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Nürburgring circuit up for sale

18 March, 2020
The Nürburgring racetrack in Germany that went into insolvency administration last November is now officially up for sale, despite the numerous petitions, protests and campaigns to to save the state owned facility, that is in debt for around € 400…

Video: Suzuka Circuit celebrates 50th Anniversary

18 March, 2020
The famed and infamous Suzuka (for MotoGP after the death of Daijiro Kato) circuit celebrated its 50th Anniversary this past weekend with the festivities organized by Honda who owns the circuit under the Mobilityland Corporation banner.Besides the usual racing cars,…

No Moto2 For Aprilia

15 March, 2020
After increasing rumors that Aprilia would be abandoning Moto2, today the Piaggio Group has officially annnounced that they will not compete in Moto2 nor will they supply motorcycles to private teams in the new championship.The main reason according to press…

Playboy and LCR Honda

15 March, 2020
Lucio Cecchinello has confirmed that sponsorship deal with Playboy has gone through and this gallery of photos proves it. The Playboy logo will be on Randy DePuniet’s LCR Honda’s livery and leathers starting this weekend at the IRTA tests and…

MotoGP Qatar: Dorna thinking of Rescheduling MotoGP Start

15 March, 2020
During last month’s two day official tests in Qatar several riders fell at turn 2, with most riders putting the blame squarely on the night humidity and moisture coming through the track surface. These incidents were taken into consideration by…

WSBK Offer for Schumacher

15 March, 2020
According to the Gazzetta dello Sport, Carlo Fiorani head of Honda Europe has been quoted as saying that if retired 7 times Formula 1 champion, Michael Schumacher wants to ride in World Superbike Championship next year he’d be more than…

Honda RC213V: road-legal version to be launched in 2014

15 March, 2020
Honda has officially confirmed its intention to put into production a road version of the RC213V for 2014! Takanobu Ito, CEO of the Japanese giant, made the announcement today in Tokyo in a broader discussion about the future of the…

Valentino Rossi live for Monster Energy at Le Mans GP

15 March, 2020
Following the big online success that Valentino Rossi and Dainese had last December where over 5000 fans submitted questions to the former World Champion, Monster Energy has decided to repeat the idea and will have Rossi answering fans’ questions during…

2013 Moto Guzzi California 1400 preview

15 March, 2020
In view of its official unveiling at the upcoming 2012 EICMA show in Milan (November 15-18) Piaggio anticipates the new Moto Guzzi California 1400, a model that will have to revamp Moto Guzzi’s reputation as one of the leaders in…

Julian Simon tests the Ducati D16

15 March, 2020
Julian Simon, the reigning 125cc World Champion and one of the hotly tipped riders to rule in Moto2, got the chance to test an evo version of Ducati Desmosedici GP10 the other day at Jerez. With Vitto Guareschi in Qatar…

IMF asks that Marco Simoncelli's racing number be retired

15 March, 2020
Following Marco Simoncelli’s tragic death, many Italian fans have requested that Simoncelli’s racing #58 be retired from MotoGP racing and the President of the Italian Motorcycle Federation, Paolo Sesti has taken up the cause, writing the following letter to Dorna:…

Confirmed! Valentino Rossi will Try to Ride at Sachsenring

15 March, 2020
Well it looks like that the Italian websites were right on target. Valentino Rossi has confirmed that he plans to return to action at the upcoming Sachsenring GP.The 9 times World Champion who broke his right tibia and fibula six…

Kawasaki WSBK team to test at Almeria

15 March, 2020
With the official winter testing ban now finally over - it ended January 15th - three World Superbike teams (Kawasaki, Fixi Crescent Suzuki and Althea Aprilia) will be heading to the Almeria circuit in Spain tomorrow for two-days of private…

John Hopkins has ring finger amputated

15 March, 2020
John Hopkins MotoGP free practice crash at Brno last August has ultimately cost him his ring finger. The Crescent Suzuki rider who has suffered through six surgeries and months of rehab to cure the damaged finger had to capitulate and…

Marc Marquez discharged from hospital, Valencia in doubt?

15 March, 2020
Marc Marquez was not able to compete in last Sunday’s Moto2 race at Sepang after being judged unfit following his highside during the first free practice, which was caused by a wet patch at turn 10 that the marshals failed…

Coriano to erect a statue in honor of Marco Simoncelli

15 March, 2020
Coriano, Marco Simoncelli’s small home town has decided to dedicate a statue to the late GP rider “to keep alive the memory of the great motorcycle champion who died tragically on Sunday October 23rd during the Malaysian GP, a memorial…

World Superbikes to head to Russia

15 March, 2020
Infront Motor Sport just one upped Dorna as they have announced that the World Superbike Championship will be heading to Russia as soon as 2012.The partnership agreement was reached between Paolo Flamini’s Infront Motor Sports and Yakhnich Motorsport who is…

More Ducati GP12 testing for Valentino Rossi

15 March, 2020
After Nicky Hayden on Tuesday, Valentino Rossi got his third day of testing on the Ducati GP12 yesterday at the Mugello and turned 80 laps on the new bike, but the Ducati wasn’t just testing the GP12 and Franco Battaini…

Sepang organizers fined

15 March, 2020
Normally it’s the GP riders getting fined for doing some half-assed thing on track and putting other riders in danger, but this time it was the Sepang International circuit organizers who got fined € 15.000 following this morning’s Moto2 first…

Santa Claus Ducati Gives Fernando Alonso a Desmosedici RR

15 March, 2020
Everyone knows that Ferrari and Ducati are tied together in more ways than one, you just have see the week long Wrooom event to understand how important these two iconic Italian companies are on a marketing level.Ducati has decided to…