ASBK 2025
Spherical Two – SMP
The 2025 mi-bike Bike Insurance coverage Australian Superbike Championship offered by Motul (ASBK) switches into nocturnal mode on March 28-29 for the much-anticipated Evening Race at Sydney Motorsport Park (SMSP).
After simply two years, the ASBK Sydney Evening Race has rapidly cemented itself as one of many flagship rounds on the ASBK calendar. On-track exercise will span throughout each days, with apply and qualifying throughout daylight adopted by the sunshine towers illuminating for the ASBK Sydney Evening Race after the solar units. Forecasts point out that situations are prone to be fairly difficult for all as a result of robust probability of rain throughout each days.
SW-Motech Superbike
Josh Waters (McMartin Racing Ducati, Vic) made mild work of his opposition with a superb clear sweep of spherical one at Phillip Island, romping to total victory forward of fellow veterans Mike Jones (Yamaha Racing Workforce, Qld) and Anthony West (Hooked on Observe Yamaha, Qld). If that wasn’t sufficient of a actuality verify for his rivals, the four-time reigning Superbike champion has now totally recovered from a damaged left collarbone that was nonetheless offering some residual discomfort at Phillip Island. At SMP final 12 months, when it was additionally moist, Waters took pole and the spherical victory.
Nonetheless, motorbike racing is nothing if unpredictable, and the likes of Jones, West, Glenn Allerton (Superbike Advocates Racing Ducati, NSW), Cameron Dunker (MotoGo Yamaha, NSW), Jonathan Nahlous (Yamaha, NSW), Broc Pearson (DesmoSport Ducati, Qld), Max Stauffer (Yamaha Racing Workforce, NSW) and Cease and Seal Yamaha duo Arthur Sissis (SA) and Cru Halliday (NSW) will probably be out to money in if Waters misfires.
DesmoSport Ducati’s Broc Pearson received his 2025 ASBK season off to a superb begin on the Phillip Island season opener with fifth and fourth-place finishes within the opening two races earlier than happening early on within the third bout after getting tripped up by one other competitor. The younger Queenslander is keen to claw a few of that floor again at spherical two this Saturday night time beneath lights in Sydney.
Broc Pearson
“I have to get some extra factors on the board this weekend. Final 12 months we had some good leads to combined situations, and we’ve completed a whole lot of work to enhance our pace within the dry right here, so I’m assured we are able to have a robust consequence this weekend. We haven’t had a chance to journey the bike an excessive amount of since Phillip Island with the Queensland climate inflicting some havoc up right here, however I’ve stored to my coaching schedule, and the staff have been centered on the bike again at Dice (Efficiency Centre) and I believe we’re in a superb place to capitalise this weekend.”
Halliday was the race one winner at SMSP in 2024, whereas Stauffer and Pearson – at present fourth and seventh respectively within the Superbike standings – additionally completed on the rostrum. Allerton and Jones even have prior profitable type at SMSP.
Final 12 months’s dominant SMSP Supersport rider Tom Toparis (Cease and Seal Yamaha, NSW), Tom Edwards (MotoSchool Yamaha, NSW), John Lytras (Yamaha, Qld) – contemporary from a superb fifth place end within the MX Open class on the current Australian Senior Filth Observe Championship in Brisbane – and Ty Lynch (Yamaha, SA) may also be searching down prime 10 finishes.
Tom Edwards often cuts loads of laps at SMP with MotoSchool and thus has considerably of a house floor benefit.
Tom Edwards
“We’ve all had a busy few weeks right here making ready for our dwelling spherical, it’s been a large effort from the staff to construct a brand new bike from the bottom up after Phillip Island and the pace of improvement is actually spectacular. It was nice to be within the prime ten after the primary spherical, however we’re aiming for one thing a lot increased this outing. I haven’t ridden my Superbike right here, however I’ve completed loads of laps at SMSP with Motoschool, so it’s a observe I do know very effectively. I haven’t had a house spherical for a very long time so this weekend means lots to me in that manner. I’ll have a Fan Zone arrange over the 2 days and I can’t wait to meet up with all people. I actually respect the help, see you all then!”
One other bolter within the 23-rider area may very well be Sean Condon (NSW). Though not a championship common, he’s all the time frighteningly quick round SMSP – as proven a number of occasions during the last decade throughout quite a lot of lessons. Final 12 months it was a second place in Supersport race one, and in 2025 the artful 35-year-old is throwing his lot into the Superbike cauldron on a Yamaha.
The 2 13-lap SW-Motech Superbike races will probably be held at 1655 and 2100 on Saturday.
SW-Motech Superbike Factors
Kawasaki Supersport
Archie McDonald (two wins, NSW) and Cease and Seal Yamaha teammate Jack Mahaffy (one win, Vic) had been the dominant figures on the Kawasaki Supersport season opener, whereas Olly Simpson (BCperformance Kawasaki, SA), Jake Farnsworth (Yamaha, NSW), Declan van Rosmalen (Yamaha, Vic), rookie Will Nassif (Yamaha, NSW) and Tom Bramich (Yamaha, Vic) had been additionally distinguished.
