1988 Superbike World Championship

none Superbike World Championship 1988 none The 1988 Superbike World Championship was the inaugural FIM Superbike World Championship season. The season started on 3 April at Donington Park and finished on 3 October at Manfeild Autocourse after 9 rounds. American Fred Merkel won the riders' championship and Honda won the manufacturers' championship. Race calendar and results The second Le Mans race was not held due to schedule issues.http://racingmemo.free.fr/M%20SUPERBIKES/MOTO-SBK%201988.htm Championnat du monde de Superbikes – Classements complets – 1988 racingmemo.free.fr 5 January 2015 French 1988 Superbike World Championship Calendar https://motorsportstats.com/series/fim-superbike-world-championship/results/1988 Round Country Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning rider Winning team Report 1 R1 GBR Great Britain Donington Park 3 April GBR Roger Burnett ITA Marco Lucchinelli ITA Davide Tardozzi Bimota SpA Report R2 USA Bubba Shobert ITA Marco Lucchinelli Ducati Team Lucky 2 R1 HUN Hungary Hungaroring 30 April ITA Davide Tardozzi USA Fred Merkel USA Fred Merkel RCM Report R2 ITA Marco Lucchinelli FRA Adrien Morillas Team Kawasaki France 3 R1 FRG West Germany Hockenheimring 8 May PRT Alex Vieira FRA Christophe Bouheben ITA Davide Tardozzi Bimota SpA Report R2 ITA Virginio Ferrari ITA Davide Tardozzi Bimota SpA 4 R1 AUT Austria Zeltweg 3 July AUS Malcolm Campbell ITA Davide Tardozzi ITA Marco Lucchinelli Ducati Team Lucky Report R2 FRA Christophe Bouheben ITA Davide Tardozzi Bimota SpA 5 R1 JPN Japan Sugo 28 August ITA Marco Lucchinelli CAN Gary Goodfellow CAN Gary Goodfellow Don Knit Sugano Racing Team Report R2 JPN Kenichiro Iwahashi AUS Mick Doohan Marlboro Yamaha Dealer Team 6 R1 FRA France Le Mans 4 September ITA Marco Lucchinelli ITA Fabrizio Pirovano ITA Fabrizio Pirovano Moto Club Carate Brianza Report R2 Race cancelled 7 R1 PRT Portugal Estoril 11 September BEL Stéphane Mertens ITA Davide Tardozzi ITA Davide Tardozzi Bimota SpA Report R2 FRA Raymond Roche BEL Stéphane Mertens Bimota SpA 8 R1 AUS Australia Oran Park 25 September AUS Mick Doohan USA Fred Merkel AUS Mick Doohan Marlboro Yamaha Dealer Team Report R2 AUS Mick Doohan AUS Mick Doohan Marlboro Yamaha Dealer Team 9 R1 NZL New Zealand Manfeild 2 October ITA Davide Tardozzi USA Fred Merkel USA Fred Merkel RCM Report R2 BEL Stéphane Mertens BEL Stéphane Mertens Bimota SpA Championship standings https://motorsportstats.com/series/superbike-world-championship/standings/1988 Superbike World Championship Standings 1988 motorsportstats.com 27 February 2023 http://www.wsb-archives.co.uk/Championships/1988.html 1988 World Superbike Championship Standings wsb-archives.co.uk 5 January 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20120504064708/http://www.wsb-archives.co.uk/Championships/1988.html 4 May 2012 +Scoring systemPosition  