At the end of May, racing took place at MotorLand Aragón, while now it is the turn of the Circuito de Jerez named after Ángel Nieto. The Andalusian track has already hosted 12 rounds, the first in 1990, but it does not appear on the provisional 2027 calendar, although two rounds in Spain are still planned.
GP data
According to Brembo engineers working closely with 13 of the 14 Superbike World Championship teams, the 4.423 km Circuito de Jerez - Angel Nieto falls into the category of circuits that are highly demanding on brakes. On a scale of 1 to 5, it earned a difficulty index of 4 because riders use the brakes 10 times per lap for a total of 27.7 seconds, equal to 29 percent of each race: 3 braking sections are classified as High, 4 as Medium and 3 as Low.
The toughest corner at the Circuito de Jerez for the braking system is Turn 6, named after Dani Pedrosa: the Superbikes slow from 282 km/h to 68 km/h in 4.7 seconds, over a distance of 206 metres, while the riders apply a load of 5.5 kg to the brake lever. Deceleration is 1.5 g and Brembo brake fluid pressure reaches 11.7 bar.
Five apiece
At Jerez in the Superbike World Championship, Ducati riders have won 17 races and finished on the podium 32 times. It is no coincidence that the most successful riders on this track are Ducati men Alvaro Bautista and Nicolò Bulega, both five-time winners. Toprak Razgatlioglu, Jonathan Rea and Chaz Davies have three wins each. Therefore, Bulega has a golden opportunity to take the record outright, moving ahead of his former teammate before packing his bags and heading to MotoGP.
The preferred fluid
In addition to calipers, discs, pads, brake master cylinders and clutch master cylinders, Brembo also supplies brake fluid to almost all Superbike riders. Most prefer HTC64, which stands out for greater resistance to high ambient temperatures but lower hygroscopicity. The latter term refers to the ability to absorb water (moisture) present in the atmosphere. Only one team sometimes uses LCF 600 fluid, whose dry boiling point is 315°C compared with 335°C for HTC64.
Farewell to steel
The Jerez round will be remembered as the last one with steel brake discs. From 2027, in fact, all WorldSBK bikes will use Brembo carbon-ceramic discs with Hyction technology. Unlike steel, the new material has been designed to offer greater consistency, thermal stability, and durability across the wide variety of conditions that arise over the course of a season.