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Phillip Island WSBK Starts Interesting Season

By Paul Crowe

Ben Spies leads Phillip Island race 2 opening round of World Superbike
Ben Spies leads Phillip Island race 2 opening round of World Superbike

In the U.S., we’ve been used to seeing Ben Spies run at the front for several years now in AMA Superbike. Well, the rest of the world just got introduced to his racing skill when he took the win in race 2 at Phillip Island during the opening weekend of FIM World Superbike. Ben moved up to the new series this year, racing an R1 for Yamaha World Superbike.

We don’t cover a lot of racing on The Kneeslider but this win in his first weekend of competition deserves notice. Congratulations Ben! Looks like this might be a series to watch this year.

Link: World Superbike

Posted on March 1, 2009 Filed Under: Motorcycle Racing

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Comments

  1. That Guy says

    March 1, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Can you please not put racing results in headlines? It popped into my RSS reader with no warning and the race broadcasts later today on Speed.
    Thanks.

  2. That Guy says

    March 1, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    Sorry – looks like you’ve already changed the headline and Google Reader cached the old one. I’ll go stand in the corner now.

  3. zipidachimp says

    March 2, 2009 at 4:27 am

    say goodnight, nicky!

  4. hoyt says

    March 2, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    If Speed would deliver this most excellent content on time you might not have that problem.

    This race series should be great with the diversity in racers & manufacturers. BMW finished 8th in their inaugural race with a brand new bike. That is also worth watching.

    Looking forward to the sound of the new R1.

  5. motronic says

    March 2, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    It’s ironic that a motorcycle blog called “kneeslider”, “don’t cover a lot of racing”.

  6. The Phantom says

    March 2, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    “Looking forward to the sound of the new R1” – for a taster of the sound of the new R1, just listen to the old VFR : )

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