Corser comes home as Haga heals

Only a week after the 2008 World Superbike season kicked off at Losail with a podium for Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italy WSB Team) the second round approaches at Corser’s home circuit, Phillip Island (PI), this coming weekend. After the Saturday race in the Middle East, normal Sunday service will be resumed from this weekend, with raceday at PI coming on March 2.

Both Corser and his team-mate Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italy WSB Team) have taken part in a successful pre-season test at the 4.445km circuit, setting faster lap times on their YZF-R1s than they had ever done before in Australia.

Corser is not only a double World Champion and the most experienced rider ever in World Superbike, he is something of a virtuoso performer at Phillip Island, having won six races in front of his adoring home fans; the most recent was in race one, 2006. Based in Europe for most of the racing season, Corser relishes putting on a show in his native country and will be all out to add to his Qatar podium – ideally with his first WSB race win in Yamaha colours.

Haga is nursing a battered and bruised body in the run up to the Australian round, after one heavy fall in qualifying at Losail and another in race one, but he is determined to ride at his normal level this weekend to get his championship challenge back on track. He has won with Yamaha at the Phillip Island circuit before, way back in 1998 on a YZF750SP; one of his 26 total career wins so far.

Expectations for the team are high after a solid winter test at Phillip Island, during which many aspects of the YZF-R1′s roadbike technologies – like the YCC-I (Yamaha Chip Controlled Intake) and the more track oriented overall chassis design – were extensively evaluated by the riders.

Shinichi Nakatomi (Team YZF Yamaha) hopes for better fortune in round two than he experienced at Qatar, with one finish in 21st and a DNF poor reward for all his efforts in the one-rider team. He is now in his third competitive year with the same squad and now knows the Phillip Island circuit well.

The Yamaha GMT 94 World Superbike team, featuring David Checa and Sebastien Gimbert, learned a lot in Qatar in what was their first competitive meeting since jumping up from World Supersport to World Superbike. Not able to use their full WSB engine specification yet (as there are still some Endurance racing parts inside) the team now feel they know a better way forward in terms of machine set-up over full race distance.

TROY CORSER (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“Starting the season with a podium at Qatar was good and I’ve already put the race two result from last weekend behind me. We will just be taking things one race and one round at a time from now on. It’s good to be going to my home circuit, it’s one of the best tracks in the world and I always look forward to riding there.”

NORIYUKI HAGA (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“After two big crashes at Qatar I am quite sore but I’m pretty confident I will be OK for Phillip Island. We have to work well to get a good race set-up but as we have tested there recently we should start from a good position. I need to get my mind focused for this race, but first I just need a small rest to let my injured right wrist heal a little bit.”

MASSIMO MEREGALLI (Team Coordinator, Yamaha Motor Italy WSB Team)
“It is time for us to be in front again so we are happy to move on to Phillip Island this weekend as the last test results were very promising. We tried many new things there, so we should start qualifying from a good point. We really want to be in a position to allow Troy and Noriyuki to be competitive on raceday as well as qualifying this weekend. I think we will only see how Noriyuki’s injured wrist is when he gets on the bike again.”

SHINICHI NAKATOMI (Team YZF Yamaha)
“We proved in parts of race two at Qatar that with the right settings we can run at the same pace we qualified with, so we will have to concentrate hard on race suspension and tyre choices at PI.”

Parkes heads home in championship lead
Broc Parkes and Fabien Foret (both Yamaha World Supersport Team) could not have had greater contrasts in their results at the season opener last weekend in Qatar, with Parkes scoring the first World Supersport win for the all-new Yamaha YZF-R6 at the very first attempt and Foret losing out on an almost certain victory when his tank ran dry with half a lap to go.

Parkes now has the drive of not only extending championship lead but also his local crowd’s support for Sunday’s race pushing him on as he goes for his first WSS win at the classic 4.445km circuit in the State of Victoria.

Foret, who won the WSS race in Australia last year after cutting through the field in cavalier style, displayed nothing less than front-running dominance in qualifying and most of the race at Losail. Coming so close to glory himself, last week and then seeing his team-mate Parkes take the final race victory, Foret now knows that his 2008 YZF-R6 is capable of wins already.

