We thank Giorgiogasss for the tip of this video, which gives us a great insight into the past with an on board camera on Randy Mamola’s Honda NSR 500. This is back in 1985 at the Assen Grand Prix in…
The rumor that Ducati’s MotoGP project manager Livio Suppo will be leaving the team at end of season started gaining steam after Casey Stoner’s return from his three race break and after the Sepang GP. Michael Scott from GP Week…
Today’s qualifying session at Indianapolis saw Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa take the top spot with a smashing 1.39.730s on hard race tires and beating Valentino Rossi’s last year’s pole position on super soft qualifying tires by more than a second.…
Nicky Hayden has finally decided to set the record straight regarding a number of Alberto Puig’s accusations, stating that that he’d really prefer not to get into a public cat fight with Pedrosa’s manager, but he did say: “That wall…
The San Carlo Honda Gresini Team’s official presentation took place yesterday at the Telenova studios in Milan, hosted by presenter Franco Bobbiese, during his show Griglia di Partenza ( our readers already know about this show) where Team Manager Fausto…
On the second day of MotoGP testing at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, Casey Stoner still struggling with pain in his left wrist posted the fastest time 2.01.483. Managing to complete only 29 laps because of the pain and even…
Casey Stoner hit the top of the charts again on the third and final test day in Malaysia today, with a blistering lap of 2’01.043 on the last of his 38 turns of the Sepang circuit, limiting his track time…
Valentino Rossi once again led testing on the first day of official testing in Sepang, resuming where he left off three weeks ago. The Italian’s led both the morning and afternoon sessions topping the chart with a 2.01.068, which was…
We didn’t have to wait long after Ducati’s press release regarding Casey Stoner leaving the team, that Honda Racing has now released their own, regarding the Austrialian rider, confirming its new acquisition.HRC Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto said:“We are very pleased…
After saying that he was happy with yesterday’s rain to test their wet weather set-up, during the second of day of testing at Jerez, saw about three hours of dry time, Dani Pedrosa admitted that he wants more dry weather…
Just a few hours after the news ran wild in the internet that Dani Pedrosa had been allegedly involved in a cheating scam to obtain a boating license, the Spanish rider had the following statement released by his lawyer to…
First thing, if you didn’t see WSBK Race 1 at Assen, I suggest that you find it, beg for it or steal it, because it’s going to become a race classic and it has to been seen. If you don’t…
My French is pretty well limited to the usual social amenities, hello, thank-you, where is the bathroom, ect, knowing how to count to one hundred, how to order off a menu and not find some reknowned ‘delicacy’ on my plate…
Everyone will have to apologize to SoloMoto and Sportmediaset, because during today’s MotoGP pre-race conference at Le Mans, Casey Stoner made the shock announcement that he’ll be retiring from the sport at the end of this season.At Estoril, just two…
After the rain upset on Sunday evening and with cool temperatures and a dirty track surface after high winds earlier last night, lap times were well off record pace and most riders were not taking any extra chances after seeing…
Jakub Smrz and Max Biaggi, the first on a private Ducati and the second on an official Aprilia ended up posting the same idential laps times in the second provisional qualifying session at Portimao.Smrz was the first to top the…
The Gran Premio d’Italia is one of the highlights of the MotoGP season and usually Italian based teams like to pick out their brolly girls with contests and other whatnots. This year Team San Carlo Honda Gresini is going to…
It was Jorge Lorenzo who dominated the first MotoGP practice session in Brno this afternoon. Lorenzo stopped the clock at 1.56.595 and shattered the exsisting lap record while team mate and championship points leader Valentino Rossi was second at 1.56.994.…
John McGuinness won a record breaking 2009 Dainese Superbike TT yesterday and celebrated his 15th career TT win on the Isle of Man.McGuiness did three laps of the six, averaging more than 130mph, setting a new lap record of 130.442mph…
The first free practice for the ninth round of the World Superbike Championship at Brno saw Michel Fabrizio on top of the time charts and the end of the session with a best lap of 1.59.917 and the only rider…
Alessandro Trombin, 22 years old student at the IAAD University of Turin and reader of our twin-site Motoblog.it, just sent us the pics of this cool prototype, a sort of crossbred between a concept and a special bike that he…
It was Fiat Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo wearing a NASA themed helmet who rocketed to his 5th pole position of the season in today’s qualifying practice at Estoril. Lorenzo hit the top of the charts with a 1’36.214, while team mate…
Toni Elias’s test times on the LCR Honda at Valencia weren’t exactly news stopping as Casey Stoner’s were, but the M0to2 champion had a couple of good excuses for his poor performace. He had to re-adapt to MotoGP bikes after…
At the Honda meeting that took place in Milan right before the 2011 EICMA, the new Honda Crosstourer 1200 was the undisputed star. When it got introduced, all eyes were on the new enduro bike from the Japanese manufacturer, and…
Jorge Lorenzo took another faultless win at the MotoGP Catalunya to make it three wins in a row from the pole position and his fifth victory of the season, while Andrea Dovizioso, Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner, all made costly…