At the end of his third year in MotoGP, with Forward Racing on Yamaha in 2015, then with Avintia on Ducati last year and this year, Loris Baz will once again take the path to the Superbike World Championship, where he once officiated from 2012 to 2014 within the official Kawasaki team where he was then replaced by Jonathan Rea.
Baz has not been unworthy in MotoGP, currently holding eighteenth place in the World Championship on a Desmosedici GP15. His best qualification this year was ninth in Argentina, and eighth in the race at Assen. His best results were fourth places in Misano in 2015 and Brno in 2016.
He finished seventeenth in the Championship in 2015 with 28 points, then twentieth last year with 35. His departure from Avintia is not due to a lack of sporting performance, but to the need to make room for wealthier newcomers.
In Superbike, Loris finished eighth in the world in 2012, thirteenth in 2013 (season cut short by a neck injury in Germany) and fifth in 2014. He had previously won the European Superstock 600 Championship on Yamaha for his first truly international season in 2008, at the age of 15 (youngest winner in the history of the championship). On April 21, 2013, he won the Bol d'or with Grégory Leblanc and Jérémy Guarnoni on a Kawasaki ZX-10R from the SRC team. With an average age of 22,33, they were the youngest team to win this event.
The Althea Racing team is owned by its creator Genesio Bevilacqua, a ceramics industrialist with a passion for motorcycle racing. He has an extraordinary collection of racing motorcycles, visible on This site. There is a delicious 360 panoramic tour°. Althea won the Superbike World Championship with Carlos Checa and Ducati in 2011. The team is based in Civita Castellana, 65 km north of Rome.
Althea Racing has won in Superbike over the last five years:
- 22 wins.
- 9 second places.
- 11 third places.
- 9 Superpoles.
- 27 fastest laps.
- 1886 points.
In Superstock 1000:
- 4 wins.
- 6 second places,
- 3 third places,
- 5 fastest laps.
- 3 pole positions
- 308 points.
This year, its drivers were Jordi Torres (who will be at MV Agusta next year), Markus Reiterberger, then the Neapolitan Raffaele de Rosa. There will only be one driver in 2018 in the person of Loris Baz.
Photo © Althea Racing
Source: motorsport. com
