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WorldSBK 2018: Jonathan Rea Dan Kawasaki Memenangi Kejohanan Ke-empat Berturut-Turut!

Penunggang bagi pasukan Kawasaki, Jonathan Rea, telah mendominasi musim WorldSBK 2018 setakat ini.
Dia telah memenangi perlumbaan ke-lapan berturut-turut di Litar Magny-Cours, Perancis.
Kemenangan ini bermakna dia telah berjaya merangkul kejohanan musim ini dengan baki empat perlumbaan.

WorldSBK: Jonathan Rea and Kawasaki Clinches Fourth Straight Title

Kawasaki rider Jonathan Rea has dominated the 2018 Superbike World Championship season thus far.
He won his 8^th consecutive race win in Magny-Cours, France.
The victory means he has sealed the season with five races to go.

Reigning Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) champion, Johnathan Rea and Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT) have clinched their fourth straight championship title.

The 2018 championship was sealed at the Magny-Cours circuit in France this weekend when Rea won Race 1 (there are two races per round). It was Rea’s 8^th consecutive and 13^th total victory of the year.

Judging from the results, Rea and Kawasaki made the least mistakes for the rest to capitalize on. The Northern Irish rider finished only twice off the podium and retired once so far. Besides the 13 wins, he finished second on three occasions and once in third.

In terms of statistics, Rea had won 63% of the races and was on the podium for 86% after 23 races this season. He now has the chance of setting a new record for the most wins in a season.

Jonathan Rea wins #4 – Courtesy of WorldSBK

Rea is only the second racer to win four WSBK titles after Carl Fogarty, but he is the first to achieve the milestone back-to-back.

Pundits are quick to point out that Rea’s amazing achievement is due to other teams lacking full factory support and that his competitors’ bikes are pretty old to some extent. If this is true, we shall see how the new Ducati Panigale V4 does next year in the hands of Chaz Davies and Alvaro Bautista. Honda is also rumored to be coming up with a new V4-powered CBR1000RR.

In the meantime however, the man of the moment is Jonathan Rea, who is the current King of Superbikes. Long live the King!

Kelibat Ducati Panigale V4 R 2019 1000cc Telah Dilihat Sedang Diuji Di Sepanyol

Motosikal Ducati Panigale V4 R 2019 telah dilihat sedang diuji di Jerez bersama dengan pasukan pengilang Ducati WorldSBK.
Dibina untuk perlumbaan dan bagi mematuhi peraturan baru WorldSBK, varian R ini akan menggunakan enjin V4 1,000cc.
Motosikal Panigale V4 R ini dijangka akan dilancarkan dalam bulan Julai sewaktu “World Ducati Week 2018”.

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1000cc 2019 Ducati Panigale V4 R caught testing in Spain

The 2019 Ducati Panigale V4 R has been caught testing in Jerez together with the Ducati WorldSBK factory team.

Built for racing and comply with the new WorldSBK rules, the R version will run a 1,000cc V4 engine.

Expect the Panigale V4 R to be launched in July during the World Ducati Week 2018.

While most of the international motorcycle media just got back from a very exciting 2018 Ducati Panigale V4 test ride session organised in Valencia, we’ve been getting a lot of questions on when and where the one-litre Panigale R race version will break its cover. (more…)

MotoGP: Suzuki Ingin Mendapatkan Khidmat Juara WorldSBK Jonathan Rea Bagi Musim 2018?

Desas-desus telah tersebar mengenai usaha untuk memancing juara WorldSBK, Jonathan Rea untuk menyertai Suzuki dalam siri MotoGP.
Dengan prestasi penunggang utama semasa SUZUKI ECSTAR, Andrea Iannone, tidak mencapai tahap yang mereka harapkan, Dorna dan Suzuki dikatakan sedang dalam perbincangan dalam usaha untuk mendapatkan khidmat Juara Dunia WorldSBK itu.
Sekiranya perpindahan ini berjaya, terdapat satu kemungkinan yang besar Suzuki mampu bersaing dengan pasukan pengilang dan juga menjadikan siri WorldSBK berdaya saing semula bagi penunggang-penunggang yang lain.

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MotoGP: Suzuki wants WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea in 2018?

Rumours have been floating around regarding the effort of trying to lure WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea to join Suzuki in MotoGP.

With Team SUZUKI ECSTAR’s current star rider Andrea Iannone not performing as they had hoped, Dorna and Suzuki are said to be in talks in trying to pull in the WorldSBK World Champion.

If the transfer is successful, there’s a huge possibility that Suzuki will be able to fight against other factory teams as well as making the WorldSBK competitive again for other riders.

The last MotoGP round was full action, drama and action despite the exclusion of nine-time World Champion, Valentino Rossi from the Movistar Yamaha squad. It was yet another unfruitful race for Team SUZUKI ECSTAR as their supposedly number one rider Andrea Iannone had retire after 12 laps in the rain. (more…)

WorldSBK: Argentina’s Brand New Circuit will Host its First Ever Race in 2018

The brand new Vilicum Circuit will host its first ever WorldSBK race in 2018 located in the San Juan Province, Argentina
The track is halfway completed and will apply for homologation by FIM at the end of 2017
The 4.2km track has 19 corners in total; 11 lefts and eight rights

Looks like Argentina will be the 26^th country to host the Superbike World Championship in 2018. If all goes well, the country will be the first venue to hold a WorldSBK racing series in South America. The new track dubbed the Vilicum Circuit is located in the San Juan province near the infamous Route 40, about 1,117km away from the capital city of Buenos Aires. (more…)

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