Moto GP

Winds stop CRT testing at Aragon

25 March, 2020

It wasn’t the rain in Spain that halted the first day of CRT testing at Aragon today, but high winds and cool temperatures.With gusting winds reaching up to 60 km/h, the three CRT teams that are present at the Spanish…

Cal Crutchlow blitzes field in FP4 in Qatar

25 March, 2020

Cal Crutchlow is in a state of grace. The Yamaha Tech3 rider dominated the new half hour FP4 session with a blistering lap of 1:55.655 and was the first rider to break the 1.56 barrier this weekend and he was…

MotoGP Malaysia: preview Ducati Team

25 March, 2020

The Ducati Marlboro MotoGP team is traveling this time to Malaysia for the next round of the championship. Livio Suppo, the MotoGP Director from the Ducati Team is hopeful to get good results, Ducati’s winter test went well and Casey…

Pramac Racing Laguna Seca Livery

25 March, 2020

Pramac Racing has a new one off livery for this weekend’s Laguna Seca race, their title sponsor is Powermate, a leading consumer brand in the USA whose products include portable generators, pressure washers, air compressor and air tools.Paolo Campinoti -…

MotoGP Assen Qualifying – Rider Quotes

25 March, 2020

Rider quotes from today’s qualifying session at the Assen circuit. Valentino Rossi - 1st - 1:36.025“This is a really good pole position because I’ve only had one other this season, at Motegi in strange conditions. I had a lot of…

Live pics from Assen: the paddock girls

25 March, 2020

For this behind the scenes at the MotoGP gallery I had to put myself in the shoes of my male colleagues. It’s in fact, not difficult to do because you can still think like a woman. If a brolly girl…

MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa gets ready for the second half of the season

25 March, 2020

Second in the World Championship and 16 points behind team mate Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa salvaged a difficult situation at the United States Grand Prix to score a well-deseved 5th place - ahead of rival Jorge Lorenzo - and add…

MotoGP Sepang Test Thursday: Pics and Rider Quotes

25 March, 2020

To accompany today’s riders quotes, we’ve got a batch of pics from today’s MotoGP test in Sepang, some official and some from Motoblog who has its own blogger who’s reporting directly from Malaysia.Valentino Rossi - 1st 2′01″411 Laps: 54“Today was…

Kevin Schwantz posts evidence of his involvement with bringing MotoGP to Texas

25 March, 2020

Kevin Schwantz’statement that he was banned from COTA during the private MotoGP tests earlier this month in Austin, despite being invited by Attack Performance and LCR Honda, provoked a response from COTA about a week later, who released their own…

Nicky Hayden 7th, Valentino Rossi 10th at Aragon and Ducati in confusion

25 March, 2020

Before you read Ducati’s sanitized press release from the Aragon GP, you should know that a despondent Valentino Rossi admitted that all the things that Ducati have brought in so far, including the aluminium chassis have not solved his problems…

MotoGP Phillip Island: Casey Stoner dominates FP2

25 March, 2020

Better weather conditions, but more cold and a couple of damp spots on the Phillip Island race circuit was what the the MotoGP riders found in this morning’s second free practice, with birthday boy Casey Stoner taking the top spot…

Nicky Hayden's Wrist X-Ray

25 March, 2020

During yesterday’s qualifying session at Brno saw Nicky Hayden lose the front of his factory GP10 and slid into the gravel trap hurting his left wrist.After x-rays in the Clinica Mobile, Hayden revealed that the crash had taken off a…

MotoGP Phillip Island – Casey Stoner Wins and hat tricks the Island

25 March, 2020

Casey Stoner, during the Australia Grand Prix at Phillip Island, silenced any of his final critics taking his third win of this season, more than five months from his last, and winning his home race for the third year in…

Casey Stoner pips Dani Pedrosa for pole position at Estoril

25 March, 2020

Casey Stoner took his first pole position of the season in what turned out to be an exciting and very tight qualifying at Estoril for the top riders, with nine riders in less than a second, but we will be…

MotoGP Valencia: Incredible Casey Stoner takes last pole position of the season

25 March, 2020

Today’s qualifying session at Valencia saw Casey Stoner take the final pole position of the 2010 season and his 21st with Ducati, in the last weekend with the Italian team, with a blazing 1′31″799 lap.The Australian’s T4 was simply amazing,…

Ducati's Cicognani blames tires, Burgess previews Misano (w/video)

25 March, 2020

Ducati’s problems were exacerbated ten fold at Indianapolis and Alessandro Cicognani, Ducati Corse MotoGP Project Manager blames it all on the tires, while Jeremy Burgess, Valentino Rossi’s legendary crewchief previews the GP Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di…

MotoGP Misano – Rossi on top in FP1

25 March, 2020

Valentino Rossi may be playing down his chances in staying in front of Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa in this weekend’s Misano GP, but the first practice session put the Italian rider on the top of the chart with a…

Magneti Marelli gets MotoGP deal to supply standard ECU's

25 March, 2020

As highly expected Dorna has announced today that next season they will make availabe a standard ECU unit in MotoGP supplied by Magneti Marelli. The system which will include “an engine and chassis control unit with inboard datalogger, as well…

Jorge Lorenzo: 'I think we can fight for the win, Rossi: 'Qatar won't be easy'

25 March, 2020

Jorge Lorenzo didn’t chase lap times during pre-season testing, but the reigning World champion did prepare himself in a highly methodical manner just like last season. Consistency, physical and mental preparation were the key to his last year’s title and…

Valentino Rossi to test Ferrari F1 Car this Month

25 March, 2020

Wrooom isn’t only a Ducati event, but it’s also Ferrari happening and Stefano Domenicali, the teams principal during his press conference announced that Valentino Rossi will be once again taking the wheel of one their Formula 1 cars for two…

Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies to race at Motegi

25 March, 2020

After all the negative hype and declarations of not wanting to ride at Motegi due to radiation leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, another two riders have now capitulated to the growing pressure by their team bosses to take…

Rossi and Hayden will test only the GP11's at Brno

24 March, 2020

As we expected, also because Ducati team manager Vitto Guareschi had confirmed it early July, Ducati will not be testing their GP12 during Monday’s official post race test at Brno, but only their 800cc machine.Ducati perfers to continue testing their…