The big humdinger of a change
within the latest Superbike Com-
mission regulations is that from
the 2030
season, four-cylinder
machines up to 1200cc will be
allowed to race. Currently, the limit
is 1000cc—hence the necessity
of a homologation special V4 R
Ducati, when the other V4 engines
in the Ducati range are 1100cc.
The new Roadmap rules have
come a bit too late for the newly
formed Superbike Independent
Teams Association (SITA) to
have had any say in their for
-
mulation. The as-yet unofficial
grouping
of all the WorldSBK pri-
vate teams heard about the new
WorldSBK
rules the same way as
everyone else—through the press
release and media—but the plan
for SITA is to get a seat on the
Superbike Commission itself.
Denis Sacchetti, team man
-
ager for the GoEleven Ducati
squad, is the current de facto
spokesperson for SITA, and he
has been in contact with the
current powers-that-be in the
WorldSBK Commission.
Sacchetti described SITA, as
it stands, thus: "At the moment it
is just a group between the team
managers from all the indepen
-
dent teams. Finally, we want to
have
the possibility to say some-
thing, and I think it is particu-
larly important in this moment in
WorldSBK.
There are four entities
in WorldSBK now. The FIM, the
Dorna Group, the MSMA, and the
Independent Teams. These four
figures compose the WorldSBK
Championship, in the end.
"Only the Independent Teams
do not have a reference. So,
what we need is a little bit differ
-
ent from the manufacturers, and
we are not the
Federation or the
Promoter. In some situations, we
suffer, and now it is important
that we also have the possibility
to participate in the Superbike
Commission, to say what we
need, to have proposals for the
future, and have a direct vote for
the new rules, and so on."
So far, the feelers have been
put out by SITA, initially by letter,
and it seems there could be a
meeting in September between
SITA and the current Superbike
Commission.
"They have given us feedback
and replies, and SITA has replied
to them," Sacchetti continues.
"The communication has started,
and that is good. But it is too early
now to say if they will accept our
request or not. I think we will know
in September, and it would be
good to have a meeting with them
to decide how to introduce us into
the Superbike Commission."
Gordon Ritchie
VOLUME 63 ISSUE 31 AUGUST 4, 2026 P29
One of the aims of the
new rule set is to halt the
unrelenting dominance of
Ducati in WorldSBK.
