SBK championship

[JawsJaws]

Haga lose by two point

world title gone liao

[geekster]

Haga always no luck but no doubt he's the best and most entertaining rider in the series. Best series since the year Colin Edwards beat Bayliss on the last race of the season to win the championship. Neway this year Yamaha won constructor's title. Shows the prowess of their bikes. But I think nex year Ducati will make a comeback with their 1098 (unfair!).....

[ambasnakeman]

haga and corser faced problems with r1 in early parts of the season. remember, new spec machine. cbr1000 was upgraded spec from last year.

 

its towards, later part of season, where haga and corser picked up.

[lyhalvin]

Haga always no luck but no doubt he's the best and most entertaining rider in the series. Best series since the year Colin Edwards beat Bayliss on the last race of the season to win the championship. Neway this year Yamaha won constructor's title. Shows the prowess of their bikes. But I think nex year Ducati will make a comeback with their 1098 (unfair!).....

 

 

hmmm ...i agree the part on haga...but i esp favour kagayama...and the both are best buds...how cool...

 

if i am not wrong ...the ducati not really 1098 but 1098 with 1200cc

[ambasnakeman]

yuh, race spec is 1200cc...its a v twin, not a v 4 right?

 

torquey but will lack hp

[gmaxrace]

Correct V-TWIN the 1098R will be a 1200cc.

 

Cheers

[NoLogicOne]

True, but however, it was reported that it will be 1098S that will be raced, not the 1098R for WSBK next yr. There's six 1098S racing in the World Superstock series this year already.

[ambasnakeman]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/203555/images/DSCF2956-1.JPG

 

James Haydon, Nicky's bro firing the Kawa in BSB

[ambasnakeman]

but WSB rules allowed a 1200cc Vtwin to be placed in the same class as a 1000cc Inline or V4.

[NoLogicOne]

Ya....the 1098 F08, has a higher minimum weight, and has to run with air restrictors according to the FIM rules for the 1200 Twins. Hope to see more brands like KTM, MV, BMW and even Buell to join the WSBK.

[lyhalvin]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/203555/images/DSCF2956-1.JPG

 

James Haydon, Nicky's bro firing the Kawa in BSB

 

bro... this guy not nicky brother lei...

he is a englishman... james haydon... very ballsy rider...

used to ride in BSB, dun koe bout now....

[lyhalvin]

Ya....the 1098 F08, has a higher minimum weight, and has to run with air restrictors according to the FIM rules for the 1200 Twins. Hope to see more brands like KTM, MV, BMW and even Buell to join the WSBK.

 

 

read some where that in BSB, the ducati GSE team is pulling out... so their riders leon haslam and lavilla dun go where next yr.

reason y they pull out is becos, they claim that the restrictions and rules on the twins is that they cannot use race pistons as to the fours. as the got 200 cc advantage.

know anything more bout that?

[NoLogicOne]

Hmm, dunno much about BSB Alvin....though I believed next yr, AMA is still gonna not be a at all Ducati for the Superbike series. I read on Troy Bayliss's website that the 1098 F08 he is racing, has power similar to the 999 F07. How true is that, or whether he is sandbagging, no one knows. But for sure the Ducati Corse Team is very serious about the 1098 F08 because they campaigned 2 1098S in the WSBK Superstock series, and 2 more 1098s each from 2 other teams. So serious is Ducati Factory that they drafted 2006 WSBK Ducati Corse Supersports riders (both of them) to race the 1098S, leaving only a lone 749R in the WSBK Supersports.

 

Troy is now testing and developing the 1098 F08 with the 2 other Corse riders who had raced for the whole WSBK Superstock season.

 

ps: I already no longer a Duc owner Sold the bike and now I'm in usa.

[NoLogicOne]

Found something interesting about Max Biaggi, GSE Ducati on SpeedTV.

 

Link: http://www.speedtv.com/articles/moto/worldsuperbike/41197/

 

UPDATE: WSBK: Last Minute Problems Halt Biaggi-GSE Deal

Written by: Dennis Noyes Borrego Springs, CA – 10/24/2007

 

Word from Ducati Corse is that the plans to put Max Biaggi on a works-supported Ducati with the GSE squad have been abandoned. The Italian source of the original story linking Biaggi to the GSE team of Great Britain says that the problem is due to a conflict of interest that would make it impossible for Darrell Healey, owner of the GSE team, to field a team in opposition to the factory team of Troy Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio. Healey is the personal manager of Troy Bayliss.

