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WSBK – Sheridan Morais continues to sub for Broc Parkes

22 March, 2020
Echo CRS Honda has confirmed that Sheridan Morais will again sub for regular rider Broc Parkes, who is still out due to his pre-season training accident in this weekend’s WSBK Championship in ValenciaThe South African rider already subbed for Parkes…

No penalty for Kenan Sofuoglu over Catalunya Moto2 crash

22 March, 2020
The Race Direction hearing that took place yesterday afternoon to discuss the accident between Kenan Sofuoglu and Julian Simon that left the Spaniard with a fractured tiba and fibula during last Sunday’s Moto2 race at Catalunya, has cleared the Turkish…

Carlos Checa at Aragon for WSBK Testing

22 March, 2020
Carlos Checa get a head start on his testing at the Motorland Aragon circuit yesterday. His Althea Racing team showed up a day earlier to allow their rider to get to know the track, that will be become one of…

Literary meetings at the French Academy in Rome

22 March, 2020
The French Academy in Rome has been granting scholarships to gifted artists since the year dot; for centuries young and worthy artists from France travelled to Italy and studied at the famous and beautiful Academy , but this year Yannick…

MotoGP Qatar: Casey Stoner Continues to Dominate in FP2

22 March, 2020
Casey Stoner continued where he left of last night in today’s second free practice at Losail and taking once again the top spot on the time charts with a best lap of 1’55.501, which was only one-thousandth of a second…

Summer holidays in Sicily: Favignana, Egadi islands

22 March, 2020
If you have always dreamed of visiting the Egadi Islands in the Mediterranean, don’t lose sight of your dream, get on a plane and spend a few days on Favignana. Located non far from the city of Trapani, west of…

Motorbikes and Beef?

22 March, 2020
The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) has announced that it will be opposing a plan by U.S trade officials that could double the cost of some European motorcycles imported into the United States.It would impose a 100 percent import duty on…

Karel Abraham in MotoGP with a 6th Ducati in 2011?

22 March, 2020
Czech rider Karel Abraham who currently races in Moto2 with the Cardion AB Motoracing team may be making the big jump to MotoGP next year with a brand new team and riding a Ducati.The all new team will be financed…

World curling championship in Italy at Cortina d'Ampezzo

22 March, 2020
The 2010 Capital One World Men’s Curling Championship will be held at Cortina d’Ampezzo in Veneto this year in what could prove to be an interesting event for Italians as they get to see a sport relatively unknown to them.…

Francesco Totti's wife Ilary Blasi sexy for A magazine

22 March, 2020
Italian host Ilary Blasi’s star is rising fast; after her marriage to footballer Francesco Totti, her career in the showbiz has been unstoppable; she can be seen everywhere, from the covers of the most prestigious magazines to commercials, but actually…

More rider quotes from Motegi GP race

22 March, 2020
This year’s MotoGP race at Motegi will be longed remembered in the minds of racing fans. The race was postponed due to the horrific earthquake and tsunami that hit the Japanese country and population in March. The riders and paddock…

BMW sends Superbike riders to boot camp

22 March, 2020
In a not so distant past, riders got fit their own way. In one hand, they held a bottle that didn’t have water or an energy drink in it, and in the other a cigarette and some good looking babes…

MotoGP Test times at Valencia

22 March, 2020
It is dry and sunny at Valencia today, and the teams are out to begin the new 2012 season and the debut or may we say the welcome return of 1000cc machines. Besides the usual MotoGP riders (minus Jorge Lorenzo…

Bezzi's Ducati 989 R Desmofighter

22 March, 2020
Here’s a look at Oberdan Bezzi’s vision of the Ducati 989 R Desmofighter, or the Desmosedici RR after a strip tease, with 200 hp and weighing 160 kg.According to Bezzi, it makes the Streetfighter look like a toy. Remembering though,…

Ilary Blasi loses a boob on Italian television

22 March, 2020
Francesco Totti’s wife and one of Italy’s favourite show girls, Ilary Blasi, had a little dress problem on satirical Italian television show, Le Iene. On dancing with two popular Italian comedians and co-hosts, Luca e Paolo, Ilary let a breast…

New Norton racing bikes back to Isle of Man TT

22 March, 2020
Norton will be back to motorcycle racing next year with a brand new Norton superbike fitted with a Wankel engine. The bike is set to be a rotary model with more than 210 hp which could see Norton enter the…

Ketchup on pasta? You must be kidding…

22 March, 2020
Pasta without cheese is like the cake without icing. Seriously - the Italians have a proverb that goes “come il cacio sui maccheroni” (like cheese on maccheroni) which is when you’ve reached the point of sublime perfection. There are various…

Randy de Puniet to test Suzuki GP bike in Japan

22 March, 2020
Randy de Puniet’s DNF during his home race at Le Mans left a bitter taste in the French rider’s mouth, but he’ll soon put that behind him as he officially confirmed with the MotoGP.com website that he’ll be testing Suzuki’s…

WSBK – Alstare Suzuki Tests in Down Under

22 March, 2020
While MotoGP was in sunny Spain for the three day official tests. On the other side of the world Alstare Suzuki was at Phillip Island for a private three day winter test. The factory WSBK team with Leon Haslam and…

Troy Bayliss denies comeback move

22 March, 2020
We knew what Troy Bayliss said to Motosprint was really just some wishful thinking by the former three-times World Superbike champion and that it couldn’t have been true and that it was mostly Italian hopeful hype.Infact Bayliss has denied through…