2024 Superbike World Championship
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Feeder series:
Supersport World Championship
Supersport 300 World Championship
Women’s Motorcycling World Championship
Álvaro Bautista (pictured in 2022) is the defending champion

The 2024 Superbike World Championship will be the 37th season of the Superbike World Championship. Álvaro Bautista will come into the season as the defending world champion.

A new series, the FIM Women’s Motorcycling World Championship will be incorporated into Superbike events, to be held over six rounds at selected European tracks using identical Yamaha YZF-R7 machines.[1]

Race calendar and results

The provisional 2024 season calendar was announced on 26 October 2023.[2]

2024 Calendar[2]
Round Circuit Date Superpole Fastest lap Winning rider Winning team Winning constructor
1 R1 Australia Australian Round Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit 24 February
SR 25 February
R2
2 R1 Catalonia Catalunya Round Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 23 March
SR 24 March
R2
3 R1 Netherlands Dutch Round TT Circuit Assen 20 April
SR 21 April
R2
4 R1 Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna Round Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli 15 June
SR 16 June
R2
5 R1 United Kingdom UK Round Donington Park 13 July
SR 14 July
R2
6 R1 Czech Republic Czech Round Autodrom Most 20 July
SR 21 July
R2
7 R1 Portugal Portuguese Round Algarve International Circuit 10 August
SR 11 August
R2
8 R1 Hungary Hungarian Round Balaton Park Circuit 24 August
SR 25 August
R2
9 R1 France French Round Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours 7 September
SR 8 September
R2
10 R1 Italy Italian Round Cremona Circuit 21 September
SR 22 September
R2
11 R1 Aragon Aragón Round MotorLand Aragón 28 September
SR 29 September
R2
12 R1 Spain Spanish Round Circuito de Jerez 12 October
SR 13 October
R2

Entry list

2024 entry list[3]
Team Constructor Motorcycle No. Rider Rounds
Germany Bonovo Action BMW BMW M1000RR 31 United States Garrett Gerloff
45 United Kingdom Scott Redding
Germany ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team 54 Turkey Toprak Razgatlıoğlu[4]
60 Netherlands Michael van der Mark
Italy Aruba.it Racing – Ducati Ducati Panigale V4 R 1 Spain Álvaro Bautista
11 Italy Nicolò Bulega[5]
Italy Barni Spark Racing Team 9 Italy Danilo Petrucci
Belgium Marc VDS Racing Team TBA United Kingdom Sam Lowes[6]
Italy Motocorsa Racing 21 Italy Michael Ruben Rinaldi[7]
Italy Team GoEleven 29 Italy Andrea Iannone
Japan Team HRC Honda CBR1000RR-R 7 Spain Iker Lecuona
97 Spain Xavi Vierge
Japan Petronas MIE Racing Honda Team 95 United Kingdom Tarran Mackenzie
57 Malaysia Adam Norrodin
Italy Kawasaki Puccetti Racing Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR TBA TBA
Japan Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK 22 United Kingdom Alex Lowes[8]
47 Italy Axel Bassani
Spain Orelac Racing VerdNatura TBA TBA
Italy TPR by Viñales Racing 32 Spain Isaac Viñales
France GMT94 Yamaha Yamaha YZF-R1 5 Germany Philipp Öttl
Italy GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team 77 Switzerland Dominique Aegerter
87 Australia Remy Gardner
Japan Pata Yamaha Prometeon WorldSBK 55 Italy Andrea Locatelli
65 United Kingdom Jonathan Rea[9]
Italy Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team 28 United Kingdom Bradley Ray
Key
Regular rider
Wildcard rider
Replacement rider

Rider changes

  • Toprak Razgatlıoğlu will move to ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team from Pata Yamaha. He will replace Scott Redding, who has moved to BMW’s satellite team, Bonovo Action BMW. Loris Baz will leave the team after two years.
  • After nine years with Kawasaki Racing Team, Jonathan Rea will replace Toprak Razgatlıoğlu at the Pata Yamaha factory team. After three years with Motocorsa Racing, Axel Bassani will ride for Kawasaki Racing Team, replacing Rea.
  • Nicolò Bulega will be promoted from the Supersport World Championship to Aruba.it Racing's Superbike World Championship team, replacing Michael Ruben Rinaldi, who will still ride a Ducati, but the one of the Motocorsa Racing’s team
  • Sam Lowes and his Marc VDS team will enter the Superbike World championship from Moto2, with their bike being supplied by Ducati.
  • Andrea Iannone joins the World Superbike grid after having served a four-year ban, riding for Team GoEleven, replacing Philipp Öttl. Öttl will stay on the Superbike grid, joining GMT94 Yamaha, replacing the 2022 Supersport runner up Lorenzo Baldassarri.
  • Both Tarran Mackenzie and Adam Norrodin have been promoted by their 2023 Supersport team, Petronas MIE Racing Honda, to the World Superbike grid, replacing Hafizh Syahrin and Eric Granado.

References

  1. Inaugural FIM Women's Motorcycling World Championship set to kick off in 2024 www.worldsbk.com, 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023
  2. 1 2 "2024 WorldSBK calendar announced, two new circuits ready for action". WorldSBK.com. Dorna Sports. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  3. "2024 WorldSBK silly season: rumour mill begins as next year's grid forms". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  4. "BOMBSHELL TRANSFER: Razgatlioglu to join the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team for 2024". WorldSBK.com. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  5. "GRADUATING TO WorldSBK: Bulega replaces Rinaldi as Bautista's teammate for 2024". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  6. "Marc VDS and Sam Lowes to join WorldSBK in 2024 with Ducati machinery". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
  7. "NEW TEAM, SAME MANUFACTURER: Rinaldi signs for Motocorsa Racing for 2024". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  8. "REMAINING IN GREEN: Lowes with Kawasaki for 2024 WorldSBK season". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  9. "A NEW BLUE CHAPTER BEGINS: Rea inks two-year contract to replace Razgatlioglu at Yamaha". www.worldsbk.com. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
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