The MotoGP PR machine is starting to crank up for the Polini Grand Prix of Japan at the Motegi circuit. Here’s what some of the riders have to say:Rizla Suzuki - Loris Capirossi: “After what happened in Qatar, we now…
Max Biaggi was present at the official presentation in Rome of the new Aprilia RSV4. Max is expecting much from the new Aprilia he will use in World Superbike next year. It will be the first year the bike will…
On display at the Bologna motor show, is the Polizia di Stato stand, or the Italian police stand, with a couple of lovely examples on show, including material on safe driving, road legislation etc.The famous police Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560…
Alvaro Bautista wore this special helmet design for both US races at Laguna Seca and Indianapolis to support Japan and as promised the helmet is now being auctioned on e-Bay with the proceeds going to the Japanese Red Cross Society.The…
Alex de Angelis has finally penned his deal with JiR Racing team and will continue to ride the Motobi bike in 2011.The Sammarinese can be placed on our 2010 horrid season list, at least for three quarters of the season.…
KTM did not miss the appointment with the 70th edition of EICMA Milan, where the Austrian manufacturer introduced some very important model that will soon hit the markets worldwide. Most of all, we got the 1290 Super Duke R, which…
In the news of Harley Davidson killing off Buell, many a comment on the internet was about how fans would love to see Buell get a chance at racing, properly. In a kind of consolation prize from Harley, but one…
Ducati fans are waiting for the release of Ducati’s Strada Aperta (name to be confirmed), which will replace the Multistrada this year. These spy shots give a sketchy idea of the bike, whose release should happen in November.The Strada Aperta…
Carlos Checa continues to head the timesheets on this first day of official testing at Phillip Island ahead of next Sunday’s opening round in Australia. Checa’s best lap was 1.31.927 (during the morning session) which was already two tenths of…
Ben Spies arrived in Malaysia full of aches and pains following his qualifying crash at Phillip Island that left him with concussion and ripped tissue around his ribs which ruled him out of the Australian GP. Now seven days later…
The next member of the Audi e-Tron family has been presented live at the 2010 Paris Motor Show in the form of the Audi e-Tron Spyder. The open-top model is clearly based on Audi’s original coupé version and provides an…
According to Car magazine, Mini will be showing a Cooper Diesel at the next Geneva auto show, with Peugeot 1.6 liter HDi engine, with 110 ps, a turbo-diesel engine more in keeping with the sporty aspirations of the Mini, compared…
This weekend's British Grand Prix, 12th round of the 2013 MotoGP World Championship, will close a series of three rounds in a row — after Indianapolis and Brno — that so far hasn't been that lucky for the Ducati Team.…
The regional government of the Balearic Islands uses native born Motogp rider Jorge Lorenzo to promote their safe sex awareness campaign and the use of condoms.
The announcement from BMW Motorrad Motorsport last week that it will withdraw from the FIM Superbike World Championship at the end of the 2013 season left in shock the whole paddock, but it goes without saying that those who got…
Today’s free pratice 1 at the Montmelò circuit in Spain saw Valentino Rossi take first place with a best lap time of 1′43.038, with team mate Jorge Lorenzo who kept matching Rossi’s times, but in the end lost out by…
The BMW R 1200 RT will come back in 2014 with strongly renewed design and contents, as demonstrated by these recent shots and video published by German photography webisite anscharius.net. These two disguised prototypes in fact where spotted in a…
WSBK Team Guandalini Racing has announced that Spanish rider Gregorio Lavilla will replace injured Brendan Roberts for the sixth round of WSBK Championship at Kyalami circuit in South Africa the 17th of May.Roberts broke his left femur during Race 1…
Suzuki with Randy de Puniet and test rider Nobuatsu Aoki were back on track at Motegi for further development of their in-line four MotoGP racer that is expected to debut in MotoGP in 2015.After yesterday’s rain that halted activities, the…
Seventeen MotoGP riders entered the race and only twelve made it to the chequered flag at the Jerez ‘Beyond Thunderdome” track.Most of the riders had big issues with their rain tires that were chewed up by the abrasiveness of the…
With Valentino Rossi on a gag restraining order by Yamaha, and probably happy about it today and Ducati’s Filippo Preziosi playing more or less the diplomat, but admitting it was a “bad test,” because expectations were sky high after all…
Here are more pics of the 2010 Yamaha YZ450F, which continues its successful career as one of the premier offroad models around. With new cornering technology, the YZ450F features a fuel injected, liquid cooled, four-stroke, four valve, single cylinder engine…
Here’s a few pics of BMW live at the EICMA. We’ll be bringing you more details of the brand new Concept 6 from BMW, with its in-line six cylinder prototype engine. Stay tuned.Stand BMW EICMA 2009
With Ben Spies taking his 7th Superpole at Millersports Park at Tooele, Utah here’s what a few riders had to say about yesterday’s Superpole session:Ben Spies – 1st“It was a good session for us, the last few minutes there were…
Randy DePuniet was the surprise in today’s free practice at Assen when he hit the top of the timesheets clocking in at 1.37.842.The Frenchman’s LCR Honda donned a pair of soft tires in the final minutes of the practice and…