WSBK 2015

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2015 Wsbk Grid

Kawasaki Racing
Tom Sykes (Confirmed)
Jonathan Rea (Confirmed)

PATA Honda
Sylvain Guintoli (Confirmed)
Michael van der Mark (Confirmed)

Ducati SBK
Chaz Davies (Confirmed)
Davide Giugliano (Confirmed)

Crescent Suzuki
Alex Lowes (Confirmed)
Randy de Puniet (Confirmed)

Althea Ducati
Nico Terol (Confirmed)
Matteo Baiocco (Confirmed)

Red Devils Roma Aprilia
Leon Haslam (Confirmed)
Jordi Torres (Confirmed)

Barni Ducati
Leandro Mercado (Confirmed)

MV Agusta
Leon Camier (Confirmed)

JR Racing BMW
Toni Elias (Confirmed)
Ayrton Badovini (Confirmed)

Grillini Kawasaki
Christophe Ponsson (Confirmed)

Team Toth BMW
Imre Toth (Confirmed)

BMW Italia
Sylvain Barrier (Confirmed)

Pedercini Kawasaki
David Salom (Confirmed)

Erik Buell Racing
Niccolo Canepa (Confirmed)
Larry Pegram (Confirmed)

GO Eleven Kawasaki
TBA

[Blade]

Personally I m looking forward to seeing how Johnny Rea will compare with Tom Sykes on the Factory Kwak. I believe in testing JR has been fastest.

Also good to see how Chaz Davies performs on the Panigale now the rules have changed to more production based racing.

I m also excited to see Leon Haslam on the RSV4 and Alex Lowes on the Suzuki which is rumoured to be more comeptitive in 2015 again due to rule changes.

Hopefully another good year for the Brits.

[Frankie]

Will be interesting to see how the Buell stacks up against the rest.

[Kwacky]

That kwak team looks strong.

[duke63]

No new R1's?

[D6]

I like Rea, and thought being left on old Blades was keeping him back. Now he's on a decent machine :p it'll be good to see how he does.

I missed all the races in 2014 though. Can't believe I never caught one.

[Jack]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Camier progresses on the MV , I think he's a very under-rated rider and tbf the F4 is probably the same , would be nice to see MV at the TT too , I hear Dunlop still hasn't sorted a ride ....

[Jack]

I think that wsbk is losing its relevance to manufacturers like yamaha as they are essentially using motogp to develop things directly for the road the old R1 had the big bang configuration and the crossplane crank directly from the M1 and the new R1 and R1M are pretty much road going race reps , its their success in motogp that will get them sales , it wouldn't surprise me to see wsbk disappear in the next few years .

[Blade]

Sad but possibly true Jack.

[Jack]

of course the upside to that would be all the major manufacturers would have to go motogp , which could give us 6 factory teams possibly 7 if MV decide to do it too

[Blade]

I would hate to see the loss of wsbk or bsb but as sportsbikes become a declining market and manufacturers use motogp as a marketing shop window and concentrate all their development there it has to be a possibility.

[Jack]

I don't think we'd lose BSB , its too strong a brand - if anything I can see BSB evolving into some sort of European SBK , they already do Assen just add Misano and Jerez or Portimao and its almost there .

[duke63]

I think that eventually WSBk and Superstock championships will be come one.

Next season's WSBK rules have changed.

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[D41]

I don't think we'd lose BSB , its too strong a brand - if anything I can see BSB evolving into some sort of European SBK , they already do Assen just add Misano and Jerez or Portimao and its almost there .

I don't think so either.....it's a very highly thought of race series by racers here in the US......just look at the current crop of young British talent pouring out from iy and moving into GP and WSBK......and then look at the lack of top-notch racers coming from the States.....the US racers are sitting up and taking notice.

[Blade]

Alex Lowes should be very entertaining if the big gixer is competitive.

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