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"Looking at this superb book will rekindle all the fond memories I have of the championship and will give outsiders a glimpse of what World Superbikes really is all about"
World Superbike Champion James Toseland
World Superbikes is a contact sport like no other. Where else would rivals be fighting each other for the same piece of race track at over 200mph? Thanks to the strictly enforced regulations, the bikes - based on machines anyone can buy on the high street - are very close to each other technically, promoting hard-fought racing, with plenty of thrills and spills.
When the World Superbike Championship started in 1988 it was just another race series. Twenty years later it is a global phenomenon, one of motorcycle sport's biggest crowd-pullers, with factory teams from all the big Japanese manufacturers, plus Ducati. As more European manufacturers intend to compete, the championship can only get stronger. Already attendance at the British round at Brands Hatch regularly tops six figures and is one of the largest sports events in the country.
As well as having the widest possible variety of machinery, Superbike has always featured a colourful bunch of riders, from the charismatic Californian, Flyin' Fred Merkel, in the 1980s through to stars like Aaron Slight, Frankie Chilli and Carl Fogarty, the outspoken Lancastrian whose success on a Ducati revived interest in motorcycle racing in the UK. More recently the crown has been taken by multi-talented Briton James Toseland and tough Aussie Troy Bayliss.
The third edition of this best-selling book - completely redesigned, with extensive new material - tells the full year-by-year history of World Superbikes, from the very start, right up to Toseland's dramatic title fight in 2007. Packed with fact and anecdote, it covers the men, the machines, the politics and the title battles, together with extensive results and statistics.
Kel Edge has been photographing motorcycle sport for over 25 years. He was at the first WSB round at Donington in 1988 and has covered more Superbike races than any other photographer. He also works as a journalist and has conducted the post-race interviews for the live TV broadcast and the Paddock Show for a number of years. Julian Ryder commentated on the World Superbike Championship for Sky Sports TV.
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