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World Superbike chief Gregorio Lavilla admits organisers are heading towards a point when it can no longer reshuffle rounds and “will have to consider cancellations as the only possible option” after calling off the Imola round.

World Superbike organisers have adjusted its approach to the new sprint race and will now recognise it in its statistics and historical data.

World Superbike technical director Scott Smart lays out the pros and cons in the arguments to bring in a single-specification ECU, the health of the production series in the boom of MotoGP and the Jonathan Rea factor.

Yamaha could be represented by just its factory-backed team next season after the French-funded GMT 94 outfit confirmed it is concentrating on endurance racing

Gregorio Lavilla will remain in the World Superbike Championship next season after confirming he will compete for the re-launched Pro Ride Honda team in 2009.

The 2007 Bennetts British Superbike Championship was one of the most hotly contested championships to date. HM Plant Honda's Ryuichi Kiyonari retained the title, which once again went down to the wire.

2005 BSB champion Lavilla has joined forces with Paul Bird's team, which won the BSB crown in 2002 and 2003, for its graduation to WSBK next year - and completed almost 200 laps doing his first encounter with the Honda CBR1000RR.

Gregorio Lavilla is to return to the World Superbike Championship in 2008 after being confirmed as the lone rider for the Paul Bird Motorsport team.

The bikes are among four of only eight, of this type, built by the Italian factory in 2006 and the only ones with full official Airwaves livery. The Superbikes are being sold individually by GSE Racing on eBay, for bids in excess of ?40,000 for each bike.

Gregorio Lavilla, a great surprise performer for the Airwaves Ducati team, came away from the first round of the British Superbike championship second in the riders standings.

Factory Suzuki MotoGP test rider Gregorio Lavilla, standing in for the injured Yukio Kagayama, took a well-deserved third place podium finish in the second race at the sixth round of the British Superbike Championship at Thruxton in Hampshire.