Supersport racing

Supersport racing
2007 Supersport World Championship
Sport	Motorcycle sport
Founded	1990
No. of teams	5 manufacturers
Country	Worldwide
Current champions	Sébastien Charpentier (Rider) Honda (Manufacturer)

[edit] Overview

World Supersport Championship is a top level motorcycle racing competition based on recent or current production motorcycles that are available to the public. The Championship is organized and promoted by FGSports and is sanctioned by the FIM.

As of 1999 World Supersport is a a support class to the Superbike World Championship, supersport racing has been one of the most popular classes of national racing for many years.

To be eligible for World Supersport,a motorcycle must have a four stroke engine of between 400 and 600cc for four cylinder machines, and between 600 and 750cc for twins and must satisfy the FIM homologation requirements.

World Supersort regulations are much tighter than in World Superbikes. The chassis of a supersport machine must remain largely as standard, while engine tuning is possible but tightly regulated. Like in world superbike a control tyre is used, although supersport regulations dictate that the tyres must be road legal and therefore slicks are not allowed.

A world supersport race takes place at every world superbike round. Starting positions are decided by the riders’ fastest lap from two 45-minute qualifying sessions and each race is about 100km long.

[edit] World Supersport Champions

Year Rider Champion Motorcycle Manufacturer Champion 1990 Howard Selby Yamaha 1991 Luis D'Antin Honda 1992 Stefan Scheschowitz Honda 1993 Michael Paquay Honda 1994 Yves Briguet Honda 1995 Michael Paquay Ducati 1996 Fabrizio Pirovano Ducati 1997 Paolo Casoli Ducati Ducati 1998 Fabrizio Pirovano Suzuki Suzuki 1999 Stéphane Chambon Suzuki Yamaha 2000 Jörg Teuchert Yamaha Yamaha 2001 Andrew Pitt Kawasaki Yamaha 2002 Fabien Foret Honda Suzuki 2003 Chris Vermeulen Honda Honda 2004 Karl Muggeridge Honda Honda 2005 Sébastien Charpentier Honda Honda 2006 Sébastien Charpentier Honda Honda

1990 - 1995 European Championship 1996 Open Championship 1997 - 1998 World Series 1999 - World Championship

[edit] Scoring

• For the Manufacturers' Championship, only the highest finishing motorcycle by a particular manufacturer is awarded the points for that position.

[edit] Homologated motorcycles for 2007

1. ^  For 2007, the Triumph Daytona ‘675’ model is homologated to participate in open National/International Supersport 600/Superstock 600 events only; a possible participation in the 2008 FIM Supersport World Championship events will be announced in 2007.

[edit] See Also

• Superbike racing
• Grand Prix motorcycle racing

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• 2007 Regulations
• FIM homologated motorcycles for 2007