25 Years of World Superbike: Numbers
WorldSBK.com takes a look at the numbers of the FIM Superbike World Championship, which gets underway at Phillip Island (Australia) on February 26.
1 - the most successful number: 80 races have been won by the bike carrying the number 1 plate
2 - the manufacturers present in every race run so far: Ducati and Kawasaki
11 - the bike manufacturers with at least one race started in the Superbike World Championship
11 - the race number most used, present in 514 races
14 World Champions
18 years old: the youngest winner, Yuichi Takeda in Japan, 1996
25th championship, starting in Phillip Island this year
25 hosting countries so far. Russia will be the 26th
40 - the only rider able to win at 40 years old so far has is Max Biaggi (Brno 2011)
41 - the races run in Phillip Island, the most visited track
41 - the highest number of race finishers (Zeltweg 1989, race 1)
44 - the tracks visited by the Superbike World Championship
59 - Carl Fogarty's wins, the most successful rider
67 different winners, from Davide Tardozzi (Donington 1988) to Tom Sykes (Nurburgring 2011)
118 - the wins by Australia and United States, the two most successful countries
204 - the highest speed ever reached for pole position (Max Biaggi, Monza 2011, 204.405 km/h)
306 wins by Ducati, 51% of the total
377 races run by Troy Corser, accounting for more than 60% of the total
590 races run so far
940 riders with at least one race start, 1150 in total, from 42 different countries
1,356,498 kilometers raced so far by all the riders in all the races run
Statistics compiled by Michele Merlino
