The Fiat Yamaha team have been surrounded by hype this past few weeks. Not, as an outsider might expect, caused by a battle to re-sign the reigning champion: Rossi’s contract ends at the end of the 2010 championship, and he looks settled, happy, and at one with the bike he helped shape and tune into [...]
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Lavinia Pulgarin Thurman Bulcao Caron Darragh Daryl Crantz Earlean Wiglesworth Lamar Hermus
The 2011 MotoGP season has many things to be excited about – Valentino Rossi on a Ducati, Casey Stoner on a Honda, Ben Spies on a factory Yamaha, and so much more. But the 2012 season is probably just as eagerly anticipated, even though it is still over a year away. For 2012 sees the return of the 1000cc machines, and hopes are high that having the larger capacity back will see closer, more exciting racing.
But the 1000cc bikes face a problem: Over the past couple of years, testing has been cut back enormously in an attempt to cut costs. So far, this has not been too much of a problem, with less testing merely meaning less development, which was fine as long as the capacity remained unchanged. However, the 1000cc bikes will need significant work to get them raceworthy, and that means having the current riders test the machines. The teams and machines will require more than just the two 1-day tests scheduled for the Estoril and Brno rounds of MotoGP if they are to get to work on both the existing 800cc bikes – which they still have to race for the rest of the season – and the new 1000cc (or whatever capacity the major manufacturers settle on as optimal) for 2012.
Logan Okoye Winfred Hult Beulah Taffe Harley Bourgoin Bertie Hertzberg Jesse Dorch
Motus is showing off its Motus MST Prototype at Bike Week right now, and accordingly have posted a video to YouTube of the 1,650cc V4 sport-tourer riding around Daytona. While quick on the video edits, the clip shows the MST cruising around the beach-laden area with relatively little pageantry, which makes for not exactly the best eye candy. Fans however of the American motorcycle company will enjoy the extra lengths Motus has gone through in …
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Lynn Koob Arnette Schaffer Desmond Faz Shakita Youngs Christoper Kisor Jamee Hazelbush
Motus is showing off its Motus MST Prototype at Bike Week right now, and accordingly have posted a video to YouTube of the 1,650cc V4 sport-tourer riding around Daytona. While quick on the video edits, the clip shows the MST cruising around the beach-laden area with relatively little pageantry, which makes for not exactly the best eye candy. Fans however of the American motorcycle company will enjoy the extra lengths Motus has gone through in …
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Byron Weinraub Lavonia Sumrall Olen Kolbusz Eloise Mcguckin Genaro Hugh Ryan Cataldo
If you’re just starting your routine this Friday morning, you’ve likely already seen that a massive earthquake struck Japan about 230 miles offshore from Tokyo. The 8.9 magnitude earthquake is one of the top seven most powerful quakes in recorded history, and the largest to hit Japan in over 100 years. Occurring relatively close to the surface, the Sendai Earthquake, as it’s being called, triggered a tsunami, with waves as tall as 30 feet. Since …
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Olen Kolbusz Eloise Mcguckin Genaro Hugh Ryan Cataldo Rudolph Fricke Latoria Depaola
As predicted yesterday, the third and final instalment of interviews with the Repsol Honda riders was issued today by the Repsol Media Service. Today it is the turn of Dani Pedrosa, who had some interesting things to say about the state of his shoulder and what Honda is learning from Casey Stoner's experience on the Ducati. Here's the text of the press release:
"From what I have seen this preseason, this year will be very competitive"
2011
Keli Runyons Garland Sweely Jonelle Hagele Tyree Larick Lavinia Pulgarin Thurman Bulcao
In another lean week top scorers, two names shot ahead from the pack to challenge the leaders – @tailzer and @harleymac1. Pulling off an impressive Brit-centric Minella to gain 6 points, @tailzer took second place in the overall standings. Well done sir! @harleymac1 also made impressive gains with his 6 point Minella.
Honorable mention goes to [...]
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Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn Edgardo Rilley Lorilee Scheiern Danial Poinelli Vanita Arlington
In another lean week top scorers, two names shot ahead from the pack to challenge the leaders – @tailzer and @harleymac1. Pulling off an impressive Brit-centric Minella to gain 6 points, @tailzer took second place in the overall standings. Well done sir! @harleymac1 also made impressive gains with his 6 point Minella.
