Almost a month later, the Superbike World Championships are back. The “Cathedral” of Assen hosts the third round of the WSBK and WSSP season, as well as the second round for the Supersport 300 World Championship.
In Superbike, Nicolò Bulega (Aruba.it Ducati) leads with 12 points more than his teammate Álvaro Bautista and Alex Lowes (Kawasaki). The Italian will try to defend his position, but in recent weeks he underwent arm surgery due to compartment syndrome and may still be somewhat physically limited.
Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW) is fourth in the championship, 16 points behind the leader. The Turkish rider has already won with the German manufacturer and is looking to repeat the feat in Assen… in the country of his teammate, Michael van der Mark, who will also try to be in the fight for the top positions. Danilo Petrucci (Barni Spark Racing Team/Ducati) is out due to injury, being replaced by Nicholas Spinelli.
As for the WSSP, the championship is tight in this early stage. Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team/Ducati) leads with just four points more than Marcel Schrötter (MV Agusta), followed by Stefano Manzi (Pata Yamaha Ten Kate Racing) with an 11-point gap. Federico Caricasulo (Motozoo ME AIR Racing/MV Agusta) is fourth, 32 points behind, and will try to regain ground, as well as Adrián Huertas (Aruba.it Ducati) who is fifth, 35 points behind the leader.
The WSSP300 has here the second round of the year. Iñigo Iglesias Bravo (Fusport-RT Motorsport by SKM-Kawasaki) and Aldi Satya Mahendra (Team BrCorse/Yamaha) are tied at the top of the championship with 28 points, three more than Jeffrey Buis (Freudenberg KTM-Paligo Racing) who in Assen has his home round. The top six are separated by just eight points and, mathematically, anyone can surpass the leaders this weekend.
See below all the schedules for WSBK, WSSP, and WSSP300 in Assen (by the time of Continental Portugal).
- Friday, April 19
- 08:40-09:05: FP WSSP300
- 09:20-10:05: FP1 WSBK
- 10:20-11:00: FP WSSP
- 13:10-13:35: Superpole WSSP300
- 14:00-14:45: FP2 WSBK
- 15:00-15:40: Superpole WSSP
- Saturday, April 20
- 08:00-08:20: FP3 WSBK
- 08:30-08:40: Warm-up 1 WSSP300
- 08:50-09:00: Warm-up 1 WSSP
- 10:00-10:15: Superpole WSBK
- 11:45: Race 1 WSSP300
- 13:00: Race 1 WSBK
- 14:15: Race 1 WSSP
- Sunday, April 21st
- 08h00-08h10: Warm-up WSBK
- 08h20-08h30: Warm-up 2 WSSP300
- 08h40-08h50: Warm-up 2 WSSP
- 10h00: Superpole Race WSBK
- 11h45: Race 2 WSSP300
- 13h00: Race 2 WSBK
- 14h15: Race 2 WSSP
