In contrast to the close competition of 1990, the 1991 season was dominated by Davide Tardozzi and Ducati - unsurprisingly really, as Tardozzi had so nearly won the first ever World Championship in 1988. In the same year that he won virtually every Italian Superbike race, Tardozzi took 4 wins and a 2nd place from the European Championship's 6 rounds. Rarely did anyone else stand a chance, but Sweden's Christer Lindholm took the final win of the season after Tardozzi's machinery failed him and Fabrizio Furlan firmly outclassed everyone in a soaking wet Yugoslavian round.