BSB defector team shows off new WorldSBK livery ahead of Portimao debut

The Superbike Advocates team has shown off its new 2026 livery for the WorldSBK season.

The Australian outfit has revealed the livery in Portimao, where it is taking part in this week’s World Superbike test ahead of its first race weekend in the championship at the same venue on 27–29 March.

The livery features a predominantly black and red colour scheme, with a kind of red ‘camouflage’ effect on the side fairings, in which sits the Superbike Advocates logo. There are also the colours of the Italian flag accenting the livery on the tail section and front fairing.

The Ducati Panigale V4 R’s two front wings feature the flags of Australia (right) as a nod to the origin country of the team, which has competed in the Australian Superbike Championship in the past, and of the UK (left) as a nod to its rider, Tommy Bridewell.

Superbike Advocates was originally due to contest the British Superbike Championship this season in a move to the series that was announced by BSB before the start of the 2025 season.

It was originally set to bring four-time World Superbike Champion Carl Fogarty on as team manager, but the former factory Ducati rider pulled out towards the end of last summer.

After the close of the 2025 BSB season it confirmed Tommy Bridewell as its rider after the 2023 champion left Honda. The intention at that stage was, publicly at least, still to race BSB this year.

In February, ahead of the opening round of the 2026 WorldSBK season in Australia, the team announced it would be entering World Superbike from the second round of the season in Portugal instead of racing in BSB, retaining Bridewell as its rider.