Troy Corser is certainly no stranger to the World Superbike arena, having contested a record-breaking 275 races and with two titles to his name. And he is no stranger to the Yamaha Motor Italia WSB Team as he enters his second season with the Italian based squad. 
 
The schoolboy motocrosser actually made his Superbike World Championship debut on a Yamaha in 1992, riding his national championship FZR750R to points scoring rounds in the Australian and New Zealand rounds.
 
Troy won the Australian Superbike title in 1993 before winning the American AMA series the following year - the first time a non-American had won the championship. His 1994 campaign also included several wild-card outings into WSB, scoring five podium finishes to take 11th overall in the championship.
 
In 1995 Corser ended his first full world championship season as runner-up to team-mate Carl Fogarty, before going on to win his first world title the following year.
 
Having won the World Superbike Championship Troy set his sights on the 500cc Grand Prix class. Corser had competitive machinery at his disposal in the form of Yamaha’s mighty YZR500s but the dream turned sour when his Austrian-run squad ran out of money mid-season. After seven races Troy’s Grand Prix challenge was over and for the 1998 season he was back in world Superbikes, where he has remained ever since.
 
Between 1998 and 2001 Troy was a model of consistency, winning 12 races over the four years and finishing third in the championship on three occasions and fourth once. 
 
For the 2002 season Corser linked up with old rival Fogarty, whose team was due to run a newly-designed three-cylinder machine. Delays in development meant Troy was forced to spend a year without racing, but when the bike finally made it to the racetrack Corser stunned the paddock by putting the underpowered machine on the front row for its very first race. With a solitary pole position and a second place at Misano in 2004, Troy’s two years racing the Petronas may not look to have achieved much on paper. However, those in the know could see that the Aussie still had the hunger to outride the bike and when he finally got on a competitive four-cylinder machine he was unstoppable.
 
Corser cruised to the title in 2005, winning eight races along the way. His defence in 2006 was surprisingly off-colour, marred by bad luck and uncharacteristic mistakes, but despite some problems he still ended the year fourth.
 
In 2007 Troy came back to where it all started – back with Yamaha. With his talent to get the maximum from the bike, he was seen as a good choice of team mate for Haga to help develop the new-for-2007 YZF-R1 as well as posing a serious championship contender with his vast experience and enthusiasm. During the year Mr. Superpole took his 40th pole as well as becoming the rider with the most race starts in WSB ever with his 275 beating previous record holder Pierfrancesco Chilli by one race. Although his first race win for Yamaha proved elusive Troy took nine podium positions and played an invaluable part in Yamaha’s first WSB Manufacturer Title.

For 2008 Troy continues his pairing with Haga but, although the two riders respect and admire each other, don’t be fooled into thinking that they won’t both be fighting for the championship title! Corser still has one goal left to achieve – to be the first rider to win the WSB championship on three different makes of bike.