WSBK News

Scott Redding looks to build on a 2020 WorldSBK season where ‘I got to know new circuits, I learned to understand the tyres’, while team-mate Michael Ruben-Rinaldi heads into his first race as a factory rider.

Alex Lowes ‘ready to start racing’ ahead of second World Superbike campaign with Kawasaki.

Alvaro Bautista says physical condition has improved ahead of the 2021 WorldSBK season opener and that, ‘problems completing a full race weekend’ are not a worry.

Jonathan Rea looks ahead to the opening round of 2021 World Superbike championship at Aragon. Six-time world champion could clinch win #100.

In-depth 2021 World Superbike Championship preview ahead of this weekend’s first round of the year at MotorLand Aragon. 

Former World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss has suffered a fractured C4 vertebra in a bicycle crash confirmed by the Australian.

The MOTUL FIM World Superbike Championship will continue to be broadcast live on Eurosport until 2025, after a new long-term contract agreement is announced.

Samuele Cavalieri will get his first full season as a WorldSBK rider underway in just over one week’s time at Aragon. Many of the circuits will be completely new to Cavalieri who's only experience of them is through the PlayStation.

Andrea Locatelli’s time spent at Aragon heads in the right direction after a difficult couple of WorldSBK tests there in April. Belgian rider wants to get racing and says the ‘emotion’ and ‘energy’ will push him more than in testing.

Leon Haslam says HRC team still have ‘areas to explore’ regarding CBR1000RR-R Fireblade, but that ‘consistency’ has taken steps forward ahead of the 2021 WorldSBK campaign.

Alvaro Bautista finishes the final pre-season test for Honda in improved condition compared to Barcelona; ‘I’ve felt much better physically, but I'm still not one hundred percent’, as WorldSBK double header approaches.

Former MotoGP podium finisher Jonas Folger concludes ‘three difficult days’ of testing in Aragon ahead of his rookie WorldSBK season.

Navarra circuit ‘reminds me a lot of the BSB ones’ says Scott Redding, as the British rider and Italian team-mate Michael Ruben-Rinaldi complete their 2021 WorldSBK pre-season testing.

Chaz Davies becomes one of the first to test at the new for 2021 Navarra circuit as he concludes WorldSBK pre-season testing.

Alex Lowes enjoys every one of 104 laps turned around MotorLand Aragon in the final WorldSBK pre-season test of 2021. 

Toprak Razgatlioglu made his return to WorldSBK action this week as part of Pata Yamaha’s final pre-season test in Aragon, following a positive Covid-19 result that kept him sidelined for three weeks. 

Tom Sykes and BMW Motorrad WorldSBK team bring pre-season testing to a close at MotorLand Aragon.

Austrian broadcaster ServusTV will cover the FIM Motul World Superbike championship for two more years across Austria, Germany and Switzerland after it’s confirmed extension. 

Jonathan Rea wraps up his pre-season preparations for the 2021 WorldSBK season by going two tenths faster than his pole position time from 2020.

The 2021 WorldSBK calendar has undergone further updates as Czech Autodrom Most circuit will make its official World Championship debut, while Phillip Island will attempt to return as the 2022 season opener.

The Czech Republic and Slovakia will broadcast all World Superbike races for the next five years following agreement between Dorna WorldSBK Organisation, Nova Sport and Voyo.

Alex Lowes enjoys ‘positive’ Aragon World Superbike test; ‘I think this is the best I have felt since my first ride on the Ninja ZX-10RR’, following shoulder injury earlier this year.

Jonathan Rea completes his and Kawasaki Racing Team’s penultimate WorldSBK pre-season test at MotorLand Aragon, ahead of next month’s season opener.

Superpole record holder in WorldSBK Tom Sykes, shares insight into what makes him so formidable over one lap; including feeling ‘safer on a Superpole lap than a race lap’, as one of the reasons he is able to extract the most performance from any bike.