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Eine tolle Saison mit guten Ergebnissen für das Power Electronics Aspar-Team und seine beiden Fahrer Randy De Puniet und Aleix Espargaró hat zu einem neuen Ein-Jahres-Vertrag zwischen allen Beteiligten geführt.

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Iván Silva kehrt ab dem AirAsia Grand Prix von Japan als Ersatzfahrer für David Salom zurück ins Avintia Blusens-Team.

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		Ab sofort im Handel
		Motorrad-Rennsport Kalender 2013
		Ab sofort ist der neue Motorrad-Rennsport Kalender für das Jahr 2013 im Handel erhältlich. Mit Bildern von den Superstars auf den schnellsten Strecken der Welt. ... > weiter

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Riders for Health gibt MotoGP™-Fans die Möglichkeit, in Valencia hinter die Kulissen der Rennstrecke zu schauen und bietet eine begrenzte Anzahl an Fahrerlager-Pässen für Donnerstag vor dem Rennen an. Damit erhalten Fans zudem die Möglichkeit zur Teilnahme an der Auktion der Hilfsorganisation. Der Erlös kommt dem medizinischen Hilfsprojekt in Afrika zugute.

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Die Aufregung vom spannenden Rennwochenende in Aragón hat sich kaum gelegt, da geht der Blick schon wieder in Richtung Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup 2013 und zur Sichtung im spanischen Monteblanco am 9., 10. und 11. Oktober.

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Pleas click here to download the 2013 FIM World Superbike, World Supersport and Superstock 1000 Cup provisional calendar.

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Tissot-Superpole was won for the ninth time in 2012 by Kawasaki Racing Team rider Tom Sykes, after he set a new track best of 1 minute 36.950 seconds in Superpole 3 at Magny-Cours. Sykes now has nine Tissot-Superpole successes to his credit in 2012, and 11 in his relatively short SBK career.

Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) posted second quickest time, over half a second away from Sykes, while Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) held off the attentions of Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport), who will line up on the front row in fourth place.

Championship leader Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) is only tenth on the grid after failing to get out of Superpole 2. This puts him on the third row of the grid for Sunday's races.

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Broc Parkes (Ten Kate Racing Products Honda) posted the pole position time at Magny-Cours today, making this the third race he will have started off the front of the grid this year. The Aussie rider is a big fan of Magny-Cours and he is closely followed in the pre-race rankings by a rider with an even closer connection to the track, Frenchman Fabien Foret (Kawasaki Intermoto Step).

Another local man, Jules Cluzel (PTR Honda) could not improve his best time today and thus dropped to third over on the grid, with the new champion in this class, Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Lorenzini) fourth.

The second row is headed by a British rider, Sam Lowes (Bogdanka PTR Honda), while Gabor Talmacsi (PRORACE Honda) is sixth, Sheridan Morais (Kawasaki Lorenzini) seventh.

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Championship points leader Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet STK Team) set a new track best of 1 minute 41.079 seconds on his way to pole for the final race of the year in the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup race.

Eddi La Marra (Barni Racing Team Italia Ducati) went second quickest, with the top four riders in the points rankings all on the front row for Sunday's championship decider. Jeremy Guarnoni (MRS Kawasaki) starts from third spot on the grid, Bryan Staring (Team Pedercini Kawasaki) is fourth, just over half a second from pole man Barrier. Any one of three riders can win the title, Barrier, La Marra and Staring.

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The UEM Superstock 600 European Championship went to Michael van Der Mark (EAB Ten Kate Junior Team Honda) after he won an incredibly close final race of the year against his only rival Riccardo Russo (Team Italia FMI Yamaha).

The pair made contact many times as they jostled for position in the early periods and only on the final couple of laps in the 12 lap race did van Der Mark make his advantage sure, winning by 1.226 seconds. The final points score was van Der Mark 219, Russo 207.

Local rider Mathieu Marchal (Coutelle Racing Team Yamaha) came out on top in a three-rider fight for the final podium place. Third overall in the championship is Belgian rider Gauthier Duwelz (Team MTM Racing Yamaha) who was ninth today.

