VISORDOWN'S Jamie Whitham was amongst the handful of journalists invited to Portimao circuit, Portugal, to test ride the full gaggle of 2009 World Superbikes. Here are his first thoughts on his day spent thraping WSB exotica around one of the best

STUART EASTON has signed a deal that will keep him with Hydrex Honda in the British Superbikes in 2010.Although the deal has yet to be confirmed by either the rider or the team, Visordown's BSB mole has been assured by a team insider that the deal

GSE Racing, the team that are favourites to win the British Superbike title this year with Shane Byrne on an Airwaves-backed Ducati, are switching factories and will be the OFFICIAL Yamaha squad in British Superbikes in 2009.An official announcement

:Further to the bulletin issued on 19 May 2008. MCRCB has received a communication at 7.00pm this evening from Ducati Corse advising that it would be not be safe for the Ducati 1098R motorcycle to race with a dry weight in excess of 168 kilograms without prior testing

right leg at Mugello in a pre-race practice.Rossi underwent surgery on the broken bone and expects to be racing again within the next few weeks.The Italian completed 26 laps of Misano, clocking a best of 1min 38.2 secsAfter the test Rossi spoke about

SOURCES WITHIN the World Superbike paddock have told Visordown that Aprilia is having more than its fair share of teething troubles with their new RSV4 racebike.It's alleged that the team are struggling with the reliability of their new V4 engine

INVESTIGATIONS INTO the cause of yesterday's sighting lap smash between Suzuki's Sylvian Guintoli and Honda's Josh Brookes have drawn a blank.Visordown's BSB mole reports that Brookes, who appeared to punt Guintoli from behind on the sighting lap

of the Revett Straight.But now the injury, which was scheduled to have healed in time for Oulton, has suffered a knock back.Easton told visordown: "The top of the bone has moved and will probably need re-setting. It's not as bad as it sound though because

FORMER double BSB Champion Gregorio Lavilla has taken a step nearer riding in WSB for the Guandalini racing bike by testing the Ducati in a private session in Misano.Lavilla was due to ride for the Pro-Ride Honda squad in the championship this year

CHRIS STALKER Walker has signed to ride a Yamaha R1 for Rob McElnea in the 2009 British Superbike Championship.Walker spent 2008 racing in the World Supersport Championship for Kawasaki until he jumped ship in time for the Brands Hatch round