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Barcelona Joins WorldSBK Calendar For 2020 - Prelude To Losing MotoGP In 2021?

Submitted by David Emmett on

The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmelo is to host a round of the World Superbike championship in 2020. The event is to be held from 18-20th September 2020, between the Portimao and Magny-Cours rounds of the series. 

The addition of Barcelona presages a few of the changes coming in both the WorldSBK and MotoGP calendars in future years. Next year, WorldSBK loses Buriram in Thailand to MotoGP, and also looks set to lose the race at Laguna Seca in the USA. Instead, WorldSBK will head to Barcelona in September, and the German circuit of Oschersleben in August.

The loss of both Thailand and the US means a stark reduction in the number of rounds outside Europe. The WorldSBK championship now only visits Phillip Island at the start of the season, and Argentina and Qatar at the end, meaning that ten of the thirteen WorldSBK rounds will be held in Europe, with three rounds on the Iberian peninsula (Jerez, Portimao, and Barcelona) and two in Italy (Imola and Misano).

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2019 Qatar World Supersport FP3 Result: Mahias Quickest But Outside Top Three From Yesterday

Submitted by Jared Earle on

Lucas Mahias, Federico Caricasulo and Ayrton Badovini set the quickest times today, making it three different bikes in the top three, but Jules Cluzel's time from yesterday remains the quickest time.

Results:

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Gordon Ritchie WorldSBK Blog: Tracks Of Our Years - Notes From Argentina

Submitted by Gordon Ritchie on

The sight of six top WorldSBK riders boycotting the Saturday race at the largely excellent Villicum circuit was alarming in so many ways. For the organisers, of both the race series and the track, it could have been more alarming had all the riders that the ‘Villicum6’ said were not going to ride - before being persuaded to - followed through with that plan. The verbal fallout was sometimes downright nasty, as battle lines were drawn and opinions hardened.'

How did things get so bad? How did people who would normally have been over the moon to ride at one of the best laid out contemporary circuits on the planet decide not to compete on the first raceday of the penultimate round?

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