In the meantime, Hayden Nelson (BCperformance Kawasaki, NSW) scored a podium after Bramich crashed on the ultimate lap of race three.
Save for van Rosmalen, who’s returned to European competitors, the identical riders will probably be at it in Sydney, with reigning Supersport 300 champion Josh Newman (Hooked on Observe Yamaha, NSW) and Marcus Hamod (Honda, NSW) additionally pushing arduous.
McDonald leads the championship on 71pts from Mahaffy (65), Simpson (51) and Farnsworth (46).
The 2 Kawasaki Supersport races will probably be held over 11 laps every at 1555 and 1950 respectively.
Kawasaki Supersport Championship Factors
Race and Highway Supersport 300 and ShopYamaha R3 Cup
Spherical one of many Race and Highway Supersport 300 Championship noticed three totally different winners: Tara Morrison (Kawasaki, SA), Jordy Simpson (Yamaha, SA) and 14-year-old wunderkind Sam Drane (Yamaha, NSW).
The races had been once more terribly tight with the ultimate drafting battles coming all the way down to treasured millimetres. Simpson (2-1-4) was the general spherical winner from Scott Nicholson (3-3-2, Kawasaki, Vic) and Morrison (1-6-5). Fifteen-year-old Hudson Thompson (5-2-3, Yamaha, NSW) and Drane (8-8-1) noticed out the highest 5.
The three Sydney battles promise simply as a lot brawling, the place riders like Jake Paige (Kawasaki, Qld), Riley Nauta (Kawasaki, Qld), Mitch Simpson (Yamaha, SA), OIiver Brief (Kawasaki, Vic), Nikolas Lazos (Yamaha, Vic), John Pelgrave (Yamaha, Qld), Nixon Frost (Yamaha, Vic), Tyler King (Kawasaki, Vic) and Valentino Knezovic (Yamaha, NSW) may also be proper within the hunt.
Knezovic is bursting with confidence after a sensational 1-2 start to the Yamaha R3 bLU cRU Asia-Pacific Championship in Thailand on March 22-23, whereas additionally being the one rider within the 35-strong pack with profitable Supersport 300 type to his title at SMSP.
The ShopYamaha R3 Cup additionally commences in Sydney, with 24 confirmed starters kickstarting a four-round sequence with virtually $20,000 in prizemoney and bonuses for pole place. Knezovic is the defending champion.
Race & Highway Supersport 300 Championship Factors
bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup
The bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup (OJC) will proceed to unearth circuit racing stars in 2025, with 20 riders to compete within the FIM-backed and Dorna Sports activities-endorsed Highway to MotoGP pathways program that has official Australian Junior Highway Race Championship standing. Sydney would be the first of six rounds in 2025.
The expanded OJC roster – hailing from all components of Australia in addition to New Zealand – consists of 12 rookies, whereas the stability is returning to the academy which offers younger riders with every little thing they want: similar Yamaha YZF-R15s, Shark helmets, Ricondi using gear and high-level teaching help led by former 500 GP race winner Garry McCoy.
Amongst these persevering with incumbency embody final 12 months’s No. 3 Hunter Charlett (Vic), Rossi McAdam (WA), Jed Louis (NSW), Phoenix O’Brien (Vic) and Jai Strugnell (SA). Charlett gained race three at SMSP in 2024.
McCoy will probably be joined by Ty Lynch and Archie McDonald in an expanded 2025 teaching staff, whereas the latter may also tackle a broader ambassadorial function.
Superbike Masters
For the third 12 months in succession, Superbike Masters will start its season beneath lights at Sydney Motorsport Park earlier than heading to Morgan Park Raceway (June 13-15) and The Bend (November 7-9).
The Bend produced a rare remaining spherical in 2024 the place Victorian Ryan Taylor got here from the clouds on his Suzuki GSX-R1100 to win the title after earlier front-runners Keo Watson and Jack Passfield (each Yamaha FZR1000) had been sidelined by damage and mechanical woes respectively.
Taylor heads the Superbike Masters line-up in Sydney, with Beau Beaton (Ducati, NSW), Michael Berti Mendez (Ducati, NSW) and Phillip Burke (Honda, NSW) among the many different riders.
2025 Australian Superbike Championship Calendar
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| Spherical | Location | Date |
| 2 | Sydney Motorsport Park, NSW | Mar 28-29 |
| 3 | Queensland Raceway, QLD | Could 2-4 |
| 4 | Morgan Park Raceway, QLD | Jun 13-15 |
| 5 | Queensland Raceway, QLD (Superbike Solely) | Aug 8-10 |
| 6 | Phillip Island GP Circuit, VIC | Sept 6-7 |
| 7 | One Raceway, NSW | Oct 3-5 |
| 8 | The Bend, SA | Nov 7-9 |
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