points reward in 18th.The battle continued at the front with Lowes leading in the closing stages and within a gasp of a debut victory in his first full-time WSS race, before being slipstreamed by both Scassa and Parkes to the line. The winning margin a

will ride next season.Laverty signed a two-year contract with the Italian manufacturer after an impressive debut WSB season, finishing fourth and scoring two victories with Yamaha.After the test the 25-year-old from Toomebridge gave his first impressions

HERE ARE the first images of Leon Haslam's 2010 World Superbike GSX-R1000 Alstare Suzuki.Haslam, who joins fellow former British Superbike competitor Sylvain Guintoli in next year's official Suzuki WSB squad, impressed at last month's World

STERILGARDA YAMAHA World Superbike 2011 team-mates Marco Melandri and Eugene Laverty have been out on track in testing at Valencia, putting both the 2010 and new 2011 racebike through their paces. The session was Melandri’s first opportunity to ride

satisfied with my first bike. I completed a very fast lap time in the first session, finding a very good pace. The only thing we can do now is rest and wait for the races next weekend“.Byrne for a race win on Sunday, anyone?

twin requires a completely different style to a four, so to jump onto a four and get comfortable so soon is a very good sign. Having known the team from before obviously helped and soon I felt as if I had never been away. "My first impressions

Lincoln's Sam Lowes had an an impressive first outing at Phillip Island finishing day one in fourth place on his Parkalgar Honda. Lowes' performance was in stark contrast to fellow Brit and team-mate, James Ellison. Ellison had a big fall early

MULTIPLE World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss tested a WSB Ducati racer the first time since his retirement from the championship at the end of 2008 this week, amidst rumours the Australian will make a full-time return to the series in 2011

that Checa has lead a series.Despite Ducati pulling their factory effort from the WSB championship the Italian manufacturer have still continued to make an impressive on the series, leaving Phillip Island at the top of the manufacturers' table.For the first

seriously impressed the factory with his outings on the bike at Magny Cours last weekend, getting up to 11th in the first race and 9th in the second race before the bike broke down. Camier had never even sat on the bike or even seen the French track before