PICTURES: WSBK legends at Donington.
World Superbike wound back the clock for its 20th anniversary celebrations last weekend at Donington Park, when a line-up of legends took part in parade around the Leicestershire circuit.
Among those in action were 13-times WSBK race winner Aaron Slight - who fell! - and four-times winner Rob Phillis (top picture), plus 1988 and 1989 world champion Fred Merkel and Italian veteran Piergiorgio Bontempi (middle picture).
World Superbike wound back the clock for its 20th anniversary celebrations last weekend at Donington Park, when a line-up of legends took part in parade around the Leicestershire circuit.
Among those in action were 13-times WSBK race winner Aaron Slight - who fell! - and four-times winner Rob Phillis (top picture), plus 1988 and 1989 world champion Fred Merkel and Italian veteran Piergiorgio Bontempi (middle picture).
Also in attendance were Pierfrancesco Chili, Terry Rymer, Davide Tardozzi, John Reynolds, Fabrizio Pirovano, Giancarlo Falappa, Neil Hodgson, Paolo Casoli and Piergiorgio Bontempi (lower picture).
Donington hosted the first ever WSBK event on April 3rd 1988 and returned to the calendar this season for the first time since 2001.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
