WSBK News

Team Manager at Team HRC, Leon Camier, believes the team’s new riders Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge have made a ‘very good start’ at Honda after completing their first WorldSBK test in Jerez.

Alex Lowes finishes the Jerez WorldSBK test just over a second off team-mate Jonathan Rea despite not being fully fit. 

2021 WorldSBK runner-up Jonathan Rea has completed the final test of the year quickest at Jerez.

New Bonovo action BMW riders Loris Baz and Eugene Laverty complete ‘positive’ three-day Jerez WorldSBK test.

The WorldSBK fall totals for 2021 are in and it’s new Ducati rider Alvaro Bautista who led the way with 12 in 13 rounds.

BMW riders Michael Van Der Mark and Scott Redding have completed their final WorldSBK running of 2021 after taking part in a three-day test at Jerez.

Iker Lecuona will miss today’s final day of WorldSBK testing with his new Honda team after sustaining a left-hand injury.

MOTOCORSA Ducati Racing will have an unchanged one-rider WorldSBK line-up in 2022 after confirming Axel Bassani for a second season.

Ex-Grand Prix racers Iker Lecuona and Xavi Vierge are set for their Honda WorldSBK debuts, while BMW and Kawasaki are also scheduled to take part in a three-day test at Jerez.

2021 British Superbike champion Tarran Mackenzie says moving to WorldSBK in 2023 with Yamaha ‘would be my main goal’. Would be ‘surprised’ if another manufacturer offers a top ride.

Off the back of his maiden British Superbike title, a championship which he will defend next season, Tarran Mackenzie will also take part in three WorldSBK rounds as a wildcard in 2022.

Six-time WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea feels ‘it would have been nice to measure my level compared to MotoGP riders’, as the opportunity to join the grand prix paddock ‘is shut I feel’.

Six-time WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea is looking for improved performance during next week’s Jerez test; ‘We have a few test items to try, but nothing that’s going to completely revolutionise the bike. But it’s small steps’.

Recently retired Chaz Davies could be set to stay in the WorldSBK paddock as part of a rider support role with BMW.

Alvaro Bautista has already made his return to Ducati after taking part in a two-day test in Jerez following the 2021 WorldSBK season finale. But what can we expect from the Spaniard in his second stint with Ducati?

Despite ‘too many mistakes’, Jonathan Rea sums up his 2021 WorldSBK season by saying ‘we did our maximum and I’ve got to be really content’ during an exclusive interview with Crash.net.

Following his split from the Bonovo BMW WorldSBK team, Jonas Folger is considering a World Endurance offer from Ducati for 2022.

Ahead of his move to BMW for the 2022 WorldSBK season, Scott Redding completed his first laps aboard an M 1000 RR road bike during a private Valencia test.

While 2021 WorldSBK champion Toprak Razgatlioglu will ‘for sure’ remain in Superbikes next year, 2023 and beyond remains open if ‘Yamaha wants him in MotoGP’, says Pata Yamaha Team Principal, Paul Denning.

Federico Caricasulo will make the switch from Yamaha to Ducati after agreeing to join Althea Racing for the 2022 WorldSSP season.

Jonathan Rea believes 2021 world champion Toprak Razgatlioglu has less weaknesses than all his previous WorldSBK title rivals; ‘I would say Toprak has less weaknesses than the others and that’s why he won the championship this year’.

Despite a career year with the Evan Bros. Yamaha team in 2021, WorldSSP runner-up Steven Odendaal has split from the team.

Pata Yamaha Team Principal, Paul Denning, believes putting full trust in Toprak Razgatlioglu was key to winning the 2021 WorldSBK title, despite the direction sometimes being ‘not normal’.

In an exclusive interview with Crash.net, six-time WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea spoke at length about ‘motorcycle legend’ Valentino Rossi.