MotoGP Sachsenring Gallery of Pics – Part 1
Here’s our first gallery of pics from the MotoGP racing at Sachensring. Check back with us tomorrow for part 2 and to see the paddock girls. Enjoy.
Valentino Rossi ready to write off the GP11.1
During today’s MotoGP qualifying session, Valentino Rossi hit a new time low, qualifying only sixteenth on the starting grid of seventeen riders with the highly tooted Ducati GP11.1 (2012 chassis and the DST) which debuted at Assen which was supposed…
Nicky Hayden Gets his Own Ducati 848
Remember the Ducati 848 Nicky Hayden Special Edition that Ducati unveiled at the Laguna GP? Well Ducati has given Nicky Hayden his own replica bike. You’ve got to love Nicky’s line when he say’s he hopefully he knows how to…
MotoGP Motegi rider quotes after Friday's sessions
After the last two Friday practice sessions at Misano and Aragon with mixed conditions, the MotoGP riders finally found almost perfect weather conditions at Motegi. Dani Pedrosa was not only the quickest rider of the day and he actually broke…
Casey Stoner – The Final Lap
If you are a Casey Stoner fan - and even if you are not - you absolutely can’t miss this wonderful video prepared by Australia’s Channel 10 to celebrate the two-time World Champion’s sixth consecutive win at Phillip Island and…
MotoGP Mugello: Valentino Rossi Dominates in FP
Valentino Rossi says his shoulder is only 65% fit, may it be fact or fiction, but the Italian certainly didn’t seem to have any problems with his injury in today’s free practice at the Mugello. Rossi led the entire session…
Hiroshi Aoyama to ride for Avintia Blusens at Valencia
According to Spanish website motocuatro.com, Hiroshi Aoyama will be replacing still recovering Yonny Hernandez in next week’s final MotoGP round of the season at Valencia.The former 2009 250cc World champion and MotoGP rider spent an unproductive year (he finished 18th…
MotoGP Sepang Test Friday: Valentino Rossi On Top Again
In the final day of MotoGP testing, and after a very wet start in the morning that saw only eleven riders risking it out on track, Nicky Hayden came out on top, followed by Marco Melandri and Hector Barbera and…
Was Hector Barbera moved in the right way?
When Marco Simoncelli tragicallay died last year at Sepang, I posted an emotional rant (I was still trying to wrap my head around his death) regarding how the Italian was handled by the track side medical crew following his fatal…
Repsol Honda MotoGP team announces new sponsor
The partnership between Honda and the Spanish oil company Repsol will go on for other two years from the beginning of 2021.
MotoGP Misano: Karel Abraham tops FP2 in tricky conditions
The second MotoGP free practice at Misano, was more or less the same as this morning, a washout, as it was damp, windy very slippery and with a few drops of raining falling occasionally, and again only a few riders…
Moto3, Alex Marquez: "Training with Marc is extra motivation"
After eleven starts in the 2012 Moto3 World Championship, Alex Marquez is now in his first 'full-time' season in the lower class, where he rides the KTM of the well-established Estrella Galicia 0.0 team. The 17 year old Spaniard, younger…
Danilo Petrucci rides the streets of Rome with his MotoGP CRT
Danilo Petrucci caused a sensation yesterday evening in Rome when he rode his 2012 Ioda TR003 CRT machine throught the busy streets of the eternal city as part of the team’s launch of Ioda Your Project initiative, that we reported…
MotoGP riders review qualifying at Indianapolis
The asphalt and Bridgestone’s tire management especially with the graining on the front tire and not going off the racing line will be the name of the game in today’s MotoGP race at Indianapolis if anyone wants to stay even…
Lorenzo and Rossi Video Interview
More from the Fiat Yamaha 2009 launch, Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi in a head to head video. English, Italian andSpanish all rolled into one:Q: The best moment of 2008?VR: I would say the battle at Laguna Seca.JL: My first…
Ducati concludes another day of testing at Misano
Ducati was back on track today at the Misano circuit for another day of testing, with both factory riders Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden and test rider Franco Battaini who worked on electronics. Despite his still healing hand that caused…
More rider quotes from last night's MotoGP FP1
The Losail circuit proved one thing right during last night’s MotoGP first free practice, Qatar would be the first circuit where CRT machines would suffer where power and speed is everything and to borrow a phrase from the fantastic and…
MotoGP Valencia – Canepa di miss final race and says Good-bye to MotoGP
Niccolò Canepa has had very difficult rookie season, very rarely making it in the top ten and struggling to keep his job until the end of the season and now the Italian will miss the season finale and his last…
Casey Stoner opens up on Motegi round
During today’s pre-event press conference at Brno, Casey Stoner officially announced that he is to become a father (Congrats to the new daddy-to-be!) stating that the knowing of his wife’s pregnancy may have contributed on his stance on boycotting the…
Lorenzo's Wall
Jorge Lorenzo who partecipated in the Monza Rally Show this weekend driving a Fiat Punto Abarth S2000, declared that he doesn’t like the idea of the wall that divided the two Yamaha riders in 2008 will remain standing even in…
Furusawa talks Valentino Rossi
It’s not a secret that the General Manager of Yamaha Motor Company’s Technology Development Division, Masao Furusawa and Valentino Rossi have a special relationship, and that the Japanese manager may well be Valentino’s number one fan, stating in the past…
Lorenzo and Rossi looking for the podium in Jerez
Yamaha Factory Racing riders Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi are heading to Jerez de La Frontera hoping to prove that Honda’s remarkable perfomance in Austin a forthnight ago was only due to the peculiar layout of the brand new Texan…
Nicky Hayden's New Footpegs
You may remember reading that Ducati while checking out Nicky Hayden’s data, found that the Kentucky Kid was inadvertently touching and dragging his rear brake, especially in mid corners and was also having the same problem with his gear shift…
Casey Stoner tests 2012 Honda 1000cc bike at Jerez
After Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden’s debut test with 2012 Desmosedici at Jerez, now it was Honda’s turn to show us their new 1000cc motorcycle. Casey Stoner took the machine out for most of yesterday putting in a total of…
‘We are for Japan!' – Just not for Motegi
If Jorge Lorenzo was already adamant about not going to the Japanese GP in October, not giving a hoot about facts, findings and other things he doesn’t believe or trust, he’s now found a super big ally in points leader…