09-13 Germany – Lausitzring – Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team – Used HONDA

Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

Superstock 1000 champion in 2011, Davide Giugliano failed to win in WorldSBK despite good handlebars. After his 2017 season shortened in British Superbike, the n ° 34 is trying a return to WSBK, within the Honda Red Bull team… Explanations.

Titled in 2011 in the STK1000 category at the controls of a Ducati 1098R prepared by the Althea team – brilliant team crowned the same year in WSBK with Carlos Checa! -, Davide Giugliano logically entered World Superbike the following season.

Presented – by Site in particular – as (Max Biaggi, "who else?"), The Italian n ° 34 was finally never able to beat the top drivers during his five seasons at the highest level.

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

It was only in qualifying that the driver from Rome managed to get ahead of all of his opponents: he won five Superpoles. There is no doubt that this "Schwantz spaghetti" has speed to spare, but just as much passion to reduce !

Out of his 113 races contested in World Superbike, Giugliano has finished 29 times on the ground … or in the air! In 2015 when he was playing his second season, two injuries – to the foot and then to the back, brrrr – kept him out of the circuits for most of the season: he played only five events out of thirteen….

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

Despite his misadventures, the Bologna Reds had given him their confidence again last year, but their colt did not confirm the hopes he had raised thanks to his brilliant 2012 season, riding a committed RSV4. by "his" favorite team Althea.

The readers of Site – who, as everyone knows, have a little more life memory than the others – indeed remember that the pilot and his private Aprilia had won sixth place overall with their 211 points achieved thanks to numerous Top 6s. in the race (15), including two second places.

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

Inconsistent but very fast, Davide Giugliano ended up boring the Ducati factory which thanked him at the end of 2016: significantly less efficient than his team-mate and leader Chaz Davies, he is replaced this season by his compatriot Marco "The ghost" Melandri.

Hired in 2017 by the prestigious BMW Tyco team in British Superbike, Davide Giugliano was again – very – badly at the start of the season. Disappointed for each other and for each other, the two parties agreed to separate at the beginning of the summer..

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

At the same time, the tragic disappearance of Nicky Hayden freed a handlebar in World Superbike … Seized at Laguna Seca by the American Jake Gagne, the orders of the official Fireblade were taken by Davide on the occasion of in Germany.

These tests having gone well, the Italian got his ticket to compete in the next scheduled World Superbike event … at Lausitzring, in Germany! His goal will not be the victory that has always eluded him in WSBK, but rather the Top 10 that Stefan Bradl on his own CBR has struggled to achieve since the start of the season..

09-13 Germany - Lausitzring - Giugliano back in World Superbike with the Honda team - Used HONDA

In the medium term naturally, Davide Giugliano hopes to become the official replacement of the legendary "Kentucky Kid" – with whom he had shared a memorable podium in the rain at Sepang – for the end of the 2017 season. In the longer term, the Roman is aiming for a position holder for the 2018 season … To follow on the Site: stay connected !

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