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1997 Superbike World Championship

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Supersport World Series The 1997 Superbike World Championship was the tenth FIM Superbike World Championship season. The season started on 23 March at Phillip Island and finished on 12 October at Sentul after 12 rounds.

John Kocinski won the riders' championship with 9 victories and Honda won the manufacturers' championship.

Race calendar and results

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning rider	Winning team
AUS Phillip Island	23 March	NZL Aaron Slight	USA John Kocinski	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda	Report
USA Colin Edwards	NZL Aaron Slight	Castrol Honda
SMR Misano	20 April	JPN Akira Yanagawa	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	Gattolone Racing	Report
USA John Kocinski	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda
GBR Donington	4 May	GBR Neil Hodgson	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	NZL Aaron Slight	Castrol Honda	Report
GBR Carl Fogarty	GBR Carl Fogarty	Ducati Corse ADVF
DEU Hockenheim	8 June	NZL Simon Crafar	USA John Kocinski	NZL Aaron Slight	Castrol Honda	Report
GBR Carl Fogarty	GBR Carl Fogarty	Ducati Corse ADVF
ITA Monza	22 June	USA Scott Russell	NZL Aaron Slight	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda	Report
ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	Gattolone Racing
USA Laguna Seca	13 July	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	GBR Carl Fogarty	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda	Report
USA John Kocinski	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda
EUR Brands Hatch	3 August	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	GBR Niall Mackenzie	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	Gattolone Racing	Report
GBR Carl Fogarty	GBR Carl Fogarty	Ducati Corse ADVF
AUT A1-Ring	17 August	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	JPN Akira Yanagawa	GBR Carl Fogarty	Ducati Corse ADVF	Report
JPN Akira Yanagawa	JPN Akira Yanagawa	Kawasaki Racing
NLD Assen	31 August	USA John Kocinski	ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda	Report
ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	GBR Carl Fogarty	Ducati Corse ADVF
ESP Albacete	21 September	USA John Kocinski	USA John Kocinski	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda	Report
NZL Simon Crafar	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda
JPN Sugo	5 October	JPN Akira Yanagawa	JPN Akira Yanagawa	JPN Akira Yanagawa	Kawasaki Racing	Report
JPN Noriyuki Haga	JPN Noriyuki Haga	Yamaha World Superbike
IDN Sentul	12 October	USA John Kocinski	USA John Kocinski	USA John Kocinski	Castrol Honda	Report
USA John Kocinski	GBR Carl Fogarty	Ducati Corse ADVF

Championship standings

Riders' standings

Riders entered into the European Superbike Championship—who scored points towards a separate championship— were not eligible to score World Championship points.

