1988 World Superbike Championship

1988 World Superbike Championship

World Champion
Driver:	Fred Merkel
Constructor:	Honda
	1989 season>

The 1988 Superbike World Championship season was the first in the history of the FIM - Superbike World Championship . 17 races were held at nine events.

Distribution of points

Scoring
space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
Points	10	8.5	7.5	6.5	5.5	5	4.5	4th	3.5	3	2.5	2	1.5	1	0.5

All the results achieved were included in the World Cup ranking.

useful information

• At the first event in Donington, the two runs were combined and scored twice.
• In France, due to the overcrowded schedule of the event, only one run was held and also scored double the number of points.

Race results

	date	run	route	Pole position	Run	1st place	place 2	place 3	Nice Race lap
1	04/03	Great Britain	Donington	Roger Burnett	1	Davide Tardozzi	Marco Lucchinelli	Robert Dunlop	Marco Lucchinelli
					2	Marco Lucchinelli	Fred Merkel	Roger Burnett	Bubba Shobert
2	04/30	Hungary	Hungaroring	Davide Tardozzi	1	Fred Merkel	Davide Tardozzi	Stéphane Mertens	Fred Merkel
					2	Adrien Morillas	Stéphane Mertens	Davide Tardozzi	Marco Lucchinelli
3	08.05.	Germany	Hockenheim	Alex Vieira	1	Davide Tardozzi	Christophe Bouhaben	Alex Vieira	Christophe Bouhaben
					2	Davide Tardozzi	Stéphane Mertens	Alex Vieira	Virginio Ferrari
4th	03.07.	Austria	Österreichring	Malcolm Campbell	1	Marco Lucchinelli	Fabrizio Pirovano	Malcolm Campbell	Davide Tardozzi
					2	Davide Tardozzi	Christophe Bouhaben	Alex Vieira	Christophe Bouhaben
5	08/28	Japan	Sugo	Marco Lucchinelli	1	Gary Goodfellow	Fred Merkel	Yukiya Ōshima	Gary Goodfellow
					2	Mick Doohan	Ken'ichirō Iwahashi	Gary Goodfellow	Ken'ichirō Iwahashi
6th	04.09.	France	Le Mans	Marco Lucchinelli	1	Fabrizio Pirovano	Eric Delcamp	Stéphane Mertens	Fabrizio Pirovano
					2	The event was not held because the schedule was too full.
7th	11.09.	Portugal	Estoril	Stéphane Mertens	1	Davide Tardozzi	Stéphane Mertens	Marco Lucchinelli	Davide Tardozzi
					2	Stéphane Mertens	Davide Tardozzi	Terry Rymer	Raymond Roche
8th	25.09.	Australia	Oran Park	Mick Doohan	1	Mick Doohan	Michael Dowson	Rob Phillis	Fred Merkel
					2	Mick Doohan	Michael Dowson	Fred Merkel	Mick Doohan
9	02.10.	New Zealand	Manfeild	Davide Tardozzi	1	Fred Merkel	Fabrizio Pirovano	Gary Goodfellow	Fred Merkel
					2	Stéphane Mertens	Malcolm Campbell	Rob Phillis	Stéphane Mertens

Driver ranking

1  Fred Merkel Honda Rumi 99 2  Fabrizio Pirovano Yamaha 93.5 3  Davide Tardozzi Bimota Bimota SpA 91.5 4th  Stéphane Mertens Bimota Bimota SpA 90.5 5  Marco Lucchinelli Ducati Cagiva 63 6th  Alex Vieira Honda Honda France 42  Rob Phillis Kawasaki Team Kawasaki Australia 42 8th  Gary Goodfellow Suzuki Don Knit Sugano Yoshimura 39.5 9  Malcolm Campbell Honda 33.5 10  Terry Rymer Honda Stern's disco 32.5 11  Roger Burnett Honda Honda UK 31.5 12  Mick Doohan Yamaha Marlboro Dealer Team Yamaha 30th  Joey Dunlop Honda 30th 14th  Eric Delcamp Kawasaki Kawasaki France 29.5 15th  Christophe Bouhaben Honda Honda France 28 16  Adrien Morillas Kawasaki Kawasaki France 26.5 17th  Edwin Weibel Honda Muhlenbach 23.5 18th  Jari Suhonen Yamaha Arwidson Racing 21st 19th  Andersson is different Suzuki Team Suzuki Sweden 18.5  Andy McGladdery Suzuki Francis Neill Motors 18.5 21st  Robert Scolyer Honda 17.5 22nd  Michael Dowson Yamaha Marlboro Dealer Team Yamaha 17th  Paul Iddon Bimota 17th

24  Virginio Ferrari Honda 16 25th  Kenny Irons Honda 15.5 26th  Ernst Gschwender Suzuki 14.5 27  Roger Marshall Suzuki 13  Marino Fabbri Bimota 13 29  Robert Dunlop Honda 12.5 30th  Tommy Douglas Yamaha 11 31  Yukiya Ōshima Suzuki 9  René Rasmussen Suzuki 9 33  Ken'ichirō Iwahashi Honda 8.5 34  Tadaaki Hanamura Honda 7.5 35  Peter Rubatto Bimota 7th  Andreas Hofmann Honda 7th  Glen Williams Ducati 7th 38  Steve Williams Bimota 7th 39  Mark Farmer Suzuki 6th  Mauro Ricci Ducati 6th 41  Mitsuaki Watanabe Honda 5.5  Aaron Slight Bimota 5.5  Koichi Kobayashi Honda 5.5 44  Sean Gallagher Honda 5  Andrew Stroud Bimota 5  Dave Leach Yamaha 5

47  Brian Morrison Honda 4.5 48  John Lofthouse Suzuki 3 49  Karl-Heinz Riegl Bimota 2.5  Paul Ramon Honda 2.5  Toshiharu Kaneko Yamaha 2.5  Dietmar Kemter Honda 2.5  Mike King Ducati 2.5  Udo Mark Bimota 2.5  Anton Gruschka Honda 2.5 56  Bodo Schmidt Bimota 2  Michael Galinski Bimota 2  Jean-Louis Guignabodet Honda 2  Asa Moyce Kawasaki 2  Jean-Yves Mounier Yamaha 2 61  Hisatomo Nakamura Suzuki 1.5 62  Dieter Heinen Honda 1  Satoshi Endo Honda 1  Warren Dale Honda 1  Esko Kuparinen Kawasaki 1  Mark Linscott Honda 1 67  Iain Pero Suzuki 0.5  Len Willing Yamaha 0.5

Constructors' championship

1	Honda	142
2	Bimota	132.5
3	Yamaha	114.5
4th	Kawasaki	91.5
5	Ducati	70
6th	Suzuki	61

Web links

• Official website of the Superbike World Championship