Jakub Smrz to join British Superbikes?

After being pink-slipped ahead of the Nurburgring round and replaced by Lorenzo Lanzi as part of Effenbert Liberty’s reorganization process ahead of next season (but it’s more likely he wasn’t paid like former team mate Sylvain Guintoli) Czech rider Jakub Smrz immediately started looking for a new ride to finish the season.

According to LA7 commentators, Smrz will be heading to the British Superbike championship while other rumors already have him debuting with the Splitlath Redmond team (they field Aprilia RSV4s) in BSB’s inaugural round at Assen - the Dutch race was incorporated in the BSB calendar this year - and takes place from September 21st to 23rd.

The team recently split with John Laverty and replaced him with Troy Herfoss and they already have another WSBK rider refugee Mark Aitchison in their line-up when he replaced Florian Marino, so with a team who often changes riders, the rumor that he will be heading to BSB could actually be true and Smrz already has some experience on the Aprilia after completing the final five rounds of the 2010 WSBK season with the RSV4.

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Max Biaggi breaks record with pole position at Nurburgring

Whether it was Aprilia’s updated electronics package that Alex Hofmann tested at Misano last week or the presence of the Roman Emperor’s long time girlfriend - and mother of his two children - in his pit garage in this German round, or both. Max Biaggi looks like he has had a big boost of confidence and has been very fast straight out of the starting block this weekend.

He took today’s Superpole - his fifth in his Superbike career - and broke the circuit record with Tom Sykes just 0.049s slower - the Italian admitted that his race pace is still lacking something compared to title rivals Sykes and Marco Melandri, but the question won’t be only race pace, but tire management which will be an issue especially it the weather stays hot.