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WSB Aragon – Chaz Davies wins both, Kawasaki lock out the rest
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Ducati rider Chaz Davies took an amazing double WSB win at MotorLand Aragón – showing his dominance by crossing the line 6.471 seconds clear of the nearest bike on track in Race 2 after another sublime ride. Kawasaki riders Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea completed the podium in Spain after being locked in another head…
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John McGuinness awarded the Segrave Trophy
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The Royal Automobile Club, today, awarded the Segrave Trophy to Isle of Man legend John McGuinness. Acknowledging the Lancashire man’s success, the citation read: “An outstanding contribution to motorcycle road and circuit racing, including setting the outright lap record at the 2015 Isle of Man TT. He is the greatest living exponent of the…
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Number 700! Race 2 in Aragón this weekend marks the 700th race in WorldSBK history
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WorldSBK came to life on the weekend of the 3rd of April, 1988, and exactly 28 years later is set to hit the milestone of 700 races in Race 2 at MotorLand Aragón. To celebrate three decades of the world’s top production motorcycle racing Championship, here’s a look through the landmarks that laid the way…
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WSB Aragon – the stats, facts and figures you need to know for this weekend
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WSB Aragon – the stats, facts and figures you need to know for this weekend. Want to pretend that you’re a WSB expert? Then here’s all you need to know! This is the facts and figures crib sheet that the telly people rely on – and you can have it too. This is how the…
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WSB Preview: Round 3 – MotorLand Aragon this weekend
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MotorLand lies in the Teruel province of Aragón, the crowning glory set in the middle of the dry, arid countryside of the landscape around the city of Alcañiz. Built due to the history of racing in the vicinity, MotorLand is a modern, spectacular and technical track that is often cited by riders as a…
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Casey Stoner: ‘I haven’t been asked to race in MotoGP’
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Awww… that’s real shame if it turns out to remain as the racing status quo, but it looks like former World Champion Casey Stoner is definitely NOT going to racing in the next round of the MotoGP championship. There seemed to be a chance that the Aussie, who is currently on test-riding duties with the…
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MotoGP Qatar – press reaction
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So by now you’ve seen that Jorge Lorenzo won the MotoGP opening round with Yamaha at Qatar, Andrea Dovizioso on the Ducati was second and Honda’s Marc Marquez was third (we’ve put the results at the bottom of this article if you’re interested in times and the full finishing order) – but there’s some interesting…
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WorldSBK: Sykes Strikes Back
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Rea (Kawasaki) in P2, Sykes (Kawasaki) on the top step and Davies (Ducati) in P3 Kawasaki Racing Team’s Tom Sykes took an incredible victory in a three-way fight for the win at Chang International Circuit in Thailand. The Yorkshireman was locked in a battle with teammate and reigning Champion Jonathan Rea and Aruba.it Racing – Ducati’s…
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WSB: Van Der Mark tops Thai Friday
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Dutch Honda rider leads the sprint to Superpole in Buriram. A fastest lap of 1’34.770 saw Honda WorldSBK Team’s Michael Van Der Mark (pictured above) go quickest on the first day of the MOTUL Thai Round at Chang International Circuit in Buriram. Second fastest was Pata Yamaha’s Sylvain Guintoli, followed by Althea BMW rider Jordi Torres…
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WSB in Asia – the facts ahead of this weekend’s round in Thailand
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WorldSBK has a long history of racing in Asia, with more than a tenth of the races in the history of the Championship having taken place in the continent: 70 out of the 696 run to date. Asia also hosted a WorldSBK race weekend in the first season of the Championship in 1988, that beginning…
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