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Ducati's new team mascot

12 April, 2020
Designed by Filippo Calzi for Cav. Ilari Alberto’s Pig-Art, this Ducati Desmosedici VR46 replica pig was given to Ducati’s team manager Vittoriano Guareschi.Before anyone flies off the handle, this isn’t some slight against Valentino Rossi or someone’s impression that Ducati…

MotoGP set to ban private testing again

12 April, 2020
Before the start of the 2012 season the GP Commission decided to change the testing rules (which were initially put into place as a cost saving measure) - in regards to private testing and that it was “agreed that with…

Came IodaRacing presents 2013 MotoGP and Moto2 squads

12 April, 2020
Giampiero Sacchi’s IodaRacing Project teams are continuing in 2013 their collaboration with Came (leader in automation systems and access controls) and yesterday at Came’s headquarters in Treviso presented their 2013 line-up with Danilo Petrucci and Lukas Pesek on the Ioda-Suter…

Diego Maradona Dedicates Argentina Victory to Valentino Rossi

12 April, 2020
Even if you don’t follow football, you’ll certainly have heard the name Diego Maradona, former superstar football player and highly controversial figure who’s life was paved with cocaine addiction, weight problems, troubles with the Italian tax man, last year became…

Suzuki rules out wildcard races in 2013

12 April, 2020
After leaving MotoGP at the end of 2011, Suzuki targeted their return in 2014 and when Cycle World published last May the first images of the brand new prototype machine (with a redesigned engine) testing at Sugo, hopes were raised…

Ducati MotoGP 2010 highlight video

12 April, 2020
Enel, Italy’s largest power company (obviously, it was the country’s only energy supplier until 2006) and one of Ducati’s sponsors, has put out this great little video of Ducati’s, can we say, up and down 2010 racing season due to…

MotoGP Jerez: Jorge Lorenzo takes thrilling pole position

12 April, 2020
Today’s MotoGP qualifying session at Jerez went down to fierce battle for the pole position between two rival Spaniards, Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo and Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa who were completely above the rest of the field for the entire session.Despite…

Colin Edwards: " We had major issues with chatter"

12 April, 2020
After the three day test at Sepang, the general consensus on the CRT bikes present wasn’t good - they were massively slow - despite the fact that they will be future of MotoGP racing.Colin Edwards who is riding the Suter-BMW…

Valentino ready for the Indianapolis MotoGP round

12 April, 2020
All the MotoGP team’s are getting ready for the next round of the championship. No more time for rumours, let’s get concentrated on the job!Valentino Rossi is preparing himself and has said about the next round:“I am still on a…

John Hopkins to wildcard with Rizla Suzuki at Brno

12 April, 2020
After his excellent 10th place at Jerez when he replaced Alvaro Bautista who was out with a broken leg, former MotoGP rider John Hopkins is fast becoming a hot item around the Grand Prix paddock. The Anglo-American rider who is…

Martin Bauer to wildcard in 2013 Brno MotoGP

12 April, 2020
In yesterday’s GP Commission press release besides indicating that Michele Pirro will have three wildcard rides in 2013, they also indicated that Austrian team Schwarz & Bronnen has been granted a wildcard entry for Martin Bauer for the Brno GP…

MotoGP Laguna Seca: Casey Stoner super fast in warm-up

12 April, 2020
This morning’s warm-up practice at a very cool Laguna Seca saw only 17 riders take to track, as Randy de Puniet has wisely withdrawn from this afternoon’s race due to fractures (vertebra and pelvis) sustained in Saturday’s qualifying session.The 20…

Oberdan Bezzi's 2011 MotoGP Dream

12 April, 2020
While Italy was going all out in celebrating Max Biaggi’s 2 race win at Portimao, with the recurrent theme of an Italian on an Italian bike, Oberdan Bezzi dreamed of another Italian duo that he’d like to see get together.Obiboicame…

How Casey Stoner's Honda could look like

12 April, 2020
Honda HRC has yet to announce whether they’ve unbroiled the contract mess they’ve made with Andrea Dovizioso when Livio Suppo hired Casey Stoner for the 2011-2012 seasons.Andrea Dovizioso, currently fourth in the MotoGP championship standings seems pretty confident that he’ll…

Honda presents RC212V to Simoncelli family

12 April, 2020
It was a very emotional ceremony at the Mugello in front of the Honda Gresini hospitality earlier today, the parents of late Marco Simoncelli were presented with one of his son’s factory RC212V MotoGP machines and a ‘Super Sic’ special…

Video: Ivan Silva's big save at Estoril

11 April, 2020
If you thought that Jakub Kornfeil was good at saving his bike (he then fell on the wet astroturf) during the last week’s Moto3 race at Jerez, then you have to take a look at what Avintia CRT rider Ivan…

Video: Valentino Rossi's favourite Mugello helmets

11 April, 2020
As usual Valentino Rossi will be debuting a new helmet design for his home Grand Prix at this weekend’s Mugello round.This first video released by Monster Energy has the 9-time former World Champion describing several of his favourite special edition…

MotoGP in Argentina?

11 April, 2020
MotoGP racing hasn’t been on the South American continent since 2004 when the Rio Grande GP at the Nelson Piquet circuit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was dropped from the calendar, however a news report from website El Liberal says…

MotoGP Qatar: Casey Stoner conquers the desert race

11 April, 2020
We all expected that Casey Stoner would win the season opener in Qatar and that’s exactly what he did, but what was highly unusual is that he fooled around with his team mate Dani Pedrosa for half the race, and…

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi conquers America at Laguna Seca

11 April, 2020
After much suffering, Valentino Rossi has made it in the promised land of America. Something historical and magic took place on the weekend at Laguna Seca, until this round Rossi’s nemesis, who resisted the continual attempts from Casey Stoner.The rivalry…

Rizla Suzuki debuts one off 'Micron' livery for Misano GP

11 April, 2020
Rizla Suzuki revealed this special one-off paint-scheme at Misano World Circuit this morning to celebrate the launch Rizla’s new ‘Micron’ premium rolling papers (no druggie jokes please).The chrome livery reflects the design of the new Micron pack, and Álvaro Bautista…

Images from Laguna Seca USGP

11 April, 2020
Check out our gallery of pics from this weekend’s Laguna Seca GP, where Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa led and won the race from flag to flag.Images from Laguna Seca MotoGP