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Blazing into Round 5, the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship moves on to Most for the Czech Round, where riders will be put to the test once again. The field didn’t have to travel far from their last venue. The Autodrom Most will host the second consecutive round in Central Europe, and it’s the second Czech venue the Championship has competed at after the first 11 rounds in the country were hosted at the Brno Circuit.

PRESSURE MAKES DIAMONDS: At Most, riders apply the most braking pressure among the first six rounds

The Czech circuit is 4.212 km long, and it has been categorised by Brembo engineers into the “Highly Demanding” tier, the fourth of the five-tier scale. The track was deemed such because it features 10 braking points per lap, two rated High, five rated Medium, and three rated Light, for a total of 22.5s. From lights out to the chequered flag in the long races, each rider applies a total load of 860 kg on the brake lever, the highest feature among the first six rounds.

KEY SECTOR: 4.7 seconds of braking shed a total of 221 km/h

According to Brembo engineers, the toughest corner of the Autodrom Most for the brakes is the first Turn, due to the nearly 800-meter straight that runs from the starting position in towards the chicane. Riders clamp down on the brakes for a total of 4.7 seconds, going from 291 km/h to 70 km/h across 217 meters with a total drop of 221 km/h. That decline makes it the fifth-highest braking corner in the Championship, requiring a lever force of 5.1 seconds, resulting in a Brembo brake fluid pressure of 11 bar.

FULL FOCUS REQUIRED: “Even when you are riding on your own, it isn’t easy, because you arrive from that long straight very fast”

Riders fly off the line at lights out as they charge down the straight in towards the first corner, crouched down with their bellies tight against the gas tank. As they approach the first Turn, a tight righthander, the grid compresses as they jostle for any position they can manage by being the braver rider late on the brakes. In a flash, riders have to get the bike turned, pulling hard to flip it over onto its left side for the Turn 2 exit of the opening chicane. From there, riders can open up the throttle and stretch their legs up to fifth gear before a slight kink back to the right for Turn 4, then back onto the brakes into Turn 6. Italian rider Yari Montella (Barni Spark Racing Team) rode well at the Czech circuit last year as he took a pair of P8s and a P11 on the weekend.

On the biggest challenge to him at the Autodrom Most, regardless of having other riders on track, Yari Montella said: “The most difficult sector is the first one, especially Turn 1 and Turn 2. After the long straight there, there’s a great braking point, even when you are riding on your own, it isn’t easy, because you arrive from that long straight very fast.”

RECORD BREAKER: Bulega has had the record book in his crosshairs so far this season, already shattering several previously thought unassailable marks

Nicolo Bulega (Aruba.it Racing - Ducati) has been the man to beat this season, rewriting several records already, only just a quarter of the way into the season. Bulega prefers High Mass brake pads, which are 90 mm in length and weigh 155 grams, designed to minimise unsprung mass while ensuring powerful braking performance. Before him, no one had ever won the first 12 races of the season. The Ducati rider also equalled the record for consecutive podium finishes, reaching 25, including 13 from the second half of the 2025 season. The first to achieve 25 consecutive podiums was Colin Edwards in 2002, followed in 2025 by Toprak Razgatlioglu and now by Bulega. The #11 now has a chance to further rewrite that history by breaking through past Edwards and Razgatlioglu to get on the podium in Race 1.

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