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Biaggi Impressed By Compact Aprilia RSV4

Max Biaggi happy with Aprilia RSV4 in testing In 2009 Max Biaggi will ride a factory Aprilia RSV4 his third format of WSB machine in three years. He started on a 1000cc -in-line Japanese Suzuki on 2007, then swapped that for a 1200cc Italian Ducati, and now he returns with Italian equipment, but this time on [...]

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Bayliss Wants 2 Million For Rossi Ride Off

WORLD Superbike champion Troy Bayliss has put a price tag of £1 million ($A2.1 million) on a proposed match race against world MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi. Rossi is reportedly keen on the challenge, but Bayliss has been firm in his decision to walk away from motorcycle racing completely. Bayliss retired at the end of this season after [...]

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Marco Simoncelli To Race In 2009 WSBK With Aprilia?

Marco Simoncelli is planning to take part in the first two rounds of the World Superbike Championship next season with Aprilia. The 250cc world champion races a Gilera-badged Aprilia in the world championship. “Aprilia have asked me to run in the first two races of the Superbike championship in 2009, because they care a lot for it,” [...]

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Yamaha Play Down Valentino Rossi V Troy Bayliss WSB scrap

Yamaha has again played down persistent reports linking star rider Valentino Rossi with a sensational one-off World Superbike clash against Troy Bayliss. Ever since Rossi claimed that World Superbikes was the most entertaining form of motorcycle racing at the last race of the MotoGP season in Valencia, the Italian has been linked with a head-to-head against [...]

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Fabrizio Fastest In Testing For Ducati Xerox Team at Kyalami

The Ducati Xerox Team has spent the last three days on track at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in South Africa, participating in the Pirelli tyre test session. On the third and final day both Ducati Xerox factory riders, Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio, continued to make strong progress on board their 1098 F09 machines. In [...]

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Ten Kate Riders Complete Successful Kyalami Test

The HANNspree Ten Kate Honda team this afternoon completed a comprehensive three-day test at the Kyalami circuit in South Africa, where the World Superbike and Supersport championships will race again in May next year. Of the team’s five riders, only 2008 World Supersport champion, Andrew Pitt, visited the circuit during the championships’ last event at Kyalami [...]

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Team Suzuki Alstare In Positive Mood After Kyalami Test

Yukio Kagayama, Max Neukirchner and the Suzuki Alstare team left Kyalami circuit in a positive frame of mind after three days of testing. This was the second test of the all-new GSX-R1000 K9 and a lot of work had to be completed in the three days, but the team used the available time well and [...]

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Alstare On The Pace At Kyalami Test

Team Suzuki Alstare riders Max Neukirchner and Yukio Kagayama finished the second day of the Pirelli Development tyres test in Kyalami, South Africa, with the second and fifth-quickest times respectively. The final day was even hotter than the first and by early afternoon the track temperature had risen to over 50 C [...]

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World Superbikes Return to Imola in 2009

In a meeting with the press at the Bologna Motorshow, the Mayor of Imola Daniele Manca today confirmed the Imola circuit’s sporting activities for the 2009 season, which will see the return of the FIM Superbike World Championship to the Autodromo ‘Enzo and Dino Ferrari’. The date scheduled for the production-based racing championship, which has been [...]

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Suzuki Alstare Begin 2009 Test Preparations

Team Suzuki Alstare has started early preparations for the 2009 World Superbike season with a three-day test at Phillip Island in Australia that ended today. During the test, held mostly in good conditions, Yukio Kagayama and Max Neukirchner started to work with the all-new 2009 GSX-R1000 Suzuki at the demanding circuit and understand the new bike. [...]

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