I hope this comes off!
I can see Greg Lavilla in at No 2 to the Emperor.
http://www.crash.net/motorsport/wsbk...gi_to_gse.html
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I hope this comes off!
I can see Greg Lavilla in at No 2 to the Emperor.
http://www.crash.net/motorsport/wsbk...gi_to_gse.html
Not on a BMW but on a Aprilia!!
http://static.blogo.it/motoblog/foto...4_cheste_1.jpg
http://static.blogo.it/motoblog/foto...4_cheste_2.jpg
http://static.blogo.it/motoblog/foto...4_cheste_3.jpg
http://static.blogo.it/motoblog/foto...4_cheste_4.jpg
http://static.blogo.it/motoblog/foto...4_cheste_5.jpg
The Hoff : Home alone in Valencia
I dont know of he has contact to BMW but Aprilia is wonderful , too
That cant be real can it!?!?!
Kenan on the hunt for a sponsor, talking up his chances and trash talking MotoGP.(Of cause it could be as simple as the language barrier)
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/de...ay&link=125174
'He noted that he won eight out of the 13 races in the championship, becoming the rider with the highest number of wins at the same championship. “I raced the last leg of the World Supersport Motorbike Championship at France’s Magny-Cours racecourse. I became the rider with the highest number of wins in a single season in the world."
'Same championship' may refer to WSS? I think Charpentier may have won more than 8 races in a single season?
Plenty of other riders have - Doohan, Rossi, Stoner, Lorenzo come to mind.
yes he is talking about WSS and no Charpentier did not win 8 races in a season he won 6 races both times. Muggeridge however won 7 races from a 10 races season in 04Quote:
Originally Posted by The Phantom
worldsbk.com reports that Team Hannspree Honda Althea Confirmed Gianluca Nannelli for WSS. Craig Jones is expected to ride alongside Nannelli with an official announcement expected shortly.
they also say that the team has lined up just one rider, Roberto Rolfo, for the World Superbike Championship.
http://www.worldsbk.com/dnews.php?newsid=2021&lang=eng
Hannspree Honda Althea? isnt Althea a sponsor? :confused: also is Rolfo confirmed? I couldn't find it anywhere
Biaggi signs for Sterilgarda Ducati
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2007/Oct/071030a.htm
Biaggi vs Bayliss on the same bike, this is going to be good :D
Well no-one saw that coming! Hopefully the Sterilgarda is reliable - it certainly is fast - and maybe it's a stepping stone back to MotoGP with Ducati in 2009?
Biaggi will never be in MotoGP, ever again...
Is there any factory support behind Sterilgarda? If not Biaggi is going to be severely handicapped.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisS
good for whom?Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisS
Seeing constant performance of Xaus it's likely a factory supported team.
There's no way Biaggi would have signed if it wasn't a full factory spec bike, given his love for equal equipment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mach24
Xaus was riding a factory supported year-old 999 this season, they will probably have factory supported 1098s next season though probably not exactly the same as the factory bikes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mach24
An interesting article by Dennis Noyes published before Biaggi's signing became official, he says its possible that Sterilgarda could also have Xerox sponsorship
http://www.speedtv.com/articles/worl.../41274/?page=1
Of cause unless he had NO other options!Quote:
Originally Posted by ArmchairBikeFan
Hmmm. Sitting in one of his many mansions counting his millions of dollars would probably be an option. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mach24
Yeah he is not like mostly of us, the worse option is still better than NO. :)
WSS: Aitchison and Clementi Line Up for Triumph Italia BE1 Racing
Triumph Italia BE1 Racing have secured the services of Mark Aitchison, one of the most promising young riders on the international scene, for the 2008 World Supersport season. Aitchison was runner up in the 2006 Australian Supersport Championship before moving to Superstock in 2007, where he finished fifth.
Mark will compete alongside expert Ivan Clementi, who returns to World Supersport after a season riding the Triumph Italia BE1 Daytona 675 in the Italian championship, finishing with a second place in the final race of the season.
from racergp:-
"A telephone call received a few minutes ago with his Salvatore Giorlandino, team manager of Team Honda Althea in Superbike and Supersport, I confirmed the final formation of his team in the World Supersport.
Alongside Gianluca Nannelli will be the English Tommy Hill and not Craig Jones as a first time seemed, Hill other young pilot from BSB who played with the Yamaha R1 Team Virgin Yamaha UK and some appearances in the World Supersport Yamaha Germany, run in stable plant in World Supersport with the formation Roman looks one of the most aggressive.
The agreement reached a few minutes ago at Rome where Salvatore Giorlandino met with the English pilot, obviously happy the agreement, Giorlandino now as he himself confirmed to me over the phone start is now preparing the team for the first tests in order to be ready for what probably will be one of the issues most competitive of the World Supersport."