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th Original 20 17 15 13 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Revised 10 8.5 7.5 6.5 5.5 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 For the first ever Superbike World Championship round at Donington Park, and for the only time in the championship's history, the race results were combined to determine an overall winner.http://www.motorsport.com/wsbk/news/donington-park-ducati-preview/ Donington Park: Ducati preview motorsport.com 29 March 2007 5 January 2015 5 January 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150105195934/http://www.motorsport.com/wsbk/news/donington-park-ducati-preview/ dead For future weekends, it was decided to award half points for each race instead, although the original system was used again at Le Mans due to only one race being run.https://www.devittinsurance.com/guides/motorcycle-racing/world-superbike-championship/history/ History of the World Superbike Championship 21 June 2016 27 February 2023 English Riders' standings Pos. Rider Bike GBRGBR HUNHUN FRGFRG AUTAUT JPNJPN FRAFRA PORPRT AUSAUS NZLNZL PtsR1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2 1 USA Fred Merkel Honda 4 2 1 5 17 Ret Ret 8 2 11 6 C 4 5 4 3 1 5 99 2 ITA Fabrizio Pirovano Yamaha 8 4 5 6 11 8 2 7 Ret 10 1 C 6 6 6 7 2 13 93.5 3 ITA Davide Tardozzi Bimota 1 Ret 2 3 1 1 5 1 Ret 4 12 C 1 2 11 10 5 DNS 91.5 4 BEL Stéphane Mertens Bimota Ret Ret 3 2 13 2 4 16 3 C 2 1 7 6 6 1 90.5 5 ITA Marco Lucchinelli Ducati 2 1 9 Ret 6 11 1 Ret 12 Ret 10 C 3 4 63 6 PRT Alex Vieira Honda 3 3 4 3 4 C 42 7 AUS Rob Phillis Kawasaki 8 Ret 6 6 3 4 4 3 42 8 CAN Gary Goodfellow Suzuki Ret DNS 1 3 39.5 Honda 8 5 3 6 9 AUS Malcolm Campbell Honda 3 6 17 15 5 8 11 2 33.5 10 GBR Terry Rymer Honda 8 C 5 3 14 11 9 7 32.5 11 GBR Roger Burnett Honda Ret 3 8 4 5 4 Ret DNS 7 C 31.5 12 AUS Mick Doohan Yamaha NC 1 1 1 30 13 GBR Joey Dunlop Honda 3 5 6 Ret 7 5 30 14 FRA Eric Delcamp Kawasaki 11 13 9 6 2 C 29.5 15 FRA Christophe Bouheben Honda 2 Ret Ret 2 5 C 28 16 FRA Adrien Morillas Kawasaki 4 1 19 16 7 5 Ret C 26.5 17 CHE Edwin Weibel Honda 4 Ret 6 4 Ret 5 16 C Ret DNS 23.5 18 FIN Jari Suhonen Yamaha 7 10 14 10 Ret DNS 17 13 16 27 11 C Ret 13 21 19 GBR Andy McGladdery Suzuki 9 7 15 Ret DNQ DNQ 18.5 Honda 19 C 15 12 12 13 14 10 20 SWE Anders Andersson Suzuki 25 12 18 12 20 23 9 12 15 19 13 C 8 9 18.5 21 AUS Robert Scolyer Honda 9 9 8 4 17.5 22 AUS Michael Dowson Yamaha Ret Ret 2 2 17 23 GBR Paul Iddon Bimota Ret DNS 12 8 12 13 32 Ret 9 8 17 24 ITA Virginio Ferrari Honda DNQ DNQ Ret 11 10 9 Ret Ret 10 8 Ret C 16 25 GBR Kenny Irons Honda 6 8 14 7 15.5 26 FRG Ernst Gschwender Suzuki 10 9 18 27 10 10 Ret C 12 Ret 14.5 27 GBR Roger Marshall Suzuki 5 6 20 18 13 28 ITA Marino Fabbri Bimota 28 Ret Ret 9 9 C 16 11 13 29 GBR Robert Dunlop Honda Ret DNS 26 17 29 21 21 23 18 C 10 7 13 14 15 12 12.5 30 CAN Tommy Douglas Yamaha 16 15 17 Ret 7 1111 31 