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The 2021 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship takes flight this weekend and with a whole load of new changes and a fresh feel to the grid, comes a shedload of statistics, facts and trivia. From Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) aiming for victory number 100, to MotorLand Aragon becoming the 11^th different circuit to lift the curtain on a new season and much, much more, find all of the crucial stats in our new-look form guide!

349 – Ducati have featured on 349 front rows after Superpole, meaning they could achieve 350 this weekend at the same circuit they achieved their 350^th victory with Alvaro Bautista in Race 2.

228 – Kawasaki are aiming to achieve 230 consecutive point-scoring races in Race 1 and the Tissot Superpole Race, extending their longest streak as a manufacturer and the second longest manufacturer streak in the Championship’s history (Ducati at 344 is the longest between 1991 and 2004). Coincidentally, the last time Kawasaki failed to score any points was at MotorLand Aragon in 2012’s Race 1, where there was no Kawasaki rider classified.

200 – Race 2 in Aragon is set to be the 200^th for Eugene Laverty (RC Squadra Corse), currently at 197. He will be the 14^th rider to reach this goal and will end up one short of 2004 and 2007 World Champion James Toseland. The all-time leader is Troy Corser at 377.

99 – Jonathan Rea has achieved 99 wins so far: that is 40 clear of his best rival, Carl Fogarty. At Aragon, he will have another chance to score the iconic milestone of 100 wins: he missed the first time, finishing fourth in Race 2 at Magny-Cours (Redding); he also missed out in the final 2020 round at Estoril, as the wins went to Razgatlioglu (2) and Davies.

98 – Chaz Davies (Team GoEleven) begins the season with 98 podium finishes under his belt. With two more he will become the sixth rider in history with a triple figure.

88 – 88 races have been run on Spanish soil so far. Last year, Aragon, with 25, became the Spanish track with the highest number of races at 25, surpassing Valencia (22).

54 – Scott Redding (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati), teammate Michael Ruben Rinaldi and Chaz Davies have all won at MotorLand Aragon. If there is a Ducati 1-2-3, it will be the 55^th time this has happened in WorldSBK for Ducati, and the first time since Assen Race 1, 2012, when Sylvain Guintoli beat Davide Giugliano and Carlos Checa.

24 – Alex Lowes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) and Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with BRIXX WorldSBK) have achieved 24 podiums in their WorldSBK career. A podium at MotorLand Aragon will be their 25^th, putting them level Alvaro Bautista (providing he doesn’t achieve a podium) and one clear of Fred Merkel, the first ever World Superbike Champion.

19x2 – The last 19 races run here were won by only two manufacturers: Ducati (11 times) and Kawasaki (8). The string started in 2014: before that year, they hadn’t posted a single win in Aragon; now, they are the two most successful constructors here. This duel extends also to second places, as in the same time span, only Ducati and Kawasaki were classified in second.

11 – MotorLand Aragon will become the 11^th different circuit to host the opening round of WorldSBK’s season, the fourth from Spain (Jerez in 1990, Albacete in 1992 and Valencia (2001 – 2004 are the others).

8 – Chaz Davies enters the Aragon weekend with seven wins at this track. An eighth win here would put Davies in an elite group of riders who have won eight or more times on a given track: Jonathan Rea, with 12 wins at Assen and Portimao; Carl Fogarty with 12 at Assen; Tom Sykes with nine wins at Donington Park; Rea with nine at Imola and eight at Magny-Cours and Misano.

7 – Of the 25 races run at Aragon, 7 of them have resulted in a finishing margin of less than a second.

3 – Only three countries have won races at Aragon: Great Britain (17 wins), Italy (5) and Spain (3).

0.042s – The closest gap between first and second at Aragon came in 2012’s Race 2, when Marco Melandri (BMW) beat Eugene Laverty (Aprilia) by 0.042s.

SHORT-HAND NOTEBOOK

2020 race winners:

• Jonathan Rea (Tissot Superpole Race and Race 2 Aragon Round, Race 2 Teruel Round)
• Scott Redding (Race 1 Aragon Round and Tissot Superpole Race Teruel Round)
• Michael Ruben Rinaldi (Race 1 Teruel Round)

Last 5 Aragon pole-sitters:

• 2020 Teruel – Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki): 1’48.767
• 2020 Aragon – Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki): 1’48.860
• 2019 – Alvaro Bautista (Ducati): 1’49.049
• 2018 – Marco Melandri (Ducati): 1’49.543
• 2017 – Chaz Davies (Ducati): 1’49.319

Manufacturer podium places accumulated from all races at Aragon

• Ducati: 28
• Kawasaki: 16
• Aprilia: 10
• BMW: 5
• Yamaha: 4
• Honda: 2

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