Only a few weeks are between us and the start of the Superbike World Championship 2014, which will start on 23 February in Phillip Island with the Australian Grand Prix. Thanks to the new EVO category , the new season will see a number of riders at the start higher than the previous seasons(24 instead of 19).
In any case, all eyes will surely be on the new EVO category that will fully replace the SBK category from 2015. A category that for 2014 it seems that it will be dominated by Japan’s Kawasaki. From the House of Akashi in fact we will see 9 bikes(In addition to the two official SBK bikes of Sykes and Baz there will be other 7 EVO category bikes .
There will not be any EVO bikes from Aprilia , Honda and Suzuki. BMW and Ducati motorcycles instead will each use 3 EVO category bikes. MV Agusta will use the F4RR MV Agusta ( MV Agusta racing department team Yakhnich Motorsport) headed by Claudio Corti. There will be 6 Italian riders 5 British and 5 French at the start of the World Championship.
The oldest pilots at the start of the Superbike will be the 40 year old Aaron Yates, and the 40 year old and the 40 year old Fabien Foret at the start with the EVO team Kawasaki Mahi. Here is the list of teams at the start of the Superbike World Championship in 2014 divided by the two categories , EVO and Superbike.
SBK Championship 2014: Superbike Category
Kawasaki Racing
Tom Sykes (UK)
Loris Baz (France)
Aprilia Racing
Marco Melandri (Italy)
Sylvain Guintoli (France)
Ducati Corse Superbike
Chaz Davies (UK)
Davide Giugliano (Italy)
Pata Honda
Jonathan Rea (UK)
Leon Haslam (UK)
Voltcom Crescent Suzuki
Eugene Laverty (Ireland)
Alexander Thomas Lowes (UK)
MV Agusta Corse Yakhnich Motorsport
Claudio Corti (Italy)
Hero EBR
Geoff May (USA)
Aaron Yates (USA)
SBK Championship 2014: EVO Category
Althea Racing Ducati
Niccolò Canepa (Italy)
BMW Motorrad Italia
Sylvain Barrier (France)
Toth BMW
Imre Toth (Hungary)
Peter Sebestyen (Hungary)
Kawasaki Grillini
Michel Fabrizio (Italy)
Sheridan Morais (South Africa)
Kawasaki Pedercini
Alessandro Andreozzi (Italy)
Kawasaki Provec Evo
David Salom (Spain)
Kawasaki Mahi
Fabien Foret (France)
Kawasaki MRS
Jeremy Guarnoni (France)