Massimo Roccoli (Yamaha Team Italia Lorenzini by Leoni) and his squad will be working on solving the issue that kept him off the list of finishers in Qatar to make sure it will not return in Australia while the quietly impressive David Salom (Yamaha Spain World Supersport Team) heads off to Phillip Island looking for another top ten to go with his eighth from Losail.

BROC PARKES (Yamaha World Supersport Team)
“I’m looking forward to racing at my home circuit and it’s great to go there with a win at Qatar under my belt. Sometimes you have to have a bit of luck in racing especially in a class where there are so many good riders out there who look like they can win in 2008. Our bike has been fast right out of the box, testing was really great and even after a difficult first day for me in Qatar, I was fortunate enough to win the race after some good battles for first position. Fabien was a bit quicker than me in the race until he stopped, so maybe he’ll get one back soon. It’s shaping up to be a great season in WSS racing and I’m looking forward to all of it.”

FABIEN FORET (Yamaha World Supersport Team)
“I’m just going to forget last weekend and get on with it in Australia. I am very disappointed about what happened, but I am not blaming anyone. I have to keep in my mind that I was fastest in qualifying and the race until I ran out of gas, and of course it doesn’t hurt my confidence that I won the race at Phillip Island last year. I have to be positive and now work hard with the team to make sure we have a good set-up and tyre choice. Our new bike is very, very good already and obviously has a lot of potential.”

WILCO ZEELENBERG (Team Manager, Yamaha World Supersport Team)
“It was good for the team to take a win and we have to remember that even though Fabien wasn’t able to finish the Qatar race, his overall performance until the very last lap was very strong. He deserved so much more because he did a lot of tough work and didn’t get the 25 points. We will find a solution to what happened with the fuel consumption, and try to keep the performance up at the same time. We all felt for Fabien last weekend, but with an all-new bike, it’s not bad at all to start with a win from Broc. That is what we have to take forward to Phillip Island, where the aim is to have both riders on the podium this time.”

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Having participated in two successful winter tests in Qatar and Australia the Yamaha Motor Italia World Superbike Team is already in a high state of readiness to meet the challenge of the forthcoming World Superbike Championship season.

Noriyuki Haga

Noriyuki Haga and Troy Corser (both Yamaha Motor Italia (YMIT) WSB Team) continue their riding partnership for a second year, after taking a total of 24 podiums between them last season. Japanese superstar Haga came within a meagre two points of winning the riders’ championship outright on ‘07, ending the campaign with six victories to his credit.

Troy Corser

In the Qatar test last November both Haga and Corser made immediate improvements even compared to the strong results obtained by their 2007-spec Yamaha YZF-R1 machines, and carried on their good work in the subsequent test last month, at Phillip Island. These venues are the first two on the WSB calendar, the 5.380km circuit of Losail again enjoying its now traditional status as the season opener, on Saturday 23rd February; one week ahead of the Australian round, on Sunday March 2.

In the Qatar test Corser was particularly fast from the outset, with Haga matching him on the final day, while the changing conditions of the Phillip Island tests provided more of a challenge to both riders and technical staff. Everyone in the highly respected YMIT WSB squad worked hard to make final adjustments to the 2008-spec Yamaha YZF-R1 and help the championship’s single make tyre supplier with feedback on their latest development tyres.

Yamaha Motor Italia’s YZF-R1 Superbike, a new model in 2007, was the tool with which Haga and Corser helped earn Yamaha the Manufacturers’ Championship, and the 2008 version has undergone a comprehensive programme of development over the winter months. The race machine now runs Yamaha’s revolutionary YCC-I variable intake system, as fitted to the original road bike. Even in early trials this unique Yamaha innovation showed its potential, and in testing has provided smoother and more torquey engine response in the midrange, reduces the massively powerful R1’s desire to wheelie in the lower gears and yet still maintains its class-leading top end performance.

Due to recent changes in the WSB technical rules four-cylinder machines can now run at a minimum weight of 162kg, and the R1 has lost mass due to a new swing arm design, lighter Akrapovic exhausts, a carbon airbox and even a new lightweight wiring loom to meet that new lower limit exactly. The latest rear swing arm is a step closer to the state of perfection that demands more feel with less unsprung weight; more ultimate performance with longer tyre life. The latest generation of Öhlins suspension units also make a significant contribution to the weight loss programme, and have already shown measurable improvements during the track tests.

