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Valentino Rossi and Ferrari, a never ending story

24 March, 2020
This has to be the umpteenth story coming out of Italy about Valentino Rossi and Ferrari getting together ever since Rossi tested the red car in a number of occasions.Rossi confessed the other week that he and Stefano Domenicali of…

Arie Vos, Dutch Champion at Doha

24 March, 2020
Today we give a brief profile of Arie Vos, the friendly Dutchman, who won Dutch Open Superbike Championship (ONK) for this year with his Ducati. He also went together with Kari Vehniainen from Finland and the German Matti Seidel, to…

Team Marco Simoncelli in the making?

24 March, 2020
Last December, Aligi Deganello who was the late Marco Simoncelli’s crewchief and now is Max Biaggi’s crewchief in World Superbikes suggested that with all the experience that Paolo Simoncelli has, he should work with a racing team in one form…

Randy de Puniet's ankle: the x-ray

24 March, 2020
For our motorcycle pic of the day, today we give you this x-ray photo of Randy de Puniet’s ankle from our friends at Motosblog. Despite his injury, he is still racing for Lucio Cecchinello’s LCR Honda team, which hopes to…

Hector Barbera issues apology statement

24 March, 2020
Hector Barbera’s altercation with his girlfriend - apparently she wanted to break it off - got very messy because lover’s spat turned into a brawl that saw his girlfriend end up in the hospital with some bruises, with the two…

Valentino Rossi's 2013 Mugello tribute helmet

24 March, 2020
Every year for the Mugello GP Valentino Rossi debuts a special helmet design for his home race. This season the Italian picked one of his several trademark symbols, a bright green turtle, that features his blue eyes. The helmet graphics…

Raffaele de Rosa as 2010 top crasher

24 March, 2020
Crashing unfortunately is part of motorcycle racing, and this year’s not wanted title of being the top crasher, goes to Moto2 rider Raffaele de Rosa.De Rosa rode for Herve Poncharal’s Tech3 Moto2 team this season (and will be with G22…

Repsol Honda's Leitner and Hernandez talk Pedrosa and Marquez

24 March, 2020
After interviews with riders Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez, the Repsol Media Service has released another two Q &A interviews, one with Dani Pedrosa’s crew chief, Mike Leitner and the other is with Santi Hernandez who is Marc Marquez’ crew…

BMW 's message to Marco Melandri post EuroCup

24 March, 2020
If you don’t live in Europe you can’t imagine how important the UEFA EuroCup soccer matches are. Cities and towns across the continent gear up with giant screens to allow huge crowds of frenzied football (soccer) fans to watch the…

Ruben Xaus promotes World Superbikes in Russia

24 March, 2020
After retiring from racing Ruben Xaus is now busier than ever. He’s currently working for Bimota as their sporting director in their R&D department, while following Edo Racing who is taking part in the Italian CIV championship fielding a Bimota…

Carlos Checa crashes go-kart at Aragon

24 March, 2020
Alstare’s Francis Batta got a big scare yesterday afternoon at the Motorland Aragon circuit, when his rider Carlos Checa, who is still recovering from his foot fracture picked at Phillip Island, crashed his go-kart during the yesterday’s World Superbike media…

Jorge Lorenzo from Spartan to Crusader

24 March, 2020
Jorge Lorenzo’s spat with Marco Simoncelli on aggressive riders at the Portuguese GP was carried over at the Le Mans pre-event press conference yesterday. The Spanish rider was asked what he thought of Valentino Rossi’s statement after the Estoril test…

Valentino Rossi spends Valentine's Day in court

23 March, 2020
Valentino Rossi spent the better part of Valentine’s Day in two different Pesaro court rooms. The MotoGP rider had to testify in two separate proceedings, one criminal and one civil.The first is a criminal suit that sees Rossi’s former manager…

Nicky Hayden is a Ducati teaser

23 March, 2020
Probably remembering the time he got scolded by Filippo Preziosi after taking a picture of the Ducati Desmosedici GP10 before it was officially revealed to the world, this time Nicky Hayden, who was back at Borgo Panigale for some more…

Motori Minarelli workers appeal to Valentino Rossi

23 March, 2020
Valentino Rossi isn't new to receiving requests for help from Italian factory workers who find themselves risking their jobs due to the economic crisis.In 2009 an important Italian newspaper published on their front page an appeal from the Yamaha workers…

More gossip on Valentino Rossi's silly season

23 March, 2020
This year’s silly season theme song regarding where Valentino Rossi is going in 2013 could be Fleetwood Mac’s song “Tell me Lies”, because after learning that several people from Marc Marquez’ entourage stated that the Moto2 star would like to…

Carlos Checa: Sykes will be the rider to beat in 2013

23 March, 2020
Carlos Checa was another rider that our guy over at Motoblog.it was able to interview during Nolan’s Christmas party last week. The 2011 World Superbike champion turned 40 last October and has a few strands of white hair and a…

Lapo Elkann expresses interest in buying Ducati

23 March, 2020
Lapo Elkann, one of the heirs of the Agnelli fortune and manager of brand promotion at Fiat Automobiles (he was behind Fiat sponsoring Yamaha in MotoGP due to his friendship with Valentino Rossi) has expressed interest in buying Ducati to…

Casey Stoner's new $4.25 million crib

23 March, 2020
If you thought that Casey Stoner was going to retire and settle down spending the rest of his life raising cattle and farming on his 3000 acres ranch, and doing some hunting and fishing and racing around his property with…

Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa Sepang videos

23 March, 2020
With the Sepang2 tests that start tomorrow, Repsol has decided to upload to video interviews with some action footage from Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa from the previous test in Malaysia. The first part of the interview with Stoner is…

Tony Cairoli bets on Valentino Rossi

23 March, 2020
While racing legend Giacomo Agostini is tipping Jorge Lorenzo on winning the 2013 MotoGP title and believes that it will be difficult for Valentino Rossi to fight for the title due to his age, former MotoGP veteran rider Loris Capirossi…