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Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet STK Team) survived a wet track and the pressure of racing for the championship at his home round to finish second at Magny-Cours and give himself an eventual clear championship win.

His French countryman Jeremy Guarnoni (MRS Kawasaki) rode with confidence and pace in the wet to win the race, but main championship challenger Eddi La Marra (Barni Racing Team Italia Ducati) fell very early and lost his chance to get back into the race.

Another potential champion Bryan Staring (Team Pedercini Kawasaki) fell early and rode hard to try and get back into contention. He finished fifth in the race and eventually fourth in the championship.

The final points read Barrier 153, La Marra 130, Giarnoni 123, Staring 122.

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		Superbike WM: John Hopkins pausiert für ein Jahr
		John Hopkins nimmt Auszeit für 2013: "Mein Körper muss erst genesen"
		John Hopkins hat sich mit Crescent Suzuki darauf geeinigt, 2013 keine Rennen zu fahren. Der Amerikaner möchte erst seine zahlreichen Verletzungen auskurieren. ... > weiter

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An amazing penultimate race in the 2012 championship season, held in wet conditions, saw early contender Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) fall on lap two and his two remaining championship rivals, Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) and Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) score podiums for second and third respectively.

Sylvain Guintoli (PATA Racing Team Ducati) continued his amazing form in privateer guise with a clear win, by over six seconds from Melandri and by over 16 seconds from Sykes. This was Guintoli's third win of the year.

The results tees up a fabulous season finale, with Biaggi now only 14.5 points ahead of Sykes, and 18.5 ahead of Melandri, with 25 points still on offer for a win in the last race of the year.

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		Erster Lauf der Superbike-WM: Biaggis Führung schmilzt im Regen
		Sylvain Guintoli feiert Heimsieg in Magny-Cours: Biaggis Führung schmilzt
		Sylvain Guintoli sicherte sich den Sieg im ersten Rennen von Magny-Cours. Marco Melandri und Tom Sykes begleiteten ihn auf dem Podest. ... > weiter

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The final race of the year went to local rider Guillaume Raymond (Valliance Racing) but the championship win was still taken by Lukas Wimmer (MSC Schalchen), despite finishing third in the race today. Ilya Mikhalchik (Wind Racing) was second in the race, Gaston Garcia (KTM Spain) fourth. Wimmer took the title 136 points to 111 for Garcia.

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Jules Cluzel (PTR Honda) took his fourth win of the year today at Magny-Cours as he made the best of a wet track and then a drying line around the 4.411k, circuit. The French rider underlined his second place in the championship with Sam Lowes (Bogdanka PTR Honda) third overall in the points after finishing second today. Third place at Magny-Cours eventually went to Dan Linfoot (MSD R-N Team India Kawasaki) after he was knocked off by an attempted pass from new champion Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Lorenzini).

Linfoot restarted to finish fourth but Sofuoglu was penalised 25 seconds and thus Linfoot was eventually third and Sofuoglu fourth. In the final championship table, Sofuoglu has 231 points, Cluzel 210, Lowes 172 and Fabien Foret (Kawasaki Intermoto Step) 171. Honda won the manufacturers' Championship by 14 points from Kawasaki.

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		WSS - Cluzel siegt in Frankreich
		Supersport-WM: Heimsieg für Jules Cluzel in Magny-Cours
		Jules Cluzel entschied sein Heim-Rennen in Magny-Cours für sich. Sam Lowes und Dan Linfoot sicherten sich Plätze unter den Top-3. ... > weiter

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		Superbike-WM in Magny-Cours: Meisterschaftskampf bis zur letzten Runde
		Tom Sykes gewinnt das zweite Rennen, Max Biaggi die Superbike-WM
		Tom Sykes gewann das letzte Saisonrennen in Magny-Cours eindrucksvoll, doch Max Biaggi reichte sogar der fünfte Platz zum zweiten WM-Titel. ... > weiter

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The closest ever finish in the history of the Superbike World Championship took place at Magny-Cours today when Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) finished the race fifth and in doing so he ended up the season 0.5 points ahead of Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team).

