Superbike, do you know which bikes race on it? There are many builders involved

Superbike is a much loved championship, which always offers entertainment and surprises. Here are the bikes that are part of it.

The 2024 Superbike season took place its first two weekends at Phillip Island and Barcelona, ​​and compared to last year, it certainly offered us a more balanced situation. If we look at the results of the four main races, excluding the Superpole Races, let’s see how Ducati took home two successes, with BMW and Kawasaki at oneoffering various ideas of interest.

Nicolò Bulegadebuting in Superbike after the title won in Supersport, began his adventure in the official team Ducati winning Race 1 in Australia, and is currently leading the world championship with 87 points, 12 points ahead of Alvaro Bautistahis teammate. The new rules have certainly damaged him due to the weight issuebut the Spaniard is slowly growing, and the victory in Race 2 in Spain is confirmation of this.

Also pay attention to Toprak Razgatlioglu, who has just arrived at BMW, and who took home success in both Race 1 and the Superpole Race in Barcelona. For those who don’t know the championship well, in the next lines we will tell you about the bikes involved and also the manufacturers who are part of themand we are sure that you will be pleasantly surprised, since there are many brands that participate.

Superbike, five brands at the start

Unlike MotoGP, where full-fledged prototypes compete which have nothing to do with road bikes, in Superbike the situation is very different. Not at home, the motorbikes that compete are defined as derivatives of seriessince, as a basis, a road vehicle is used, then obviously adapted to the track.

In particular, modifications can be carried out in the engine, in the exhausts, in the control units and also in the aerodynamics, in order to make them as high performing as possible on the track. In recent years, there has been quite a bit of controversy against Ducatiwhich according to rivals has nothing to do with the road-going Panigale V4 R, and which would differ too much compared to the standard version, thus managing to make a clear difference.

Moving on, however, to the analysis of the manufacturers, the Ducati world champions field the aforementioned Panigale V4 R, whose main rival this year seems to be the BMW M1000 RR, entrusted to the newcomer Toprak Razgatlioglu, who only needed two races to reach the top step of the podium. The old queen of Superbikes and the Kawasakistarting with the ZX-10RR.

In great difficulty, however, we find the other two Japanese houses, Yamaha and Honda, who are making a great effort at the start of the season. The Iwata company fields the YZF-R1, world champion with Razgatlioglu in 2021, while the compatriot brand competes with the CBR1000 RR-R, which has never achieved significant results in the world of competition and which does not allow riders to compete .