Pirelli’s head of motorsport Mario Isola will leave the tire manufacturer in July, handing over duties to Dario Marrafuschi.

It has been a mixed 2024 campaign for Superbike World Championship rookie Sam Lowes. A former Moto2 challenger, Lowes made a calculated off-season move to the 2024 WorldSBK Championship with the Elf Marc VDS Racing Team. In a season punctuated by highs and lows, a massive high side in the...

After a nine-year stint in Moto2, which yielded 10 Grand Prix victories, 26 podium finishes, 19 pole positions and a career-best of third in the world championship, Sam Lowes has migrated over to the 2024 MOTUL FIM Superbike Word Championship for 2024.“I always had a goal to race in World...

This, weekend the Superbike World Championship will set up its big top at the majestic Misano in Italy. Historically, the Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK has ruled the series with an iron fist, team rider Jonathan Rea winning six straight championships and the Kawasaki KHI race department responsible for the same...

Roughly a year ago, the 2020 WorldSBK Championship kicked off at Philip Island in Australia. That weekend, PATA YAMAHA WorldSBK Official Team member Michael van der Mark raced to four-four finishes atop his YZF-R1, and used the opening round scores as a springboard to an eventual fifth in the final...

Michael Van Der Mark was speaking to this writer shortly after placing fourth overall in the 2019 WorldSBK Championship as a member of the PATA YAMAHA WorldSBK Official Team.“Next year we will have a new bike,” offered the Yamaha YZF-R1 pilot and former WorldSSP and European Superstock champion. “Not a...

Third-place finisher in the 2019 World SuperBike Championship, Alex Lowes is trading the blue of Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Team for Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK’s green next season.“I want to try and challenge for the World SuperBike Championship properly and be a proper contender to Johnny Rea,” said Lowes, who hit...

“I want to try challenge for the World SuperBike Championship properly and be a proper contender to Johnny Rea,” answers Alex Lowes when asked about what he’d like to see in a crystal ball. “It looks like Jonathan’s going to win the title again for the fifth time in a...

Two hours removed from winning his ninth race of the 2017 FIM Superbike World Championship, two-time and defending Champion Jonathan Rea was not only in good spirits, but in something of a reflective frame of mind."World Superbike is still close to the heart of the American people," offered the 30...