World Superbike News

Monster Energy rider Eugene Laverty scored his second podium finish in a row with a hard-fought third place finish in the lone shortened World Superbike race at the fabled Monza circuit nearly Milan, Italy.

– Longtime Monster Energy-backed road racer John “Hopper” Hopkins (Samsung Crescent Racing) was thisclose to winning the 2011 British Superbike (BSB) overall season championship this past weekend, edged in the season’s final race by Tommy Hill by 0.006 seconds – the smallest margin ever to decide a BSB championship.