RacerViews and Leonard Smith are at Phillip Island for the World Superbike Championship opener. Here Leonard brings us testing photos of the WorldSBK class.  Keep an eye out for more photos and stories from the weekend.

The opening round of the 2018 Motul Fim Superbike World Championship Yamaha Finance round will feature the 22-lap WorldSBK races on Saturday and Sunday, the 18-lap WorldSSP race on Sunday, and 12 national support races during the weekend across superbike, supersport, supersport 300 and YMF R3 Cup. Aussie WorldSBK icon Troy Bayliss will make his racing comeback in superbike.

World champion, Jonathan Rea, has completed the final WorldSBK pre-season test at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit with the fastest time,  ahead of the opening Yamaha Finance round of the 2018 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship starting this Friday.

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Photos by Leonard Smith, February 2018

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