FAST FACTS: shorthand notebook and key numbers for WorldSBK at Phillip Island
With the 2025 season now upon us, it’s time to make sure you have all the information you need for this year’s season opening round
Testing is in the history books and now it’s time to get down to the serious business in the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship. Racing kicks off at the stunning Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit this weekend with the Australian Round, but, ahead of lights out, it’s time to make sure you have all the short, but important, facts you need thanks to this shorthand notebook.
2024 race winners:
- Nicolo Bulega (Ducati: Race 1)
- Alex Lowes (Kawasaki: Tissot Superpole Race, Race 2)
Last three pole-sitters at Phillip Island:
- 2024: Nicolo Bulega (Ducati) 1’27.916s
- 2023: Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha) 1’29.400s
- 2022: Alvaro Bautista (Ducati) 1’29.815s
Manufacturer podium places (and wins) accumulated from all races at Phillip Island:
- Ducati: 79 (33)
- Kawasaki: 42 (15)
- Yamaha: 28 (6)
- Honda: 27 (4)
- Suzuki: 15 (6)
- Aprilia: 15 (6)
- BMW: 4
- Bimota: 1 (1)
Key gaps from Phillip Island 2024:
- Front row covered by: 0.323s
- 1 second in Superpole covered… the top 12: 0.987s
- Closest race gap between 1st and 2nd: 0.048s (Alex Lowes 1st, Bautista 2nd, Race 2)
- Closest race podium: 1.178s Alex Lowes 1st, Bautista 2nd, Petrucci 3rd, Race 2)
- Closest Phillip Island podium of all-time: 0.041s (Razgatlioglu 1st, Alex Lowes 2nd, Redding 3rd, Race 1, 2020)
Manufacturer top speeds at Phillip Island, 2024:
- Honda: Xavi Vierge – 335.4kph, Warm Up
- BMW: Garrett Gerloff – 332.3kph, Superpole Race
- Ducati: Nicolo Bulega, Andrea Iannone, Danilo Petrucci – 331.3kph, Superpole Race, Warm Up
- Kawasaki: Axel Bassani – 331.3kph, Warm Up
- Yamaha: Dominique Aegerter – 330.3kph, Superpole Race
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