1997 final riders' standings	Pos	Rider	Bike	AUS
AUS	SMR
SMR	GBR
GBR	GER
DEU	ITA
ITA	USA
USA	EUR
EUR	AUT
AUT	NED
NLD	ESP
ESP	JPN
JPN	INA
IDN	Pts	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	1	416	2	358	3	343	4	247	5	234	6	226	7	209	8	140	9	137	10	118	11	87	12	79	13	72	14	69	15	50	16	47	17	46	18	40	19	32	20	22	21	21	22	21	23	21	24	20	25	19	26	18	27	17	28	17	29	17	30	16	31	15	32	13	33	12	34	12	35	11	36	11	37	10	38	9	39	9	40	8	41	7	42	6	43	5	44	5	45	5	46	3	47	3	48	3	49	3	50	2	51	2	52	1	53	1	Riders not eligible to score points, with at least a top-15 finish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Riders not eligible to finish and to start the race	0	0	0	Pos.	Rider	Bike	AUS
AUS	SMR
SMR	GBR
GBR	GER
DEU	ITA
ITA	USA
USA	EUR
EUR	AUT
AUT	NED
NLD	ESP
ESP	JPN
JPN	INA
IDN	Pts
USA John Kocinski	Honda	1	7	2	1	10	5	2	14	1	2	1	1	3	2	5	3	1	3	1	1	9	3	1	Ret
GBR Carl Fogarty	Ducati	2	4	3	3	2	1	4	1	3	4	2	2	Ret	1	1	Ret	2	1	Ret	Ret	13	Ret	3	1
NZL Aaron Slight	Honda	Ret	1	4	2	1	3	1	Ret	2	5	7	10	6	8	3	2	4	4	2	3	6	4	2	4
JPN Akira Yanagawa	Kawasaki	4	Ret	Ret	5	DNS	DNS	8	2	8	Ret	10	5	5	4	2	1	8	7	4	4	1	Ret	4	2
NZL Simon Crafar	Kawasaki	3	3	5	7	3	4	Ret	6	4	7	4	Ret	Ret	7	6	Ret	9	6	3	2	3	2	Ret	Ret
USA Scott Russell	Yamaha	7	6	Ret	6	6	7	3	4	5	8	6	4	2	5	7	4	6	8	Ret	5	14	Ret	6	5
ITA Pierfrancesco Chili	Ducati	Ret	DNS	1	Ret	Ret	2	5	7	7	1	Ret	6	1	Ret	4	Ret	3	2	5	7	12	Ret	Ret	Ret
GBR James Whitham	Suzuki	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	8	10	14	3	6	3	8	Ret	7	9	10	6	7	11	Ret	10	DNS	DNS	9	6
GBR Neil Hodgson	Ducati	Ret	Ret	7	4	4	9	6	8			Ret	9	4	6	8	Ret	5	5	Ret	8	18	Ret	Ret	7
ITA Piergiorgio Bontempi	Kawasaki	Ret	10	8	Ret	11	Ret	11	11	9	6	9	7	8	12	9	5	Ret	10	6	6	Ret	Ret	DNS	DNS
USA Mike Hale	Suzuki	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	15	Ret	9	Ret	10	9	14	Ret	9	11	11	7	11	Ret	8	9	21	10	8	Ret
USA Colin Edwards	Yamaha	Ret	2	6	8	5	6	7	5	DNS	DNS	WD	WD
JPN Noriyuki Haga	Yamaha																					2	1	5	3
ESP Pere Riba	Honda	10	17	9	9	18	15	NC	22	18	11			13	13	16	12	12	15	11	13	23	15	11	11
SVN Igor Jerman	Kawasaki	12	Ret	13	Ret	20	17	16	16	15	16	15	13	Ret	15	17	13	16	14	13	20	28	14	10	9
GBR Chris Walker	Yamaha													10	10	12	10	10	9	10	11
DEU Jochen Schmid	Kawasaki							13	9	13	10					14	11	13	12	9	12
AUT Andreas Meklau	Ducati	8	15			17	14	10	10	11	Ret	DNS	DNS			15	8
CAN Miguel Duhamel	Honda											3	3
AUS Troy Bayliss	Suzuki	5	5
GBR Michael Rutter	Honda													11	3
GBR John Reynolds	Ducati					9	11															19	Ret	7	Ret
GBR Sean Emmett	Ducati					14	12							Ret	Ret							20	9	Ret	8
JPN Katsuaki Fujiwara	Suzuki																					8	5
GBR James Haydon	Ducati	Ret	14	Ret	11	16	DSQ	DNS	Ret	12	13	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	15
ESP Gregorio Lavilla	Ducati					13	13	DNS	13							Ret	Ret			7	Ret
JPN Tamaki Serizawa	Suzuki																					10	6
AUS Martin Craggill	Kawasaki	6	9
GBR Niall Mackenzie	Yamaha					7	8							DSQ	Ret
FRA Christian Lavielle	Honda			10	10	19	16	17	Ret															Ret	12
JPN Makoto Suzuki	Ducati																					25	11	12	10
JPN Keiichi Kitagawa	Suzuki																					4	Ret
USA Tom Kipp	Yamaha											12	8
SWE Christer Lindholm	Yamaha					12	Ret	12	12
USA Doug Chandler	Kawasaki											5	Ret
JPN Yuichi Takeda	Honda																					16	7
JPN Shinya Takeishi	Kawasaki																					7	Ret
JPN Akira Ryō	Kawasaki																					17	8
CAN Steve Crevier	Honda											11	12
AUS Damon Buckmaster	Kawasaki	Ret	8
FIN Erkka Korpiaho	Kawasaki																	15	17	18	16
IDN Simon Yudha Kusuma	Kawasaki																							13	13
USA Aaron Yates	Suzuki											Ret	11
AUS Benn Archibald	Kawasaki	13	Ret
GBR Phil Giles	Kawasaki													15	14
JPN Norihiko Fujiwara	Yamaha																					15	Ret
AUT Christian Häusle	Ducati															Ret	16
CAN Pascal Picotte	Suzuki											13	Ret
FRA Jean-Marc Delétang	Yamaha									16	14
AUT Johann Wolfsteiner	Kawasaki															NC	19
FRA Jean-Philippe Ruggia	Yamaha									14	Ret
AUT Ossi Niederkircher	Suzuki															22	22
AUS David Emmerson	Suzuki	Ret	18
JPN Wataru Yoshikawa	Yamaha																					5	Ret
AUS Shawn Giles	Honda	9	10
DEU Udo Mark	Suzuki							15	15	17	12					13	9	14	13	12	14
ITA Giorgio Cantalupo	Ducati			11	13	Ret	19	21	20	20	15			17	22	19	17	23	Ret	14	17
AUS Jason Love	Ducati	11	16
JPN Shinichi Ito	Honda																					11	Ret
AUS Craig Connell	Ducati	Ret	11
GBR Ray Stringer	Kawasaki													12	16
ITA Redamo Assirelli	Yamaha			12	17					21	21					Ret	Ret
JPN Ichiro Asai	Ducati																					24	12
JPN Manabu Kamada	Honda																					22	13
CZE Jiří Mrkývka	Honda			14	15	22	21	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ			19	21	25	18	Ret	20	15	18
ITA Bruno Scatola	Kawasaki			15	14					Ret	DNS
DEU Anton Gruschka	Yamaha			Ret	Ret	21	18	18	17	19	18			Ret	19	18	14	20	Ret	16	19
USA Mike Krynock	Suzuki											16	14
GBR Brett Sampson	Kawasaki					Ret	Ret							14	Ret
AUS Greg Moss	Honda	14	Ret
AUT Gerhard Esterer	Kawasaki			16	DNS			20	19	24	19					20	15
AUS Craig Stafford	Yamaha	15	19
INA Joenzindy Gozali	Kawasaki																							Ret	Ret
INA Affandi Bar	Kawasaki																							DNQ	DNQ
INA Jimmy Tanujaya	Kawasaki																							DNQ	DNQ

