World Superbikes

Pirelli To Replace Michelin As Official Tire Supplier In MotoGP From 2027

By David Emmett |

Pirell is to take over as single tire supplier for the MotoGP and MotoE class in the MotoGP paddock from 2027. The switch of tire suppliers will take place when MotoGP changes to the new technical regulations featuring 850cc engines, no ride-height and holeshot devices, and much greater restrictions on aerodynamics.

Phillip Island WorldSBK Round Up: Will The Ducati Whitewash Continue?

By Steve English |

There is no better setting for Round 1 of the Superbike season than Phillip Island. With the Bass Strait dominating the horizon it offers a truly unique setting. It also all but guarantees that we’ll have classic battles with the drive to the line, a slipstreaming battle separated by thousands of a second...it was just a shame that Nicolo Bulega didn’t get the memo.

Toprak threatens to walk away from WorldSBK

As ever the WorldSBK paddock is centred around Toprak Razgatlioglu. Last year it was for his stunning championship winning upset. This year it’s because the Turkish star is upset.

Coming to Australia it was clear that BMW would be on the back foot. A late change, mid-January, in the regulations saw them unable to capitalise on their former Super Concession status and upgraded chassis parts. The change in regulations was small but incredibly significant; a manufacturer developing a new bike can only use Super Concessions if they are still eligible. In the past BMW would have been able to continue to use the upgrades with their new homologation.

Augusto Fernandez To Replace Jonathan Rea In Portimão

By David Emmett |

The foot injury which Jonathan Rea suffered in preseason testing at Phillip Island will force him to miss at least the first two rounds of the 2025 WorldSBK season. The Pata Yamaha rider fractured several bones in his left foot, requiring surgery, which he had back at home in Northern Ireland. The recovery period for that injury is such that the Northern Irishman is to miss both the Portimão WorldSBK test on March 14-15, and the second WorldSBK round at the Portuguese circuit on the weekend of March 30th.

Yamaha's newly signed test rider Augusto Fernandez is to substitute for the injured Rea. The young Spaniard, who lost his ride with the Tech3 KTM MotoGP team last year, has been busy testing for Yamaha's MotoGP project, but he will take Rea's place on the Yamaha R1 for both the test and the race at Portimão.

2025 Phillip Island World Superbike Superpole Race Result: Third Sprint Of The Weekend

By Jared Earle |

The first World Superbike sprint race seems like the third after a race split by a pit stop gave us two sprints yesterday. The weather is 21ºC and the track is cooler than yesterday. A headwind into turn one replaces yesterday's tailwind. Perfect conditions make beating Bulega tricky, but everyone has ten laps to try. The top nine grid positions for the last race of the weekend are determined by the results of this race.

2025 Phillip Island World Superbike Race One Result: Get Your Pit Stops Right

By Jared Earle |

The opening World Superbike race would be two ten-lap sprint races glued together with a pit stop as the track is too abrasive for the Pirelli tyres. Pit intervention time, with a maximum of eleven laps allowed on the tyres, is sixty three seconds, with the penalty being five times the time you gained. The weather was a warm 35ºC and a hot track.

2025 Phillip Island World Superbike Superpole Result: Red Flagged Session Condenses The Inevitable

By Jared Earle |

The first World Superbike Superpole session of the year missed Jonathan Rea, being ruled out after a crash in testing last week. Nicolo Bulega, pole position and winner here last year on his first ever Superbike race, has topped all four days of testing and all three practice sessions and was favourite for pole position.

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