Supersport racing

Template:Infobox sports league Supersport World 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. Overview Gianluca Vizziello riding the the RG Team Yamaha YZF-R6 at Phillip Island As of 1999 World Supersport is a a support class to the Superbike World Championship. Supersport racing has also 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 Supersport 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. As in World Superbike, a control tyre is used, although World 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 laps from two 45-minute qualifying sessions and each race is approximately 100km long. Supersport World Champions Year Rider Champion Motorcycle Manufacturer Champion 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 2007 Kenan Sofuoğlu Honda Scoring Points System Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Points 25 20 16 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The points system is the same for the Riders' Championship and the Manufacturers' Championship, but only the highest-finishing motorcycle by a particular manufacturer is awarded the points for the latter championship. Homologated motorcycles for 2007 Model Production period as from Ducati 748R (H3) January 2002 - end Ducati 749R (H5) January 2004 - present Honda CBR600FS January 2001 - end Honda CBR600F4i January 2001 - end Honda CBR600RR (PC37) January 2003 - end Honda CBR600RR (PC37) January 2005 - end Honda CBR600RR (PC40) January 2007 - present Kawasaki ZX 600 K (ZX-6RR) January 2003 - end Kawasaki ZX 600 M (ZX-6RR) January 2004 - end Kawasaki ZX 600 N (ZX-6RR) January 2005 - end Kawasaki ZX 600 P (ZX-6RR) January 2007 - present Suzuki GSX 600 R (K4) January 2004 - end Suzuki GSX 600 R (K6) January 2006 - present Triumph Daytona 600 January 2003 - end Triumph Daytona 675 January 2006 – present Yamaha YZF-R6 January 2003 - end Yamaha YZF-R6 January 2005 - end Yamaha YZF-R6 January 2006 - present See Also Superbike racing Grand Prix motorcycle racing External links Official Site 2007 Regulations FIM homologated motorcycles for 2007 World Supersport Championship Seasons 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008