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Superpole Results from World Superbike at Phillip Island, Australia: Pos. Rider Team Bike Time Diff. 1 Carlos Checa Team Ducati Alstare Ducati Panigale 1199 1'30.234 - 2 Eugene Laverty Aprilia Racing Team Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'30.429 -0.195 3 Michel Fabrizio Red Devils Roma Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'30.581 -0.347 4 Tom
Despite the fact that the World Superbike series kicks off on Sunday, the provisional calendar is still very much in…
Ducati has had its international press launch of the 2013 Ducati Hypermotard in Ronda, Spain, which means we have a bevy of photos to share with you. Dropping its air-cooled dual-spark v-twin motor for an 821cc water-cooled lump, the 2013 Ducati Hypermotard is a truly a brand new model, from the ground up. Getting cross-polinated with some of the design features found in the Ducati Multistrada 1200, the new Hypermotard really is a middleweight option to its bigger-displacement counterpart, though it still retains a presence of its own. Powerful and light, the Ducati Hypermotard continues to be a two-wheeled hooligan machine with enough suspension to soak up the bumps along the way.
It is good to see the AMA Pro Road Racing paddock getting some love this month, the series desperately needs…
It is always interesting to see what motorcycle engineers work on in their spare time. Sometimes its motorcycle related, and sometimes their inspiration goes down a completely different path. Luckily for us, in the case of Bottpower’s David Sánchez, the Spanish engineer’s very limited free time stayed within the two-wheeled realm. A project spanning 11 years, Sánchez started his design with a Honda CBR954RR engine as the centerpiece, and built from there. Employing a Hossack-style trellis for the front-end, and a matching steal trellis chassis (in orange, naturally), Sánchez has picked up the nearly complete project once again, after recently finishing the BOTT XR1 project, and has some renders to show for the final design.
Just a couple ticks off the KTM RC250GP raced in the FIM Moto3 Championship that we saw built in time-lapse last week, the KTM RC250R is perhaps one of the most potent 250cc four-stroke production racers money can buy…and it takes a lot of money to buy one. Only 67 of these machines will be made for the 2013 season (40 for sale, 27 for the Red Bull Rookies Cup), which posed a problem for the KTM. Too big of a production run to be hand-made by racing engineers, and yet too small (and perhaps too important) of a run to be built on one of the four general assembly lines, zie Austrians instead opted for something in between, and built the bikes on the company’s #5 “training” line.
Adopting a liquid-cooled 1170cc boxer engine for its next generation adventure-touring bike, BMW Motorrad is hoping to continue the magic…
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So here’s the good news, after all the uncertainty regarding its media contracts, the 2013 World Superbike Championship will be broadcasted in the United States afterall. The bad news however is that WSBK racing will be on the beIN Sport network. Yeah, we haven’t heard of them either. A network of sporting channels that is owned jointly by Al Jazeera and Time Warner, beIN Sport is best known for covering soccer (that’s football to our non-American readers) matches from the top series in England, France, Italy, and Spain. There’s some handball coverage in their too.