The look and graphics of the 2008 machines are based on the 2007 versions, while a new logo joins existing sponsors Santander, Sika, Akrapovic and Fabbri on the flanks of the R1. FIMER, a welding machine company that has long links to Yamaha Motor Italia (even taking over the premises once used by the Yamaha importer in its early years) has now signed a three-year deal to support the efforts of the official YMIT team in WSB.

The 15-round 2008 season is set to be a stiff challenge for all comers, with four long haul races instead of two, Qatar; Australia; USA and Indonesia, and four individual venues which are either new to World Superbike entirely or have been missing from the calendar for a decade or so.

Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“We will have 30 individual races this year and many good riders have now entered the World Superbike series, including six Japanese! I’m looking forward to a good battle with all of them. I think World Superbike will be more exciting than MotoGP this year, so people should come along to their local race to see the close battles. I feel that the performance of all the riders and teams will improve a great deal so the biggest threat is difficult to see right now. We must see more of the competition first. Suzuki and Ducati were strong at the Philip Island tests, but we have not seen the new Honda. We’ll have to wait for that. Our YCC-I variable intake system will improve acceleration and make the engine performance more useable everywhere. It worked very well at the Phillip Island tests. Our whole machine is very competitive, but like always in racing, we are still seeking points to improve. We are determined to continue the improvements on the 2008 R1 all year, starting from this moment.”

Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“Our test in Qatar was particularly good and we also worked through a lot of new things in Phillip Island. The engine on the machine is definitely stronger and lots of other aspects are improved now, especially the electronics. We weren’t that concerned about absolute lap times at the Phillip Island test, we just wanted to get lots of time on the bike to try out all the equipment that we had to test there. For me that test was to make sure we started the season with the best equipment and information we could get, and to get us all working well together once again. The new suspension is definitely an improvement; it’s just a case of spending more time with it now, and we will have that chance in the two-day test at Qatar soon. Same with the YCC-I system, which we felt a difference with straight away. I know Yamaha has been working hard over the winter and after the last couple of days of testing, we will really be ready to go. I think it’s going to be a tough championship but I haven’t been looking at the other riders too much at this stage.”

Massimo Meregalli – Team Coordinator, Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team – has been impressed by both his men and his machines already, and knows that the team should start the season in great shape. “We had a very good test at Qatar and although we found some more work to do in Australia we were still satisfied with our progress on the bike. It was a big improvement in Qatar, and in Australia we went faster than we did last year – faster than we had ever gone. “Overall, we expect to have some small advantage over the manufacturers who will arrive in 2008 with new machines, and we will see what the real potential of the new 1200cc twins are in races, not testing. The main thing is that we know our bike is already better than the way it finished the season with a double win in Magny Cours last year, thanks to many areas of development. One is reduced weight and we will start on the weight limit of 162kg. Another example is the new rear swing arm that has proven to give both the guys a more positive feeling on the track.

Right now we are ready to race, very focused on our main goal, and everyone knows what this is. We have two absolute top riders and in my opinion we have the very best rider combination. Nori and Troy have a lot of experience, and have a strong motivation to reach the goal. We have never seen Noriyuki so willing to do extra work in testing. He was doing more than one long run per day and that is a great sign.”

Final pre-season preparations will be carried out in a two day test at Qatar on 12 and 13 February. The first round begins for real with first practice on Thursday 21 February, continues with Superpole qualifying on Friday 22 and culminates in race day, Saturday 23 of February.

Rnd 01: February 23 – Qatar – Doha/Losail
Rnd 02: March 2 – Australia – Phillip Island
Rnd 03: April 6 – Spain – Valencia*
Rnd 04: April 27 – Netherlands – Assen*
Rnd 05: May 11 – Italy – Monza*
Rnd 06: June 1 – United States – Salt Lake City
Rnd 07: June 15 – Germany – Nürburgring*
Rnd 08: June 29 – San Marino – Misano*
Rnd 09: July 20 – Czech Rep. – Brno*
Rnd 10: August 3 – Great Britain – Brands Hatch*
Rnd 11: September 7 – Great Britain – Donington Park*
Rnd 12: September 21 – Italy – Vallelunga
Rnd 13: October 5 – France – Magny Cours*
Rnd 14: October 12 – Indonesia – Sentul
Rnd 15: November 2 – Portugal – Portimao*
*with Superstock FIM Cup

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Corser comes home as Haga heals

Only a week after the 2008 World Superbike season kicked off at Losail with a podium for Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italy WSB Team) the second round approaches at Corser’s home circuit, Phillip Island (PI), this coming weekend. After the Saturday race in the Middle East, normal Sunday service will be resumed from this weekend, with raceday at PI coming on March 2.

