Last week Infront Motor Sports who owns the Superbike World Championship, announced that it had increased its audience by 33%, that audiences reached 498 million viewing fans, that their official website saw a 30% increase of visitors, all compared to their 2009 figures.
They also announced that broadcast coverage was in 175 countries (apparently racing starved Hungary isn’t one of them, according to Gabor Talmacsi) and this year we will be seeing the series in HD and gasp and wow, we’ll also be able to see what’s happening from a riders point of view with those nifty, technological, ultramodern little things called on-board cameras.
If we want to see those fantastic gyroscopic cameras that MotoGP started experimenting last season in Superbikes, we’ll probably have to wait for Leon Alexandre Biaggi to start competing.