Sykes did all he could in winning race two, while Biaggi did just enough by finishing fifth, the final points reading Biaggi 358 and Sykes 357.5. Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) was second in the 23-lap race, with Sylvain Guintoli (PATA Racing Team Ducati) third.

Biaggi's team-mate, Eugene Laverty was fourth in the race, but the other championship hopeful Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) crashed out of contention. He finished third in the points in any case, on 328.5. This was Biaggi's second Superbike World Championship success, having won the title with Aprilia in 2010.

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		Biaggi gewinnt die Superbike-WM: "Es war an der Zeit"
		Max Biaggi musste in Magny-Cours hart kämpfen
		Max Biaggi wusste nicht, wie es zum Sturz im ersten Rennen von Magny-Cours kam, freute sich aber einfach, dass es für ihn trotzdem noch zur WM-Krone reichte. ... > weiter

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		SBK-WM in Magny-Cours: 5. Platz reicht für Biaggi
		Knappe Entscheidung: Max Biaggi gewinnt die Superbike-WM
		Max Biaggi wusste nicht, wie es zum Sturz im ersten Rennen von Magny-Cours kam, freute sich aber einfach, dass es für ihn trotzdem noch zur WM-Krone reichte. ... > weiter

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Giorgio Barbier (Racing Director Pirelli Moto) analyses the fourteenth and final round of the year, held at the Magny-Cours circuit in France.

"With the Magny-Cours round Pirelli concludes an important season, the ninth in a row as sole supplier of all the World Superbike Championship classes. But today was above all a day for the participants to celebrate, that is, the riders and the teams. Pirelli congratulates first and foremost Max Biaggi and the Aprilia Racing team who have achieved a splendid double win in a 3 year period in confirmation of the excellent work done by the entire team in the Championship these past few years. It would be impossible, however, not to mention Biaggi's two fiercest rivals, Tom Sykes on his Kawasaki and Marco Melandri on his BMW, who contributed to making this year an exciting championship down to the last race.

"This was a Superbike Championship which was marked by an extremely battle between riders from various teams throughout the season. In fact, riders from five different motorcycle manufacturers placed in the top five, demonstrating the excellent work Pirelli has done in developing solutions which work well on different brand bikes. Our compliments also go once again to Kenan Sofuoglu and the Kawasaki Lorenzini team for their win in World Supersport, as well as to Sylvain Barrier and Michael VD Mark for their respective victories in Superstock1000 FIM Cup and Superstock 600 UEM European Championship.

"Also, this year (as in 2011), Pirelli decided to provide incentives for our rising stars in European motorcycling who participate in the national Superstock 600 championships: this is why the Pirelli Superstock 600 Series was established last year, a Pirelli initiative which once again provided the most talented riders from the various European STK600 Championships with the opportunity to take part as wild cards in the last European Superstock 600 Championship race held here in France. The 3 riders who placed the highest in the race standings were Italian Franco Morbidelli who races in CIV, Brit Lee Jackson who races in British Superbike and Austrian Marco Nekvasil from IDM. These riders were awarded a commemorative plaque and also received a monetary prize as an incentive for their growth and careers. In closing, we are very satisfied with the work done this year in the production-based Championships and we are ready to take on the next season where we will be faced with a new challenge: the new 17 inch tyres which will replace the 16.5" format which have been used until now in the World Superbike Championship."

PIRELLI BEST LAP AWARDS:

SBK Race 1 - Sylvain Guintoli (PATA Racing Team) 1'53.143 (Lap 17)

SBK Race 2 - Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing) 1'39.237 (Lap 5)

Total BEST LAP (SBK): Checa C. (Althea Racing) 8, Biaggi M. (Aprilia Racing Team) 5; Melandri M. (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) 4; Sykes T. (Kawasaki Racing Team) 3; Guintoli S. (PATA Racing Team) 2; Baz L. (Kawasaki Racing Team) 1; Ayrton Badovini (BMW Motorad Italia Goldbet) 1; Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) 1; Laverty E. (Aprilia Racing Team) 1; Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing) 1

FASTEST RIDER OF THE YEAR: With 8 best lap awards Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) is the 2012 Pirelli Best Lap Winner for the Superbike class.

