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Ducati confirms Valentino Rossi leaving at the end of 2012

20 April, 2020
As highly anticipated, Ducati has confirmed with a brief press release that after two highly disappointing seasons, Valentino Rossi will be leaving the Italian manufacturer at the end of 2012.“As the MotoGP series awaits its return to action for the…

MotoGP Laguna Seca – Qualifying Video with crashes

20 April, 2020
Check out the video with Jorge Lorenzo’s and Casey Stoner’s highsides and the final minutes of yesterday’s qualifying session at Laguna Seca.According to Lorenzo’s crew chief Ramon Forcada, Yamaha team manager Daniele Romagnoli is not present due to family problems,…

MotoGP Sepang Test Day 1 press release round up

20 April, 2020
After a long and boring winter test ban, MotoGP 2012 finally got underway with the first official test of the season at Sepang and what the various press releases had to say after Day 1:Yamaha Factory Racing:MotoGP 2012 finally got…

Audi to drop Filippo Preziosi from Ducati's MotoGP project?

20 April, 2020
The latest and unexpected rumor to come from Sportmediaset is that the daddy of the Ducati Desmosedici, Filippo Preziosi will no longer be following Ducati’s MotoGP project next season, which the Italian engineer neither confirmed or denied when he was…

MotoGP Misano – Valentino Rossi takes 6th Pole Position

20 April, 2020
Today’s qualifying session at Misano seemed to be a FIAT Yamaha affair with team mates Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo in a private war exchanging tenths of hundredths of a second, for the pole position for almost the whole hour.Valentino…

MotoGP 2009: first test day for Nicky and Casey

20 April, 2020
Exactly one day after the Valencia race the Ducati Desmosedici GP9 went out for a two-day test session with the Ducati MotoGP 2009 riders. The first time for the new comer “Stars and Stripes” Nicky Hayden. Nicky went out at…

Mattia Pasini gets to test a Ducati

20 April, 2020
During Italian post-race TV show Fuori Giri a couple months back, Marlboro Ducati team manager Livio Suppo showed his public appreciation for 250cc rider Mattia Pasini by promising him the opportunity to test a Ducati and it was this promise…

Valentino Rossi laughs off Honda rumor

20 April, 2020
Apparently the fact that Marco Melandri admitted he was just kidding around when he spread the Valentino Rossi-Honda rumor, didn’t stop the journalists present at today’s pre-event press conference at Brno from asking the ‘The Doctor’ whether he’d be staying…

Casey Stoner back on a Honda at Motegi

20 April, 2020
It was since November 11, 2012 at Valencia, that former two-time World champion Casey Stoner hasn’t ridden a Honda MotoGP bike, and now the Australian is currently at Motegi for private test with HRC (the first of four in Japan)…

Nicky Hayden reveals that he suffered a fracture at Aragon

20 April, 2020
Seeing Nicky Hayden sommersault over an unproctected barrier during the last GP at the Motorland Aragon and land onto the access road infuriated a lot of fans and put under the magnifying glass once again, circuit safety. Loris Capirossi and…

Yuki Takahashi Axed from Scot Racing

20 April, 2020
Scot Racing could throw up as many smoke screens as they wanted, announcing its intention to keep both Yuki Takahashi and Gabor Talmacsi. They could tell us that they were trying to get a couple of extra RC212Vs, that they…

Stefan Bradl to undergo arm pump surgery?

20 April, 2020
It looks like this season’s Rookie of the Year, Stefan Bradl will not be joining Marc Marquez for the private three-day test session that Honda organized for their MotoGP riders at the Sepang International circuit next week.According to French website…

Lucio Cecchinello and his Honda Fireblade at Monte Carlo

20 April, 2020
Before becoming the full-time successful team manager of LCR Honda, Lucio Cecchinello used to be a mechanic for Team Italia in the European Championship until the bike mad Italian turned to motorcycle racing where competed in the Italian Sport Production…

Lorenzo's Land Comic to be released

20 April, 2020
Following in the footsteps of Valentino Rossi who was the star of a comic strip designed by Milo Manara in Italy’s Rolling Stone Magazine, which later became a graphic novel and a DVD, Jorge Lorenzo is also set to enter…

Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies have tire woes at Sachsenring

20 April, 2020
Jorge Lorenzo inherited second place after Casey Stoner crashed out of second place in today’s MotoGP race at Sachsenring, but the Spaniard wasn’t happy with the hard rear tire that Bridgestone strongly suggested they use, instead of the soft one…

Ben Spies to undergo surgery – Updated

20 April, 2020
Ben Spies return to action at Indianapolis was very shortlived. The Pramac rider highsided during the third free praction caught out by the traction control on his Desmosedici, that doesn’t engage in first gear.The crash left the American with a…

Valentino Rossi: "I'm not leaving Ducati"

20 April, 2020
Valentino Rossi received the Tapiro d’Oro (the interview will be broadcasted on Striscia la Notizia on Canale 5) at Monza where he’s racing in the Blancpain Endurance Series and the former World Champion decided to personally put a stop to…

MotoGP Sepang test: Dani Pedrosa unbeatable on Day 2

20 April, 2020
Dani Pedrosa’s best lap time of 2’00″770 done earlier this morning when track temperatures were slightly cooler was unbeatable, not even his team mate Casey Stoner who moved up the timesheet in the final hour, to take second couldn’t make…

Colin Edwards to ride for Forward Racing CRT team in 2012

20 April, 2020
Colin Edwards announced late this afternoon what many already suspected, he’s staying in MotoGP in 2012 and be riding for NGM Forward Racing’s CRT team making him the first rider to be officially confirmed as part of a CRT tea,.The…

MotoGp Rumors and Gossip picked up from around the Web

20 April, 2020
After meeting with the team managers in Bologna, Carmelo Ezpeleta headed to Borgo Panigale to talk with Ducati head honchos to see if they can put more bikes on the grid for the 2010 season.Cirano Mularoni Team Scot’s manager is…