Both Corser and his team-mate Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italy WSB Team) have taken part in a successful pre-season test at the 4.445km circuit, setting faster lap times on their YZF-R1s than they had ever done before in Australia.

Corser is not only a double World Champion and the most experienced rider ever in World Superbike, he is something of a virtuoso performer at Phillip Island, having won six races in front of his adoring home fans; the most recent was in race one, 2006. Based in Europe for most of the racing season, Corser relishes putting on a show in his native country and will be all out to add to his Qatar podium – ideally with his first WSB race win in Yamaha colours.

Haga is nursing a battered and bruised body in the run up to the Australian round, after one heavy fall in qualifying at Losail and another in race one, but he is determined to ride at his normal level this weekend to get his championship challenge back on track. He has won with Yamaha at the Phillip Island circuit before, way back in 1998 on a YZF750SP; one of his 26 total career wins so far.

Expectations for the team are high after a solid winter test at Phillip Island, during which many aspects of the YZF-R1′s roadbike technologies – like the YCC-I (Yamaha Chip Controlled Intake) and the more track oriented overall chassis design – were extensively evaluated by the riders.

Shinichi Nakatomi (Team YZF Yamaha) hopes for better fortune in round two than he experienced at Qatar, with one finish in 21st and a DNF poor reward for all his efforts in the one-rider team. He is now in his third competitive year with the same squad and now knows the Phillip Island circuit well.

The Yamaha GMT 94 World Superbike team, featuring David Checa and Sebastien Gimbert, learned a lot in Qatar in what was their first competitive meeting since jumping up from World Supersport to World Superbike. Not able to use their full WSB engine specification yet (as there are still some Endurance racing parts inside) the team now feel they know a better way forward in terms of machine set-up over full race distance.

TROY CORSER (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“Starting the season with a podium at Qatar was good and I’ve already put the race two result from last weekend behind me. We will just be taking things one race and one round at a time from now on. It’s good to be going to my home circuit, it’s one of the best tracks in the world and I always look forward to riding there.”

NORIYUKI HAGA (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“After two big crashes at Qatar I am quite sore but I’m pretty confident I will be OK for Phillip Island. We have to work well to get a good race set-up but as we have tested there recently we should start from a good position. I need to get my mind focused for this race, but first I just need a small rest to let my injured right wrist heal a little bit.”

MASSIMO MEREGALLI (Team Coordinator, Yamaha Motor Italy WSB Team)
“It is time for us to be in front again so we are happy to move on to Phillip Island this weekend as the last test results were very promising. We tried many new things there, so we should start qualifying from a good point. We really want to be in a position to allow Troy and Noriyuki to be competitive on raceday as well as qualifying this weekend. I think we will only see how Noriyuki’s injured wrist is when he gets on the bike again.”

SHINICHI NAKATOMI (Team YZF Yamaha)
“We proved in parts of race two at Qatar that with the right settings we can run at the same pace we qualified with, so we will have to concentrate hard on race suspension and tyre choices at PI.”

Parkes heads home in championship lead
Broc Parkes and Fabien Foret (both Yamaha World Supersport Team) could not have had greater contrasts in their results at the season opener last weekend in Qatar, with Parkes scoring the first World Supersport win for the all-new Yamaha YZF-R6 at the very first attempt and Foret losing out on an almost certain victory when his tank ran dry with half a lap to go.

Parkes now has the drive of not only extending championship lead but also his local crowd’s support for Sunday’s race pushing him on as he goes for his first WSS win at the classic 4.445km circuit in the State of Victoria.

Foret, who won the WSS race in Australia last year after cutting through the field in cavalier style, displayed nothing less than front-running dominance in qualifying and most of the race at Losail. Coming so close to glory himself, last week and then seeing his team-mate Parkes take the final race victory, Foret now knows that his 2008 YZF-R6 is capable of wins already.

