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By finishing eighth in the second feature race it marked Rea’s best weekend of the season with elaverty.com three top-10 finishes. After an early battle with the Ducati title rivals Bautista and Bulega, Razgatlioglu has now won seven races in a row to take control of the championship. Razgatlioglu’s championship lead over Ducati rider Bulega now stands at 41 points while reigning champion Alvaro Bautista, who finished in fifth, is 55 points off the Turkish rider. Razgatlioglu, the 2021 champion, led from lights to flag to take the second feature race ahead of Nicolo Bulega and an impressive Alex Lowes.

Superbike Championship

Balaton Park Circuit and Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours will also be new additions to the six-event WorldWCR calendar. The 2025 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship calendar has been officially revealed, featuring 12 rounds at some of the most iconic circuits worldwide. The season hosted the inaugural FIM Women’s Motorcycling World Championship held as a support-class at selected European tracks.

There was a breakthrough on Sunday for six-time champion Rea, 37, as he finished third in the Superpole sprint race to collect his first podium for Yamaha. The world’s first ‘Superbike’ was built by brothers Ross and Ralph Hannan in the mid/late 1970s. First ridden successfully in Australia and overseas, including the Suzuka 8 hour and the Bol d’Or 24-hour endurance races, by Graeme Crosby who went on to international success and was eventually inducted into the NZ sports “Hall of Fame”. Jonathan Rea won his third Superbike world title for Kawasaki, by winning the Magny-Cours Race 1. Aprilia rider Max Biaggi clinched his second SBK championship, pipping Kawasaki rider Tom Sykes by just half a point.

European Superstock 600 Championship

Race 2 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca was the start of Colin Edwards’ comeback, he went on to win all 9 remaining races and (aided by a race 2 crash for Bayliss at Assen) Edwards won the championship at the final race of the season at Imola. The final race of the season saw both riders fighting wheel to wheel for the entire race. The British Superbike championship (known to most as “BSB”) is the leading motorcycle racing championship in the United Kingdom. The commercial and television rights have been delegated to MotorSport Vision.1 Ducati, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha all have well supported teams, while Honda has the only HRC supported superbike team outside Japan. Japanese rider Ryuichi Kiyonari won the 2006, 2007 and 2010 titles riding for HM Plant Honda.

  • The Australian Superbike Championship, the premier national Superbike series, is run by Motorcycling Australia.
  • Razgatlioglu’s championship lead over Ducati rider Bulega now stands at 41 points while reigning champion Alvaro Bautista, who finished in fifth, is 55 points off the Turkish rider.
  • The aim of the new championship is to reinvigorate motorcycle road racing in North America and ultimately send its riders to the top-level international championships – MotoGP and World Superbike.
  • Race 2 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca was the start of Colin Edwards’ comeback, he went on to win all 9 remaining races and (aided by a race 2 crash for Bayliss at Assen) Edwards won the championship at the final race of the season at Imola.
  • Australia’s Troy Bayliss won the 2006 and 2008 titles riding for Xerox Ducati and James Toseland, from the UK, was the winner of the 2007 championship riding for Hannspree Ten Kate Honda.

Teams’ championship

Marco Melandri won more races than both Biaggi and Sykes this season but failing to score points in 5 of the last 6 races cost him the title. An Indonesian race was also proposed for the 2008 season, but this was later cancelled by the FIM,5 though it was later introduced in the 2021 season. The following year he again recorded one win, but with four further podiums and a pole position on his way to seventh overall. McPhee made a one-off Moto2 appearance with Petronas Sprinta Racing during the 2021 season. “I had some setbacks as well, crashes as well in the races sometimes, I crashed in the wet in Assen but remounted and managed to finish seventh in the end. The story of the 2014 season was not a straightforward one for Guintoli to navigate, as mistakes in the first part of the season left him 44 points behind Kawasaki’s Tom Sykes with three rounds, six races in the old two-race format, and 150 points remaining.

Australian Superbike Championship

From 1993 to 1999 Carl Fogarty and Ducati dominated, Fogarty won the title a record four times and finished as runner-up twice on factory Ducatis. Troy Corser also won the 1996 title and finished as runner-up in 1995, both times on a Ducati. The championship is regulated by the FIM, the international governing body of motorcycle racing. The 2021 Superbike World Championship (known officially as the 2021 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 34th season of the Superbike World Championship. Meanwhile, Nesbitt remains for a third campaign in BSB having finished his sophomore season 11th overall.