The WSBK Championship will be back this weekend at the Nurburgring circuit in Germany after the long summer break.
Noriyuki Haga, the championship points leader is back to full fitness after his horrific highside at Donington and ready to take on rival Ben Spies, who is just seven points behind the Xerox Ducati rider in the standings.
General news on the upcoming Nurburgring round:Due to financial difficulties the Verona based team DFX Corse will be putting only one of their Ducati 1098RS bikes on the German track.
The bike will be ridden by Fonsi Nieto while Lorenzo Lanzi who has been subbing for injured Regis Laconi, will sit this one out.
Lanzi will be back for his home race at Imola at the end of September.
Celani Suzuki is another team who has economic troubles and have decided to completely skip this upcoming round at Nurburgring.
They plan to be back for final three rounds with Alex Polita as their rider.
Karl Muggeridge will be replacing Max Neukirchner who fractured several vertebrae during the Imola test in July, in Alstare Suzuki.
Muggeridge was Celani Suzuki’s rider until he too suffered vertebrae damage during the US round at Millers Sportspark and later was dropped by Celani.
Richard Cooper will be standing in for Ruben Xaus, who broke his femur during the Brno round.
Cooper has ridden in the BMW HP2 Sport in the World Endurance Championship last year and has also been a regular competitor in the BMW Boxer Cup.
He has also tested the S 1000 RR racebike at the Eurospeedway Lausitz recently.