25 Years of World Superbike: Medals for Antipodean four
As part of on-going initiatives to celebrate 25 years of the Superbike World Championship, the starting-grid at Phillip Island was the scene for the first awards ceremony of the year as four past, but still famous glories stepped up to receive their 25th anniversary medals.
Aussies Rob Phillis, Peter Goddard and Troy Corser together with Kiwi Aaron Slight, all former winners at the Phillip Island circuit, were given their medals and a framed image of an early race of theirs at the track by Infront Motor Sports CEO Paolo Flammini and SBK Championship Director Paolo Ciabatti.
Goddard and Phillis were the first-ever World Superbike winners, respectively on a Yamaha and a Kawasaki, at Phillip Island back in the inaugural event there in 1990, Slight had to wait until 1997 to take his first and only win on a Castrol Honda RC45 in race 2, while Corser is a record seven-time winner on Ducati, Aprilia and Suzuki machinery, his first victory coming in race 1 in 1995.
