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I MORAV OF BRN E L Superbike and he won at his 2nd event. He has since T T BA recovered from a mid-season dip to be battling out with IN THE

ack in the 2nd century, Moravia was the northernmost outpost of the Roman Empire in mainland Europe. It was under the command of Marcus Aurelius, one the greatest of all Emperors of the Roman dynasty, and a fabled philosopher to boot. Almost two millennia on, another Roman Emperor has laid siege on the region’s capital, but in an altogether more benign way. The now 40-year-old Max Biaggi, a real thinking man’s gladiatorial rider if ever there was one, has won no less than 11 World Championship races at Brno, a track that he obviously resonates with, and 4 of those victories have been in his tenure as a Superbike legionnaire.

This time around, though, it was not easy for Max who has struggled all year to get his fleet Aprilia RSV4 up to racewinning pace. 12 podiums out of 16 races is no mean feat in anyone’s Superbike language but it is just that Carlos Checa has 13 of them, and more importantly 8 wins to Biaggi’s 2.

Come Superpole in the Czech Republic, though, and Max was ready for the fight and, on a track that all seemed to think was slipperier than 2010, put down two laps fleet enough to have secured pole position. Alongside him on the grid was his Italian nemesis Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike Team), the equally compact former 250 GP World Champion. It has taken no time at all for the Ravenna rider to get used to

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Max both on the track and in the champagne-spraying stakes at the end – which does get rather heated. There is certainly no love lost between them after Max’s face-slapping episode at Donington, but on track the pair fight hard and scrupulously fair, and with all the scalpel-sharp precision expected of a pair of quarter-litre old hands.

The riders are well matched and their bikes are, too, with Max’s vee-four having the initial edge over the cross-plane Yamaha out of corners, and the mighty R1 displaying a hint more top end. But come the end of the Brno day, the two Italians shared the Czech winners’ cheques with Checa a way back in 3rd each time. The Championship leader’s Althea Ducati was a little shy on top speed – as was expected at Brno – to the other two, but if he had not fallen in Race One at Aragón, the same 3 riders would have filled the podium 4 races in a row, and that should be worrying for the rest. Carlo’s lead has been cut back a little, but he still commands the SBK amphitheatre.

In the next 3 places in both races it was the same combatants.

Alstare Suzuki’s Michel Fabrizio, another Roman warrior, loves Brno, too (remember his exploits there on the lacklustre DFX Honda?), and he took a fine brace of 4th places from Yamaha’s

LEFT TO RIGHT: 7 CARLOS CHECA 66 TOM SYKES, 96 JAKUB SMRZ 84 MICHEL FABRIZIO, 121 MAXIME BERGER, 91 LEON HASLAM PODIUM: MARCO MELANDRI, MAX BIAGGI, CARLOS CHECA

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33MARCO MELANDRI YAMAHA WORLD SUPERBIKE TEAM

1MAX BIAGGI – WORLD CHAMPION APRILIA RSV4 FACTORY

Eugene Laverty who was disappointed with a pair of 5th place finishes. But, Eugene, this is your first year out of Supersport: don’t worry! And it was Ayrton Badovini on the BMW Italia machine who netted a couple of excellent 6ths. Once again, the main BMW squad looked on as the satellite team in the increasingly capable hands of the slight figure of ‘Bado’ brought the first S 1000 RR home.

And talking of satellite success, the happy band of Pedercini Kawasaki had 3 points finishes at Brno including Roby Rolfo and Mark Aitchison sweeping home 11th and 12th in Race Two, ahead of the faststarting works bike of Tom Sykes which again ran into tyre issues. But in both encounters, Spanish star-to-bevery-soon Joan Lascorz got into the top 10 from a lowly 19th on the grid on his Paul Bird-run ZX–10R.

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33MARCO MELANDRI YAMAHA WORLD SUPERBIKE TEAM

17 JOAN LASCORZ KAWASAKI RACING TEAM

Take the new-for-2011 team, Effenbert-Liberty Racing Ducati. Based in the Czech Republic, but with some clever and experienced Italians looking after the machines, the ambitious squad have already seen Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli batter on the door of race wins, without quite breaking in. Nonetheless, each has already leapt the gulf between official and privateer machines to land on the welcoming soil of the podium steps. Not quite doing what Checa has been doing, but the new team, sponsor and base country of operations are very welcome in WSBK. A success already and lots of rounds left still.

