Round details | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round 11 of 13 rounds in the 2010 Superbike World Championship. and Round 11 of 13 rounds in the 2010 Supersport World Championship. | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Date | September 5, 2010 | ||||||||||||
Location | Nürburgring | ||||||||||||
Course | Permanent racing facility 5.137 km (3.192 mi) | ||||||||||||
Superbike World Championship | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Supersport World Championship | |||||||||||||
|
The 2010 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round was the eleventh round of the 2010 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of September 3–5, 2010, at the Nürburgring.
The Nürburgring is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer Nordschleife "North loop" track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. The north loop is 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long and has more than 300 metres of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Jackie Stewart nicknamed the old track "The Green Hell".
Race 1 was red flagged after one lap due to a crash involving Leon Haslam and Troy Corser, and later restarted with full length.
Leon Haslam is a motorcycle road racer based in Derbyshire, England. For the 2017 and 2018 seasons, he was contracted to race in the British Superbike Championship aboard a Kawasaki ZX-10R. He won the 2018 British championship at the final event held at Brands Hatch in late October, having previously signed to join the Kawasaki Superbike factory team (KRT) in World Championship from 2019 as team-mate to Jonny Rea.
Troy Gordon Corser is an Australian former motorcycle road racer, the 1996 and 2005 Superbike World champion.
John "Hopper" Hopkins is a motorcycle road racer based in United States. During 2017 he raced in the British Superbike Championship aboard a Ducati 1199 Panigale for Moto Rapido Racing, but suffered injuries from a crash at the season-finale race meeting in October, meaning he could not participate during 2018.
Noriyuki Haga (芳賀紀行), is a Japanese professional motorcycle racer. Haga was a top contender in the Superbike World Championship, finishing as runner-up three times, and has finished third in the championship series four times. He currently competes in the CIV Supersport 600 Championship, aboard a Yamaha YZF-R6.
Tommy Hill is a former British motorcycle road racer, born 9 February 1985 in Beckenham, Kent. His greatest success was becoming the British Superbike Champion for 2011. He also competed in the World Superbike and World Supersport championships.
The Motorsport Arena Oschersleben is 3.667 kilometres (2.28 mi) long race track with a width of 11–13 meters and elevation changes of 23 metres. The circuit is located in Oschersleben, Börde, Germany. Its fairly flat contours create a smooth, fast circuit.
Makoto Tamada (玉田誠) is a former Japanese professional motorcycle racer currently working as a rider instructor in Suzuka Racing School. He is one of the few riders to win races in both MotoGP and Superbike World Championship.
Karl Muggeridge born 20 April 1974 in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia is a former professional motorcycle racer. He is married to Isobel, and has one son, Ryan Luca. He won the Supersport World Championship in 2004, and then raced in Superbike World Championship, primarily on Hondas.
Superbike World Championship is a motorsport road racing series for modified production motorcycles also known as superbike racing. The championship was founded in 1988. The Superbike World Championship consists of a series of rounds held on permanent racing facilities. Each round has two races and the results of each race are combined to determine two annual World Championships, one for riders and one for manufacturers.
The 2008 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-first season of the Superbike World Championship. Corona Extra ceased to be the championship's title sponsor, as it had been since 1998. The electronics manufacturer HANNspree took over as the title sponsor in 2008 and this arrangement remained in place until 2010, with the championship officially known as the "HANNspree SBK Superbike World Championship".
Ten Kate Racing is a motorbike racing team, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship under the name Red Bull Honda World Superbike Team. The riders for 2018 are Leon Camier, previously with MV Agusta, and Jake Gagne, previously in American Superbikes.
The 2008 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round was the seventh round of the 2008 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of June 13–15, 2008, at the Nürburgring.
Ian Lowry is a Northern Irish motorcycle racer.
The 2010 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-third season of the Superbike World Championship. It was the third season in which HANNspree had been the title sponsor of the championship.
The 2009 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round was the eleventh round of the 2009 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of September 4–6, 2009, at the Nürburgring.
The 2011 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-fourth season of the Superbike World Championship. It began on 27 February at Phillip Island and finished on 16 October in Portimão after 13 rounds.
The 1999 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round was the 6th round of the 1999 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of 11–13 June 1999 at the Nürburgring. It was highly criticised by the riders after track officials failed to show race flags. Carl Fogarty and Troy Corser won Race 1 and Race 2 respectively.
The 2011 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round was the tenth round of the 2011 Superbike World Championship. It took place on the weekend of September 2–4, 2011 at Nürburgring, Germany. The second race here turned out to be James Toseland's last race, as a crash aggravated the injury he picked up at Motorland Aragón earlier in the year and was forced to retire.
The 2012 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-fifth season of the Superbike World Championship. It began on 26 February at Phillip Island and ended on 7 October in Magny-Cours after 14 rounds.
Marco Borciani is a retired Italian motorcycle racer, now motorcycle racing team owner and manager.
The 2013 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-sixth season of the Superbike World Championship. It began on 24 February at Phillip Island and finished on 20 October at the Circuito de Jerez after 14 rounds.
The 2019 Superbike World Championship is the 32nd season of the Superbike World Championship.