JPN Yukiya Oshima Suzuki 3 13 9 32 DNK René Rasmussen Suzuki 7 7 21 Ret Ret DNS DNQ C 21 Ret 9 33 JPN Kenichiro Iwahashi Honda Ret 2 8.5 34 JPN Tadaaki Hanamura Honda 8 9 7.5 35 GBR Steve Williams Bimota 11 9 19 16 31 Ret 7 36 FRG Peter Rubatto Bimota Ret Ret 21 14 15 14 16 Ret 23 C 7 17 7 37 CHE Andreas Hofmann Honda 8 10 7 38 NZL Glenn Williams Ducati 10 8 7 39 IRL Mark Farmer Suzuki 14 11 6 40 ITA Mauro Ricci Ducati 15 Ret 21 C 11 10 6 41 JPN Mitsuaki Watanabe Yamaha 5 24 5.5 42 NZL Aaron Slight Bimota 7 14 5.5 43 JPN Koichi Kobayashi Honda 9 12 5.5 44 NZL Andrew Stroud Bimota 13 9 5 45 AUS Sean Gallagher Honda 10 12 5 46 GBR Dave Leach Yamaha 15 13 24 18 DNQ DNQ 22 C 5 47 GBR Brian Morrison Honda 26 7 4.5 48 GBR John Lofthouse Suzuki 17 14 3 49 FRG Karl Heinz Riegl Bimota DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 11 18 25 C 18 19 2.5 50 BEL Paul Ramon Honda Ret 11 DNS C 2.5 51 JPN Toshiharu Kaneko Yamaha 11 25 2.5 52 AUT Dietmar Kemter Honda 12 15 2.5 53 NZL Mike King Ducati 12 15 2.5 54 FRG Udo Mark Bimota 22 17 13 14 27 C 17 16 2.5 55 FRG Anton Gruschka Honda 24 24 Ret C 13 14 2.5 56 GBR Asa Moyce Kawasaki 19 16 DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 2 57 FRG Bodo Schmidt Bimota Ret 12 Ret Ret 2 58 FRA Jean-Yves Mounier Yamaha 14 C 2 59 FRG Michael Galinski Bimota Ret DNS 13 Ret Ret 15 2 60 FRA Jean-Louis Guignabodet Honda 20 15 25 Ret 18 17 17 C 14 15 2 61 JPN Hisatomo Nakamura Suzuki 13 17 1.5 62 FIN Esko Kuparinen Kawasaki 20 17 25 23 DNQ DNQ 1 63 FRG Dieter Heinen Honda 14 16 DNS C 1 64 JPN Satoshi Endoh Honda 14 22 1 65 GBR Mark Linscott Honda 15 C 1 66 NZL Dale Warren Honda NC 14 1 67 AUS Iain Pero Suzuki 15 Ret 0.5 68 AUS Len Willing Yamaha Ret 15 0.5 Pos. Rider Bike GBRGBR HUNHUN FRGFRG AUTAUT JPNJPN FRAFRA PORPRT AUSAUS NZLNZL Pts Bold – Pole positionItalics – Fastest lapSource: Manufacturers' standings Pos. Manufacturer GBRGBR HUNHUN FRGFRG AUTAUT JPNJPN FRAFRA PORPRT AUSAUS NZLNZL PtsR1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2R1R2 1 JPN Honda 3 2 1 4 2 3 3 2 2 2 4 C 4 3 4 3 1 2 142 2 ITA Bimota 1 9 2 2 1 1 5 1 4 4 3 C 1 1 7 6 5 1 132.5 3 JPN Yamaha 7 4 5 6 11 8 2 7 5 1 1 C 6 6 1 1 2 11 117.5 4 JPN Kawasaki 19 16 4 1 9 6 7 5 6 6 2 C 25 24 3 4 4 3 92 5 ITA Ducati 2 1 9 Ret 6 11 1 21 12 Ret 10 C 3 4 20 19 10 8 70 6 JPN Suzuki 5 6 7 7 18 20 9 10 1 3 13 C 8 9 15 16 16 16 57 Pos. Manufacturer GBRGBR HUNHUN FRGFRG AUTAUT JPNJPN FRAFRA PORPRT AUSAUS NZLNZL Pts References Peter Clifford (1988) Motocourse 1988-89, The World's Leading Grand Prix & Superbike Annual Hazleton Publishing 978-0905138589 External links http://www.wsb-archives.co.uk/results-year.php?year=1988 1988 Qualifying & Race Results wsb-archives.co.uk 2015-01-05 2015-01-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20150104220126/http://www.wsb-archives.co.uk/results-year.php?year=1988 dead Category:Superbike World Championship seasons Superbike