The 1999 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship Round was the 6th round of the 1999 Superbike World Championship season

1999 Superbike World Championship season

The 1999 Superbike World Championship season was the 12th F.I.M. Superbike World Championship season. The season started on March 28 at Kyalami, and finished on October 10 at Sugo after 13 rounds....

. It took place on the weekend of 11-13 June 1999 at the Nürburgring

Nürburgring

The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...

. It was highly criticised by the riders after track officials failed to show race flags. Carl Fogarty

Carl Fogarty

Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty is the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins...

 and Troy Corser

Troy Corser

Troy Gordon Corser is a professional motorcycle road racer, the and Superbike World champion....

 won Race 1 and Race 2 respectively.

Controversy

During Race 1, Igor Jerman's Kawasaki dumped oil at the Castrol Curve, causing another of his rivals to crash. Noriyuki Haga

Noriyuki Haga

, is a Japanese professional motorcycle racer. Haga has been runner-up in the Superbike World Championship three times, and has finished 3rd in the series four times....

, Akira Yanagawa

Akira Yanagawa

is a motorcycle road racer from Japan. He won three World Superbike Championship races and finished on the podium on 20 further occasions....

, Pierfrancesco Chili

Pierfrancesco Chili

Pierfrancesco 'Frankie' Chili, is a motorcycle racer who has raced in the Superbike World Championship and the 250cc and 500cc classes in Grand Prix. In World Superbike he had a record number of starts, as well as 10 poles and 17 wins. He retired at the end of the season...

 and Colin Edwards

Colin Edwards

Colin Edwards II nicknamed the Texas Tornado is an American professional motorcycle racer. He is a two time World Superbike champion and has competed in MotoGP since 2003, now riding for the Yamaha Tech 3 team in the 2011 season.-Early years:At the age of three, his Australian father, Colin...

 were notable crashers and Fogarty colliding with a back-marker. Track Marshals failed to show Oil Flags and Blue Flags. When Edwards went down, he was livid and showed his anger by throwing gravel on the track and showing the middle finger notable times. After the race Edwards said "I'm not coming back to this f***ing country ever again" and that he didn't care about the 2nd race and wanted to go home and play some golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

.

