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MotoGP: Marco Simoncelli Heads to Japan

15 March, 2020
While Grand Prix racing teams and riders were unpacking their suitcases after the official announcement that the MotoGP round at Motegi was postponed, Marco Simoncelli San Carlo Honda Gresini’s rookie rider was lucky enough to get on a plane in…

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…

Casey Stoner: I had to disconnect from racing

15 March, 2020
Casey Stoner’s decision not to contest three races left fans not only wondering when he would be back and as speculation ran wild like bush fire, if he would be pulling out of racing altogether, but everyone close to the…

Nicky Hayden Shows Us the Ducati GP10

15 March, 2020
You’ve just got to love the innocence of Nicky Hayden, most manufacturers try to keep, be it new models of cars or motorcycles, under tight wraps until the official unveiling where they can get oohs and ahhs of the press…

Prince Harry on Ducati D16 with Randy Mamola

15 March, 2020
Prince Harry showed up at Donington to take in the British Gran Prix races. Usually royalty likes to lay low and avoid the paps like the plague, but in this case young Harry got photographed while riding pillion behind Randy…

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…

Perfect year for Paola Cazzola

15 March, 2020
It was a perfect year for the Italian female rider Paola Cazzola, who was riding with the Yamaha YZF-R1 from the Yamaha team Pielle Moto- Villa Sandra. Paola won the five races in the Championship, achieved five pole positions and…

Kevin Schwantz explains that he was banned from COTA

15 March, 2020
The legal battle between Kevin Schwantz and the Circuit of the Americas regarding the alleged rights to the 10-year contract to promote MotoGP went up a couple of notches during the recent MotoGP tests at the Austin circuit, when the…

Nicky Hayden's 'Just Married' helmet

15 March, 2020
Relax ladies, Nicky Hayden is still single but he’s decided to celebrate his sister’s recent wedding with this ‘Just Married’ design on his Arai helmet.It might be sort of corny, but most chicks will fall for this very romantic thought…

Two songs to help the Marco Simoncelli Foundation

15 March, 2020
Rainband will be performing live “Rise Again” at the British MotoGP at Silverstone next month. The song which will be officially released as a single on June 18th, is a tribute to the late Marco Simoncelli who tragically died during…

The Marco Simoncelli Foundation

14 March, 2020
A non-profit foundation in memory of Marco Simoncelli came from an idea of Carlo Pernat and the Simoncelli family embraced the idea wholeheartedly and now the foundation has been legally formed.The president of the foundation will be Rossella, Marco’s mother,…

WSBK: FIXI Crescent Suzuki announces Jules Cluzel for 2013

14 March, 2020
FIXI Crescent Suzuki has announced 24 year old Frenchman Jules Cluzel as Britain’s Leon Camier new team-mate for their 2013 World Superbike Championship campaign. In 2012 Cluzel finished runner-up in the World Supersport Championship with Honda, behind Kawasaki’s Kenan Sofuoglu,…

Colin Furze and the Q Division Scooter (w/video)

14 March, 2020
Remember Colin Furze and how he built the longest motorcycle? Well the mad inventor from Stamford is back with another of his crazy ideas, a flame throwing scooter that not only shoots 12 ft flames straight out, but he can…

Joey Dunlop: the TT wins DVD to be released

14 March, 2020
I can imagine what you significant other might think of this request for a present, but here you have it: there are plans to release a full DVD pack of Joey Dunlop’s Tourist Trophy wins. After 26 wins, I don’t…

Jorge Lorenzo does it Gangnam Style and Michael Jackson style

14 March, 2020
Flying directly from Phillip Island where he won the 2012 MotoGP World Championship title, Jorge Lorenzo was the star of the evening (he also attended Yamaha’s Racing Academy) in the Meet n Greet Gala Dinner event at Hotel Mercure Jakarta…

Domenicali on Valentino Rossi's F1 ride

14 March, 2020
Valentino Rossi, the Italian MotoGP World Champion and hero went to Mugello to drive the red Ferrari Formula 1 car. Valentino, riding the Ferrari with the number 46 on the nose, set an incredible laptime of only 1.5 seconds slower…

Valentino Rossi testing fitness at Misano with a Ducati 1198

14 March, 2020
We certainly should have expected that Valentino Rossi would want to test his shoulder condition before heading to Sepang for the official pre-season MotoGP tests next week, because the Italian rider is currently at the Misano Adriatico race circuit with…

Stoner dubbed as the "Marlboro Man"

14 March, 2020
MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner has been targeted by anti-tobacco groups “Action on Smoking and Health”, “Smarter than Smoking” and “Young People and Tobacco”.They have written to Stoner and Ducati calling to end the sponsorship deal with tobacco giant Philip…

Makoto Tamada to take part in Suzuka 8 Hours

14 March, 2020
Makoto Tamada literally disappeared from this year’s international racing scene after subbing for Roland Resch in the WSBK Portimao round for Reitwagen BMW Team andwhen his Italian ghost team Pro Ride, due to sponsor difficulties and funding didn’t show up…