After a two-week break, the Pata Honda team and its riders Michael van der Mark and Sylvain Guintoli are preparing for this weekend’s (31 July – 2 August) tenth round of the 2015 World Superbike championship at Sepang in Malaysia. After two top-eight finishes in...
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After two consecutive Suzuka 8 hour victories in 2013 and 2014, the number 634 bike of team MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO began this year’s race from third spot on the grid, but was unable to covert this to win number three. Takumi Takahashi was the first...
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Michael van der Mark took his Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP to eighth and seventh place finishes respectively in Sunday’s two ninth-round World Superbike championship races at Laguna Seca in the USA. Van der Mark, 22, got two good starts from a lowly 15th place on...
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Michael van der Mark will start the two ninth-round World Superbike championship races at Laguna Seca in the USA from the fifth row of the grid. The 22-year-old Dutch rider struggled for a positive front-end feeling throughout Friday’s practice sessions but a different front tyre...
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Michael van der Mark worked hard with his Pata Honda crew on the opening day of the ninth-round World Superbike championship at Laguna Seca in the USA today. Van der Mark is visiting the USA and Laguna Seca for the first time and was deeply...
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The Pata Honda team is preparing for round nine of the 2015 World Superbike championship which takes place this weekend (17-19 July) at Laguna Seca in California, USA. For Michael van der Mark, this weekend marks his first-ever visit to the United States and is...
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Pata Honda rider Michael van der Mark finished in tenth place in both races at today’s eighth-round World Superbike championship event at Misano World Circuit in Italy. For van der Mark, a grid position of 15th following problems during qualifying yesterday was a difficult place...
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Michael van der Mark will start tomorrow’s eighth-round World Superbike championship races from the fifth row of the grid after setting the fifteenth-fastest time on his Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP in this afternoon’s Superpole at the Misano World Circuit in Italy. With track temperatures at...
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Pata Honda rider Michael van der Mark finshed day one of the eighth-round World Superbike championship event at Misano in Italy in 17th place on combined times this afternoon, with WSBK returnee Max Biaggi topping the timesheets. The top 12 riders today were covered by...
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Michael van der Mark is preparing himself for the Pata-sponsored eighth round of the 2015 World Superbike championship which takes place at Misano World Circuit this weekend (19-21 June) on the Adriatic coast of Italy. Both Pata Honda riders, Van der Mark and Sylvain Guintoli,...
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Pata Honda rider Michael van der Mark produced two solid results in today’s two seventh-round World Superbike championship races at Portimao in Portugal. Race one was interrupted by rain with just six laps remaining. Van der Mark was recovering from an earlier electronics glitch and...
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Michael van der Mark will start tomorrow’s two 20-lap races at the 4.592km Autodromo Internacional do Algarve from the fifth row after being unable to graduate from Superpole 1 this afternoon. The Dutch rider, 22, is still looking for more stability with his CBR under...
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