Of all the top teams, the ones with most to do in 2011 must be the Kawasaki Racing Team. With two injured riders this winter, in Chris Vermeulen and former WSS star Joan Lascorz, the Paul Bird Motorsport side of the team made sure that the services of Tom Sykes were retained for 2011 as well (in the Kawasaki Racing Team Superbike official side of the operation). All on official bikes, all using factory Showa suspension, all three riders are riding an improving machine, which is the only really new one around in 2011.

The bike has had the usual teething troubles in terms of competing is such a close contest and in the current era it has to be said that running a completely conventional four cylinder (unlike the cross-plane crank Yamaha) is proving a slightly more challenging way to take consistency of set up all through the year. Sykes and Lascorz have already posted good top-five results, and Tom won Superpole at Misano, so the direction is up.

For Vermeulen, ten times a race winner in this class, injuries have still dogged his recovery to anything like his previous form. But he is a class rider, with wins in many categories, so when he heals properly he is sure to head to the top again.

Injured Aussies have been too many in number this year, as Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) suffered a nasty double forearm break in Spain, after an accidental collision with privateer Maxime Berger. Elder statesman of the class Corser is a double champion and has started more races than any other. Only time will tell if he can make it here in one piece. >32

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Hayden, both of whom ride for the Rockstar Makita Suzuki squad that was once home to legends like Mat Mladin and Ben Spies.

Suzuki’s factory effort has long been one of ALL PIX: BRIAN J NELSON the most dominant teams in the series, and its current roster has been tasked with reclaiming he AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike class is where top riders the title the GravesYamaha effort took away from North America (and beyond) line up to test their big-bore from them last year. Another threat for the crown mettle. The division features two, three and four-cylinder is Team M4 Suzuki’s Martin Cardenas, reigning machinery subject to various weight restrictions to ensure a level AMA Pro Daytona SportBike Champion. Although playing field, and it stars AMA Pro’s most experienced riders at he’s new to the SuperBike class this year, the top of their games. The National Guard SuperBike class Cardenas’ 2011 speed and results have proven he allows for more modifications than do AMA Pro’s other already feels quite at home on the 1000cc machine, road-race classes, making setup a critical factor in and anyone inclined to underestimate the steelysuccess, and bikes from the class have clocked trap eyed Colombian didn’t witness his quiet but speeds in excess of 200mph. unstoppable conquering of the 2010 SportBike field.

The reigning AMA Pro National Guard The Jordan Motorsports effort aims to deliver a oneSuperBike Champion, Monster Energy Graves two punch in the form of two riders World Superbike Yamaha’s Josh Hayes, has his hands more than fans will be familiar with: Jordan Suzuki’s Ben Bostrom full this year when it comes to rivals. Chief and National Guard Jordan Suzuki’s Roger Hayden. among them are BlakeYoung and Tommy Although their livery features different paint schemes, Ben (who finished third overall in the 2001 World SBK season) and Roger (who contended 2010 with the 1 JOSH HAYES privateer Pedercini Kawasaki World SBK squad) are teammates in every other sense of the word, and both intend to be frontrunners here at MMP. No less determined is Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing’s Larry Pegram, a wily veteran who made the switch to BMW machinery over the off-season and makes it his business to stake a claim on every lead pack. Add in a whole host of other quick riders such as Suzuki’s former Australian Superbike Champion Josh Waters, Iron Horse BMW’s Chris Peris, M4 Suzuki’s Chris Ulrich, Y.E.S./Pat Clark/Graves Yamaha’s Chris Clark, Erik Buell Racing’s Geoff May, Cycle World/Attack Performance Kawasaki’s SuperBike rookie JD Beach (former Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Champion), and more, and it’s no wonder every weekend’s victories are up for grabs in this incredible class.

