This weekend’s World Superbike round at Imola, will be bolstered by three more riders on the grid coming from Italy’s Superbike Championship (CIV) and all three ride Ducati’s.

Federico Sandi (Max Biaggi’s crewchief’s son) who rides full time for Althea Racing in the Italian series this year after switching from Gabrielli Racing with an Aprilia (they wildcarded last year at Monza), and Ducati Barni Racing team’s Matteo Baiocco and Alex Polita.

Baiocco and Polita have already wildcarded this year in World Superbikes. Baiocco took part in the Misano (12th and a DNF) Brno rounds (DNF and DNF), while Polita only at the Italian double header (13th and DNF).

Baiocco currently leads in the CIV Superbike championship with 145 points while team mate Alex Polita is second with 129 and with one race left on the calendar

Source | bikeracing.it

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World Superbike team Celani Race has confirmed Alex Polita for the rest of the 2009 season.

Polita replaced injured Karl Muggeridge in the Misano and Donington Park rounds after Muggeridge cracked a couple of vertebrae at Assen, which a CAT scan confirmed after his crash at Miller Sportspark.

The Italian rider from Jesi will be returning to the team that launched him in 2006 and where he won the World Superstock championship.

This has been a troubled year for Polita. Originally confirmed in Marco Borciani’s Sterilgarda team at the begining of the season, he was then axed when Borciani let him go because of economic difficulties, perfering to keep BSB champion Shane Byrne.

Without a ride Polita then turned to Italian CIV Stock with a Yamaha and team funded by his father. He was then called by Hoegee Suzuki before the Assen round to ride in World Supersport, but after the Miller round, the Dutch based team announced that they too were having economic problems and were pulling out of the championship.

Now the Italian is finally back with a Suzuki, but in World Superbike.

Source | motocorse

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Alex Polita was dropped from Sterilgarda’s BRC Racing Team even before the SBK season started due to sponsorship troubles, with Team Manager Marco Borciani promising that they would be back on track for the Valencia round with their second bike.

However Polita has announced that he will be riding in this year’s Italian SuperStock championship with a Yamaha R1, in a new team called Team CP Racing, that was created especially for him by his father, ex rider Giancarlo Polita and a family friend.

This is what Alex Polita had to say about his decision:

Continue reading: Alex Polita gives up on 2009 WSBK season

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Alex Polita who graduated from Sterilgarda’s BRC Racing Team in the Superstock 1000 Championship to ride in WSBK for Sterilgarda Ducati is now out of ride due to sponsorship economic woes thus leaving Shane Byrne as the sole rider for the team.
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I’m really sorry about the situation that does not allow us to enter Alex Polita as planned. Unfortunately the economic condition of companies at the moment means that we do not have the support of several sponsors, who were supposed to help us for the 2009 season. I feel really sorry for Alex, who is a talented young rider with whom I hope to again be able to work with in the future” said team boss Marco Borciani.

Borciani however insists it is still their intention to get a second bike on the grid for the first European round of the season in Valencia.

Source | teamsterilgarda

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