With the first European-based round of the 2010 SBK season arriving at Portimao on March 28, the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup and Superstock 600 European Championship classes will soon get underway, with strong entries confirmed in each category.
Populated by relatively young riders, and using machines which are very close to standard production models, these classes will once again run alongside the
World Superbike Championship and Supersport World Championship categories at every one of the ten European-based rounds of the overall SBK series.
In the 1000cc class some exciting new machines enter the fray, including the
BMW S1000RR and
KTM 1198RC8 R. There will be 32 regular riders representing no less than eight different manufacturers in 2010 -
Aprilia, BMW,
Ducati,
Honda, KTM,
Kawasaki,
Suzuki and
Yamaha. Given the strict rules of the class, each machine should be capable of running at the front. Last year three manufacturers won races, with five scoring podiums of some kind.
The 600 Superstock class features four different manufacturers - Honda, Suzuki,
Triumph and Yamaha - with a regular entry of 19 riders coming from nine different countries.
In the Superstock 1000 class Ayrton Badovini joins Daniele Beretta in the BMW Motorrad Italia STK Team, and there will be seven riders on BMW machinery in total, making the S1000RR a popular choice in its first year in Superstock.
As well as some established names there will be new threats aplenty in the Superstock categories, each of which has provided major career steps for some top riders in the SBK and WSS classes.
2010 Superstock 1000 FIM Cup Provisional Entry List:
1. Daniele Beretta (BMW)
2. Ayrton Badovini (BMW)
3. Marcin Walkowiak (Honda)
4. Sylvain Barrier (BMW)
5. Michaël Savary (BMW)
6. Hugo Van den Berg (Yamaha)
7. Pere Tutusaus (KTM)
8. Nico Vivarelli (KTM)
9. Danilo Andric Silva (Honda)
10. Dominic Lammert (BMW)
11. Mateusz Stoklosa (BMW)
12. Loris Baz (Yamaha)
13. Ondrej Jezek (Aprilia)
14. Michal Salac (Aprilia)
15. Rene Maehr (Suzuki)
16. Kim Arne Sletten (Suzuki)
17. Philippe Braga Thiriet (Honda)
18. Tomas Svitok (Honda)
19. Matteo Guarino (Honda)
20. Michele Magnoni (Honda)
21. Roberto Lacalendola (Ducati)
22. Lorenzo Baroni (Ducati)
23. Marco Bussolotti (Honda)
24. Matthieu Lussiana (BMW)
25. Andrea Antonelli (Honda)
26. Eddi La Marra (Honda)
27. Danilo Petrucci (Kawasaki)
28. Chris Leeson (Kawasaki)
29. Andrzej Chmielewski (Yamaha)
30. Davide Giugliano (Suzuki)
31. Maxime Berger (Honda)
2010 Superstock 600 European Championship Provisional Entry List:
1. Riccardo Cecchini (Triumph)
2. Andrea Conti (Triumph)
3. Mircea Vrajitoru (Yamaha)
4. Nicolas Dorsch (Yamaha)
5. Berardino Lombardi (Yamaha)
6. Federico D'Annunzio (Yamaha)
7. Karel Pesek (Yamaha)
8. Pau Tortosa (Yamaha)
9. Lanusse Romain (Yamaha)
10. Jeremy Guarnoni (Yamaha)
11. Gauthier Duwelz (Suzuki)
12. Frederik Karlsen (Suzuki)
13. Ignacho Calero Perez (Yamaha)
14. Joshua Elliott (Honda)
15. Davide Fanelli (Honda)
16. Cyril Carrillo (Yamaha)
17. Steven Le Coquen (Yamaha)
18. Nelson Major (Yamaha)
19. Florian Marino (Honda)
20. Tomas Krajci (Yamaha)