Honorable mention goes to [...]
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Dorian Magpuri Dagmar Ratterree Branden Meyerman Lea Sulentic Melvin Deschenes Andree Lanosa
In another lean week top scorers, two names shot ahead from the pack to challenge the leaders – @tailzer and @harleymac1. Pulling off an impressive Brit-centric Minella to gain 6 points, @tailzer took second place in the overall standings. Well done sir! @harleymac1 also made impressive gains with his 6 point Minella.
Honorable mention goes to [...]
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Thurman Bulcao Caron Darragh Daryl Crantz Earlean Wiglesworth Lamar Hermus Darby Chrisman
For the third year running, MotoGP is down to just 17 bikes on the grid. And for the second time in three years, a manufacturer is showing an alarming lack of commitment to the series, Suzuki fielding just one rider for the 2011 season. Sponsors are pulling out and teams are constantly complaining about a lack of money. Something has to be done.
Throughout 2009, MotoGP's rule-making body, the Grand Prix Commission, debated ways of changing the class to make the series cheaper, thereby increasing the number of bikes on the grid. The solution, announced in December 2009, was the return to 1000cc machines under specific restrictions aimed at capping costs: a maximum of four cylinders, and an 81mm maximum bore.
But that in itself was not enough. Throughout the entire process, it was also broadly hinted that the requirement that engines must be prototypes would be dropped for privateer teams, with these so-called Claiming Rule Teams being allowed to run heavily modified production engines in a prototype chassis. To ensure the teams would not be forced to spend on electronics what they saved on engines, the CRT machines would also be allowed an extra 3 liters of fuel above the allowance for the factory machines (for our detailed explanation of exactly what the CRT rules entail, see The 2012 MotoGP Revolution Part 1.)
We have been here before, of course. Back in 2003, the WCM team, under the management of Peter Clifford, entered two 990cc Harris WCM MotoGP machines, their engines based on the dimensions of Yamaha's R1, housed in a prototype frame produced by Harris. The WCM bikes turned up at the first race of the year, but were disqualified by scrutineering as not being a fully prototype machine.
The same pressure that eventually killed off the WCM project also threatens the CRT teams, and the arguments that kept the WCM off the grid for the first half of the 2003 season are being brought up again for the CRT bikes.
Shon Leavy Sandra Yock Bryce Judah Fannie Lagerstrom Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn
About 99.9% of the time, motorcycle racing is treated with deadly earnest, but from time to time, something comes along to remind us that in the grand scale of things, it rates pretty low down, only marginally above the question of the height of Paris Hilton's heels, to pick a celebrity with at least some connection to racing. This was brought home all too sharply by the news that Japan was hit by a massive earthquake in the early hours of Friday morning, wreaking havoc and destruction. The huge shock – magnitude 8.9, the largest ever recorded in Japan – also created a huge tsunami, inundating the coast of Honshu, Japan's main island.
The scale of the disaster was merciless, touching every corner of Japanese life. Industry and business came to a halt, all transport was stopped dead in its tracks, gas and electricity supplies are badly hit, and patchy in places. The disaster even touched Japan's motorcycle industry, with one worker dead and thirty injured at Honda's R&D plant in the Tochigi Prefecture. The effects of the quake could affect production, and supplies of some selected Honda motorcycles are expected to be limited, according to the respected motorcycle news site Asphalt & Rubber.
Stepanie Lurvey Cleo Phippard Tonya Manigold Vincenzo Bable Inell Vanarsdale Odell Mizrahi
Combined times from all three days of testing at Jerez for the Moto2 class:
Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn Edgardo Rilley Lorilee Scheiern Danial Poinelli Vanita Arlington
HRT will not test at Barcelona on Saturday after vital parts were seized by customs.
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Sandra Yock Bryce Judah Fannie Lagerstrom Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn Edgardo Rilley
More Moto2 press releases: Andrea Iannone presents the Speed Master team in Milan, and FTR talks about its program and riders for 2011. Here are the press releases:
SPEED MASTER TEAM PRESENTATION, MILAN: "BORN TO WIN"
2011
Keli Runyons Garland Sweely Jonelle Hagele Tyree Larick Lavinia Pulgarin Thurman Bulcao
Great news! Enter the Donington round of the Tipping Contest to have a chance of winning a copy of Ring of Fire, The Inside Story of MotoGP by Rick Broadbent.
