Troy Corser joins Ruben Xaus in BMW Motorrad’s 2009 WSBK “Dream Team”

In exciting racing news, BMW have signed 2006 World Superbike champion Troy Corser to pilot the team’s brand new S1000RR superbike in WSBK 2009, alongside former MotoGP star and sideways Hypermotard pilot Ruben Xaus.

So for 2009 we’ve got Xaus and Corser on a brand new Beemer superbike, and Max Biaggi piloting a firebreathing V4 Aprilia, taking on the established superbike might of Ducati and the big 4 from Japan. Neither BMW nor Aprilia are taking SBK lightly - and both are premium brands that can shoehorn expensive and out-there technology into homologation bikes and still make sales. The RSV4 and S1000RR could retail for almost twice what the average japanese superbike costs - these are very serious contenders.

Bring it on - with MotoGP grids dwindling but an injection of fresh blood into the production based superbike series, WSBK 2009 is going to be white hot!