The 2014 Superbike World Championship was the twenty-seventh season of the Superbike World Championship.

The season saw the revision of the Superpole format: riders placed from eleventh to twentieth position in the combined classification of the first three practice sessions were admitted to Superpole 1, then the two fastest SP1 riders progressed to Superpole 2, which finally awarded the pole position, joining the ten fastest riders of practice.^[1]

Sylvain Guintoli became the Superbike World Champion at the last race, prevailing over Tom Sykes by six points in the standings.^[2] But both Marco Melandri and Tom Sykes won more races than Sylvain Guintoli this season. With Sykes winning 8 and Melandri 6 compared to Guintoli's 5. A portion of the riders was entered into the EVO class, featuring Superbike motorcycles with Superstock engines and electronics,^[3] scoring points for the World Championship standings and competing for the class title; David Salom was the EVO entry who amassed the most points in the overall championship standings and was awarded the title.^[2][4]

Race calendar and results

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 14-round provisional calendar on 29 November 2013.^[5] The event scheduled at the Moscow Raceway for 21 September 2014 was cancelled due to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine,^[6] while Qatar was included in the 13-round updated version of the calendar, issued by the FIM on 12 April 2014, as the venue of the last event of the season.^[7]

On 31 July 2014, the Qatar round was confirmed by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, and was to be held under floodlights for its return to the calendar.^[8] On the same date, it was announced that the South African round – due to be held on 19 October at Phakisa Freeway in Welkom – was cancelled due to delays in achieving the FIM homologation requirements.^[8] It was later announced that the round would not be replaced on the calendar, reducing the season to 12 rounds.^[9]

Round		Country	Circuit	Date	Superpole	Fastest lap	Winning rider	Winning team	Report
1	R1	Australia	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	23 February	Sylvain Guintoli	Chaz Davies	Eugene Laverty	Voltcom Crescent Suzuki	Report
	R2					Sylvain Guintoli	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia Racing Team
2	R1	Spain	Motorland Aragón	13 April	Tom Sykes	Tom Sykes	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team	Report
	R2					Chaz Davies	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team
3	R1	Netherlands	TT Circuit Assen	27 April	Loris Baz	Sylvain Guintoli	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia Racing Team	Report
	R2					Alex Lowes	Jonathan Rea	Pata Honda World Superbike
4	R1	Italy	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	11 May	Jonathan Rea	Jonathan Rea	Jonathan Rea	Pata Honda World Superbike	Report
	R2					Jonathan Rea	Jonathan Rea	Pata Honda World Superbike
5	R1	United Kingdom	Donington Park	25 May	Davide Giugliano	Tom Sykes	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team	Report
	R2					Alex Lowes	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team
6	R1	Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	8 June	Sylvain Guintoli	Marco Melandri	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Racing Team	Report
	R2					Marco Melandri	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Racing Team
7	R1	Italy	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli	22 June	Tom Sykes	Tom Sykes	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team	Report
	R2					Davide Giugliano	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team
8	R1	Portugal	Autódromo Internacional do Algarve	6 July	Tom Sykes	Tom Sykes	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team	Report
	R2					Chaz Davies	Jonathan Rea	Pata Honda World Superbike
9	R1	United States	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	13 July	Tom Sykes	Sylvain Guintoli	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Racing Team	Report
	R2					Davide Giugliano	Tom Sykes	Kawasaki Racing Team
10	R1	Spain	Circuito de Jerez	7 September	Loris Baz	Davide Giugliano	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Racing Team	Report
	R2					Sylvain Guintoli	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Racing Team
11	R1	France	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	5 October	Tom Sykes	Marco Melandri	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia Racing Team	Report
	R2					Sylvain Guintoli	Marco Melandri	Aprilia Racing Team
12	R1	Qatar	Losail International Circuit	2 November	Davide Giugliano	Loris Baz	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia Racing Team	Report
	R2					Sylvain Guintoli	Sylvain Guintoli	Aprilia Racing Team

