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MotoGP Phillip Island: Casey Stoner dominates FP2

25 March, 2020
Better weather conditions, but more cold and a couple of damp spots on the Phillip Island race circuit was what the the MotoGP riders found in this morning’s second free practice, with birthday boy Casey Stoner taking the top spot…

Nicky Hayden's Wrist X-Ray

25 March, 2020
During yesterday’s qualifying session at Brno saw Nicky Hayden lose the front of his factory GP10 and slid into the gravel trap hurting his left wrist.After x-rays in the Clinica Mobile, Hayden revealed that the crash had taken off a…

Ducati's Cicognani blames tires, Burgess previews Misano (w/video)

25 March, 2020
Ducati’s problems were exacerbated ten fold at Indianapolis and Alessandro Cicognani, Ducati Corse MotoGP Project Manager blames it all on the tires, while Jeremy Burgess, Valentino Rossi’s legendary crewchief previews the GP Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di…

MotoGP Misano – Rossi on top in FP1

25 March, 2020
Valentino Rossi may be playing down his chances in staying in front of Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa in this weekend’s Misano GP, but the first practice session put the Italian rider on the top of the chart with a…

Magneti Marelli gets MotoGP deal to supply standard ECU's

25 March, 2020
As highly expected Dorna has announced today that next season they will make availabe a standard ECU unit in MotoGP supplied by Magneti Marelli. The system which will include “an engine and chassis control unit with inboard datalogger, as well…

Valentino Rossi to test Ferrari F1 Car this Month

25 March, 2020
Wrooom isn’t only a Ducati event, but it’s also Ferrari happening and Stefano Domenicali, the teams principal during his press conference announced that Valentino Rossi will be once again taking the wheel of one their Formula 1 cars for two…

Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies to race at Motegi

25 March, 2020
After all the negative hype and declarations of not wanting to ride at Motegi due to radiation leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, another two riders have now capitulated to the growing pressure by their team bosses to take…

Rossi and Hayden will test only the GP11's at Brno

24 March, 2020
As we expected, also because Ducati team manager Vitto Guareschi had confirmed it early July, Ducati will not be testing their GP12 during Monday’s official post race test at Brno, but only their 800cc machine.Ducati perfers to continue testing their…

Ducati contest offers 5 passes to see GP12 unveiling live

24 March, 2020
Ducati is continuing the hype on the unveiling the the GP12 and has started a contest that will give five fans the opportunity to meet Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden and personally see the presentation of the new Desmosedici GP12…

Ben Spies gets sick during Yamaha Indonesia tour

24 March, 2020
The Far East doesn’t seem to agree with Ben Spies’ stomach. The Yamaha rider is currently in Indonesia with team mate Jorge Lorenzo for a Yamaha PR tour and fell sick with a bout of food poisoning. This is the…

MotoGP Indianapolis: Casey Stoner on top in FP2

24 March, 2020
Ducati Marlboro’s Casey Stoner was again the fastest rider in an exciting second practice for the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix. The Australian set down his best lap of 1′40″331 in an final last lap lunge, where the riders in…

Ducat and Rossi magic: Mugello GP presales up 45%

24 March, 2020
Talk about black, but in this case red and yellow magic. Put Valentino Rossi and Ducati together and what do get, presales event tickets going through the roof, at least for the Gran Premio d’Italia at the Mugello that takes…

Energy T.I. to sponsor Andrea Iannone in Pramac

24 March, 2020
Energy T.I (Trading International) yesterday announced that they will be sponsoring the Juventus Football club this season, but the Italian energy company that has been on the market since 2008, has also decided to make a foray into the world…

MotoGP Estoril Images – Part 1

24 March, 2020
This is the first part of our picture gallery from the MotoGP weekend at Estoril, where Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo dominated the race.MotoGP Estoril 2009 Images Part 1

Jonathan Rea to sub for injured Casey Stoner (w/video)

24 March, 2020
When Casey Stoner had to pull out of the Brno GP weekend to return to Australia and undergo ankle surgery, the big question was who would Honda get to replace the injured rider. Several names popped up like Stefan Bradl…

Italian gossip: Casey Stoner to retire at the end of season?

24 March, 2020
Following Italian MotoGP gossip is better than any reality show, this latest rumor comes from Sportmediaset.com (yes, always them) who is upsetting Casey Stoner fans with the idea that their champion is thinking of retiring at the end of this…

Randy de Puniet's ankle: the x-ray

24 March, 2020
For our motorcycle pic of the day, today we give you this x-ray photo of Randy de Puniet’s ankle from our friends at Motosblog. Despite his injury, he is still racing for Lucio Cecchinello’s LCR Honda team, which hopes to…

After the hype: the Ducati GP11 to become Rossi's new M1?

24 March, 2020
The Italians were beside themselves over the MotoGP Valencia tests this week as Valentino Rossi took to the track for the first time on the Ducati GP11. But after a relatively positive first day, the second day of testing turned…

Video: Nicky Hayden on the Ducati GP12

24 March, 2020
We have to apologize for thinking that Ducati only wanted to milk the publicity cow with the video of Valentino Rossi riding the GP12 at Jerez, instead they’ve now released footage of Nicky Hayden on the new bike.Too bad that…