BMW Motorrad announces entry into Superbike World Championship for 2009.
Munich. BMW Motorrad is opening a new chapter in road racing. Peter Müller, Vice President Development and Model Lines BMW Motorrad, stated at the Mondial du Deux Roues Motorcycle Show in Paris on Friday,
September 28th:
“In 2007 BMW returned to road racing with the sports boxer after more than 50 years. In 2008 we will continue our activities in the Endurance category. At the same time we will be preparing our entry into the Superbike World Championship in 2009 with great intensity.”
More detailed information on the motorcycle concept and the structure of the team will be publicised in good time.
Yes they will, it will be the K1000RS and I am already on the waiting list at A&S, probably won't be out for about a year tho. Supposedly 190 hp stock and about 418 lbs :teeth
this is from the same site.....it says on top bmw in 08...then says in 09 so i dunno, id think though if we dont start seeing pics of this bike ...itll be in 09
Sprechen Sie Brittania: BMW & Triumph To Race WSBK In 2008/2009
beemer in superbike, triumph in supersport
by dean adams
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
The production-based World Superbike series showed off two coups last weekend.
First, that BMW will race the WSBK series in 2009. While your first thoughts might be why your dad's motorcycle company is now racing Superbikes, actually the BMW effort is already well-respected and garnering interest. BMW clearly has experience running race teams the world over--albeit on four wheels, but they will be a welcome participant in WSBK.
That followed news breaking that Triumph signed a deal for Stefano Caracchi's former NCR team to race the Brit-bikes in the World Supersport series next season. Triumph did race Supersport in 2004 with V&M.
These are heady announcements from the WSBK series, what with BMW perpetually bandied about as a future MotoGP constructor. Does BMW still have a future in MotoGP? Luca Cadalora and Jeremy McWilliams both tested some type of BMW MotoGP bike and the world's press predicted BMW entering the series in 2007. That, of course, never happened. Instead BMW raced the world endurance series.
As one wag put it: BMW can race MotoGP or with the same capital investment they can race World, US and British Superbike championships.
As a company the new Triumph has been able to sell warehouses full of bikes without going world championship racing, so the announcement that second-generation team owner Stefano Caracchi's well-vested team will front the British outfit is a serious effort indeed.
No, they didn't know what the price would be - but my guess is more than the K1200R but who knows? I tried to pump some info out of a senior BMW exec at Bonneville but he wouldn't talk - guess I didn't poor enough alcohol into him, damn. :teeth
It's officially official. The officially official announcement was officially made in an official press release officially October 23 that BMW will officially be forming an official Superbike team to officially participate in the offiicial 2009 WSB season.
Officially.
German magazine "PS" reports about a mysterious encounter during a racetraining in spain: a strange crew, heavy wired actual japanese superbikes, laptops everywhere and a stealth-bike which was wearing a R6-aftermarket fairing. This had to be a test-session of BMWs upcoming superbike, let's call it K1000RR!
R6 fairing? Yes – so this block has to be terriying narrow for a full liter-engine, maybe this could be a hint for a revolutionary camshaft drive (from behind the cylinder-bank?). The outer appearance of the bike was rather conventional, no Tele- or Paralevers at front- or backend, aluminium perimeter frame, chain drive.
As BMW is always keen on being different we can probably expect (next to a very small, light and strong bike) the most sophisticated electronics ever on a serial bike: what about a real electronic traction control and race ABS? The know-how is surely there. BMW is aiming for a "190/190" power-to-weight-ratio, and eyewitnesses in spain saw a fast and strong bike which seemed to be nailed to the track surface in every situation. And which was about 1.5 seconds quicker than the other bikes...
And you get the indestructability and testedness of Jap tech.
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