Stéphane Mertens back on a Superbike: “This year the Honda, next year the Ducati?”

The Bikers' Classics at Spa-Francorchamps will adapt its success formula in 2012.

A poster featuring a long list of stars, starting with Johnny Cecotto, a passionate public, a radiant sun : a year before their tenth anniversary, the Bikers’ Classics prove their name of “exceptional European event” worthy.

Last year, there was so much enthusiasm for the sidecars that we just had to expand this part of the Bikers’ Classics programme.

British Suzuki collector Steve Wheatman once again is planning to take along an exclusive range of factory racers to this year's Bikers' Classics.

Phil Read won the most world titles for Yamaha. In 1968 he was the world's best 125 rider and four more titles in the 250 class added up to a total of five.

At the occasion of the Bikers’Classics, the Yamaha factory will not only be represented through the 21 historical machines of the Yamaha Classic Racing Team with which the great starts from the past will ride on the track of Spa-Francorchamps, but also ...

At the Grand Prix of Czechoslovakia in 1971 we were in for a big surprise. It was obvious that the Fin Jarno Saarinen would win the 350cc category with his Yamaha but on the second step of the podium appeared the Czech rider Stasa.

For two months already, there’s not a single spot left on the starting grid of the 4 Hours of Spa Classic !

Back in the Seventies Marcel Ankoné, Wil Hartog, Boet van Dulmen, Rob Bron and Jack Middelburg were part of a group of fast Dutchmen who made a name for themselves in 500cc Grands Prix.