Posts Tagged ‘WSBK’
The World Superbike circus comes to town
May 19th, 2010 
Steve Kyalami once again played host to World Superbikes but unfortunately this is the last time we are likely to see the series in South Africa. Political wrangling has seen the Gauteng government change and the new incumbents immediately cancelled the five-year contract. Cynics believe that this smacks of racism as motorcycle racing is not seen [...]
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Tags: Kyalami, Sheridan Moais, World Superbilke, WSBK 
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January 15th, 2010 Steve With the New World Supebike season kicking off at the end of February I think we are in for a feast of 2-wheel racing. We have several new riders and the team structures have changed. And then of course we have lost the talent of Ben Spies to Moto GP. The biggest change for me [...]
Steve’s Motorcycle Racing Blog
November 10th, 2009 Steve We’ll the Moto GP season has ended and we have seen the 250 2-strokes for the last time. How sad is that? Of course the ozone friendlies have forced the hand of Dorna, the governing body of Moto GP. We have been brainwashed into believing that 2-stroke engines do untold harm to the environment because, [...]
Steve’s Motorcycle racing blog
October 6th, 2009 Steve We’ll it seems that the silly season is almost over, there are still some rides up for grabs but most of the factory teams have selected their riders. It is of course old news now but Ben Spies has decided to go to Tech 3 in Moto GP. I don’t know that that is such [...]
Steve’s Motorcycle Racing Blog
September 15th, 2009 Steve Steve’s Motorcycle Racing Blog How wrong could I have been in my last post? Here I was predicting that Haydon wouldn’t be on the Ducati next year and then he goes and puts in the most spectacular qualifying performance and probably would have translated that into a race result had he not been knocked off [...]
Steve’s motorcycle racing blog
August 26th, 2009 Steve Well, we have reached what is commonly known as the silly season where contracts are up for renewal. So of course there are several predictions as we all guess where everyone is going. Let me stick my neck out and make a few of my speculations. Jorge Lorenzo has signed for another year at Yamaha, [...]
News Feature: Local Hero wows Kyalami
August 10th, 2009 Russell Sheridan Morias in World Superbike at Kyalami Sheridan Morais is as well as competing in the National Superbike championship, also running a ZX6 Kawasaki in this year’s National Supersport championship. It seemed only natural that his father and tuning guru Ricky would prepare a bike for the World Supersport round at Kyalami. There was a [...]
