Yamaha R1

Results from Superpole qualifying, round seven of the 2022 WorldSBK championship at Magny-Cours, France. 

Without a WorldSBK win in the last nine races, Jonathan Rea is ready to deploy attack mode at Magny-Cours as he looks to stay in the title fight.

In a repeat of their intense Most race one battle last season, Scott Redding was again angered by reigning WorldSBK champion Toprak Razgatlioglu after an aggressive overtake pushed the BMW rider off-track on the final lap.

Yamaha enjoyed an eye-catching opening day of track action for round six of the World Superbike Championship at Jerez as four of its five riders packed into the top seven positions by the end of FP2.

Michael van der Mark has high hopes PATA Yamaha WorldSBK has made a step forward with its R1 following last week’s in-season test, with the podium his clear target for this weekend’s latest round at Jerez.

Marco Melandri is hoping solutions trialled during last week’s Misano test will put him in a stronger position for this weekend’s World Superbike Championship at Jerez.

Alex Lowes is confident his PATA Yamaha R1 will be more favourably suited to the Jerez circuit as he looks to get back to the WorldSBK podium this weekend.

Loris Baz says his first impressions of the new Ten Kate Racing-prepared Yamaha are positive as he brushed off the effect of the wet weather that hampered his R1 debut.

Ten Kate Racing’s return to the paddock is set to dominate the talk from Misano this week as it re-joins its WorldSBK counterparts for a two-day in-season test.

Bennetts British Superbike Championship leader Tarran Mackenzie is confident both he and the McAMS Yamaha team will pose more of a threat to rivals at Donington Park than it did at Oulton Park as he looks to extend his series advantage.

Alex Lowes has revealed he was ‘physically sick’ during the first World Superbike Championship race at Imola, the Briton soldiering on regardless to secure points that he described as his ‘best ever’ given the rather unfortunate circumstances.