Superbike Race 1 classification

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time/Retired	Points
1	1	Carl Fogarty Carl Fogarty Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty is the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins...	Ducati 996 Ducati 996 The Ducati 996 is an Italian street motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1999 to 2002. It was based upon the earlier 916.-Model history:...	21	35:12.037	25
2	111	Aaron Slight Aaron Slight Aaron Tony Slight is a former professional motorcycle road racer who has recently dabbled in car racing and now fronts the AA Torque Show....	Honda RC45	21	+7.262	20
3	11	Troy Corser Troy Corser Troy Gordon Corser is a professional motorcycle road racer, the and Superbike World champion....	Ducati 996 Ducati 996 The Ducati 996 is an Italian street motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1999 to 2002. It was based upon the earlier 916.-Model history:...	21	+30.178	16
4	6	Gregorio Lavilla Gregorio Lavilla Gregorio Lavilla born September 29, 1974 in Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Tarragona, Spain is a professional motorcycle road racer. He has raced in MotoGP , the Superbike World Championship, and the British Superbike Championship, taking the British crown in 2005...	Kawasaki ZX-7RR	21	+35.116	13
5	9	Peter Goddard Peter Goddard (motorcycle racer) Peter Goddard was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He resides in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Riding motorcycles since the age of 5, Goddard started his racing career on dirt tracks before making his debut on road circuits at Oran Park Raceway in 1984.- Dirt Track Racing Career...	Aprilia RSV1000 Aprilia RSV Mille The Aprilia RSV Mille was a sport motorcycle manufactured by Aprilia from 1998 to 2003. It was offered in three versions, RSV Mille, RSV Mille R, and RSV Mille SP....	21	+36.359	11
6	21	Katsuaki Fujiwara	Suzuki GSX-R750 Suzuki GSX-R750 The GSX-R750 is a 750 class sport bike motorcycle from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 1985 and can be considered to be the first of the modern racer-replicas with many race-derived technologies and the looks of a Suzuki Endurance racer at an affordable price.-Air-cooled...	21	+37.463	10
7	22	Vittoriano Guareschi Vittoriano Guareschi Vittoriano Guareschi is a former professional motorcycle road racer and current team manager for the Ducati Corse factory racing team in MotoGP....	Yamaha R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	21	+48.594	9
8	16	Andy Meklau	Ducati 996 Ducati 996 The Ducati 996 is an Italian street motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1999 to 2002. It was based upon the earlier 916.-Model history:...	21	+59.878	8
9	72	Christer Lindholm	Yamaha R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	21	+1:11.069	7
10	63	Jochen Schmid Jochen Schmid Jochen Schmid is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Germany. He finished the 1992 season seventh overall in the 250cc class, and eighth one year earlier. Schmid competed in the World Superbike Championship from 1994 to 1997 and in 1999, taking two podiums at Hockenheim in 1995.-...	Kawasaki ZX-7RR	21	+1:11.374	6
11	19	Lucio Pedercini Lucio Pedercini Lucio Pedercini is an Italian motorcyclist who raced his first Grand Prix in 1992. He was Italian Superbike Champion in 2001 and 2002, riding a Ducati. In 1996, he won an award naming him the best private superbike racer in the world, riding a Yamaha Roc "YZF 500 GP...	Ducati 916 Ducati 916 The Ducati 916 is an Italian sports motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1994 to 1998. In contrast to Japanese inline four-cylinder competitors of the time, its V-twin engine produced less outright power, but a more even torque spread...	21	+1:11.759	5
12	39	Alessandro Gramigni Alessandro Gramigni Alessandro Gramigni is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was the 1992 F.I.M. 125cc world champion....	Yamaha R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	21	+1:24.325	4
13	70	Giovanni Bussei	Suzuki GSX-R750 Suzuki GSX-R750 The GSX-R750 is a 750 class sport bike motorcycle from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 1985 and can be considered to be the first of the modern racer-replicas with many race-derived technologies and the looks of a Suzuki Endurance racer at an affordable price.-Air-cooled...	21	+1:28.715	3
14	66	Jon Ekerold Jon Ekerold Jon Ekerold is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is one of the few racers in the modern era to have won a world championship as a privateer without the benefit of a motorcycle manufacturer's support when he defeated Kawasaki factory racing team rider Anton Mang for the 1980 350cc...	Kawasaki ZX-7RR	21	+1:31.515	2
15	27	Frédéric Protat Frederic Protat Frédéric Protat is a retired French motorcycle racing driver, born in Bron, Rhône-Alpes, France on 17 July 1966.In 1991, he was the French superbike Champion in the 250 cc category....	Ducati 996 Ducati 996 The Ducati 996 is an Italian street motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1999 to 2002. It was based upon the earlier 916.-Model history:...	21	+1:32.908	1
16	38	Lance Isaacs	Ducati 996 Ducati 996 The Ducati 996 is an Italian street motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1999 to 2002. It was based upon the earlier 916.-Model history:...	21	+1:34.715
17	55	Mauro Lucchiari	Yamaha R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	21	+1:35.448
18	26	Jean-Pierre Jeandat	Honda RC45	21	+1:44.971
19	71	Brian Morrison	Yamaha R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	20	+1 lap
20	24	Vladimir Karban	Suzuki GSX-R750 Suzuki GSX-R750 The GSX-R750 is a 750 class sport bike motorcycle from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 1985 and can be considered to be the first of the modern racer-replicas with many race-derived technologies and the looks of a Suzuki Endurance racer at an affordable price.-Air-cooled...	20	+1 lap
Ret	5	Colin Edwards Colin Edwards Colin Edwards II nicknamed the Texas Tornado is an American professional motorcycle racer. He is a two time World Superbike champion and has competed in MotoGP since 2003, now riding for the Yamaha Tech 3 team in the 2011 season.-Early years:At the age of three, his Australian father, Colin...	Honda RC45	12	Crash
Ret	65	Michael Schulten	Suzuki GSX-R750 Suzuki GSX-R750 The GSX-R750 is a 750 class sport bike motorcycle from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 1985 and can be considered to be the first of the modern racer-replicas with many race-derived technologies and the looks of a Suzuki Endurance racer at an affordable price.-Air-cooled...	11	Technical
Ret	7	Pierfrancesco Chili Pierfrancesco Chili Pierfrancesco 'Frankie' Chili, is a motorcycle racer who has raced in the Superbike World Championship and the 250cc and 500cc classes in Grand Prix. In World Superbike he had a record number of starts, as well as 10 poles and 17 wins. He retired at the end of the season...	Suzuki GSX-R750 Suzuki GSX-R750 The GSX-R750 is a 750 class sport bike motorcycle from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 1985 and can be considered to be the first of the modern racer-replicas with many race-derived technologies and the looks of a Suzuki Endurance racer at an affordable price.-Air-cooled...	9	Crash
Ret	33	Robert Ulm	Kawasaki ZX-7RR	9	Crash
Ret	73	Lothar Kraus	Kawasaki ZX-7RR	9	Crash
Ret	40	Giuliano Sartoni	Ducati 996 Ducati 996 The Ducati 996 is an Italian street motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1999 to 2002. It was based upon the earlier 916.-Model history:...	9	Technical
Ret	41	Noriyuki Haga Noriyuki Haga , is a Japanese professional motorcycle racer. Haga has been runner-up in the Superbike World Championship three times, and has finished 3rd in the series four times....	Yamaha R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	5	Crash
Ret	4	Akira Yanagawa Akira Yanagawa is a motorcycle road racer from Japan. He won three World Superbike Championship races and finished on the podium on 20 further occasions....	Kawasaki ZX-7RR	4	Crash
Ret	64	Kirk McCarthy Kirk McCarthy Kirk Richard McCarthy was an Australian motorcycle road racer who competed in several major championships both at home and internationally. He was killed in an Australian Superbike Championship race at Queensland Raceway in 2004.McCarthy began racing in the Australian Superbike Championship in...	Suzuki GSX-R750 Suzuki GSX-R750 The GSX-R750 is a 750 class sport bike motorcycle from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 1985 and can be considered to be the first of the modern racer-replicas with many race-derived technologies and the looks of a Suzuki Endurance racer at an affordable price.-Air-cooled...	4	Crash
Ret	15	Igor Jerman	Kawasaki ZX-7RR	3	Technical
Ret	18	Carlos Macias	Ducati 916 Ducati 916 The Ducati 916 is an Italian sports motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1994 to 1998. In contrast to Japanese inline four-cylinder competitors of the time, its V-twin engine produced less outright power, but a more even torque spread...	3	Crash