Alvaro Bautista takes third consecutive pole position as red flag end the qualifying early, leaving some of his opposition without a proper lap on qualifying tyre. Championship leader Bautista set personal best lap time of 1:34.370 a minute before the end of qualifying session, sneaking ahead of home hero Michael Van der Mark, who led... Continue Reading →
In today's press conference, which was held at Assen, Dutch squad Ten Kate confirmed their plans for 2019 WSBK campaign. After Dutch team, run by Ronald Ten Kate, was forced to declare bankruptcy after Honda withdrew their support in favour of join operation run by Althea and Moriwaki with factory support for the first time... Continue Reading →
Spanish rider continues his win streak with another very dominant win. Bautista, who started from pole, got off the start the best and retained the lead into turn 1 and quickly built the lead over his closest rivals, winning by 10s at the end of 20 laps long encounter. Jonathan Rea, who could not keep... Continue Reading →
Spaniard makes it five wins from five starts after comfortably winning red flagged Superpole race. It was reigning champion Jonathan Rea who got the best start of the race and was leading into turn 1, but it was Bautista who retook the position by using superior top speed of his Panigale V4. Rea fought back... Continue Reading →
Alvaro Bautista survived close contact with main championship rival Jonathan Rea to win race 1 in Thailand. Spanish Aruba Ducati rider took his fourth race win from four races of the season so far after recovering from a close contact and beating stern challenge from his main rival Jonathan Rea to win by 8s at... Continue Reading →
Outstanding performances by Spaniard mean that he is leading the championship by 13 points ahead of next round in Thailand. Alvaro Bautista produced yet another very impressive win, as he went lights to flag in Race 2 as well to complete hattrick of wins. Getting as much as 18s in the lead, Bautista rolled off... Continue Reading →
Aruba Ducati rider managed to fend off advances of reigning champion Jonathan Rea to win 10 lap sprint. As Superpole race followed qualifying results in determing the grid positions, it were Kawasaki pair of Rea and Haslam who started from first two positions with Bautista starting from third position. It was Jonathan Rea, who managed... Continue Reading →
Spanish Aruba Ducati rider Alvaro Bautista was in the league of his own in race 1 at Phillip Island today to give brand new Ducati V4 R his first win. Alvaro Bautista, who was making his World Superbike debut after 9 years of racing in MotoGP, gave his team and Ducati a lot reasons for... Continue Reading →
Ex MotoGP rider Alvaro Bautista leads the pack, as four different manufacturers occupy top 4 positions at the end of day 1 of last preseason test in Australia. After 3 weeks of resting for World Superbike rider, today marked the day they returned to action with final preseason test starting before racing finally happens at... Continue Reading →