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APRILIA ALITALIA RACING TEAM Reigning World Champion Max Biaggi’s season took a while to get going but a win and a runner-up spot at each of the last two rounds has not harmed his chances in reeling in Carlos Checa. The fast but fickle RSV4 is not an easy bike to ride on the edge and Leon Camier is having more than his fair share of falls in trying to keep up with his team leader who has almost twice the points of the Briton

CASTROL HONDA Jonathan Rea’s year got going properly with his superb win at Assen after early season injuries, but then he broke his hand and suffered tendon damage at Misano. The big Honda is very much at the end of its development span – an all-new V4 is rumoured for 2012 – and both Jonathan and Rubén Xaus have been pushing beyond its limits to try and keep up with the rest. Jonathan may be struggling to be back for this event where did so well last season

MAX

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BIAGGI

DOB: 26/06/71 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 4-TIME WORLD CHAMPION 250 GRANDS PRIX; 42 GRAND PRIX VICTORIES; 2007 3RD WORLD SUPERBIKE; 2009 4TH WORLD SUPERBIKE; 2010 WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPION; 14 SBK WINS

JONATHAN

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REA

DOB: 02/02/87 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2007 WINNER SUZUKA 300KM; 2008 2ND WORLD SUPERSPORT; 2009 5TH WORLD SUPERBIKE 2010 4TH WORLD SUPERBIKE; 6 SBK WINS; 3 WSS WINS

LEON

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CAMIER

DOB: 04/08/86 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2009 BRITISH SUPERBIKE CHAMPION; 2010 12TH WORLD SUPERBIKE

RUBEN

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DOB: 18/02/78 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2003 2ND WORLD SUPERBIKE; 2006 14TH WORLD SUPERBIKE; 2007 6TH WORLD SUPERBIKE; 2008 10TH WORLD SUPERBIKE; 11 SBK WINS; 2 WSS WINS

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YAMAHA WORLD SUPERBIKE TEAM Such is the narrow window of set-up that Superbikes operate efficiently in, that just a small change in balance can make a difference. And that is what has transformed the Yamaha R1 back into a competitive machine again. Marco Melandri had a great start to the season but just when his side of the garage’s form dipped in came Eugene Laverty with a double at Monza. Marco is back winning again and loving Superbike and Eugene is a little disappointed. But he has every reason to be proud of his first year out of Supersport

BMW MOTORRAD MOTORSPORT

91LEON HASLAM BMW MOTORRAD MOTORSPORT

Leon Haslam came into BMW this season hoping finally to make the S 1000 RR a consistent and strong front runner. That has not been easy, and the runner up in last year’s World Championship is fighting harder for podiums than he did for wins in 2010. Once again, the BMW has the power but getting it consistently to transfer to the tarmac is problematic. Troy Corser continues to battle the bike and injury, but his task is not the easiest of challenges

MARCO

33 MELANDRI

DOB: 07/08/82 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2002 250GP WORLD CHAMPION; 17 WINS 250 GP; 5 TIMES MOTO GP WINNER

TROY

11 CORSER

DOB: 27/11/71 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 1994 1ST AMA SUPERBIKE;1996 WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPION; 2005 WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPION; 2006 4TH WORLD SUPERBIKE; 2007 5TH WORLD SUPERBIKE; 2008 2ND WORLD SUPERBIKE;33 SBK WINS

EUGENE

58 LAVERTY

DOB: 03/06/86 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 PODIUM PLACE AS WILDCARD IN SBK; 2009 2ND WORLD SUPERSPORT 5 WINS; 2010 2ND WORLD SUPERSPORT 8 WINS

LEON

91 HASLAM

DOB: 31/05/83 CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2009 6TH WORLD SUPERBIKE MULTI BSB RACE WINNER; 2010 2ND WORLD SUPERBIKE 3 SBK WINS

G N I G N E L L A CH : R R 0 0 0 1 S BMW

S E M I T THERE WAS GOOD REASON FOR EXPECTING BMW TO DOMINATE WORLD SUPERBIKE RACING IN 2011, WITH ITS FULL FACTORY TWO-RIDER TEAM NOW IN ITS THIRD SEASON OF COMPETITION, AND LAST YEAR'S CHAMPIONSHIP RUNNER-UP LEON HASLAM HAVING JOINED TROY CORSER IN A SQUAD WIDELY REGARDED AS HAVING THE BIGGEST BUDGET IN SUPERBIKE RACING...

