FORMER DOUBLE Superbike World Champion Colin Edwards may return to race in the US next year, but would prefer to stay in MotoGP.Edwards met with Yamaha US after the Chinese GP, but said that nothing was resolved. “Those guys sponsored me

whole front end of the bike is new to me.“It’d be a different story if I was on my Superbike around here. Trying to learn the bike and the track is a little tricky. I’m not usually this far back. But if we can drop another second, we’re going to be right

THE SILLY season has started exceptionally early, with rumours of 2009 rider deals surfacing, sometimes on the flimsiest of pretexts – such as one linking US Superbike champion Ben Spies with a switch to Ducati, and another putting Colin Edwards

TYRE GIANTS Pirelli and Dunlop will soon be going head-to-head for the right to be the control tyre of the World Superbike Championship. FGSport, the organisers of the World Superbike Championship, have put the control tyre contract up for bid

series that had run out of control. Out of their control in particular.The strongest evidence racing had lost the plot is the very existence of two World Championships. One the traditional GP series, another the Superbikes. The latter couldn't have

sitting around.”Meantime the Team Roberts factory in Banbury, England, was keeping busy with contract work, said Aksland.“We’re working on Superbike stuff, mostly for the CBR1000 – swing-arms, an adjustable steering head that is within the Superbike rules

Olivier Jacque, taming the Kwacker in the wetThe MotoGP four-strokes were supposed to re-open the gates between World Superbikes and GPs, with the former stepping into line as a potential feeder class for the more powerful new prototype strokers

this is about to change? When the big four-strokes take over, two-stroke skills will become redundant. The 990s (still yet to be named at the time of writing) will open a different route to the World Championships, with Superbikes paving the way, and 600

will be prototypes, if only by virtue of having specially made chassis. Some suggest that World Championship status will necessarily be forfeited: the series will have to become an FIM Cup.The form of the expected opposition from World Superbike promoters FG Sport

wrong with Honda?Sponsorship, and consequences, is what. Honda had six quality riders. Three - Gibernau, Tamada and Biaggi - won races. Another came with credentials: double Superbike champ Edwards. Nicky Hayden was fresh off a first season of growing