WSS - Jules Cluzel (PTR Honda), 1'47.416 (Lap 6)

Total BEST LAP (WSS): Cluzel J. (PTR Honda) 3; Lowes S. (Bogdanka PTR Honda) 3; Foret F. (Kawasaki Intermoto Step) 2; Parkes B. (Ten Kate Racing Products) 2; Lanzi L. (Prorace) 1; Morais S. (Kawasaki Lorenzini) 1; Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Lorenzini) 1

FASTEST RIDER OF THE YEAR: With 3 best lap awards and the highest position in the overall standings Jules Cluzel (PTR Honda) is the 2012 Pirelli Best Lap Winner for the Supersport class.

STK1000 - Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet) 1'59.525 (Lap 7)

STK600 - Riccardo Russo (Team Italia FMI) 1'44.417 (Lap 6)

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Just a few hours after the riders had stepped off their bikes, the 2012 season was brought to an end with the traditional awards ceremony, which this year was held in the Auditorium of the Magny-Cours circuit in France.

Following introductory speeches from Paolo Flammini (Infront Motor Sports CEO) and Stephane Desprez (FIM CEO), the top 3 riders in the five racing categories - Superbike, Supersport, Superstock 1000 and 600, European Junior Cup - were called onto the stage to receive their gold, silver and bronze medals, FIM diplomas, Pirelli and Tissot awards and end-of-season trophies. The awards were handed out by Rezsö Bulcsu (FIM Road-Racing Commission Director), Paolo Flammini, Stephane Desprez, Paolo Ciabatti (SBK Director), Jean-Marc Desnues (UEM Vice-President), Igor Eskinja (Jury President) and Claudio Calabresi (eni Wholesale Executive Vice-President).

Max Biaggi, Tom Sykes and Bernhard Gobmeier (representing Marco Melandri) from Superbike, Kenan Sofuoglu, Jules Cluzel and Sam Lowes from Supersport, Sylvain Barrier, Eddi La Marra and Jeremy Guarnoni from Superstock 1000 and Michael van der Mark, Riccardo Russo and Gauthier Duwelz from Superstock 600, as well as Lukas Wimmer, Gaston Garcia and Javier Orellana from EJC stepped up on stage for their awards, while the Superbike, Supersport and Superstock 1000 Manufacturers' prizes went to Luigi Dall'Igna (Sports & Technical Director Aprilia Racing), Carlo Fiorani (Honda Motor Europe Racing Operations Manager) and Fabien Raulo (Kawasaki Race Coordinator), with Dall'Igna also receiving the eni trophy for Winning Superbike Manufacturer from Claudio Calabresi.

Carlos Checa and Cluzel received the Pirelli ‘Best Lap Award' from Giorgio Barbier (Racing Director) and Ilaria Casarini (Marketing Manager) for the Superbike and Supersport riders who totaled the most fastest laps throughout the season, while the Tissot Superbike and Supersport Superpole Awards were presented by Matt George to Sykes and Cluzel.

Tissot also gave two special Media Awards, which were handed over by Paolo Ciabatti to journalist Paolo Gozzi from Italy and photographer Kel Edge from Britain in recognition of their sterling work over the last 25 years, during which they have been present at virtually every World Superbike race.

 

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WorldSBK.com provides a quick round-up of the facts and figures from the fourteenth and final round of the eni FIM Superbike World Championship at the Magny-Cours circuit in France.