WORDS: ALAN CATHCART et in spite of BMW's four-cylinder S 1000 RR so completely dominating Showroom Superbike sales charts, as well as the World Superstock series where Ayrton Badovini won nine out of ten races in 2010, the German team hasn't progressed this season in the way expected of them. And not least by BMW Motorrad boss Hendrik von Kuenheim, who prompted a restructuring of the team's management at the end of last season to try to bring them up to speed. But a pair of 3rds for Haslam at Phillip Island and Monza is the best BMW has managed so far in 2011, giving Leon a relatively lonely but highly frustrated fifth place in the points table coming here to Silverstone, with the embarrassment of being beaten by Badovini's satellite Team Italia BMW in each of the last three races. That wasn’t on the agenda...

The chance to ride both Haslam's factory BMW and the Team Italia bike at Monza might have provided an explanation for this, beyond the fact that the satellite team (running bikes they've built using factory tuned motors and race electronics packages for Badovini and former World Champion James Toseland), is actually Feel Racing. They ran the Ducati works team from 1998 that won seven World Superbike titles for the Italian manufacturer, including one with Toseland in 2004, before being sidelined when Ducati's controlling Bonomi family decided last year to withdraw from racing officially in World Superbike.

'The very day after Ducati released them, I signed them up to race for BMW with the Italia squad,' says Von Kuenheim with satisfaction. Even with a limited test budget allowing barely one-tenth of the factory team's 30-plus test days so far this season, Feel Racing's title-winning experience has surely played a part in getting Badovini up to speed so quickly on a full-race Superbike – while providing additional development capability that also presents an inevitable challenge to BMW's own factory team personnel! >108

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While 7000 revs is the true power threshold you find yourself using out of the other two chicanes at Monza, Riding the Team Italia bike first in exactly the state Badovini had you can let the revs drop as low as 4000rpm at that raced it at Aragón a week earlier brought a reintroduction to the vivid bottom-gear first chicane, then feed the power back in acceleration in lower gears I'd encountered before riding the BMW, as the track opens up, and once the TC stops cutting out although the harsh pickup from low revs that had often sent the rear you'll be rewarded with a clean, controllable yet vividly wheel spinning up before wasn't noticeable at Monza, with more refined fast build of power through the higher gears, en route to ECU mapping giving greater controllability, without seemingly the bike's 323kph top speed. That's what Haslam was affecting drive. Still, there was a pretty aggressive throttle response clocked at in the Monza Superpole, whereas the only which had the front wheel lifting in the bottom three gears exiting the slightly slimmer and more aerodynamic Badovini managed trio of Monza chicanes – evidence of the lack of an effective anti328kph on his satellite team bike, the same as Melandri's wheelie programme which Badovini told me he prefers not to use so Yamaha, albeit both of them down on the 333kph registered as not to impact on drive, the same reason he uses very little traction by both Biaggi and the lanky Leon Camier on their Aprilias. control, so as not to forfeit any acceleration.

The S 1000 RR seems small for an in-line four when However, exiting the slow first chicane at Monza on my out lap you're aboard it, with the rider so ideally packaged that you aboard Leon Haslam's factory BMW, which had topped the feel a part of the bike, and even with the bigger fuel tank qualifying charts at the same circuit back in May, told me the fitted for Superbike racing, it doesn't seem bulky. It's factory team engineers had dialled up heaps of traction control, compact yet well balanced, thanks especially to the lower rear presumably on the grounds this was a BMW Italia press day, and ride height Haslam has adopted here compared to his other they didn't want anyone unused to Superbike performance bikes I've ridden before, presumably in an effort to obtain grip highsiding their bike. This was a pity because, compared to by loading up the rear end. The BMW seems an agile, the raw speed out of the turns that the satellite bike had, the nimble-steering bike you can flick from side to side in works racer constantly fluttered its engine driving out of a those Monza chicanes in a way that the Japanese chicane in the bottom two gears, and refused to wheelie, fours can't match – I bet Leon had a surprise when before normal service was restored when I hooked third he first rode the BMW after the Suzuki he took to on the wide-open race-pattern powershifter. From then the SBK series runner-up slot last season, for on, the BMW kept rocketing forward down the long BMW engineers have transformed this Monza straights at warp factor speed as I clicked 220bhp rocketship into a controllable, through the ratios, waiting for the red shifter lights confidence inspiring package; at across the top of the dash to flash at 14,900rpm before my sort of speeds, at least! >110 hitting a higher gear. The 80 x 49.7mm BMW engine has the shortest stroke and thus the greatest appetite for revs on the SBK grid, with a hard-action 15,200rpm rev-limiter that's surprisingly aggressive for a ride-by-wire throttle, where normally the electronic package simply stops building revs.