Massimo Roccoli (Yamaha Team Italia Lorenzini by Leoni) and his squad will be working on solving the issue that kept him off the list of finishers in Qatar to make sure it will not return in Australia while the quietly impressive David Salom (Yamaha Spain World Supersport Team) heads off to Phillip Island looking for another top ten to go with his eighth from Losail.

BROC PARKES (Yamaha World Supersport Team)
“I’m looking forward to racing at my home circuit and it’s great to go there with a win at Qatar under my belt. Sometimes you have to have a bit of luck in racing especially in a class where there are so many good riders out there who look like they can win in 2008. Our bike has been fast right out of the box, testing was really great and even after a difficult first day for me in Qatar, I was fortunate enough to win the race after some good battles for first position. Fabien was a bit quicker than me in the race until he stopped, so maybe he’ll get one back soon. It’s shaping up to be a great season in WSS racing and I’m looking forward to all of it.”

FABIEN FORET (Yamaha World Supersport Team)
“I’m just going to forget last weekend and get on with it in Australia. I am very disappointed about what happened, but I am not blaming anyone. I have to keep in my mind that I was fastest in qualifying and the race until I ran out of gas, and of course it doesn’t hurt my confidence that I won the race at Phillip Island last year. I have to be positive and now work hard with the team to make sure we have a good set-up and tyre choice. Our new bike is very, very good already and obviously has a lot of potential.”

WILCO ZEELENBERG (Team Manager, Yamaha World Supersport Team)
“It was good for the team to take a win and we have to remember that even though Fabien wasn’t able to finish the Qatar race, his overall performance until the very last lap was very strong. He deserved so much more because he did a lot of tough work and didn’t get the 25 points. We will find a solution to what happened with the fuel consumption, and try to keep the performance up at the same time. We all felt for Fabien last weekend, but with an all-new bike, it’s not bad at all to start with a win from Broc. That is what we have to take forward to Phillip Island, where the aim is to have both riders on the podium this time.”

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Having participated in two successful winter tests in Qatar and Australia the Yamaha Motor Italia World Superbike Team is already in a high state of readiness to meet the challenge of the forthcoming World Superbike Championship season.

Noriyuki Haga

Noriyuki Haga and Troy Corser (both Yamaha Motor Italia (YMIT) WSB Team) continue their riding partnership for a second year, after taking a total of 24 podiums between them last season. Japanese superstar Haga came within a meagre two points of winning the riders’ championship outright on ‘07, ending the campaign with six victories to his credit.

Troy Corser

In the Qatar test last November both Haga and Corser made immediate improvements even compared to the strong results obtained by their 2007-spec Yamaha YZF-R1 machines, and carried on their good work in the subsequent test last month, at Phillip Island. These venues are the first two on the WSB calendar, the 5.380km circuit of Losail again enjoying its now traditional status as the season opener, on Saturday 23rd February; one week ahead of the Australian round, on Sunday March 2.

In the Qatar test Corser was particularly fast from the outset, with Haga matching him on the final day, while the changing conditions of the Phillip Island tests provided more of a challenge to both riders and technical staff. Everyone in the highly respected YMIT WSB squad worked hard to make final adjustments to the 2008-spec Yamaha YZF-R1 and help the championship’s single make tyre supplier with feedback on their latest development tyres.

Yamaha Motor Italia’s YZF-R1 Superbike, a new model in 2007, was the tool with which Haga and Corser helped earn Yamaha the Manufacturers’ Championship, and the 2008 version has undergone a comprehensive programme of development over the winter months. The race machine now runs Yamaha’s revolutionary YCC-I variable intake system, as fitted to the original road bike. Even in early trials this unique Yamaha innovation showed its potential, and in testing has provided smoother and more torquey engine response in the midrange, reduces the massively powerful R1’s desire to wheelie in the lower gears and yet still maintains its class-leading top end performance.

Due to recent changes in the WSB technical rules four-cylinder machines can now run at a minimum weight of 162kg, and the R1 has lost mass due to a new swing arm design, lighter Akrapovic exhausts, a carbon airbox and even a new lightweight wiring loom to meet that new lower limit exactly. The latest rear swing arm is a step closer to the state of perfection that demands more feel with less unsprung weight; more ultimate performance with longer tyre life. The latest generation of Öhlins suspension units also make a significant contribution to the weight loss programme, and have already shown measurable improvements during the track tests.

