Reigning WorldSBK Best Independent Team BARNI Racing Team will have to face more than a change this year, as they will be bringing the all-new Ducati Panigale V4 R to the field with their new rider 23-year-old Michael Rinaldi. “Showa don’t need an introduction in the motorcycle racing scene, they are one of the best…
The Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team has unveiled in their official 2019 colours of their all-new Ducati Panigale V4 R during a presentation that was held at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center in Ponte San Pietro (Bergamo) in Italy in front of their guests and the media. To lift the covers on their all red…
WorldSBK’s 2-day test comes to an end at Circuito de Jerez Ángel Nieto with reigning World Champion Jonathan Rea back at the top of the charts. The sun shine brightly on the final day of testing at the Spanish circuit of Jerez, where the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship riders were able to continue their…
The Jerez Angel Nieto Circuit once again for the second of a two day test in Southern Spain, where four MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship teams continued to work on their 2019 set-ups. Over 600 laps of the 4.2km circuit were run by the eight riders, and steps were made ahead of what is set to…
Reigning world champion Jonathan Rea of Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT) has put in a strong opening day on track around MotorLand Aragon, ending the first day of winter testing fastest as unofficial times were recorded at the Spanish circuit. But it was Ducati stealing the headlines, with the debut of the V4 R. Beginning 2019…
BMW Motorrad is making a comeback to WorldSBK championship with a Factory team in 2019, following the German company’s unveiling of the new S1000RR during the annual motorcycle show, EICMA in Milan. The return of BMW’s Factory effort will see the all-new 2019 S1000RR superbike developed and prepared by the Munich factory alongside the Shaun Muir…
Seventeen down, one to go. Jonathan Rea of KRT (Kawasaki Racing Team) has won the first race of the Pirelli Qatar Round and matched Doug Polen’s record for the most race victories in a single season, with 17 additional laps still to go tomorrow morning (early Sunday in Malaysia) at the Losail International Circuit. He…
Kawasaki Racing Team’s (KRT) rider, Jonathan Rea has made history once again at the Circuito San Juan Villicum, winning the first ever race of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship on South American soil in authoritative fashion. Aruba.it Racing – Ducati’s Marco Melandri, who secured pole ahead of Rea, had to contend with 2nd place more…
With a nine year relationship coming to an end, Tom Sykes will part ways with Kawasaki at the end of the 2018 season, as Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK announce his departure from the team. Signing with the Japanese manufacturer back in 2010, Sykes spent a season learning and developing the ZX-10R, securing his debut pole…
Jonathan Rea of Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT) has taken his second win of the weekend at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli after a scorcher of a race around the Rimini track. If yesterday was a relatively comfortable affair for the defending champion, on Sunday Rea had to dig deep and get the best out…
Reigning WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea of Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT) won his 60th historical victory today at Brno in Czech Republic by beating Ducati Aruba.it’s Marco Melandri and as well as KRT teammate Tom Sykes. When the FIM Superbike World Championship last graced the flowing hills of the Automotodrom Brno, Rea was a promising 25-year-old…
Photos from WorldSBK.com Kawasaki Racing Team’s (KRT) Jonathan Rea secured his first double wins of the 2018 WorldSBK season after he cruised to victory in Race 2 over 4 seconds adrift from compatriot Chaz Davies of Ducati Aruba.it. The victory also gives the Northern Irishman a record-equaling 59 wins with another Briton, 4-time WorldSBK champion…