MAX BIAGGI WINS HIS SECOND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

• He is the oldest Champion: the record belonged to Troy Bayliss, who won at 39 years 7 months and 3 days in 2008. Now Max puts the bar at 41 years 3 months and 11 days;

• For the fourteenth time in history the winner of the opening race wins the title;

• Max won with the smallest margin ever recorded: 0.5 points. In the past, in 2007, James Toseland won with only two points over Haga;

• The 358 points of Max are the lowest score for a champion since 2004, when Toseland won with only 336 points, but that year the championship consisted of only 22 races. Max won with an average of 12.7 points per race, the lowest in history since the introduction of the current points system, back in 1995;

The close fight for the championship can be summarized with another fact: Max won only five races out of 28 this year (17%). In the history of World Superbikes, only four times has a lower value been recorded for a champion:

1988 Merkel: 2 wins out of 17 races (11%);

1989 Merkel: 3 wins out of 22 races (13%);

1998 Fogarty: 3 wins out of 24 races (12%);

2004 Toseland: 3 wins out of 22 races (13%);

Max became champion without being the most successful rider in the season (five wins to Melandri's six): it's the seventh time in history that this has happened, the first since 2004, when Toseland won three races and the title, but the most successful winner was Regis Laconi with seven. The most striking case was recorded in 1993, when Scott Russell won the title with five wins to Fogarty's eleven; Fogarty came second that year.

• With his ninth season pole, Tom Sykes recorded the third all-time value for a single season. The record belongs to Ben Spies with eleven poles (2009), followed by Doug Polen with ten (1991). With his thirteenth front-row start of the season, Tom equalled the best all-time value, recorded by Giancarlo Falappa in 1992, Scott Russell in 1993, Troy Bayliss in 2008 and Ben Spies in 2009;

• 30th pole position for Kawasaki, the fourth manufacturer to reach this goal after Ducati (161 poles), Honda (44) and Yamaha (37);

• Tom Sykes led both races: during 2012 he was in the lead in 20 different races, the second all-time value after 22 for Bayliss in 2008;

• Sylvain Guintoli won his third race: a French rider hadn't won his home race since 1990, when Raymond Roche scored the double in Le Mans. Sylvain in race two climbed on the podium for the tenth time;

• Maxime Berger scored his best career result in race one: fourth;

• Tom Sykes in race two scored the 120th win for Great Britain;

• Maiden fastest race lap for Davide Giugliano (race two);

• A dramatic end of the season for Marco Melandri: after taking the lead in the championship at the Russian round, in the following races he fell four times out of five, missing one due to injury. Considering only the last three race weekends, Melandri is only thirteenth in the number of points scored, 20, compared to the 90 scored by Sykes and Laverty;

• Honda finished their second straight season without posting a single fastest race lap: Jonathan Rea came very close to scoring it in the very last race, missing it by only 0.015.

Compiled by Michele Merlino

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Few set-ups in global racing have been as successful as Aprilia over the years; with Max Biaggi's win on the official Aprilia Racing machine just the latest in a long line of table-topping hits.

Aprilia has won 38 World Championships in GP racing (20 in the 125cc division and 18 in the 250 class), four in SBK racing, plus seven in Supermoto and two in trials. That makes 51, a remarkable number for a factory that has not been in existence for as long as many of its rivals. No fewer than 44 of those wins have come with current Aprilia Racing boss Luigi Dall'Igna at the engineering helm, including even those won by the Derbi brand.

The win for Biaggi in 2012 is all the more remarkable because Biaggi had to have an all-new pit crew created around him for the past season, and had only a couple of months to get ready for the start of the season.

And what a start it was to his second championship-winning year in SBK, as Biaggi explains. "I am super-happy even now but this is one of the most difficult championships I have ever had," said Max. "Two months before race one I had no crew, so we took this guy, that guy... My crew chief was very good at bringing the right people. He is calm, his way to work was very different from what I was used to working with. He is a good guy and I get along with him well. All the others working in Aprilia (too), so we made the team together. He was thinking about people's character and behaviour. It was a nice story and it started right away by winning in a track that we had never won at before. With the man, a good bike and a good team you can make it, even if the team is fresh. We made something very special and through the season there was some little ups and downs."

Biaggi, a character who always draws comment and attention, also spoke of whether he will defend his title or not on Sunday night at Magny-Cours. "So, next year is another year but what is important now is to think about what we did to celebrate with the team, the people who make this happen," said Max, "I think next week - because I need five or six days to stay home and get back to the family and decide what to do. So, no decision now about 2013."

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