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World Supersport: Booth-Amos confirmed
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Tom Booth-Amos will compete for Motozoo Racing in the 2023 World Championship Supersport season. After a great 2022 finale, with Booth-Amos riding Motozoo’s Kawasaki Ninja at the last three rounds of the season – and achieving an eighth place finish in Australia at Phillip Island – the Italian team and English rider will join forces…
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Return of the screamer
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The VJMC’s Steve Cooper remembers… If the 1996 season had been anything it had been prophetic and 1997’s was going to be the true validation of HRC’s relentless pursuit of Grand Prix domination. The top five places were all Honda’s with two more inside the top 10. Neither Yamaha nor Suzuki had anything or anyone…
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Minibike Mayhem
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Training on minibikes seems to be more popular than ever right now, but what’s the hook? And how do you get stuck in?
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Yamaha Confirms Pata Partnership for Seventh WorldSBK Campaign
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Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to confirm that Pata Snack will extend their partnership for a seventh consecutive FIM Superbike World Championship season, after signing a new one-year contract, returning as title sponsors for the Yamaha WorldSBK Official Team while their logo will once again feature on Yamaha’s various WorldSBK and supporting class bikes. Pata…
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Bradley Ray to get a chance at World Superbikes
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Yamaha Motor Europe has announced that British Superbike Champion Bradley Ray will join the Superbike World Championship grid in 2023, racing a Yamaha R1 during the European rounds for the Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team. After a stellar title-winning BSB season that included nine wins and 23 podiums, Ray will now have the opportunity to show…
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Tangerine Dream
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More power, less weight, upgraded electronics … and the first 30 buyers get to play with it on track in Valencia too. The Austrian factory’s Moto2-inspired track bike is back for 2023, with another 200 models going into production. Revealed last year, the first generation RC 8C (which was inspired by KTM’s now defunct Moto2…
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KRT riders aiming for big finish as WSBK curtain comes down
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The final round of the 2022 FIM Superbike World Championship will take place at the Phillip Island circuit in Australia between 18-20 November, with Kawasaki riders Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes looking to end the season on a high. At the previous round in Indonesia the world championship was decided in favour of Alvaro Bautista…
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Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK Beat the Heat in Tropical Indonesian Free Practice
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Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK rider Toprak Razgatlıoğlu topped Free Practice 1 and finished second in the overall standings, with teammate Andrea Locatelli in P7 on the opening day of the penultimate round of the 2022 FIM Superbike World Championship in Indonesia today. With a brand new surface at Mandalika International Street Circuit, the riders…
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Four-time British Champion Keith Farmer has died
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All at MoreBikes are sad to learn of the sudden death of four-time British champion Keith Farmer. Clogher, County Tyrone born Mr Farmer, 35, now residing in Cumbria, passed away at 0145 this morning surrounded by his family. He had officially retired this year after a glowing career – winning the Superstock 600 title in…
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2001: Rossi ruffles feathers in the final 500cc year
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VJMC’s Steve Cooper looks back..The 2001 season might have marked the coming to an end of the 500cc era, but it always was going to go out with a bang. Honda’s sullen 2000 was forgotten as the motorcycle giant went for it big time. There were some seven riders on the fearsome NSR500 and another…