The BMW's power delivery definitely didn't feel as layered as it had the last time I rode the bike in the dry, where there had been little urgency low down, then a rush of power above 8000rpm, followed by a noticeable extra kick just on 12,000rpm, when the variable-length intake system did its thing. Not any more: the German in-line four now has the same seamless build of power that the V4 Aprilia has.

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BUT FOR LEON, IT'S BEEN A CONSTANT BATTLE TO GET THE ELECTRONIC SETUP RIGHT AT COMPETITIVE PACE

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VANCE & HINES SERIES

JOE

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KOPP

BIRTH DATE / AGE: MAY 11, 1969 / 42 HOMETOWN: MICA, WA HEIGHT: 5’7” WEIGHT: 155 LBS.

MICHAEL

1 5 CORBINO

BIRTH DATE / AGE: JULY 1, 1988 / 22 HOMETOWN: SARASOTA, FL HEIGHT: 6’1” WEIGHT: 145 LBS.

TYLER

29 O’HARA

BIRTH DATE / AGE: FEBRUARY 1, 1987 / 24 HOMETOWN: PETALUMA, CA HEIGHT: 5’9” WEIGHT: 155 LBS.

STEVE

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RAPP

BIRTH DATE / AGE: NOVEMBER 18, 1973 / 37 HOMETOWN: HAWTHORNE, CA HEIGHT: 5’9” WEIGHT: 155 LBS.

CHASE

19 MCFARLAND

BIRTH DATE / AGE: OCTOBER 22, 1985 / 25 HOMETOWN: WILLITS, CA HEIGHT: 5’8” WEIGHT: 170 LBS.

CHRIS

55 FILLMORE

BIRTH DATE / AGE: JANUARY 5, 1987 / 24 HOMETOWN: OXFORD, MI HEIGHT: 5’10” WEIGHT: 145 LBS.

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JOSH CHISUM

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

MICHAEL CORBINO

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

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CHASE MCFARLAND

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

TYLER OHARA

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

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KYLE WYMAN

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

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MICHAEL BARNES

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

CHRIS FILLMORE

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

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JEREMIAH JOHNSON

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

GERRY SIGNORELLI

HARLEY-DAVIDSON XR1200

138 2011 CALENDAR

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AUSTRALIA, PHILLIP ISLAND, FEB 27 WSBK • WSS

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EUROPE, DONINGTON PARK, MARCH 27 WSBK • WSS

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THE NETHERLANDS, ASSEN, APRIL 17 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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ITALY, MONZA, MAY 8 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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USA, MILLER MOTORSPORT PARK, MAY 30 WSBK

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SAN MARINO, MISANO, JUNE 12 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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SPAIN, MOTORLAND ARAGON, JUNE 19 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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CZECH REPUBLIC, BRNO, JULY 10 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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GREAT BRITAIN, SILVERSTONE, JULY 31 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

Round 9 United Kingdom

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GERMANY NURBURGRING, SEP 4 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

Silverstone, Transformed from a WWII airfield into the ultramodern race track you see today, the Silverstone circuit is still one of the busiest ‘airfields’ over race weekend as people helicopter in from all over the country to one of the most popular tracks on the SBK Calendar. The revised layout has added some slow and twisty corners to what is essentially a very fast and sweeping track, and the the unpredictable weather will no doubt add extra spice to the full complement of all four Superbike Classes WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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ITALY, IMOLA, SEP 25 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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FRANCE, MAGNY-COURS, OCT 2 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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PORTUGAL, PORTIMAO, OCT 16 WSBK • WSS • STK1000 • STK600

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