[kropotkin thinks...] - 2011 Provisional World Superbike Calendar Announced

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With the 2010 World Superbike season at an end, and the calendars for MotoGP and Formula 1 mostly settled, the FIM have announced the provisional calendar for the 2011 season. World Superbikes kicks off as ever in Australia, at Phillip Island, after a test the week before. A month later - and the week after the MotoGP season gets underway - the WSBK paddock heads back to Europe, for the European round at a circuit yet to be decided upon. This was the weekend that used to be at Valencia, but pressure from Dorna is believed to have kept the WSBK series out of that track.

The rest of the calendar is relatively similar to the 2010 schedule, with one or two slight changes. The spectacular Motorland Aragon circuit has been added to the calendar, though the WSBK riders will face the much hotter temperatures of June in central Spain. Portimao will once again wrap up the season, returning to the place the outstanding Portuguese track took in 2008. Imola is once again a problematic fixture, with the date penciled in but the track left open. Given that the date selected is the same weekend that Imola was staged this year, the chances of a repeat at the historic circuit are high, but once again funding and inspection issues remain. The US round at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah is once again on a Monday, the Memorial Day public holiday.

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