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Bridgestone to bring more tires and compounds from Brno GP

4 April, 2020
After receiving some pretty stinging criticism from the MotoGP riders, and after the lastest string of crashes during Friday morning practice at Sachsenring all to blame on cold tires and numerous Safety Commission meetings, Bridgestone has decided to increase the…

Gresini Racing adds Palladio to sponsor roster

4 April, 2020
Finding European companies especially Italian, willing to invest euros in sponsorship with the current economic crisis is almost like winning at the lottery for satellite or private teams. Despite the the construction business in Italy being down almost 18% in…

Ducati confirms Nicky Hayden for 2010

4 April, 2020
Ducati has officially announced that they have resigned Nicky Hayden for another season in their factory team and will continue to be Casey Stoner’s team mate. The news comes after Hayden’s his first podium at his home event at Indianapolis…

Hot Rumor! Nicky Hayden to Yamaha Tech 3?

4 April, 2020
Nicky Hayden in talks with Yamaha Tech 3? No, we don’t have a mole inside the paddock, nor is it just more silly season, but we do have a very wily and crafty Italian manager on TV.In last night’s Griglia…

Casey Stoner: surgery after GP9 tests

4 April, 2020
The winner from last race in MotoGP Casey Stoner admits to not going for surgery because he wants to continue and test the Ducati Desmosedici GP9 at the post-race in Valencia. Stoner is suffering with his scaphoid injury and must…

Marc Marquez meets Freddie Spencer

4 April, 2020
In a special Alpinestars event that was held at the Maxxess Megastore in Bordeaux, France last weekend, MotoGP rookie and the latest racing superstar Marc Marquez got to meet racing legend and three-time World Champion Freddie Spencer. The encounter was…

Honda to donate two bikes to the Marco Simoncelli Foundation

4 April, 2020
In a unprecedented act of generosity, Honda Racing Corporation will be presenting to Paolo Simoncelli during next weekend’s MotoGP round at Mugello, two special bikes, Marco’s RC212V race machine (Marco slept with his 2008 Aprilia championship bike in his bedroom)…

Yamaha Confirms Valentino Rossi's test at Misano

4 April, 2020
It wasn’t all media gossip that Valentino Rossi would try to ride a streetbike at Misano to check out his physical conditions since his accident during free practice for the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, because Yamaha Racing has released…

Loris Capirossi talks about his problems and Ducati

4 April, 2020
That scrappy Loris Capirossi isn’t pleased with his results so far this season is a big understatement and he’s even getting beat by a rookie like Karel Abraham on the same satellite Ducati who has less a racing pedigree than…

Casey Stoner: "This feels really nice"

4 April, 2020
Casey Stoner absolutely dominated the Australian GP weekend from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon, taking his fourth consecutive win at Phillip Island. The Ducatista was so blazing fast that at the end of lap 1 that he already had a…

Loris Capirossi returns for Sachsenring GP

4 April, 2020
Loris Capirossi will be making an ahead of schedule return to take part in the upcoming German GP at Sachsenring, despite not being totally fit.The Italian rider missed the Assen and Mugello races after sustaining rib and shoulder injuries during…

Rispoli and Young ready for Indianapolis GP

4 April, 2020
The upcoming Indianapolis GP will see the return of Blake Young and Attack Performance in their third wild-card race of the season, after the previous two rounds at the Austin and Laguna Seca rounds.Young, who is often mentored by Kevin…

More rider quotes from the Silverstone GP

4 April, 2020
We’ve go the final round-up rider quotes from today’s MotoGP race at Silverstone and we have to admit that we were pretty impressed by how strong Alvaro Bautista and rookie Karel Abraham looked all this weekend, whether it was wet…

MotoGP Le Mans: Casey Stoner devastating in FP2

4 April, 2020
This afternoon’s free practice 2 at Le Mans once again saw a Honda 1-2-3, with a devasting Casey Stoner leading the field with a blistering 1.33.782 and the only rider to break the 1.34 mark, shaving off another three tenths…

MotoGP Sepang Test Friday: More Pics and Rider Quotes

4 April, 2020
We’ve got more exclusive pics from the final day of testing from Motoblog’s Lallai who was with the Fiat on the Web team in Sepang and all the riders quotes.Valentino Rossi - 1st 2′00″925 (32 laps)“After yesterday this second day…

Jeremy Burgess: Ducati's new crewchief

4 April, 2020
Jeremy Burgess in an exlusive interview with Enrico Borghi (who also co-authored Valentino Rossi autobiography “What if I had never tried it”) of Italy’s Motosprint magazine comes across as usual; pragmatic, calm and almost seraphic in the way he talks…

MotoGP Day 1 Qatar – Times and Quotes

4 April, 2020
At the desert circuit of Losail in Qatar the first evening practice of the MotoGP night test that was interrupted by a rare rainstorm and red flagged. The heavy rain drove the riders off track and back into the shelter…

Marc Marquez takes maiden and historic victory in Austin GP

4 April, 2020
Marc Marquez as highly expected, won the inaugural race at the Circuit of the Americas with his second ever MotoGP race.The 20-year old Repsol Honda rookie entered the history books of motorcycle racing, becoming the youngest rider to ever to…

Cal Crutchlow to stay with Yamaha Tech3 in 2013

4 April, 2020
After having harshly criticized the economic situation that satellite riders face and the fact that on a satellite machine they can’t win, and threatening to leave MotoGP - “There’s no decision to make, I am not going to stay here…

More from the MotoGP riders at Misano

4 April, 2020
Misano MotoGP mistakes. Blame it on the the weather that conditioned track conditions and everyone more or less lost out on all three practice sessions and the fact that they only had part of the qualifying session and a 20…