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Manufacturers' standings

1997 final manufacturers' standings	Pos.	Manufacturer	AUS
AUS	SMR
SMR	GBR
GBR	GER
DEU	ITA
ITA	USA
USA	EUR
EUR	AUT
AUT	NED
NLD	ESP
ESP	JPN
JPN	INA
IDN	Pts	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	1	486	2	440	3	359	4	301	5	205	Pos.	Manufacturer	AUS
AUS	SMR
SMR	GBR
GBR	GER
DEU	ITA
ITA	USA
USA	EUR
EUR	AUT
AUT	NED
NLD	ESP
ESP	JPN
JPN	INA
IDN	Pts
JPN Honda	1	1	2	1	1	3	1	14	1	2	1	1	3	2	3	2	1	3	1	1	6	3	1	4
ITA Ducati	2	4	1	3	2	1	4	1	3	1	2	2	1	1	1	8	2	1	5	7	11	9	3	1
JPN Kawasaki	3	3	5	5	3	4	8	2	4	6	4	5	5	4	2	1	8	6	3	2	1	2	4	2
JPN Yamaha	7	2	6	6	5	6	3	4	5	8	6	4	2	5	7	4	6	8	10	5	2	1	5	3
JPN Suzuki	5	5	Ret	12	8	10	9	3	6	3	8	11	7	9	10	6	7	11	8	9	4	5	8	6

References

"1997 World Superbike - Rules and Regulations". superbike-archives.net.
"1997 World Superbike - Riders Championship - Points Standings". superbike-archives.net.
"1997 FIM Superbike World Championship". superbike-archives.net.
"1997 World Superbike - Manufacturers Championship - Points Standings". superbike-archives.net.

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