Winners' table changes after season thriller
The 25th year of FIM Superbike World Championship competition was a truly incredible season on track, with one of the many exciting aspects being the fact that nine individual riders won at least one race. As well as the numbers game in 2012 terms only, the overall total number of individual race winners went up to 70 in 25 years of SBK's existence. New names appeared on the list like Sylvain Guintoli, Loris Baz and Chaz Davies, who joined the winners' club they now share with some of the biggest names ever to grace the scene in SBK racing.
In the overall classification of race winners, Carlos Checa is now the most successful current SBK rider, ranked - appropriately enough, seventh all time. His four wins from this year make his career total so far 24. Max Biaggi pierced the top ten in the overall win rankings and is now the ninth most successful rider in history with 21 victories to his name, including five in 2012. The double world champion however, unlike his long-time Spanish rival, has decided to hang up his leathers for good.
In terms of current riders there is a big gap back to the next most potent race-winning force in SBK, with Jonathan Rea 23rd in the table, with a total of ten, the same level as Marco Melandri, who is ranked 24th. Tom Sykes' remarkable 2012 season saw his personal race-winning total rise to five, placing him 29th overall.
The overall list of each and every individual race winner in SBK history follows below:
59 C. Fogarty
52 T. Bayliss
43 N. Haga
33 T. Corser
31 C. Edwards
27 D. Polen
24 C. Checa
23 R. Roche
21 M. Biaggi
17 P. Chili
16 G. Falappa
16 N. Hodgson
16 J. Toseland
14 J. Kocinski
14 S. Russell
14 B. Spies
13 A. Slight
11 S. Mertens
11 R. Xaus
11 R. Laconi
10 F. Pirovano
10 C. Vermeulen
10 J. Rea
10 M. Melandri
8 F. Merkel
8 A. Gobert
7 B. Bostrom
5 D. Tardozzi
5 T. Sykes
4 R. Phillis
4 Y. Kagayama
4 M. Fabrizio
3 M. Doohan
3 A. Yanagawa
3 M. Tamada
3 L. Lanzi
3 R. Kiyonari
3 L. Haslam
3 C. Crutchlow
3 E. Laverty
3 S. Guintoli
2 M. Lucchiari
2 T. Rymer
2 D. Chandler
2 P. Goddard
2 M. Lucchinelli
2 M. Dowson
2 K. Magee
2 H. Izutsu
2 S. Byrne
2 M. Neukirchner
1 A. Ryo
1 K. Kitagawa
1 Y. Takeda
1 T. Aoki
1 J. Whitham
1 A. Vieira
1 A. Morillas
1 G. Goodfellow
1 P. Picotte
1 T. Kipp
1 A. Meklau
1 J. Reynolds
1 C. Walker
1 A. Pitt
1 G. McCoy
1 F. Nieto
1 A. Barros
1 L. Baz
1 C. Davies
