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Press releases after the races in Imola:
WorldSBK Race 2 and WorldSSP300 races cancelled due to weather conditions in Imola
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Press releases from some of the teams after the first day of practice at Imola:
Reigning World Champion Rea on top again with Davies and Sykes close behind
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Press releases previewing this weekend's WorldSBK round from the iconic Imola circuit:
#ITAWorldSBK: A tale at every turn
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Alvaro Bautista's reign continued at Assen, though it wasn't quite as easy as at previous races
Local hero: Michael van der Mark always finds that little bit extra around Assen
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After one chilled and one deep-frozen WorldSBK outing since the last column we still have red-hot Bolognese as the only meal available in the WorldSBK race-winning restaurant.
It may have a liberal sprinkling of Manchego cheese on top, in the form of the super-fast and utterly faultless Alvaro Bautista, but so far the winning recipe in WorldSBK has been mostly about a game-changing machine and the people who make it sing at castrato engine frequencies all the way to 2019 perfection.
Proof that a well-set-up Ducati Panigale V4R is peerless right now came in two ways in Assen; an event so cold that even well-padded people known for their polo-shirts-with-everything-attire had to fiddle with zips on puffa jackets on their way out of the media centre.
Firstly, when the Aruba.it Ducati team decided to try to give Bautista more of a potential advantage for the future, their attempts to take his bike setting into a potentially more golden point on the compass met with disaster. In any direction of change, it seemed. Disaster was their rider’s word, not mine.
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Press releases from the organizers and some of the teams after the Sunday races at Assen:
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After Alvaro Bautista's runaway success since joining the WorldSBK series, winning all six main races and all three Superpole races, mostly by a significant margin, the FIM has made the first move toward balancing out performance. Starting from the next round at Assen, the Ducati Panigale V4R is to lose 250 revs, while the Honda CBR1000RR, which has struggled badly since the start of the year, is to given an extra 500 revs on the maximum rev limit.
This is not the only step taken to limit the advantage which the Ducati has. Because Bautista has won every race so far, Ducati will also not be allowed to bring any engine performance upgrades, the so-called concession parts, which includes items such as cylinder heads, air intake funnels, etc. The Panigale V4R will have to compete in the state of tune they started the season.
The same applies to Kawasaki. As Jonathan Rea finished every race in second place, the ZX-10RR will also not be allowed any updates through the 2019 season.
All other manufacturers - Honda, Yamaha, BMW - will be allowed to bring one set of updates at some point during the season. This also applies to the brands not currently competing, MV Agusta, Aprilia, and Suzuki.
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Press releases from the organizers and some of the teams after Sunday's races in the WorldSBK series at the Motorland Aragon circuit:
#AragonWorldSBK - Day 3:
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Press releases from the organizers and some of the teams after the first day of practice at Aragon:
Bautista sets the pace at MotorLand Aragón after FP2
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Preview press releases from the organizers, some of the teams, and Brembo ahead of the first European round of WorldSBK:
#AragonWorldSBK: Who will climb the wall?
