Ducati Hits an Unprecedented WSBK Milestone: 1000 Podium Finishes

Spanish rider Alvaro Bautista started third at the Superbike World Championship race in Most, Czech Republic, last weekend, “made a decisive move on the two rivals ahead of him halfway through the race,” and never looked back, taking his seventh WSBK win of the season.

The win was much more important than that, though. In addition to keeping Bautista in the lead for the championship by 29 points, it was the 1000^th Superbike World Championship podium for Ducati, on whose Panigale V4 the Spaniard rode.

“The one thousand podiums obtained by Ducati in WorldSBK represent a unique result never achieved by any manufacturer in any motorcycle discipline,” Ducati said in a statement after the race. “The Borgo Panigale manufacturer has written the history of the World Championship reserved for production-based machinery, constantly playing the leading role with six generations of super sports bikes that have taken a total of 383 victories.”

Over in MotoGP, Honda has 312 wins since it took the first title in 1966, though total podiums are not listed. Yamaha has 245 MotoGP wins, followed by MV Agusta, Suzuki, and Ducati with 64.