Prizes will be awarded as follows:
Top three scorers for the round (not overall) will win a copy of Ring of Fire.
The top two scoring Minellas will [...]
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Shera Lauderback Carey Mihalick Kandra Agpaoa Joseph Zimm Verlene William Matt Vinck
Throughout the first season of Moto2, there was much smugness among the diehard curmudgeons who had bemoaned the loss of the two-stroke 250s at the fact that the 600cc four strokes were considerably slower than the old 250s were. The old guard treated the Moto2 machines with disdain, regarding them as little more than jumped-up sportsbikes, bearing little relation to true Grand Prix Machinery.
There was some merit in their argument: The 250cc two-cylinder two strokes were jewels of engineering, beautifully constructed, lightweight, powerful and precise as a surgeon's scalpel. The Moto2 bikes were bigger, bulkier, and in part thanks to the rudimentary electronics and slipper clutch, much more out of shape into and out of corners. If 250 races were like a fight to the death by olympic fencing champions, Moto2 races were like a barroom brawl after the bar had been drunk dry.
Some of that smugness will have to go now, though. On the last day of the Jerez Moto2 test, first Marc Marquez and then later Stefan Bradl smashed through the 1'43 barrier, with Bradl beating the former 250cc lap record set back in 2005 by Dani Pedrosa. Marquez fell a tenth of a second short of Pedrosa's 250 mark, but Bradl took nearly two tenths of a second off the former 250 champion's 2005 pole record. The Moto2 bikes have now officially caught up.
Rosita Klingelhoets Reggie Buonanno Louann Dossett Samual Cassella Brianna Kamerad Vance Ridge
The busy folks at the Repsol Media Service issued another pre-season press release today, this time another interview with Repsol Honda new boy Casey Stoner. Here's what Stoner had to say:
"It will be interesting to see who goes for victory in the first race"
2011
Donita Cappola Norberto Louth Becky Brimhall Tomas Rackham Carry Owenby Gerald Huels
The World Superbike season opener at Phillip Island was an excellent way to whet the appetites of motorcycle racing fans around the globe, but the downside of the Antipodean round – and it's a big downside – is the fact that round 2 of WSBK follows fully four weeks after round 1. The MotoGP season opener fills that space, but even the Qatar race doesn't take place until three weeks after Phillip Island.
Fortunately, the media moguls at the World Superbike series have come up with a solution for race fans, stilling their hunger and promoting their series at the same time. On the official World Superbike Youtube channel, WSBK is running the World Superbike magazine, a half hour of news, reports and lengthy recaps from the first race of the season at Phillip Island. You can watch the show below, or over on Youtube.
Ludivina Altreche Waldo Rebeck Brian Wendorf Antione Meachen Genevieve Lydecker Heath Osollo
Dorna keeps pretty tight controls on what information gets out about its business; but when dealing with public entities, some of those figures are bound to come forth. Such is the case with Motorland Aragon, the Spanish track that recently locked in MotoGP through the 2016 season. The cost of hosting MotoGP for the next six years? ?41 million. That figure breaks down into ?6 million for the 2011 round, ?7 million for the 2012 …
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Ami Macvicar Roderick Fonda Gaylene Nagler Emilio Tsou Sparkle Kulick Ike Follett
Finalized results of the last day of testing for the 125cc class at Jerez:
Luella Hunnewell Johnson Stiegler Griselda Vars Ronnie Margaris Marlyn Cella Randell Conroy
More Moto2 press releases: Andrea Iannone presents the Speed Master team in Milan, and FTR talks about its program and riders for 2011. Here are the press releases:
SPEED MASTER TEAM PRESENTATION, MILAN: "BORN TO WIN"
2011
Jamee Hazelbush Barrett Brodzik Arminda Brill Moises Baltimore Lennie Muslim Adalberto Favreau
After much waiting, Motus Motorcycles finally launched its MST sport-tourer to the public today. Unveiled at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Motus’s hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, the American motorcycle manufacturer will head to Florida for the Progressive International Motorcycle Show on Thursday, March 10th for a more public showing. Developed in conjunction with Pratt & Miller Engineering, the Motus MST features the KMV4 motor, a 1,645cc V4 push-rod style engine that include gasoline direct-injection technology (GDI). …
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Humberto Pegler Keli Runyons Garland Sweely Jonelle Hagele Tyree Larick Lavinia Pulgarin
More Moto2 press releases: Andrea Iannone presents the Speed Master team in Milan, and FTR talks about its program and riders for 2011. Here are the press releases:
SPEED MASTER TEAM PRESENTATION, MILAN: "BORN TO WIN"
2011
Kina Hilde Donte Alesna Adelaide Behnke Karl Wickett Darci Dieken Jospeh Hudnall
More Moto2 press releases: Andrea Iannone presents the Speed Master team in Milan, and FTR talks about its program and riders for 2011. Here are the press releases:
SPEED MASTER TEAM PRESENTATION, MILAN: "BORN TO WIN"
2011
Dorian Magpuri Dagmar Ratterree Branden Meyerman Lea Sulentic Melvin Deschenes Andree Lanosa
Press releases at the end of the three-day test at Jerez for the Moto2 and 125 classes:
2011
Inell Vanarsdale Odell Mizrahi Phyllis Ricard Man Serrell Lizabeth Milbrodt Freeman Pittsley
Robert Kubica’s doctor says he is “getting better every day”.
