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Chris Vermeulen updates fans after his knee surgery (video)

21 April, 2020
Chris Vermeulen underwent reconstructive knee surgery at the end of July after further damaging his already injured knee during the Brno round and that finally made him decide pull out of the current World Superbike season to try to fix…

Ben Spies to drag race a Ducati Diavel at Indianapolis

21 April, 2020
Ben Spies will finally return to action at the Indianapolis Speedway, after missing the better part of the season recovering from a pectoral muscle issue that occured during the COTA round last April. The American rider is finally 100% fit…

Andrea Dovizioso goes karting

20 April, 2020
Andrea Dovizioso has joined the ranks of other Grand Prix riders ( Casey Stoner, Valentino Rossi, Marco Simoncelli, Andrea Iannone, Mattia Pasini) who like to relax in their spare time fooling and racing around with go-karts.Here’s Dovi with Giorgio Pantano,…

WSBK: Tom Sykes to remain in Kawasaki orbit

20 April, 2020
Tom Sykes will remain in the World Superbike Championship next year. The British rider who in the last few races of the season has really impressed has been a big part on the development and testing of the new 2011…

Valentino Rossi laughs off Honda rumor

20 April, 2020
Apparently the fact that Marco Melandri admitted he was just kidding around when he spread the Valentino Rossi-Honda rumor, didn’t stop the journalists present at today’s pre-event press conference at Brno from asking the ‘The Doctor’ whether he’d be staying…

Troy Bayliss Classic flat track motorcycle event

20 April, 2020
Last January, former three time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss returned to his roots when he competed at the Old Bar Roadside Circuit during the Taree Motorcycle Club’s twilight meeting, apparently the event was such a hit that it has…

Lucio Cecchinello and his Honda Fireblade at Monte Carlo

20 April, 2020
Before becoming the full-time successful team manager of LCR Honda, Lucio Cecchinello used to be a mechanic for Team Italia in the European Championship until the bike mad Italian turned to motorcycle racing where competed in the Italian Sport Production…

Nicky Hayden and the real Ducati Diavel

20 April, 2020
Nicky Hayden must have just loved do the promo work with Ducati’s new power cruiser the Diavel, because just a few hours later he crashed out his Desmosedici during the Valencia GP and created his own Kentucky styled custom version…

Colin Edwards to ride for Forward Racing CRT team in 2012

20 April, 2020
Colin Edwards announced late this afternoon what many already suspected, he’s staying in MotoGP in 2012 and be riding for NGM Forward Racing’s CRT team making him the first rider to be officially confirmed as part of a CRT tea,.The…

Casey Stoner left Ducati due to frustration says Wayne Gardner

20 April, 2020
In his weeky review post on the Wayne Gardner Approved website, the former Australian world champion apparently had a very revealing chat with Casey Stoner during last week’s Australian GP weekend. Gardner wrote on his website: “Want to know the…

Loris Capirossi tips Dani Pedrosa as 2013 World Champion

20 April, 2020
Loris Capirossi is one of Dorna’s safety advisors (along with Franco Uncini) and the former MotoGP rider has tipped Dani Pedrosa to be one of the 2013 title contendors with Jorge Lorenzo - which is not exactly a difficult prediction…

Marc and Alex Marquez receive heroes welcome (w/video)

20 April, 2020
On Saturday evening it seemed like the entire town of Cervera (Spain) turned out to celebrate their two most famous citizens, the Marquez brothers, Marc for winning the 2012 Moto2 championship and kid brother Alex who not only competes in…

Bernice shows how to ride at Assen

20 April, 2020
Dutch rider Bernice Sangers lives very close to the Assen racetrack. And she likes to show us how to ride a lap on the well known race track. They mounted a bullet camera on her Ducati 748 for this occasion.Bernice…

Cal Crutchlow completes first test with Yamaha M1

20 April, 2020
As previously anticpated, Cal Crutchlow was at Yamaha’s Fukuori track in Japan to get his first taste of the M1 in a private two day test session ahead of next month’s official end of season testing in Valencia.Crutchlow will be…

Valentino Rossi's Dainese leathers for Valencia test

20 April, 2020
Here’s Valentino Rossi’s Dainese D-Air leathers that he’ll be wearing for the Valencia MotoGP tests, if he decides to get out on the track.Still contractually tied to Yamaha, Rossi’s leathers will be black and yellow with his racing number and…

Nicky Hayden does a baby burnout on the Ducati Diavel

20 April, 2020
Nicky Hayden definitely deserves a raise from Ducati. They send him on all their PR junkets and at the LA Auto Show, where Ducati and Mercedes AMG announced their partnership and they had him ride out about two feet on…

Valentino Rossi Snow Sculpture

20 April, 2020
A giant 6×3x3 mt snow sculpture of Valentino Rossi on his Yamaha M1 created by Samuel Perathoner from Santa Cristina, won 1st prize in the 14th Edition of the Snow Sculpture Competition that takes place in the ski resort town…

2011 Vrooom – Rossi vs Alonso

19 April, 2020
The traditional week long Vrooom event at Madonna di Campiglio organized by Ferrari and Ducati, that kicks off January 10th to present the teams to the international press will have everyone drooling. Not only will we finally see livery that…

Casey Stoner to drive in the Dunlop series in 2013?

19 April, 2020
The Valencia GP will be the last motorcycle race before Casey Stoner hangs up his racing lid. The two-time World Champion may have said that he’s lost the passion for MotoGP racing and that is one of the reasons for…

Marco Simoncelli worried about his fuel consumption

19 April, 2020
During yesterday’s qualifying session at Qatar, Marco Simoncelli missed out on a front row start by just 0.041s, but the Gresini rider is slightly worried about his fuel consumption during the long race.Simoncelli is the tallest rider (183cm, the same…