One of the more telling differences of the 2011 World Superbike series has been the relative change in grid sizes between the World Superbike and World Supersport classes. Last year, WSBK had 30 entries, while WSS had less than 20. This year, the situation has been reversed, with just 22 full-time entries in the World Superbike class, and 30 or more lining up for every WSS round.
Paolo Flammini, head of Infront Motor Sports, the organization that runs the WSBK series, puts that reversal of fortunes down to a single factor: the limiting of World Supersport riders to having just one bike scrutineered, exactly as is the case in Moto2 and 125s in the MotoGP paddock. As a result of that switch, PTR - the organization behind Simon Buckmaster's Parkalgar and Bogdanka PTR racing teams - has been able to run two teams instead of one, using the spare bikes that the Parkalgar Honda team had last year and making them available to the newly-formed Bogdanka team.
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