Wonder what that means for Craig Jones? Stobart Honda?
The rumours are that Jones is with a different Honda team in WSS, with more HRC backing.
Yer im thinking Paul Bird's new WSBK effort, i.e Stobart Honda ;) Also, Althea will have a fair amount of backing from HRC, theyre going to be sponsored by Hanspree (same as Ten Kate) ...
Quote:
Originally Posted by tha_jackal
I have just read that the legendary Chris Stalker Walker has signed for GIL Kawasaki Team for 2008.....
Can you imagine Hill, Jones & Walker all scrapping it out in the axe murderer class??? It's going to be awesome :eek:
Johnny Rea tooQuote:
Originally Posted by works-meister
The FIM released an update of the 2008 provisional Superbike calendar.
The 2 tba rounds are now Nürburgring (Germany) on June 15, and Sentul
(Indonesia) on October 12.
February 23 Qatar Doha/Losail
March 2 Australia Phillip Island
April 6 Spain Valencia
April 27 Netherlands Assen
May 11 Italy Monza**
June 1 United States Salt Lake City*
June15 Germany Nurburgring
June 29 San Marino Misano
July 20 Czech Republic Brno
August 3 Great Britain Brands Hatch
September 7 Europe Donington Park
September 21 Italy Vallelunga
October 5 France Magny-Cours
October 12 Indonesia Sentul**
November 2 Portugal Portimão
I hear Tamada San had is first ride on the 08' PSG-1 Kawasaki.
There is lots of talk of extra power and confidence from the Factory supported squad.
Lets not forget, talk is cheap!
about the calendar, rather than Indonesia they should have a round at Japan. all 4 Japanese manufacturers have increased their involvement since 2004 when the championship left Japan. There are at least 4 Japanese riders all 4 riding factory bikes for different manufacturers. I think a Japanese round is a must especially if they could get Suzuka now that it has also lost F1.
Agreed that they should have a Japanese round again, but I'm rather looking forward to seeing Sentul.
In fact, the calendar on the whole is looking rather interesting with the two new venues and also an event at the Nurburgring, which will probably work rather better for bikes than it does for cars.
The calendar looks fine.
Probably the judgment is not where the bikes were originally produced in to determine the country was supposed to hold a round of races, but how good potency of a country has to absorb their product.
Although new manufacturers from either of China, Korea, or India has intensified to muscle in on Indonesia, the fanaticism over Japanese bike seems difficult to alter.
Currently the three of four manufacturers of japanese bikes hold an almost equal marketshare in Indonesia the most aggressive of which was Yamaha that has demand more than their annual capacity. They have said an apology to those whose order they cannot fulfill in 2007 and promised to increase their capacity for 2008.
just a piece of food for thought.
Go Roby!!! ;) ;) ;)
Rolfo that is in case some of you don't know!! :p :
Honestly I thought that the 44 tells us about age. ;)
Quote:
Originally Posted by leopardsleeping
long long ago!!! ;)
I was wrong again, thought it's just one or two years ago ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Roby44
How I wish!! :p :p :pQuote:
Originally Posted by leopardsleeping
Looking like a good schedule for 2008 with a number of additions to the calendar.
Had a look at some of the tracks but couldn't find anything on Portugal Portimão. Is this a new track or an old track waiting to be redeveloped?
Any one know where i might find anything, tried looking on http://www.etracksonline.co.uk which usually has info on most tracks but couldn't anything.
brand new track in fact contraction is set to finish in October 2008 just a month before the sbk round. It's proper name is "Autódromo Internacional do Algarve". Its Website is under construction and I couldn't find a track map anywhere
Sounds like a dicey arrangement to me. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this one fall over and be dropped from the schedule til 09.
Hannspree Stiggy Motorsport.
http://www.stiggy.com
Freaking exciting for Brookesy and a real coup for Johan to gain that kind of backing :up: .. Hanspree must have a whole lot of moolah, sponsoring the entire WSBK championship and many teams too, are they made of money? hope they can deal with all the added commitment..Quote:
Originally Posted by axxexs
The gains for Hannspree must be huge to up their involvement so much. They now sponsor the championship 5 Ten Kate bikes, 3 Althea bikes and 2 Stiggy bikes (unless I'm mistaken. Did they leave Ten Kate to sponsor the other teams?)Quote:
Originally Posted by tha_jackal
This could offer an interesting inside in motorcycle sponsorship. last year they backed Honda in MotoGP, SBK/SS and MX. I dont know about MX but I bet the cost of the minor Gresini sponsorship was about the same as title sponsorship for the Ten Kate team. Though much less popular it could be that value for money is better in SBK than MotoGP