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finishes out of the top three in the championship?
Ducati: Chaz Davies - seems safe; Ayrton Badovini – is wanted by Alstare;
Niccolo Canepa – made a great job of his one-off ride at Laguna Seca.
Honda: Jonathan Rea is signed; Leon Haslam is signed.
Kawasaki: Tom Sykes is signed; Loris Baz is almost signed; Carlos Checa is a possibility.
Suzuki: No final decisions yet, but the candidates are Leon Camier, Jules Cluzel, Laverty and Davies.
Red Devils Aprilia: Toni Elias, unless Red Devils go Evo.
Gordon Ritchie
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
CORSER PLANS
2014 AUSTRALIAN
DREAM TEAM
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN GASSO
MW ambassador and two-time World Superbike
Champion Troy Corser is trying to get a team together for 2014, ideally in the full SuTroy Corser is
perbike class of World Superbike - if
hoping to put a
he can secure funding.
World Superbike
Corser is trying to get 2012-spec team together
BMW Superbikes, to run as a cusfor next year.
tomer team but with high-level machines, but the new Evo class is also an option if
funding constraints dictate it. German media suggests that there is a ready-made base for the team
in the old BMW factory team site in Germany.
Corser is trying to tempt Formula One sponsors
to spend the same kind of money that gets them
Russell Bobbitt
clinched the 2013
OMA Championship at the Troll
XC in Iowa.
a small sticker on the tail of a car to become title
sponsors for an entire World Superbike team.
The plan is for the team to be as Australian as
possible, and should have at least a blessing from
Dorna, which has been working to try and get more
Aussies into the class from day one.
Gordon Ritchie
BOBBITT CLINCHES OMA
CHAMPIONSHIP
F
ormer National Enduro Champion Russell Bobbitt took top honors at the OMA Nationals FMF
Troll XC in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on September 29.
It was his sixth win of the 2013 series and with it
came his first OMA Championship.
Husaberg Cycle Nano's Bobbitt had control of
the lead by the end of the first lap and from there
he never looked back. Despite dealing with severe
arm pump, Kole Henslee settled for second place
on his Springfield KTM/Husaberg/Yamaha KTM
300 XC.
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(Left) Marco Melandri to Aprilia is one of the only certainties in World Superbike for 2014.
