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Motorcycle.com: S1000RR Motorcycle of the Year
“After years of incremental increases in performance among sportbikes, along comes a fresh player to shake things up in the literbike world in a way we haven’t seen for more than a decade when the first-gen R1 debuted. BMW stepped into the fray against long-established Japanese players which have been building big transverse inline-Fours for decades. But the German brand came out swinging with a stupendous 175-plus horsepower at its rear wheel.
The potential of BMW’s RR is best displayed in the World Superstock championship (closer to stock than World Superbike) where it has gone undefeated and has already wrapped up the class title.”
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BMW and Badovini a championship winning combination.
Nine consecutive race victories, eight pole positions and a first international two-wheeled race title secured for BMW Motorrad as early as the seventh of the 10-round 2010 FIM Superstock Cup series. Add to that the clear victory in the Manufacturers’ Championship two races ahead of last weekend’s season finale.
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Jon Kirkham wins British Superstock 1000 Championship on S 1000 RR.
Success story continues with the news that another national championship has been won by a BMW rider. This time it’s the turn of Derby-based Jon Kirkham, who secured the 2010 Metzeler British Superstock 1000 Championship title with a convincing win at the Croft racing circuit in North Yorkshire.
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Forés claims Spanish Stock Extreme Championship title on S 1000 RR.
Team Motorrad rider Javier Forés is the new champion in the Stock Extreme category of the Spanish Superbike Championship after yet another impressive victory on his BMW S 1000 RR. A fifth consecutive victory for Motorrad Competición rider Forés delivered the Spaniard the CEV Buckler Stock Extreme title at Albacete on September 12, with two rounds of the 2010 campaign still to go.
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