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MotoGP Qatar – Rider Quotes

20 April, 2020

What everyone had to say after last night’s Qatar season opener:Casey Stoner – Malboro Ducati – 1st“I’m so pleased with this victory because it is fruit of the hard work done by everybody at Ducati over the winter. It has…

First look at Loris Capirossi's leathers and livery for Valencia test

20 April, 2020

While we’re waiting for the Valencia track to dry out and watching the riders hanging around the pitlane still dressed in mufti (you can watch the test on Italia 1 in streaming) we can show you the livery and leathers…

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…

Jorge Lorenzo pushed more than 100%, Ben Spies loses front row following crash

20 April, 2020

It was an ecstatic Jorge Lorenzo at the parc ferme after today’s excitiong battle to the wire between himself and rival Casey Stoner. The Yamaha rider ended Stoner’s three year pole position dominance in Qatar (2009, 2010 and 2011) and…

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…

Dani Pedrosa previews Qatar GP, Marquez nervous ahead of race debut

20 April, 2020

2013 will be the eighth season that will see Dani Pedrosa in MotoGP and all of them spent as a Repsol Honda rider. The Spaniard who has never won the MotoGP title, is expected to be reigning World champion Jorge…

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…

2013 Sachsenring: Andrea Iannone's crash due to speed limiter error

20 April, 2020

Andrea Iannone is another rider that we have to add this evening’s health bulletin list. The MotoGP rider crashed during the fourth free practice, sustaining a dislocated right shoulder, but this time it wasn’t due to a cold tire or…

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…

Casey Stoner leaves Jerez confident that "we can still improve the bike quite a bit"

20 April, 2020

Watch out MotoGP world, Casey Stoner left the last pre-season test at Jerez on the top of the timesheets only after his last and final lap, but don’t be fooled by that lone flying lap because the reigning World Champion…

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…