ITALIAN RACING legend Pierfrancesco Chili has just been signed up as team manager for the Bologna-based Guandalini Racing team.The squad,which is contesting the 2009 Superbike World Championship season with Aussie, and newly-crowned Superstock Champion Brendan Roberts and Jakub S...

AUSTRALIAN Troy Corser has clocked the fastest time in this afternoon's first qualifying session at Portimao, Portugal, ahead of this weekend's WSB round.The Yamaha-mounted Aussie lapped the new Portuguese circuit in 1:55.791, two seconds quicker

ASSEN BIKE racing fans were treated to two spectacular Superbike races this weekend, as American Ben Spies (Yamaha) and Noriyuki Haga (Ducati Xerox) continued their ding-dong battle for this year's World Superbike crown.Spies took a blistering Race One win in one of the most thri...

TROY BAYLISS ended his glittering WSB career by winning both races at Portimao this weekend. Bayliss, three times World Superbike champion in 2001, 2006 and 2008, clinched the 51st and 52nd Superbike wins of his career, giving the Australian 11 race

SEVERAL WORLD Superbike teams have got to Kyalami, South Africa to take part in a three-day test session.The idea of the test is two-fold; to help develop the evolution tyres that Pirelli is producing for next season and to let the riders get used to the Kyalami circuit which wil...

FORMER AMA Superbike Champion Ben Spies continued his blistering form, setting the fastest time in today's qualifying session at Losail, ahead of the second round of the WSB championship, which takes place this weekend.Spies took his Yamaha YZF-R1

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 in race trim, with the motor 'exp...

1 Carlos Checa Ducati 2452 Max Biaggi Aprilia 1733 Marco Melandri Yamaha 1504 Eugene Laverty Yamaha 1235 Leon Haslam BMW 1066 Leon Camier Aprilia 1017 Michel Fabrizio Suzuki 958 Jonathan Rea Honda 949 Jakub Smrz Ducati 8310 Sylvain Guintoli Ducati 7211 Ayrton Badovini BMW 7212 No...

BMW's new 7000sq metre WSB test facilitySINCE BMW'S announcement last October that it would be entering the WorldSuperbike Championship in 2009 the German company has been busy readyingitself, both on an off track.In just eight months it has

THREE DAYS of official testing have been confirmed for World Superbike and World Supersport at the Portimão circuit in the Algarve region of southern Portugal next January. The tests will take place at the Autodromo do Algarve from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th.The recently-built ci...