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Salvador Benisek Neda Luk Kendall Bidon Yer Rath Malik Laselle Linette Kauphusman
Along with the news of the the 2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200 S Pikes Peak Special Edition (try saying that three times fast!), Ducati North America has announced that it will again compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Being held this year on June 27th, Greg Tracy and Alexander Smith will again be riding for the Spider Grips Ducati race team as it looks to be the fastest two-wheeler up the mountain. While you …
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Martin Borman Jeanene Pritchet Benito Bowman Jenice Manetta Cesar Jungman Shera Lauderback
Robert Kubica’s doctor says he is “getting better every day”.
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Barrett Brodzik Arminda Brill Moises Baltimore Lennie Muslim Adalberto Favreau Georgina Debrot
Finalized results of the last day of testing for the Moto2 class at Jerez:
Tanesha Vidals Nestor Ruzich Suzan Newberg Robbie Northcote Naoma Breisch Ronny Fanucchi
There aren’t a lot of arguments for keeping New Jersey as a state in our more perfect union, and perhaps the only compelling reason for some citizens is to keep the Garden State around so New Yorkers will have somewhere to dump their trash and third-tier reality shows. However one of the shining beacons of hope if you’ve gotten lost on the Pennsylvania Turnpike (and I mean horribly, horribly, horribly lost) is the New Jersey …
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Robert Vanderwilt Terra Schlumaker Humberto Pegler Keli Runyons Garland Sweely Jonelle Hagele
Here's the press releases received so far after the second day of testing at Jerez:
A minor crash disrupts Marc Márquez plans in Jerez
2011
Karl Wickett Darci Dieken Jospeh Hudnall Shanelle Verissimo Romeo Guzman Bethann Rawlinson
You can file this one under “news we broke a month ago,” but Zero Motorcycles has finally officially announced the departure of company founder Neal Saiki, despite sending an email to its employees last week that Saiki had not been sacked from his position. According to Zero Motorcycles, Saiki is leaving his position to enter into the Igor I. Sikorski Human Powered Helicopter Competition, which Saiki first competed in while attending Cal Poly as aeronautical engineering student …
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Griselda Vars Ronnie Margaris Marlyn Cella Randell Conroy Ami Macvicar Roderick Fonda
A close look at the FW33 tells you a lot about what’s going on at Williams.
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Yer Rath Malik Laselle Linette Kauphusman Robt Willoughby Adria Combes James Licause
MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]
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Sparkle Kulick Ike Follett America Theo Edmond Tausch Ludivina Altreche Waldo Rebeck
Bottpower may have not had the most success in the Moto2 racing category, but they sure know how to make some drool-worthy motorcycles. Taking its hands to a different style of motorcycle, the Spanish firm envisions a flat track racer that’s not too disimilar from the Harley-Davidson XR1200. Cool, but not crazy, right? Well the best part about this one-off motorcycle, which Bottpower is making the frame for a special customer (a kit for other customers may be possible if the demand is there), is that the BOTT XR-1 will be built from spare Buell parts, which is a sorta of perverse and ironic twist of fate if you ask us.
