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Final results from the second round of the World Superbike Championship.

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Windy conditions met the riders today and knocked off 20kph down Gardner Straight. A titanic battle for the front row hotted up with fast time despite the blustery gusts. Yukios tumble resulted in a punctured lung even though no bones were broken.  QP2 & Superpole times follow.

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Nieto was part of the a breakaway five-rider leading group in the early laps, and despite great pressure from behind towards the end he held onto fifth place, to go 10th overall in the championship. Laconi had problems with the duration of grip from his front tyre in the second race and had to ride carefully and smoothly to ensure a points score.

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Max Biaggi leads the World Superbike Championship after the Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider raced to a victory and second place in today’s opening round in Losail, Qatar.

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Troy Corser gave his Yamaha Motor Italy WSB Team something to cheer with a hard fought podium finish in the second race at today’s opening round of the 2007 Superbike World Championship in Qatar.

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Losail hosted the opening round of the 2007 SBK championship, results for both races follow.

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Preliminary shots have been fired in the opening day. Will newbie Biaggi make a mark?

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The wait is finally over ! 2007 racing begins this week at the Losail circuit. The battle of Troy returns for its second stanza, throw in Max Biaggi, a refreshed Honda squad and the improving Kawasakis and we should have a nice start to the season. Qualifying times, reports and comments as they happen.

Rumors floating around the net have SBK up for sales for a lazy 50 million, small change compared to the 350 million odd that MotoGP was sold for by its previous rights owners.

The all-new YZF-R1 was given its first 2007 testing shakedown by Yamaha Motor Italia riders Troy Corser and Noriyuki Haga, at the final official Pirelli tests of the close season.

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Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra riders Yukio Kagayama and Max Biaggi carried on the development programme of the new 2007 GSX-R1000K7 at Phillip Island and left the Australian circuit with a lot of positive data for the team to evaluate.

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Regis Laconi and Fonsi Nieto made final day improvement to their previous best lap times at Phillip Island, with Laconi beating his team-mate by only a tenth of a second in the final reckoning. Laconi’s 1’32.2 tied him for fourth in the overall ranking, with Nieto joint sixth, on a 1’32.3.

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The Pirelli Development Teams test schedule continues at the Losail Circuit, Doha, between 19 and 21 December, with one team from each of the major competing manufacturers in place to evaluate the latest Pirelli tyres.

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New Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Max Biaggi set the fastest time at this week’s two-day World Superbike test at Valencia in Spain with a time of 1:33.9, as team mate Yukio Kagayama was close behind in third.

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Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Max Biaggi ended three days of testing the GSX-R1000 K6 at Vallelunga, Italy today in a positive frame of mind and is already looking forward to his next outing in Valencia early next month.

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Today two-time former world superbike champion Troy Corser had his first outing with the Yamaha Motor Italia team with whom he will compete in the 2007 Superbike World Championship.

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Max has turned his first official wheel in anger aboard the Alstare GSXR1000 Suzuki. More so than Alex Barros, Max will be tested, on track and in the media with his move. How did Max go, and what are his thoughts on his transition to the world of Superbikes. Click more to find out.

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A hard weekend in general delivered little in the way of success for two of PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse’s riders, with the single best result being a sixth, despite high hopes for all when raceday dawned dry and often sunny.

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Yamaha Motor Italia has signed Australian Troy Corser to ride alongside Noriyuki Haga in the 2007 Superbike World Championship.

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Two amazing SBK races, one gut wrenching WSS race, what a way to finish off the 2006 season. Give me more of this, now and next week! The focus will soon turn to testing and the new blood coming in, until then though let us savor a wonderful weekends action.

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Gutted. And that is just me.

Yamaha Motor Germany’s Kevin Curtain took the runners-up spot in the 2006 Supersport World Championship after crashing out at Magny Cours today.

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