A
superb and rare photo of the magnificent two-times Superbike World Champion Troy Corser seen after he just
won his very first Superbike World
Title in 1996!
This photograph was taken moments after he won the
second race at the Spanish Albacete circuit on October 6, 1996. He also had won the first race of the same Albacete
round on the same day, and that was enough for him to clinch his first Superbike World Title! . We see Troy on his Ducati 916 Desmoquattro
World Superbike works racer of 1996.
A
very historic photograph that would look nice framed in any living room, office
or workshop!
The
1996 Superbike World Championship season was the 9TH FIM Superbike World
Championship season. The season started on April 14 at Misano, and finished on
October 27 at Philip Island after 12 rounds. Troy Corser won the rider's championship with 7
victories and Ducati won the manufacturer's championship
Troy Corser
(1971) is a professional motorcycle road racer and the 1996 and 2005 Superbike
World champion. Having previously won the Australian and AMA Superbike
Championship titles, and shone in a handful of wildcard rides in the Superbike
World Championship (taking five podiums), he went to the series fulltime in
1995. He was classified 11th in WSBK for 1994, hence his riding #11, which he
used for many years. Pole for the first round showed his potential, although he
only took one podium until his win at round 5 at the Salzburgring (partly due
to collisions with Anthony Gobert and Piergorgio Bontempi at Monza). A strong
remainder of the season (including a win at Laguna Seca, one of the few tracks
on the schedule that he knew) saw him beat Aaron Slight to 2nd overall. He won
this title in 1996, but 1997 was an unsuccessful and fragmented year in the
500cc World Championship, while teamed with Luca Cadalora on Yamaha YZR-500,
Power Horse backed, team. Back in WSBK for 1998, he came close to retaking the
title, helped by a double win at Laguna, the second race by a mere 0.005sec. He
led the standings before the final round, took pole, but crashing and breaking
ribs in a warm-up crash. For 1999 he was teamed with Carl Fogarty on Davide
Tardozzi's team, the title going to Foggy with Corser again third. In 2000 and
2001 he was on a factory Aprilia RSV-Mille. He would take the Aprilia to its
first WSBK wins in 2000, and opened 2001 with a double victory in South Africa,
but a double DNF at Monza scuppered his hopes of a championship challenge. In 2002 he joined Carl
Fogarty's Foggy Petronas team, and spent the year developing the bike before
racing it in 2003 and 2004. He finished 9th in the 2004 championship, with a
best result of 3rd, but chose to leave the team after this. In 2005 he raced
for the Alstare Suzuki Team on the GSX-R1000 which enabled him to regain his
position as Superbike World Champion, winning the championship after a run of
early-season victories - later in the season Chris Vermeulen and Noriyuki Haga
were usually the men to beat. Troy won two races early in 2006, however a crash at Phillip Island,
and a DNF at Silverstone enabled compatriot Troy Bayliss to gain the upper hand
in the early stages of the title chase. A double non-finish at Assen with 4
rounds to go left him 5th in the championship, behind Bayliss, James Toseland,
Noriyuki Haga and Andrew Pitt. He ultimately overhauled Pitt to finish 4th,
through a double podium at the final round. For 2007 he left Suzuki to join
Yamaha, however he was outpaced by team-mate Noriyuki Haga and finished 5th
overall, with eight podiums but no wins. He remained with the team for 2008,
pipping Haga to finish as championship runner-up behind Bayliss. For the 2009
WSBK season Corser is to ride for BMW alongside Ruben Xaus on BMW's new
superbike. His best result in the first half of the season was an 8th place in
the opener at Philip Island, although there were several other minor points finishes. Strong
results later in the season saw him finish 13th overall. Corser and Xaus
continued with the team for 2010. Corser scored two fifth places at Assen, he
took BMW's first ever WSBK podium in race two at Monza, aided by a
first-lap collision between Xaus, Jonathan Rea and Toseland. He also took pole
at Misano and had scored in every race until being forced to miss Brno
following a practice crash. Troy has been on pole at Philip Island and Valencia four times, equalling a championship record for a single track. Of the
eight cases of a rider having 10 or more podium finishes at a particular
circuit, Troy has four - 13 at Misano, 11 each at Laguna Seca and Philip Island,
and 10 at Donington Park.
The Ducati 916 was
manufactured by Ducati from 1994 to 1998.
In contrast to Japanese inline four-cylinder
competitors of the time, its V-twin engine produced less outright power, but a
more even torque spread. The 916 model was replaced by the 996 model in 1999.
The first development of the 916 model family can be traced back to the development
of the four valve Ducati engine, the desmoquattro, through the development and
racing of the earlier Pantah models, to the road-going 851 and 888 models. The
chief designer of Ducati motorcycles since the 1970s was the late Fabio
Taglioni (1920-2001). He introduced the Pantah in 1979; its engine was updated
in the 1990s in the SuperSport (SS) series and all modern Ducati engines are
derivatives of the Pantah, which employed a set of revolving cams to actuate
the engine's valves (eliminating valve springs), called desmodromic. Taglioni,
did not, however, have an interest in four-valve head engines, and so this was
left to his successor. The eight-valve V-twin was the work of Taglion's
successor, Massimo Bordi. Making its debut in 1994, the Ducati 916 was admired
because of its new design and outstanding technical features. Designed by
Massimo Tamburini and Sergio Robbiano and his team at the Cagiva Research
Centre in San Marino, the 916's
water-cooled engine was a revision its predecessor, the 888, with larger
displacement, a new engine management system, on an overall smaller motorcycle
with a chome-moly trellis frame (which was shared with the Ducati 748
in 1995 and beyond). This was accomplished by
increasing the crankshaft stroke from 64mm to 66mm. Using the same 94mm bore
size as the 888 resulted in a capacity of 916cc - although by the time the 916
was introduced the final 851/888 Corse engines had also had their bore sizes
increased to 96mm resulting in 'race only' capacities of 926cc and 955cc respectively.
This combined with a striking new bodywork that featured aggressive lines. It
was later replaced by the 996 and 998 with similar design but revised engines
and even more power. Design of the Ducati 916 was a balance between function
and form. The single-sided swingarm was beautiful, but designed to make wheel
changes faster during races. The underseat exhausts improve aerodynamic
performance, and resultantly gave very clean lines. Massimo Tamburini went on
to design the MV Agusta F4, the bike which is seen as his replacement for the
916 range, and it shares many similarities with the 916 especially in the tail
section.
This
is a very nice and very rare non period photo that reflects a wonderful era of Ducati
‘s rich motorcycle history in a wonderful way. This is your rare chance to
own this photo, therefore it is printed in a nice large format of ca.
8" x 12" (ca. 20 x 30 cm). It makes it
perfectly suitable for framing!
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We have
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will look gorgeous unframed and will be a true asset nicely framed with a
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