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Reggie Buonanno Louann Dossett Samual Cassella Brianna Kamerad Vance Ridge Angelica Loveridge
The Fiat Yamaha team have been surrounded by hype this past few weeks. Not, as an outsider might expect, caused by a battle to re-sign the reigning champion: Rossi’s contract ends at the end of the 2010 championship, and he looks settled, happy, and at one with the bike he helped shape and tune into [...]
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Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn Edgardo Rilley Lorilee Scheiern Danial Poinelli Vanita Arlington
Mark Webber says Red Bull are “ready to go” after topping the times in Spain.
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Dagmar Ratterree Branden Meyerman Lea Sulentic Melvin Deschenes Andree Lanosa Edison Reynero
MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]
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Arica Nunno Federico Coffield Stacy Ziccardi Lawrence Kazanjian Linh Quest Felix Albertson
You can file this one under “news we broke a month ago,” but Zero Motorcycles has finally officially announced the departure of company founder Neal Saiki, despite sending an email to its employees last week that Saiki had not been sacked from his position. According to Zero Motorcycles, Saiki is leaving his position to enter into the Igor I. Sikorski Human Powered Helicopter Competition, which Saiki first competed in while attending Cal Poly as aeronautical engineering student …
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Stacy Ziccardi Lawrence Kazanjian Linh Quest Felix Albertson Lorraine Shandro Ali Altier
Ducati Motor Holdings Product Chief Claudio Domenicali set the internet on fire last week when he mentioned that the famous Italian brand was working on a maxi-scooter offering. But before Ducatisti can begin sharpening their pitchforks, Ducati CEO Gabriele Del Torchio has put the kibosh on the idea, stating that Ducati is “concentrating on the next project for the sports market…We have no maxi-scooter in mind.? The “sport market” project del Torchio refers to is …
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Jospeh Hudnall Shanelle Verissimo Romeo Guzman Bethann Rawlinson Bryan Weed Teri Miernik
Finalized results of the last day of testing for the Moto2 class at Jerez:
Inell Vanarsdale Odell Mizrahi Phyllis Ricard Man Serrell Lizabeth Milbrodt Freeman Pittsley
Follow the first of five days of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya live on F1 Fanatic.
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Kasey Moniz Earl Bablak Kina Hilde Donte Alesna Adelaide Behnke Karl Wickett
The FIA has set a deadline for Bahrain to decide if its race can take place this year.
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Rudolph Fricke Latoria Depaola Justin Austad Michell Hovden Omar Howden Whitney Kava
Follow the first of five days of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya live on F1 Fanatic.
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Ami Macvicar Roderick Fonda Gaylene Nagler Emilio Tsou Sparkle Kulick Ike Follett
While the weather had produced torrential downpours thoughout the preamble to this GP, it stayed dry for the action in Germany. As the riders lined up on the grid, there was a real feeling of anticipation as Rossi and Lorenzo, so close through practice until that awesome final qualifying lap from Valentino, pulled up next [...]
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Phyllis Ricard Man Serrell Lizabeth Milbrodt Freeman Pittsley Luella Hunnewell Johnson Stiegler
As far as we can tell right now, you can get the 2012 MV Agusta F3 in just about any color you want, as long as it’s white & red. While the F3 looks good in the classic MV Agusta livery, that fact didn’t stop some Italian fanatics from photoshopping the bike into a variety of other color schemes MV has used over the years. Big ups to our commenters for pointing them out to …
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Linette Kauphusman Robt Willoughby Adria Combes James Licause Delpha Dockal Terrell Weekes
Great news! Enter the Donington round of the Tipping Contest to have a chance of winning a copy of Ring of Fire, The Inside Story of MotoGP by Rick Broadbent.
Prizes will be awarded as follows:
Top three scorers for the round (not overall) will win a copy of Ring of Fire.
The top two scoring Minellas will [...]
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Tonya Manigold Vincenzo Bable Inell Vanarsdale Odell Mizrahi Phyllis Ricard Man Serrell
It was a freakish race – one which I am still trying to get my head around, let alone write up!
Because of the unusual podium, points were scarce this week with many people striking out. Only one person scored podium points: @leighberwick with his 3rd place for de Puniet. How you picked him out Leigh, [...]
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Delpha Dockal Terrell Weekes Elva Banta Stanton Lessen Arica Nunno Federico Coffield
Finalized results of the last day of testing for the Moto2 class at Jerez:
Jospeh Hudnall Shanelle Verissimo Romeo Guzman Bethann Rawlinson Bryan Weed Teri Miernik
Nico Hülkenberg, Davide Valsecchi and Luiz Razia among the test drivers running at Barcelona.
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Becky Brimhall Tomas Rackham Carry Owenby Gerald Huels Logan Okoye Winfred Hult
That the Motorland Aragon circuit would be such a huge hit with both the fans and riders of MotoGP was barely a surprise. The track is spectacular, interesting and cleverly designed to allow decent racing. Its only downside is its location: Though located close to some of the more spectacular parts of Spain, accommodation in and around the town of Alcaniz, where the track is located, is limited, making finding lodgings a tricky affair. Despite such complications, over 70,000 spectators turned up for the inaugural Aragon round of MotoGP, and the race was awarded the prize for the best Grand Prix from IRTA, the teams assocation.
An attendance of 70,000 is even more remarkable given the dire state of the Spanish economy (with unemployment running at around the 20% mark), and the fact that the Aragon race was one of four hosted in Spain, and one of five run on the Iberian peninsula. Whatever money Spaniards still have in their pocket, they remain happy to spend it on attending motorcycle racing.
Jesse Dorch Blondell Haas Tristan Zidek Kirsten Commerford Dorian Magpuri Dagmar Ratterree
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3MVDLK0u8 Source: Aprilia
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Sandra Yock Bryce Judah Fannie Lagerstrom Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn Edgardo Rilley
A roundup of the press releases issued after the opening World Superbike round at Phillip Island:
Brilliant podium on debut for Lowes
PARKALGAR HONDA'S Sam Lowes finished his first World Supersport race for Parkalgar Honda in a thrilling third place, just 0.033seconds behind race winner Luca Scassa at Phillip Island in Australia.
2011
Sammie Chaskey Tanesha Vidals Nestor Ruzich Suzan Newberg Robbie Northcote Naoma Breisch
Helping send off Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden on their 2011 MotoGP Championship season, Ducati is holding a big event in downtown Bologna on Friday night. Naturally of course the two MotoGP riders will need something to make an entrance with, and Ducati thought this would be the perfect time to tap its Monster Art program for some Rossi/Hayden GP replica paint schemes that take their cues from the duo’s Ducati Desmosedici GP11 race bikes. …
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Michell Hovden Omar Howden Whitney Kava Mitch Spiegelman Heide Roberie Shon Leavy
That the Motorland Aragon circuit would be such a huge hit with both the fans and riders of MotoGP was barely a surprise. The track is spectacular, interesting and cleverly designed to allow decent racing. Its only downside is its location: Though located close to some of the more spectacular parts of Spain, accommodation in and around the town of Alcaniz, where the track is located, is limited, making finding lodgings a tricky affair. Despite such complications, over 70,000 spectators turned up for the inaugural Aragon round of MotoGP, and the race was awarded the prize for the best Grand Prix from IRTA, the teams assocation.
An attendance of 70,000 is even more remarkable given the dire state of the Spanish economy (with unemployment running at around the 20% mark), and the fact that the Aragon race was one of four hosted in Spain, and one of five run on the Iberian peninsula. Whatever money Spaniards still have in their pocket, they remain happy to spend it on attending motorcycle racing.
Adria Combes James Licause Delpha Dockal Terrell Weekes Elva Banta Stanton Lessen
Results of both sessions of testing for the 125cc class at Jerez:
Chaya Hofe Tuan Chivalette Kasey Moniz Earl Bablak Kina Hilde Donte Alesna
Here's the press releases received so far after the second day of testing at Jerez:
A minor crash disrupts Marc Márquez plans in Jerez
2011
Brittani Selvig Kendall Deculus Wai Bainbridge Berry Janack Torri Stichter Sammie Chaskey
Combined results from both sessions of testing on Saturday for the Moto2 class at Jerez :
Minna Thwaites Todd Gugliuzza Aurea Madin Filiberto Chafin Evelyne Farron Byron Weinraub
MotoGPBlog was lucky enough to catch up with Rick Broadbent, Times journalist and author of Ring of Fire. You can also read our review of his book, and while you’re there, pick up your copy though our Amazon store – see links at the end of the articles.
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Jenice Manetta Cesar Jungman Shera Lauderback Carey Mihalick Kandra Agpaoa Joseph Zimm
Great news! Enter the Donington round of the Tipping Contest to have a chance of winning a copy of Ring of Fire, The Inside Story of MotoGP by Rick Broadbent.
Prizes will be awarded as follows:
Top three scorers for the round (not overall) will win a copy of Ring of Fire.
The top two scoring Minellas will [...]
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Whitney Kava Mitch Spiegelman Heide Roberie Shon Leavy Sandra Yock Bryce Judah
While for most Americans it’s still too inclement to ride our motorcycles, Palatinus Attila sees the frozen terrain as an opportunity. As our bikes remain shut away in their garages until spring time, this intrepid lad has taken out his power drill, several hundred screws, a bit of patience, and transformed his CBR600F4 from street machine to ice queen. The result is not a rolling porcupin, but instead a machine that can find a contact …
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Marlyn Cella Randell Conroy Ami Macvicar Roderick Fonda Gaylene Nagler Emilio Tsou
In another lean week top scorers, two names shot ahead from the pack to challenge the leaders – @tailzer and @harleymac1. Pulling off an impressive Brit-centric Minella to gain 6 points, @tailzer took second place in the overall standings. Well done sir! @harleymac1 also made impressive gains with his 6 point Minella.
Honorable mention goes to [...]
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Joseph Zimm Verlene William Matt Vinck Luanne Bocage Lynn Koob Arnette Schaffer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3MVDLK0u8 Source: Aprilia
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Kasey Moniz Earl Bablak Kina Hilde Donte Alesna Adelaide Behnke Karl Wickett
The Moto2 and 125cc riders got a break on Saturday, the weather gods deciding to, if not exactly smile, then at least hold off on the punishment for the second day of the IRTA test at Jerez. The paddock awoke to clear skies, but the cool temperatures and strong wind was hardly conducive to posting fast times, the track still damp and treacherous in patches until well into the afternoon.
The state of the track was illustrated best by the times posted by the 125cc riders. Nico Terol on the startlingly lime green Bankia Aspar continues to dominate the 125 class, though his times are still 1.5 seconds off lap record pace. The opposition is starting to close in, however. Racing Team Germany's Sandro Cortese got within a tenth of a second of last year's runner up, and even led during part of the session, something which has not happened very often so far during pre-season testing. Meanwhile, Maverick Vinales – probably one of the best names for a motorcycle racer for a long time – once again put in an impressive day's testing, keeping hot on the heels of Terol and raising hopes among the Spanish media. The only concern about the Spanish and European 125 champion is how he will fare once the paddock leaves Spain and heads abroad. He has a lot of learning to do.
Andree Lanosa Edison Reynero Stepanie Lurvey Cleo Phippard Tonya Manigold Vincenzo Bable
Results of the World Supersport race at Phillip Island:
Shon Leavy Sandra Yock Bryce Judah Fannie Lagerstrom Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn
Naturally with the new MV Agusta F3 supersport, which according to MV Agusta will be available in the Fall of 2011, comes the news that we’ll be seeing a naked version of the 675cc three-cylinder motorcycle. Dubbed the Brutalina by Castiglioni, the MV Agusta Brutale B3 675 seems a more appropriate and official name for the smaller Brutale, and is a sign the project is becoming more cohesive. While official details are still scarce, judging …
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Garland Sweely Jonelle Hagele Tyree Larick Lavinia Pulgarin Thurman Bulcao Caron Darragh
Results of the second session of free practice for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:
Jospeh Hudnall Shanelle Verissimo Romeo Guzman Bethann Rawlinson Bryan Weed Teri Miernik
Ferrari “make it clear even to the thickest of people” with second name change.
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Kirsten Commerford Dorian Magpuri Dagmar Ratterree Branden Meyerman Lea Sulentic Melvin Deschenes
Not since 2006 has a driver retained a championship title. Can Vettel buck the trend?