The look and graphics of the 2008 machines are based on the 2007 versions, while a new logo joins existing sponsors Santander, Sika, Akrapovic and Fabbri on the flanks of the R1. FIMER, a welding machine company that has long links to Yamaha Motor Italia (even taking over the premises once used by the Yamaha importer in its early years) has now signed a three-year deal to support the efforts of the official YMIT team in WSB.

The 15-round 2008 season is set to be a stiff challenge for all comers, with four long haul races instead of two, Qatar; Australia; USA and Indonesia, and four individual venues which are either new to World Superbike entirely or have been missing from the calendar for a decade or so.

Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“We will have 30 individual races this year and many good riders have now entered the World Superbike series, including six Japanese! I’m looking forward to a good battle with all of them. I think World Superbike will be more exciting than MotoGP this year, so people should come along to their local race to see the close battles. I feel that the performance of all the riders and teams will improve a great deal so the biggest threat is difficult to see right now. We must see more of the competition first. Suzuki and Ducati were strong at the Philip Island tests, but we have not seen the new Honda. We’ll have to wait for that. Our YCC-I variable intake system will improve acceleration and make the engine performance more useable everywhere. It worked very well at the Phillip Island tests. Our whole machine is very competitive, but like always in racing, we are still seeking points to improve. We are determined to continue the improvements on the 2008 R1 all year, starting from this moment.”

Troy Corser (Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team)
“Our test in Qatar was particularly good and we also worked through a lot of new things in Phillip Island. The engine on the machine is definitely stronger and lots of other aspects are improved now, especially the electronics. We weren’t that concerned about absolute lap times at the Phillip Island test, we just wanted to get lots of time on the bike to try out all the equipment that we had to test there. For me that test was to make sure we started the season with the best equipment and information we could get, and to get us all working well together once again. The new suspension is definitely an improvement; it’s just a case of spending more time with it now, and we will have that chance in the two-day test at Qatar soon. Same with the YCC-I system, which we felt a difference with straight away. I know Yamaha has been working hard over the winter and after the last couple of days of testing, we will really be ready to go. I think it’s going to be a tough championship but I haven’t been looking at the other riders too much at this stage.”

Massimo Meregalli – Team Coordinator, Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team – has been impressed by both his men and his machines already, and knows that the team should start the season in great shape. “We had a very good test at Qatar and although we found some more work to do in Australia we were still satisfied with our progress on the bike. It was a big improvement in Qatar, and in Australia we went faster than we did last year – faster than we had ever gone. “Overall, we expect to have some small advantage over the manufacturers who will arrive in 2008 with new machines, and we will see what the real potential of the new 1200cc twins are in races, not testing. The main thing is that we know our bike is already better than the way it finished the season with a double win in Magny Cours last year, thanks to many areas of development. One is reduced weight and we will start on the weight limit of 162kg. Another example is the new rear swing arm that has proven to give both the guys a more positive feeling on the track.

Right now we are ready to race, very focused on our main goal, and everyone knows what this is. We have two absolute top riders and in my opinion we have the very best rider combination. Nori and Troy have a lot of experience, and have a strong motivation to reach the goal. We have never seen Noriyuki so willing to do extra work in testing. He was doing more than one long run per day and that is a great sign.”

Final pre-season preparations will be carried out in a two day test at Qatar on 12 and 13 February. The first round begins for real with first practice on Thursday 21 February, continues with Superpole qualifying on Friday 22 and culminates in race day, Saturday 23 of February.

Rnd 01: February 23 – Qatar – Doha/Losail
Rnd 02: March 2 – Australia – Phillip Island
Rnd 03: April 6 – Spain – Valencia*
Rnd 04: April 27 – Netherlands – Assen*
Rnd 05: May 11 – Italy – Monza*
Rnd 06: June 1 – United States – Salt Lake City
Rnd 07: June 15 – Germany – Nürburgring*
Rnd 08: June 29 – San Marino – Misano*
Rnd 09: July 20 – Czech Rep. – Brno*
Rnd 10: August 3 – Great Britain – Brands Hatch*
Rnd 11: September 7 – Great Britain – Donington Park*
Rnd 12: September 21 – Italy – Vallelunga
Rnd 13: October 5 – France – Magny Cours*
Rnd 14: October 12 – Indonesia – Sentul
Rnd 15: November 2 – Portugal – Portimao*
*with Superstock FIM Cup

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