MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A variety of sources are reporting that "Super" Shinya Nakano wiil announce his retirement from competition at a press conference in Japan tomorrow. Nakano, who raced for the Factory Aprilia team in WSBK this past season, had some good finishes but was plagued by injuries in the latter portion of the year. The highlight of Nakano's twelve year career on the world scene was probably his 2000...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Shinya Nakano has decided to sit out the last World Superbike races of the season, citing the neck injury that has kept the Japanese rider out of the last two rounds. Nakano says that the injury isn't too debilitating in real life but didn't think that he was up to the strain of traveling from Japan and enduring the stress of racing speeds for three days. While there is currently no official evidence...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Shinya Nakano has decided to sit out the last World Superbike races of the season, citing the neck injury that has kept the Japanese rider out of the last two rounds. Nakano says that the injury isn't too debilitating in real life but didn't think that he was up to the strain of traveling from Japan and enduring the stress of racing speeds for three days. While there is currently no official evidence...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
With Shinya Nakano returning to the fold at Portimao after an injury plagued rookie season in World Superbike, Aprilia Racing will dig deep and field a third bike for newly-crowned British Superbike champion Leon Camier. The ride for Camier is a second audition for a seat on the team after his debut with the squad at Magny Cours showed flashes of promise but was marred by technical difficulties. Nakano,...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Leon Camier has been looking for a ride in the World Superbike paddock for a while now, and his utter domination of the British Superbike series certainly showed that he has the necessary talent. As we reported yesterday , Camier is to get his chance, taking the place of the injured Shinya Nakano riding the Aprilia RSV4. read more
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
With Shinya Nakano out for the rest of the season with an injury, Aprilia are in need of a replacement rider for the World Superbike rounds at Magny-Cours and Portimao. Marco Simoncelli returns to his day job as factory Gilera 250cc rider this weekend at Estoril, and Aprilia test rider Alex Hofmann has duties of his own as a TV presenter for the German-language sports channel DSF at the Portuguese...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Aprilia head of communications Alain Roger, in an interview with Caradisiac. com revealed that Aprilia will field another 2-bike team in World Superbikes in 2010. Roger was not forthcoming on who would manage the team or whether the team would be a satellite. Roger did infer however, that current factory rider Shinya Nakano could find his way onto the squad. Roger also dropped the bombshell that former...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Marco Simoncelli's future may already be fixed, the Italian 250 star having decided to move up to the MotoGP class with Gresini Honda, but the Piaggio Group hasn't quite given up on the Italian yet. Before Simoncelli announced his future, Aprilia had tried to keep him within the fold by persuading the Italian to switch to the World Superbike series, allowing him to test the RSV4 Superbike during the...
Racing Streaming Online / Highlight (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
Top Ten Result World Superbike 2009 GP Donington Park Sunday, 28 June 09 1 Ben Spies 34'57.230 2 Max Biaggi 35'04.386 3 Noriyuki Haga 35'08.198 4 Leon Haslam 35'16.073 5 Shane Byrne 35'16.355 6 Shinya Nakano 35'18.516 7 Jonathan Rea 35'20.874 8 John Hopkins 35'30.079 9 Jakub Smrz 35'30.134 10 Ryuichi Kiyonari 35'30.422
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Ben Spies came to his home race - or the nearest thing he has to a home race - at Miller Motorsports in Utah looking to get a double and a bundle of points to get himself back into the World Superbike championship race. So when the lights went out at the start of race 1, the Texan set about the task with a gusto bordering on the insatiable. First off the line and first into Turn 1, Spies had gap by...
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