 

Efforts are now being made to place Biaggi in the Sterilgarda Ducati team owned by Marco Borciani. At present the Borciani team has signed Spaniard Rubén Xaus who will have a factory supported Ducati 1098R.

 

Further developments are expected during the next 24 hours.

 

The following is the original story posted prior to the last-minute halt to what would have been a blockbuster shakeup in both the World Superbike and British Superbike championships:

SpeedTV.com has learned from reliable Italian sources that Max Biaggi, 36, will return to the World Superbike Championship in 2008 riding a works-supported Ducati for the British GSE Ducati team.

 

The GSE Airwaves team announced on October 15th that it was pulling out of the British Superbike Championship because the new BSB technical regulations will not allow Ducati to change the pistons of the 1098R (expected to displace 1198cc). GSE team owner Darrell Healey (who is also the personal manager of two times World SBK Champion Troy Bayliss) was told by the Ducati factory that the bike could only be raced with the replacement pistons as allowed under more permissive World Superbike regulations.

 

When Honda HRC told Fausto Gresini that they did not support his intention to sign Biaggi to ride for the Italian team on an RC212V in MotoGP, conversations between Ducati Corse, GSE, and Max Biaggi were initiated by World Superbike promoters FGSport.

 

No other details are available at this time, but Biaggi has agreed to ride for GSE. Ducati Corse will supply the British-based team with two factory machines with the same Magneti Marelli electronics supplied to the works Ducati Xerox team of Troy Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio.

 

Biaggi, a four times World 250 champion, has scored a total of 45 wins at the world championship level, 29 in 250, 13 in 500/MotoGP, and three in his first season of WSBK. The Roman has made 128 podium appearances, and, in addition to the four 250 titles, he has finished runner-up three times in 500/MotoGP, third three times in 500/MotoGP, and was third in his first year in SBK.

 

Biaggi made the adjustment from MotoGP to World Superbike in 2007, winning three races and making a championship-leading 17 podium appearances for the Alstare Corona Extra Suzuki team. Despite the successful series debut, Biaggi and team owner Francis Batta were unable to reach an agreement for 2008.

 

Biaggi left the HRC Repsol Honda team at the end of the 2005 season and HRC then refused to supply the Camel Honda Pons team with machines for Biaggi in 2006. As a result Camel moved their sponsorship to the Yamaha factory team and Team Pons, one of the most successful private teams in Grand Prix history, was forced to retire because without the Italian superstar the team was unable to find a major sponsor.

 

Biaggi had many offers from MotoGP teams for 2006, but for one reason or another (probably because the other Japanese factories joined Honda in boycotting the rider who was openly critical of HRC) none of the MotoGP teams were able to obtain bikes for the Italian.

 

Biaggi’s teammate may be Leon Camier, 21, who broke his femur and pelvis in a crash (link: http://www.singaporebikes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155380) at Cadwell Park toward the end of the season. In spite of missing the final six races of the season, Camier finished eighth in his rookie BSB Superbike season.

 

The two riders who took the Airwaves Ducati team to third and fourth in this year’s BSB, Leon Haslam and Gregorio Lavilla, are currently without teams. Haslam is expected to join the HM Plant Honda team for the British series, while Lavilla is talking to the PSG-1 Kawasaki team in World Superbike and with undisclosed teams in the BSB.

 

At present the top seven World Superbike teams are complete:

 

Ten Kate Honda: Carlos Checa and Ryuichi Kiyonari

Santander Yamaha: Noriyuki Haga and Troy Corser

Alstare Suzuki: Yukio Kagayama, Fonsi Nieto and Max Neukirchner

Ducati Xerox: Troy Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio

GSE Ducati: Max Biaggi and, probably, Leon Camier

Sterilgarda Ducati: Rubén Xaus and, possibly, Lorenzo Lanzi

PSG-1 Kawasaki: Regis Laconi and a second rider to be confirmed, possibly Alex Barros, unless the Brazilian retires.

[geekster]

Btw BMW is entering world SBK in 2008 or 2009?