hodgson looks to have a better chance than ever to secure a dream World Championship aboard his GSE Racing Ducati.

Four-time World Superbike Champion, Carl Fogarty, has swapped two wheels for four and taken delivery of a new, limited edition Jaguar XKR 100 convertible.

Noriyuki Haga has been confirmed as a fully fledged Aprilia rider for the 2002 World Superbike Championship aboard a factory prepared Aprilia RSV Mille run by the FGF Corse operation.

Changes are afoot in preparation for the upcoming new superbike and supersport season, with not only new riders and mechanics but, most notably, new relationships being made on the technical side too.

Team Alstare Suzuki has confirmed that it will continue to contest both the Superbike and Supersport World Championships in 2002 as a Suzuki-supported team.

Carl Fogarty has agreed a deal with Malaysian oil and gas producers Petronas to run the all-new Sauber-developed GP1 engine in next year's World Superbike series.

Petronas, Malaysia's national petroleum corporation, has confirmed that it will race its high-performance GP1 motorcycle engine from the fifth leg of the 2002 World Superbike Championship next year.

Japanese Honda rider Tadayuki Okada, who won six MotoGP grands prix, has retired from racing after a 14 year career.

Next year's WSBK schedule bears close resemblance to the 2001 example, but features the arrival of Silverstone in the UK and an as yet unknown French venue.

Following a meeting held at Imola on September 29, the Superbike Commission, composed of Messrs. Claude Danis (FIM), Paolo Alberto Flammini (SBK International), Takanao Tsubouchi (MSMA) and Giulio Bardi (Team representative), made the following changes to Art.

Troy Corser experienced the highs and lows of racing at Imola yesterday during the last round of the 2001 Superbike world Championship.

Newly crowned 2001 World Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss will not take the start of the second race of the day at Imola after it was discovered that the Australian rider had fractured his right collarbone in his penultimate lap accident with Regis Laconi at the San Marino Grand Prix venue.

Complete results from race two at the 4.390km Dino Ferrari circuit in Imola, round 13 of the 2001 World Superbike Championship.

The scenery may change but the problems remain the same for the factory Benelli World Superbike team as they once again suffered from a lack of power in qualifying at Imola which left Peter Goddard languishing in 23rd on the grid, four seconds slower than the pace setters.

The wild-card and replacing riders who will race in the World Superbike, Supersport and Sidecar World Championship rounds at Imola on September 30th, are the following:

GSE Racing has confirmed that it has agreed a three-year contract with Ducati Corse to compete in the Superbike World Championship, and will field an unchanged line-up next season.

It has not been an entirely happy 2001 World Superbike season for Pierfrancesco Chili and the Alstare Corona Suzuki team but if any circuit could bring the familiar smile back onto the face of WSB's elder statesman it was Assen and sure enough the classic Dutch circuit saw Frankie back on form an

Australian Troy Bayliss wrapped up this year's 2001 World Superbike Championship in emphatic style in Assen on Sunday by becoming the first rider other than Carl Fogarty to score a double victory at the legendary Dutch track, which was in a fickle mood throughout the two races.

Complete results from the first race at the 2.228-mile Oschersleben circuit in Germany, round eleven of the 2001 World Superbike Championship