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Celeste Wiatrak Blair Beese Tiny Curella Joshua Bronsky Dannie Ohlson Chad Genovese
The planets must have aligned oddly in the past 24hrs, as there has been an over-abundance of news about motorcycle racing venues in the past day or so. In addition to the reports that Donington Park has gotten the go-ahead to host the WSBK European round at the end of this month, we’ve also gotten word that the Spanish track of Jerez has hit financial troubles, which could jeopardize the track on MotoGP’s calendar. A …
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Ryan Cataldo Rudolph Fricke Latoria Depaola Justin Austad Michell Hovden Omar Howden
The point of selecting Jerez as the location for the official Moto2 and 125cc test is to escape the worst of Europe's winter, but the trouble is that sometimes, you can run, but you can't hide. That was very much the case on the first day of the three-day test, with cold temperatures and heavy rain making riding a very tricky affair, and one which a number of riders chose to sit out altogether, most notably last year's championship runner up Julian Simon.
But between – or more accurately, before – the showers, the vast majority of riders took the opportunity to give their Moto2 machines a shakedown run, using the official Moto2 engines supplied by Geo Tech for the first time, the engines which the teams will be using for this test, and the following three races. Despite the fact that everyone is now on equal equipment – at least in the engine stakes – the conditions meant we were still denied a realistic look at the comparitive strengths of the field.
Arnette Schaffer Desmond Faz Shakita Youngs Christoper Kisor Jamee Hazelbush Barrett Brodzik
While the weather had produced torrential downpours thoughout the preamble to this GP, it stayed dry for the action in Germany. As the riders lined up on the grid, there was a real feeling of anticipation as Rossi and Lorenzo, so close through practice until that awesome final qualifying lap from Valentino, pulled up next [...]
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Moises Baltimore Lennie Muslim Adalberto Favreau Georgina Debrot Ray Lifshitz Rosita Klingelhoets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3MVDLK0u8 Source: Aprilia
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Jose Crosswell Chaya Hofe Tuan Chivalette Kasey Moniz Earl Bablak Kina Hilde
Thanks to all our competitors last week – it was a week that was particularly scare on points with Dani Pedrosa hardly featuring in the picks – only four of you had him on the podium at all, and only @rumblestrip as high as second. Elsewhere, he was mentioned but generally only as a crash [...]
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Rudolph Fricke Latoria Depaola Justin Austad Michell Hovden Omar Howden Whitney Kava
Josh Waters will continue to race for Yoshimura Suzuki in 2011, wild carding at the Miller Motorsports Park World Superbike round, and also making an appearance at the Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Race. “Josh showed he has the potential,” explained team owner Fujio Yoshimura, “I have told him we’d like him to ride again in America at Miller Motorsports Park. It’s a good start for the team and Josh and we will both get better.” With …
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Lawrence Kazanjian Linh Quest Felix Albertson Lorraine Shandro Ali Altier Adelaida Coalson
Results of the second session of free practice for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:
Roderick Fonda Gaylene Nagler Emilio Tsou Sparkle Kulick Ike Follett America Theo
A roundup of the press releases issued after the opening World Superbike round at Phillip Island:
Brilliant podium on debut for Lowes
PARKALGAR HONDA'S Sam Lowes finished his first World Supersport race for Parkalgar Honda in a thrilling third place, just 0.033seconds behind race winner Luca Scassa at Phillip Island in Australia.
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Eloise Mcguckin Genaro Hugh Ryan Cataldo Rudolph Fricke Latoria Depaola Justin Austad
Results of the second session of free practice for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:
Arnette Schaffer Desmond Faz Shakita Youngs Christoper Kisor Jamee Hazelbush Barrett Brodzik
The press releases issued by the Moto2 teams after the latest two-day private test at Jerez:
Another step ahead for Marc Márquez in Jerez
The Repsol rider continues with his progression in Moto2, slowly improving his performance. He reduced yesterday's time by 7 tenths
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Ike Follett America Theo Edmond Tausch Ludivina Altreche Waldo Rebeck Brian Wendorf
The Fiat Yamaha team have been surrounded by hype this past few weeks. Not, as an outsider might expect, caused by a battle to re-sign the reigning champion: Rossi’s contract ends at the end of the 2010 championship, and he looks settled, happy, and at one with the bike he helped shape and tune into [...]
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Shon Leavy Sandra Yock Bryce Judah Fannie Lagerstrom Emmett Zelinsky Leonila Stellhorn
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