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Yamaha out/Benelli in?
Despite the decision by Yamaha to withdraw their factory team from the 2001 World Superbike Championship in order to concentrate development on their upcoming four stroke Grand Prix bike, Italian marque Benelli look set to help fill the gap and add a sixth name to the list of participating manufa
Still no deal for R&D Bieffe as Aoki goes 500.
After a season in 2000 he would very much like to forget, Haruchika Aoki is aiming to re-ignite his career with the man he teamed up with to win his two 125cc titles in 1995 and 1996 in one of the toughest 500cc fields for many years.
RBP appoints new GSE Racing press officer.
GSE Racing's PR and sponsorship agency, RBP, has announced the appointment of Kylie Maebus to the position of press officer for the team with immediate effect.
Laconi signing to signal end for Waldi?
Frenchman Regis Laconi will partner Australian Troy Corser in the factory Aprilia Axo World Superbike Team next year aboard a pair of the ever improving RSV1000 Four-stroke according to leading British Bike weekly Motorcycle News.
GSE's Christmas cracker.
GSE Racing's Neil Hodgson and James Toseland completed a successful test on their factory 996 Ducatis at Valencia over the weekend.
GSE Racing dresses for success in 2001.
GSE Racing's WSBK campaigners, Neil Hodgson and James Toseland, will both be wearing Suomy helmets and sporting completely new helmet designs and graphics next season.
Successful tests for new Alstare pair.
Team Suzuki Alstare riders Pierfrancesco Chili and Stephane Chambon have completed a profitable two-day test at Suzuka, riding the new 2001-spec GSX-R750 Suzuki.
Hodgson's efforts rewarded with Ducati gift.
As a result of his outstanding contribution to this year's British Superbike Championship, GSE Racing's Neil Hodgson was rewarded with a gift of a 996 Biposto Ducati at the recent 2000 BMP Awards Dinner in London.
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.