1996 World Superbike Championship

1996 World Superbike Championship

World Champion
Driver:	Troy Corser
Constructor:	Ducati
<1995 season	1997 season>

The 1996 Superbike World Championship season was the ninth in the history of the FIM - Superbike World Championship . 24 races were held at twelve events.

Distribution of points

The world champion will be the driver or manufacturer who has accumulated the most points in the world championship by the end of the season. When distributing points, the placements are taken into account in the overall result of the respective race. The top fifteen drivers in each race receive points according to the following scheme:

Distribution of points
space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
Points	25th	20th	16	13	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

All the results achieved were included in the evaluation.

Race results

	date	run	route	Pole position	Run	1st place	place 2	place 3	Nice Race lap
1	04/14	San Marino	Misano	John Kocinski	1	John Kocinski	Troy Corser	Pierfrancesco chili	John Kocinski
					2	John Kocinski	Troy Corser	Pierfrancesco chili	Troy Corser
2	04/28	Great Britain	Donington	Troy Corser	1	Troy Corser	Simon Crafar	Anthony Gobert	Troy Corser
					2	Troy Corser	Aaron Slight	Anthony Gobert	Aaron Slight
3	05/10	Germany	Hockenheim	Pierfrancesco chili	1	Aaron Slight	John Kocinski	Colin Edwards	Troy Corser
					2	Carl Fogarty	Aaron Slight	John Kocinski	Aaron Slight
4th	16.06.	Italy	Monza	Pierfrancesco chili	1	Carl Fogarty	Aaron Slight	Colin Edwards	Pierfrancesco chili
					2	Pierfrancesco chili	Aaron Slight	Carl Fogarty	Troy Corser
5	30.06.	Czech Republic	Brno	Troy Corser	1	Troy Corser	Carl Fogarty	Aaron Slight	Troy Corser
					2	Troy Corser	Aaron Slight	Carl Fogarty	Troy Corser
6th	07/21	United States	Laguna Seca	John Kocinski	1	John Kocinski	Troy Corser	Neil Hodgson	Anthony Gobert
					2	Anthony Gobert	Troy Corser	Aaron Slight	Wataru Yoshikawa
7th	04.08.	Europe	Brands Hatch	Troy Corser	1	Pierfrancesco chili	Anthony Gobert	John Kocinski	John Kocinski
					2	Troy Corser	Pierfrancesco chili	Colin Edwards	Troy Corser
8th	08/18	Indonesia	Sentul	Colin Edwards	1	John Kocinski	Carl Fogarty	Aaron Slight	Carl Fogarty
					2	John Kocinski	Aaron Slight	Carl Fogarty	John Kocinski
9	08/25	Japan	Sugo	Troy Corser	1	Yuichi Takeda	Noriyuki Haga	Wataru Yoshikawa	Noriyuki Haga
					2	Takuma Aoki	John Kocinski	Aaron Slight	Takuma Aoki
10	08.09.	Netherlands	Aces	John Kocinski	1	Carl Fogarty	Pierfrancesco chili	Aaron Slight	Carl Fogarty
					2	Carl Fogarty	Troy Corser	John Kocinski	John Kocinski
11	06.10.	Spain	Albacete	Troy Corser	1	Troy Corser	Colin Edwards	John Kocinski	Troy Corser
					2	Troy Corser	John Kocinski	Colin Edwards	Troy Corser
12	10/27	Australia	Phillip Island	Colin Edwards	1	Anthony Gobert	Colin Edwards	Troy Corser	Aaron Slight
					2	Anthony Gobert	Aaron Slight	Colin Edwards	Aaron Slight

Driver ranking

1 Troy Corser Ducati Promoter racing 369 2 Aaron Slight Honda Castrol Honda 347 3 John Kocinski Ducati Ducati Corse 337 4th Carl Fogarty Honda Castrol Honda 331 5 Colin Edwards Yamaha Yamaha World Superbike Team 248 6th Pierfrancesco chili Ducati Yamaha World Superbike Team 223 7th Simon Crafar Kawasaki Muzzy Kawasaki 180 8th Anthony Gobert Kawasaki Muzzy Kawasaki 167 9 Wataru Yoshikawa Yamaha Yamaha World Superbike Team 163 10 Neil Hodgson Ducati Ducati Corse 122 11 Mike Hale Ducati Promoter racing 114 12 John Reynolds Suzuki Team Suzuki World Superbike 99 13 Kirk McCarthy Suzuki Team Suzuki World Superbike 81 14th Paolo Casoli Ducati Gio.Ca.Moto Racing Team 70 15th Piergiorgio Bontempi Kawasaki Kawasaki Italy Bertocchi 63 16 Christer Lindholm Ducati DNL Ducati Corse 58 17th Jamie Whitham Yamaha Yamaha World Superbike Team 37 18th Andreas Meklau Ducati Promoter racing 31 19th Takuma Aoki Honda HRC Honda Racing 30th 20th Yuichi Takeda Honda HRC Honda Racing 25th

21st Jochen Schmid Kawasaki 23 22nd Noriyuki Haga Yamaha 20th Norihiko Fujiwara Yamaha 23 24 Peter Goddard Suzuki 19th 25th Akira Ryō Kawasaki 17th 26th Shinya Takeishi Kawasaki 15th 27 Roger Kellenberger Honda 11 Brian Morrison Ducati 11 29 Doug Chandler Kawasaki 10 Keiichi Kitagawa Suzuki 10 Michaël Paquay Ducati 10 32 Gregorio Lavilla Yamaha 9 Rob Phillis Kawasaki 9 34 Niall Mackenzie Yamaha 8th 35 Jeffrey de Vries Yamaha 7th Sean Emmett Ducati 7th 37 Larry Pegram Ducati 6th 38 Ioannis Boustas Ducati 5 Martin Craggill Kawasaki 5 Shawn Giles Ducati 5

Dean Thomas Honda 5 42 Stéphane Chambon Ducati 4th Udo Mark Yamaha 4th 44 Damon Buckmaster Suzuki 3 Craig Connell Ducati 3 Igor Jerman Kawasaki 3 Steve Martin Suzuki 3 Jim Moodie Ducati 3 Yukio Nukumi Ducati 3 50 Ian Simpson Ducati 2 Michael Smith 2 Tamaki Serizawa Suzuki 2 54 Ferdinando Di Maso Ducati 1

Constructors' championship

1	Ducati	521
2	Honda	430
3	Kawasaki	308
4th	Yamaha	300
5	Suzuki	156

Web links

• Official website of the Superbike World Championship