WSBK Features

Alex de Angelis is the latest to confirm his plans for the 2017 World Superbike Championship after signing for Team Pedercini Kawasaki.

"I think if we could introduce the engine package from 2014 we would be stronger than we are now" - Tom Sykes.

Althea and Barni confirm their plans for 2016 to bolster the World Superbike Championship grid further.

Sport's Personality of the Year may be celebrating the great and good of British sport in 2015, but this year's contest continues to ignore our two-wheeled achievements...

The 2015 World Superbike Championship begins with the opening round at Phillip Island - browse our gallery to pick your favourite for the year!

From stuttered beginnings in GP racing, to racing across the pond and finding belated glory in Europe, Chaz Davies' route to the top has been far from plain sailing...

As the World Superbike field return to action on Friday after a five week break Crash.net looks at six of the most memorable debuts in the World Superbike series, good or bad.

Tom Sykes wrapped up the 2013 World Superbike Championship with just one race to spare at Jerez on Sunday. Crash.net looks back on six titles that were decided even later.

Kawasaki rider standings after 7 rounds, 14 races

Yamaha rider standings after 7 rounds, 14 races Ben Spies, Yamaha WSB - 2nd Tom Sykes, Yamaha WSB - 7th David Checa, Yamaha GMT 94 - N/C

A press release submitted by Ben Spies' management details an unlikely friendship in the WSBK paddock...

In the run-up to that inaugural Miller Motorsports Park event, here is a look back at the history of World Superbike racing in the United States of America... The Brainerd Years

The big story at the start of the 2007 World Superbike season was the debut of former MotoGP star Max Biaggi who, after a season on the sidelines, was returning to world championship racing with Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra.

Bayliss returned to WSBK in 2006, after three winless seasons in MotoGP, but made a sensational one-off grand prix return at the Valencia season finale, replacing the injured Sete Gibernau. Troy dominated the race and as such became the first rider to have won in WSBK and then MotoGP.

"I'm a happy boy now! This is what I wanted to thank the Superbike championship for the seven years they've given me. I've had a great career here and I'm going to miss everyone," said JT, who will ride for Yamaha Tech 3 in 2008.

As previously reported, an agreement was reached in mid-June to allow Ducati - and any other manufacturer - to race 1200cc twin-cylinders against the 1000cc four-cylinders from next season.

Acting as a stand-in for regular Winston Ten Kate Honda rider Karl Muggeridge, Giovanni Bussei had his first ride on the CBR1000RR in morning practice at Valencia on Friday, before going on to set the 25th fastest time out of 33 entrants in first qualifying.

Following increasing speculation that the World Superbike technical regulations will be changed to give twin-cylinder machinery a 200cc capacity advantage - bringing them up to 1200cc - in the face of growing four-cylinder opposition, WSBK organiser's FGSport have today released the following sta

Fresh from finishing sixth and seventh on his World Superbike debut at Qatar, former MotoGP star Alex Barros made a further leap in performance during day one in Australia - qualifying his Klaffi Honda a provisional second.

PSG-1 Kawasaki's Chris Walker shot to second fastest during the opening free practice session today at Phillip Island - but the Briton was forced to experiment with set-up to try and solve chatter problems in the following qualifying session, leaving him 8th on the provisional grid.

The boys have been rumbled! More and more girls are discovering that female work opportunities in the World Superbike paddock aren't limited to being grid girls, and are now holding their own alongside the guys in more mentally challenging roles.

Deep in the heart of a Superbike engine, as it laps international racing circuits at speeds sometimes in excess of 300kph, two worlds of technology are colliding - but doing so in almost perfect harmony.

He possesses a riding talent that has set international motorcycle racing alight since he burst onto the World Supersport scene in 2001 and won that title two years later.

In his first monthly Crash.net column, newly signed Foggy Petronas rider Steve Martin tells us all how his Oz lifestyle has changed now that he has joned his first ever factory backed racing team for 2005...