Superbike World Championship Riders: Michael Doohan, Carlos Checa, Colin Edwards, James Toseland, Leon Haslam (Paperback) - Taschenbuch

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 71. Chapters: Michael Doohan, Carlos Checa, Colin Edwards, James Toseland, Leon Haslam, List of Superbike World Championship racers, Noriyuki Haga, Alex Barros, Andrew Pitt, Jonathan Rea, Tommy Hill, Shinichi Itoh, Chris Walker, Chris Vermeulen, Michel Fabrizio, Jakub Smrz, John Kocinski, James Ellison, Tom Sykes, Norifumi Abe, Shane Byrne, Troy Bayliss, Shinya Nakano, Freddie Spencer, Tadayuki Okada, Fonsi Nieto, Josh Brookes, Neil Hodgson, Rubén Xaus, Carl Fogarty, Pierfrancesco Chili, Marco Lucchinelli, Virginio Ferrari, Ian Lowry, Carlos Cardús, Doriano Romboni, Raymond Roche, Juan Garriga, Kevin Magee, Dominique Sarron, Robert Dunlop, Eskil Suter, Mat Mladin, Rob McElnea, Craig Jones, Ben Bostrom, Roberto Rolfo, Vittoriano Guareschi, Troy Corser, Mike Baldwin, Sean Emmett, Takuma Aoki, David Checa, Jean-Louis Tournadre, Garry McCoy, Max Neukirchner, Graeme Crosby, Doug Polen, Ryuichi Kiyonari, Steve Hislop, Niccolò Canepa, Miguel Praia, Haruchika Aoki, Akira Ryo, Régis Laconi, Superbike World Championship records, Gregorio Lavilla, Eric Bostrom, Scott Russell, List of Superbike World Championship winners, Doug Chandler, David Jefferies, Makoto Tamada, Dean Ellison, James Haydon, Anthony Gobert, Karl Muggeridge, James Whitham, Yukio Kagayama, Kurtis Roberts, Wataru Yoshikawa, Alessandro Gramigni, Steve Martin, Andrew Stroud, Peter Goddard, Aaron Slight, José Luis Cardoso, Dave Hiscock, Simon Crafar, Fabien Foret, Shuhei Aoyama, Lorenzo Lanzi, John Reynolds, Fred Merkel, Akira Yanagawa, Sébastien Gimbert, Fabrizio Pirovano, Stéphane Mertens, Kirk McCarthy, Ivan Silva, Takeshi Tsujimura, Paolo Casoli, Giancarlo Falappa, Davide Tardozzi, Alan Carter, Vittorio Iannuzzo, Adrien Morillas, Yasutomo Nagai, Franco Battaini, Ivan Goi, Terry Rymer, Jochen Schmid, Graeme Ritchie, Rob Phillis, Keiichi Kitagawa. Excerpt: Carlos "Charlie" Checa (born October 15, 1972 in Barcelona, Spain) is a professional motorcycle road racer. After racing in 500cc and MotoGP for over a decade, mostly on Honda and Yamaha machinery with and without full manufacturer support, he moved to the Superbike World Championship on a Honda for 2008. He has two Grand Prix victories. He has a younger brother, David Checa, also a motorcycle racer who competed in the Superbike World Championship for 2008. Checa made his debut in 125cc and 250cc motorcycle racing in 1993 for Honda. In 1995, he moved up to the Blue Riband 500cc class as a replacement for Alberto Puig, a fellow Spaniard who broke both his legs in a horrifying crash in France. Checa shocked the paddock by being on the pace and nearly winning the Barcelona race. He continued with the team until 1998, the year he suffered near fatal injuries with a crash at Donington Park. He crashed at Craner Curves and was initially thought to have suffered only scrapes and bruises before complaining of pain. Hours later he had lost his vision, needed emergency surgery to remove his spleen and was listed in critical condition. He fought back to ride that year, missing just one race, before racing for Yamaha as Max Biaggi's team mate on two and four-strokes. He nearly won many races but unfortunately crashed after taking the lead. One such race was at Rio de Janeiro in 2002 when he stalled on the starting line then, came through to lead before crashing a corner later. When Valentino Rossi joined Yamaha he was Checa's team-mate for one year, before Checa moved to Ducati in 2005. In 2006 he switched to ride f...