Next weekend comes one of the high points in the calendar of Superbikes, with the arrival of this championship to the always spectacular and special circuit of Laguna Seca, eight years after his last appearance. Well, it must be said that the grid will have important new features, unfortunately due to injury problems that have forced some teams to look for substitutes for their regular drivers.
To the changes already known and caused by the rupture of the femur of Jonathan Rea, Next weekend we will have to add the absences of Leon Camier in the Suzuki FIXI Crescent and Carlos Checa in the Ducati Alstare, both due to their hard crashes in Turkey. The first with up to seven broken bones in his right foot and the second, as we already know, due to a broken pelvis that will prevent him from finishing the season. In Laguna Seca then, Leon will be replaced by Blake young and Carlos will be for Niccolò Canepa.
Let's start with the team FIXI Crescent, that taking into account the appointment, he has decided to look towards the AMA Superbike and choose a local pilot for the occasion. As I was saying, it will be Young, runner-up on two occasions in the American championship and whom we have already seen doing the odd wild card in MotoGP. Blake is born in Wisconsin, is twenty-six years old and will taste the Suzuki GSX-R 1000 of Superbikes directly in free practice on the twenty-seventh. For his part, Camier has for a little while and his goal is in the last race of the championship in Sherry. Needless to say, Young is happy with this opportunity on a circuit he knows very well:
On the other side we find the case of Ducati Alstare, who has trusted Canepa, now a pilot of Superstock 1000 to get on the Ducati panigale by Carlos Checa. He is not unaware of the motorcycle, he was a pilot of the Alstare as a guest in Donington park And he was also at Laguna Seca when he was a member of MotoGP. So this replacement certainly doesn't sound far-fetched, although we all know the problems the team is going through. As i said, We will not see Checa again this season on top of the bike, and Niccolò may be the one to finish it. For now, he is this satisfied:
So, there is little left for us to see these two riders on the track, where it will surely be one of the most particular appointments on the Superbikes calendar, you will see already. These two pilots join the news of last week of Toni Elijah and Michel Fabrizio on Honda Ten Kate. And we already know how well Toni did on her debut. The fact is that as always there will be a lot to tell, but that will be in a week's time in the beautiful setting of Laguna Seca. We will closely follow Blake and Niccolò.
