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Just three days after the Catalunya round, Team HRC prepares for the second of the events making up the Iberian WorldSBK triple-header. The stage for round ten of the championship is the Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto in Spain. Having powered the CBR1000RR-R FIREBLADE to a podium and a… read more.
Today’s racing at the Barcelona-Catalunya track in Spain brought Team HRC its first podium of the 2021 Superbike World Championship season when Alvaro Bautista went from sixteenth on the initial race grid to a third-place finish in a (two-part) Superpole race in front of his home crowd! The Spaniard then… read more.
Today’s opening WorldSBK race at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit saw Team HRC rider Leon Haslam cross the line seventh and Alvaro Bautista ninth in what was a wet and action-packed race. After making some final set-up adjustments during the third practice session, the two Team HRC riders headed out for the… read more.
On what forecasts threaten might be the only totally dry day of the weekend, Leon Haslam makes a strong start to the Catalunya round, ending day 1 in 7th place just 0.374 tenths of a second off provisional pole position. Alvaro Bautista was one of eleven riders able to improve… read more.
Just over a week since the eighth Superbike World Championship round played out at the Magny-Cours circuit in France, Team HRC is now in Montmeló, Spain, ready for round nine, the first event in a triple-header that will see the SBK field take on the challenge of nine races in… read more.
Alvaro Bautista concludes a solid weekend in terms of both results and performance, completing the day’s races in sixth and seventh place and proving competitive throughout all sessions. Haslam leaves France with some regret, unable to translate the good speed demonstrated in qualifying and the early laps of the races… read more.
Today’s race marked Haslam’s 300th start in the Superbike class; he is only the fifth rider in history to achieve this milestone. After a strong qualifying (sixth), the Brit concluded Race 1 in tenth place. A tough Superpole session meant a fifth row start for Alvaro Bautista, but a strong… read more.
Team HRC has dived into round eight of the 2021 Superbike World Championship at the French circuit of Nevers Magny-Cours, completing the weekend’s first free practice sessions with promising results. Factory riders Leon Haslam and Alvaro Bautista were out on track this morning for the first of three practice sessions.… read more.
Team HRC is in France, at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, the stage for what is the eighth round of the 2021 Superbike World Championship. Last year’s French round was a challenging one for the Team HRC riders, the racing taking place in October which made for three wet races.… read more.
After two years of intense work and constructive collaboration, in spite of the many difficulties caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic, Honda Racing Corporation will bid farewell to Alvaro Bautista at the end of the current Superbike World Championship season, thanking him for his commitment to its project. Shinya Wakabayashi… read more.