The Superbike Commission has confirmed that the 2014 FIM Superbike World Championship will feature a new-look race schedule.

Races will be scheduled earlier than in previous seasons, in a bid to reduce clashing of television broadcasts with MotoGP and Formula One in Europe.

It was also confirmed that WSBK will feature Sporting Rules as similar as possible to the 2014 GP regulations.

Updated technical regulations were also accepted, however some minor details are still to be reviewed and the complete regulations will be available on the FIM website shortly.

A long discussion took place between the members to review the homologation procedure for 2015, especially to review the minimum number of machines to be produced by a manufacturer for the purposes of homologation and to fix the maximum retail price for a model to be homologated.

For the next season, the time-schedule of an entire SBK event will be as follows (excludes Australian round according to Phillip Island event organisers):

Friday:
10:00–10:45 SUPERSPORT FREE PRACTICE 1
11:00-11:30 SUPERSTOCK 1000 FREE PRACTICE 1
11:45–12:30 SUPERBIKE FREE PRACTICE 1 – TIMED FOR QUALIFYING (SUPERPOLE)
13:45–14:30 SUPERSPORT FREE PRACTICE 2
14:45–15:15 SUPERSTOCK 1000 FREE PRACTICE 2
15:30–16:15 SUPERBIKE FREE PRACTICE 2 – TIMED FOR QUALIFYING (SUPERPOLE)

Saturday:
09:00-09:30 SUPERSTOCK 1000 FREE PRACTICE 3
09:45–10:30 SUPERBIKE FREE PRACTICE 3
TIMED FOR QUALIFYING (SUPERPOLE)
10:45–11:30 SUPERSPORT FREE PRACTICE 3
12:30–13:00 SUPERBIKE FREE PRACTICE 4 – NOT TIMED FOR QUALIFYING (SUPERPOLE)
15:00–15:15 SUPERBIKE SUPERPOLE 1
15:25-15:40 SUPERBIKE SUPERPOLE 2
15:55–16:40 SUPERSPORT QUALIFYING PRACTICE
16:55-17:25 SUPERSTOCK 1000 QUALIFYING PRACTICE

Sunday:
08:40–08:55 SUPERBIKE WARM UP
09:05–09:20 SUPERSPORT WARM UP
09:30–09:40 SUPERSTOCK 1000 WARM UP
10:30 SUPERBIKE RACE 1
11:40 SUPERSPORT RACE
13:10 SUPERBIKE RACE 2
14:15 SUPERSTOCK 1000 RACE