Entry list

2014 entry list[10] Team Constructor Motorcycle No. Rider Rounds Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-10R 1 Tom Sykes[11] All 76 Loris Baz[11] All Ducati Superbike Team Ducati Ducati 1199 Panigale R 7 Chaz Davies[12] All 34 Davide Giugliano[12] All BMW Team Tóth BMW BMW S1000RR 10 Imre Tóth[10] 1–7, 10–12 16 Gábor Rizmayer[13] 8–9 GEICO Motorcycle Road Rac. Honda Honda CBR1000RR 18 Chris Ulrich[14] 9 MV Agusta RC–Yakhnich M.[15] MV Agusta Reparto Corse[16] MV Agusta MV Agusta F4 RR 19 Leon Camier[14] 9 71 Claudio Corti[17] 1–8, 10–12 Team Hero EBR EBR EBR 1190RX 20 Aaron Yates[18] All 99 Geoff May[18] All Voltcom Crescent Suzuki[19] Suzuki Suzuki GSX-R1000 22 Alex Lowes[20] All 58 Eugene Laverty[21] All Red Devils Roma Aprilia Aprilia RSV4 Factory 24 Toni Elías[10] All 3C Racing Team Ducati Ducati 1199 Panigale R 27 Max Neukirchner[22] 11 57 Lorenzo Lanzi[22] 11 212 Javier Forés[22] 11 Dream Team Company MV Agusta MV Agusta F4 RR 30 Michaël Savary[16] 7 74 Nicolas Salchaud[22] 11 Aprilia Racing Team Aprilia Aprilia RSV4 Factory 33 Marco Melandri[23] All 50 Sylvain Guintoli[23] All Pata Honda World Superbike Honda Honda CBR1000RR 65 Jonathan Rea[24] All 91 Leon Haslam[24] All Foremost Insurance EBR EBR EBR 1190RX 72 Larry Pegram[14] 9 EVO class entries Team Bimota Alstare Bimota Bimota BB3 2 Christian Iddon[25] 2–9 86 Ayrton Badovini[25] 2–9 Mahi Racing Team India Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-10R 9 Fabien Foret[10] 1–8 Team Pedercini Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-10R 9 Fabien Foret[22] 11 12 Matthew Walters[26] 1 21 Alessandro Andreozzi[27] All 23 Luca Scassa[27] 2–4, 10 48 Riccardo Russo[16] 7–8 95 Alex Cudlin[28] 12 98 Romain Lanusse[29] 5–6 MRS Kawasaki Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-10R 11 Jérémy Guarnoni[30] All BMW Motorrad Italia SBK BMW BMW S1000RR 14 Glenn Allerton[26] 1 19 Leon Camier[31] 2–6 52 Sylvain Barrier[32] 7–12 Grandi Corse by A.P. Racing Ducati Ducati 1199 Panigale R 15 Matteo Baiocco[16] 7 BMW Team Tóth BMW BMW S1000RR 16 Gábor Rizmayer[33] 10–12 56 Péter Sebestyén[10] 1–9 Iron Brain Kawasaki SBK Iron Brain Grillini Kawasaki Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-10R 32 Sheridan Morais[34] All 67 Bryan Staring[29] 5–12 84 Michel Fabrizio[35] 2–4 Kawasaki Racing Team Kawasaki Kawasaki ZX-10R 44 David Salom[36] All Althea Racing Ducati Ducati 1199 Panigale R 59 Niccolò Canepa[37] All Winteb LiquidRubber Racing T. Honda Honda CBR1000RR 77 Kervin Bos[38] 3 Barni Racing Team Ducati Ducati 1199 Panigale R 112 Ivan Goi[39] 4, 7

Key Regular rider Wildcard rider Replacement rider

• All entries used Pirelli tyres.

Championship standings

Riders' championship

Pos Rider Bike PHI ARA ASS IMO DON SEP MIS POR LAG JER MAG LOS Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 Guintoli Aprilia 3 1 6 4 1 9 5 3 7 3 2 2 5 4 2 7 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 416 2 Sykes Kawasaki 7 3 1 1 2 4 3 5 1 1 Ret 3 1 1 1 8 3 1 5 3 4 4 3 3 410 3 Rea Honda 6 5 3 5 3 1 1 1 6 6 6 6 7 5 5 1 6 3 4 5 3 Ret 4 2 334 4 Melandri Aprilia 2 8 11 3 6 6 6 11 4 17 1 1 3 3 4 Ret 1 Ret 1 1 2 1 8 4 333 5 Baz Kawasaki 5 2 2 2 4 7 4 4 2 2 Ret 5 2 2 3 6 9 6 Ret 7 5 7 2 7 311 6 Davies Ducati 8 7 4 Ret 7 8 2 2 5 5 4 8 4 Ret 18 3 Ret DNS 3 4 Ret 9 7 5 215 7 Haslam Honda Ret 6 9 8 8 5 10 8 8 7 7 11 10 12 11 5 7 7 7 8 6 3 11 10 187 8 Giugliano Ducati 4 4 8 7 Ret 3 Ret 6 Ret 4 8 10 8 9 7 2 4 Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 5 8 181 9 Elías Aprilia Ret 9 7 9 5 Ret 9 7 9 8 5 4 6 6 Ret 10 5 5 8 10 Ret Ret 6 6 171 10 Laverty Suzuki 1 Ret 5 6 Ret Ret 7 9 Ret 13 3 7 9 7 8 9 Ret 4 6 6 19 Ret 9 Ret 161 11 Lowes Suzuki Ret 13 10 Ret 9 2 8 10 3 9 Ret 9 Ret 8 6 4 8 DNS Ret 9 Ret Ret 10 9 139 12 Salom Kawasaki 9 10 13 10 12 15 12 13 10 10 9 13 11 10 9 17 10 8 9 Ret DNS DNS 13 11 103 13 Canepa Ducati 10 11 Ret 11 10 10 Ret Ret 11 11 Ret 15 12 16 13 18 11 Ret 14 15 11 10 12 12 73 14 Guarnoni Kawasaki 14 16 14 Ret 15 Ret 14 16 13 14 11 14 16 Ret 12 13 14 11 11 13 12 Ret 16 Ret 45 15 Barrier BMW 15 11 10 11 12 Ret 10 11 10 Ret 14 Ret 40 16 Camier BMW 12 12 13 Ret 11 12 DNS DNS 10 12 37 MV Agusta 15 10 17 Corti MV Agusta 13 18 Ret Ret 14 Ret 18 Ret 15 12 Ret DNS 13 17 DNS DNS 15 Ret 13 8 Ret 14 27 18 Morais Kawasaki 15 14 15 13 16 13 17 Ret 19 16 Ret 17 Ret Ret Ret 12 20 13 13 12 17 Ret DNS DNS 24 19 Andreozzi Kawasaki Ret 17 19 16 17 Ret 15 17 14 15 12 Ret Ret 15 15 16 16 9 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 15 22 20 Foret Kawasaki 12 12 Ret 15 Ret Ret 16 15 12 18 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS 15 11 20 21 Lanzi Ducati 8 5 19 22 Staring Kawasaki DNS DNS 13 16 18 18 NC 14 13 12 Ret Ret 14 Ret 15 13 18 23 Neukirchner Ducati 9 6 17 24 Scassa Kawasaki 16 14 11 12 13 14 WD WD DNS DNS 16 25 Rizmayer BMW 17 19 17 15 16 14 Ret 12 Ret DNS 7 26 Allerton BMW 11 15 6 27 Bos Honda 18 11 5 28 Tóth BMW 16 19 18 17 20 16 20 19 18 20 14 18 DNS DNS 18 Ret 20 13 18 17 5 29 Goi Ducati Ret Ret 14 13 5 30 Russo Kawasaki 17 14 14 15 5 31 Pegram EBR Ret 14 2 32 Fabrizio Kawasaki WD WD Ret Ret Ret 14 Ret Ret 2 33 Lanusse Kawasaki 16 19 15 Ret 1 Yates EBR 17 20 17 19 Ret DNS Ret Ret 17 Ret 16 20 Ret DNS 16 Ret Ret DNS Ret 16 Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 May EBR DNS DNS Ret 20 19 DNS Ret 18 DNS DNS DNS DNS Ret Ret Ret Ret 18 16 17 Ret 18 Ret 17 16 0 Salchaud MV Agusta 16 Ret 0 Ulrich Honda 19 17 0 Cudlin Kawasaki Ret 18 0 Sebestyén BMW DNQ DNQ 20 18 Ret DNS 19 Ret DNS DNS Ret 19 19 19 Ret Ret Ret DNS 0 Forés Ducati Ret Ret 0 Baiocco Ducati Ret Ret 0 Badovini Bimota DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ 0 Iddon Bimota DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ 0 Savary MV Agusta DNS DNS 0 Walters Kawasaki DNS DNS 0 Pos Rider Bike PHI ARA ASS IMO DON SEP MIS POR LAG JER MAG LOS Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap Light blue – EVO

Manufacturers' championship

Pos	Manufacturer	PHI		ARA		ASS		IMO		DON		SEP		MIS		POR		LAG		JER		MAG		LOS		Pts
		R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2
1	Aprilia	2	1	6	3	1	6	5	3	4	3	1	1	3	3	2	7	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	468
2	Kawasaki	5	2	1	1	2	4	3	4	1	1	9	3	1	1	1	6	3	1	5	3	4	4	2	3	431
3	Honda	6	5	3	5	3	1	1	1	6	6	6	6	7	5	5	1	6	3	4	5	3	3	4	2	350
4	Ducati	4	4	4	7	7	3	2	2	5	4	4	8	4	9	7	2	4	Ret	3	4	7	5	5	5	291
5	Suzuki	1	13	5	6	9	2	7	9	3	9	3	7	9	7	6	4	8	4	6	6	19	Ret	9	9	234
6	BMW	11	15	12	12	13	16	11	12	18	20	10	12	15	11	10	11	12	15	10	11	10	12	14	17	81
7	MV Agusta	13	18	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	18	Ret	15	12	Ret	DNS	13	17	DNS	DNS	15	10	15	Ret	13	8	Ret	14	34
8	EBR	17	20	17	19	19	DNS	Ret	18	17	Ret	16	20	Ret	Ret	16	Ret	18	14	17	16	18	Ret	17	16	2
	Bimota			DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ	DSQ							0
Pos	Manufacturer	PHI		ARA		ASS		IMO		DON		SEP		MIS		POR		LAG		JER		MAG		LOS		Pts

References

External links

• Official website