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Team Suzuki Alstare rider Max Neukirchner was voted in fourth place in a poll conducted by British website Crash.net. Nearly 25,000 votes were cast in the poll to determine the top riders in the World Superbike Championship and Max came a superb fourth.

Yukio Kagayama, Max Neukirchner and the Suzuki Alstare team left Kyalami circuit in a positive frame of mind after three days of testing. This was the second test of the all-new GSX-R1000 K9 and a lot of work had to be completed in the three days, but the team used the available time well and gathered a lot of information and data.

Team Suzuki Alstare riders Max Neukirchner and Yukio Kagayama finished the second day of the Pirelli Development tyres test in Kyalami with the second and fifth quickest times respectively.

Team Alstare Suzuki are happy to announce that the young and talented Italian rider Claudio Corti will ride an Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000 in next year’s Superstock 1000 FIM Cup.

Team Suzuki Alstare have begun their preparations for the 2009 season with a three day test in Phillip Island Australia. Over three days, held in mostly good conditions, riders Yukio Kagayama and Max Neukirchner started to work with the all-new 2009 GSX-R1000 Suzuki at the demanding Australian circuit and understand the new bike.

Team Suzuki Alstare rider Fonsi Nieto started from sixteenth place on the grid, but put in storming performances in both races and superbly took a pair of fifth places. It was a mixed day for Team Alstare Suzuki rider Max Neukirchner, who crashed out of race one, but the recovered to take a hard-fought for fourth place in race two. For Team Suzuki Alstare rider Yukio Kagayama, it was a weekend to forget. He ended 15th in the first race and an even more disappointing 23rd in the second.

After yesterday's difficult conditions, all riders were happy to see a dry track and sunshine in this morning's timed qualifying and go for a good dry set-up. But all the good work in the session was of no use in the afternoon 16 rider Superpole shoot-out because once again the heavens opened and the 4.592 kilometre track was drenched in water.

The ever changing conditions and a brand new circuit hampered Suzuki Alstare riders Fonsi Nieto and Yukio Kagayama and Alstare Suzuki rider Max Neukirchner at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao, Portugal, today.

The fourteenth and final round of this year’s Superbike World Championship takes place at the newly built Autodromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao, Portugal, this coming weekend. For Suzuki Alstare riders Fonsi Nieto and Yukio Kagayama and Alstare Suzuki rider Max Neukirchner together with most of their rivals, it will be their first visit to the circuit. However, Ducati Xerox tested there last week and will have collected invaluable data, giving them a considerable advantage going into the event.

Team Suzuki Alstare rider Fonsi Nieto had his best weekend of the year since the opening round in Qatar, by taking a superb runner-up spot in race one at Magny-Cours today. Fonsi had started from the front row of the grid and spent most of the race fighting with Troy Bayliss (Ducati) and eventual race winner, Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha).

Team Suzuki Alstare rider Fonsi Nieto finally laid his Superpole demons to rest by setting the second quickest lap in the 16-rider Superpole shoot-out at Magny-Cours today. Fonsi had been fourth in regular qualifying, but stormed round the 4.411 kilometre circuit in 1:38.574 - a time bettered by just one tenth of a second by Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha).