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Effenbert Liberty will not replace Brett McCormick at Monza

14 April, 2020
Effenbert Liberty Racing team has announced that they will not be replacing injured Brett McCormick in next week’s World Superbike round at Monza (May 6th - which clashes with MotoGPs Estoril round).20-year old McCormick suffered serious, but not threatening multiple…

WSBK: Maxime Berger to sign with Supersonic Ducati

14 April, 2020
We are sort of worried about next season’s World Superbike grid, that is painfully looking like MotoGP, with some teams cutting back on their budgets and fielding only one rider, but Supersonic, the team which debuted this year with Luca…

Kevin Schwantz files lawsuit against Circuit of Americas

14 April, 2020
As we mentioned is our previous post Kevin Schwantz has began legal action against the Circuit of Americas (COTA). As everyone knows the former World Champion has been involved since day one in trying to bring MotoGP to the Austin…

Toni Elias visits LCR HQ

14 April, 2020
Toni Elias’s test times on the LCR Honda at Valencia weren’t exactly news stopping as Casey Stoner’s were, but the M0to2 champion had a couple of good excuses for his poor performace. He had to re-adapt to MotoGP bikes after…

MotoGP test in Argentina confirmed

14 April, 2020
Following the rumors that MotoGP would be testing at the Termas de Río Hondo circuit in Argentina in 2013, despite the fact the event was cancelled this season, the MotoGP website has now officially confirmed that some teams will be…

Wild-Card riders at Donington Park

14 April, 2020
Leon Haslam, Cal Crutchlow and James Ellison will race as Wild-Card riders at Donington Park during the next round of World Superbike.Elison, 6th in the British Superbike Championship will race with a World Superbike engine from his Hydrex-Bike Animal Honda…

Audi offers €750million for Ducati

14 April, 2020
During the presentation of the Ducati Diesel in Rome last week, Gabriel Del Torchio was asked his opinion on Investindustrial Holdings wanting to sell Ducati, and the President as everyone expected was pretty vague and slippery on the subject.Del Torchio,…

Eicma 2008: Bimota DB7 Oronero pics

14 April, 2020
Take a look at our pics from the presentation of the Bimota 2009 Oronero (Black Gold in Italian) that was presented at the 2008 Eicma Milan show. It’s a limited edition and will go on sale in February 2009. If…

Brett McCormick confirms Silverstone return

14 April, 2020
Just two weeks ago Brett McCormick said he would be targeting a return for the 10th round of the World Superbike championship at Silverstone, and the Canadian has now confirmed that he is 100% fit and will be riding this…

Motegi MotoGP round to be postponed

14 April, 2020
News sources from Qatar are reporting that the second round of the MotoGP season that was to be held at Motegi on April 24th, will be postponed following the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last Friday morning.Just yesterday we…

Rizla renews with Suzuki MotoGP

14 April, 2020
Rizla will continue to be title sponsor of Suzuki in the 2009 season as revealed by Suzuki rider Loris Capirossi on Italian website GPone.The renewal came after the Sepang test where Capirossi and Chris Vermeulen rode their Suzuki ’s with…

Liberty Racing picks up former Ducati Xerox bikes and techs

14 April, 2020
With Ducati formally out of World Superbikes with their factory team, Czech based Liberty Racing, who will debut next season with Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli, will be using the four 1198 F10 Ducati superbikes used by Noriyuki Haga and…

Ben Spies and Nicky Hayden at COTA for Ducati Panigale R launch

14 April, 2020
Ducati’s Nicky Hayden and Pramac’s Ben Spies were at the Circuit of the America’s for the manufacturer’s US launch of the 1199 Panigale R, the extreme racing version of the Italian company’s Superbike with its four levels of adjustable swingarm…

Jorge Lorenzo switches to HJC

14 April, 2020
During last month’s Nolan Christmas party it was revealed that reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo would be changing helmet makers and was rumored that he was switching over to HJC.The Korean lid manufacturer - reportedly the world’s largest helmet manufacturer…

Cal Crutchlow refuses MotoGP chance

14 April, 2020
It looks like Yamaha Racing will have to take out a help wanted ad to fill in for Valentino Rossi, because according to MCN, World Superbike rider Cal Crutchlow has declined a temporary move to replace Colin Edwards in Tech3.From…

The Kawasaki SRC team takes victory at the 76th Bol d’Or

14 April, 2020
French team Kawasaki SRC has won the 2012 Bol D’Or, first round of the Endurance World Championship (EWC). Riders Julien Da Costa, Grégory Leblanc and Olivier Four took their Ninja ZX-10R top the top spot to clinch the first victory…

Harley-Davidson only motorcycle brand in World's best Top 100

14 April, 2020
Interbrand is one of the world’s leading brand consultancy, and every year they publish a highly rated ‘Best Global Brands’ chart, basically the Top 100 of the most popular, influential and valuable brands of the planet. And once again, Harley-Davidson…

Husqvarna stops production in Italy

14 April, 2020
KTM’s acquistion of Husqvarna from BMW last January is already having consequences at the Italian plant (inaugurated in 2009) located in Cassinetta di Biandronno.The factory will be laying off a part of the 250 workers for a year, under the…

Crescent Suzuki to wildcard at WSBK Silverstone round

14 April, 2020
Crescent Suzuki is going to wildcard at the World Superbike round at Silverstone at the end of this month. The British Superbike team that fields John Hopkins and Jon Kirkham in the series, who are currently 2nd and 7th in…

Update – Kawasaki pulling out of MotoGP

14 April, 2020
It started as a rumor on Tuttosport but now according to the usually well informed websites Gazzetta dello Sport, Autosport.com and motociclismo.es Kawasaki will formally announce its withdrawl from MotoGP on January 5th and has already sent letters informing the…

Marc Marquez to debut with Monlau team

13 April, 2020
This year’s 125cc World champion Marc Marquez will be making the jump to the Moto2 series and will get his first test with the Monlau Competicion team tomorrow at Jerez.The 17-year-old has decided to stay with his mentor Emilio Alzamora…

Ducati goes naked with Elizabeth Raab's photography

13 April, 2020
You’ve already seen a post on the Ducati Art Collection, with the “Honour&Glory” tribute to Troy Bayliss, now the company is adding Elizabeth Raab’s “Desmo” gallery to their collection,Raab, a photographic artist specialized in automotive and creative portraiture imagery, with…

Jorge Lorenzo: "I had a big white shark in my tank"

13 April, 2020
Like we said before, Jorge Lorenzo is always available and game to anything, and today the World Champion wanted to bid farewell to 2010 with a swim in the Barcelona Acquarium’s shark tank, where he planted his Lorenzo’s Land, in…

Gigi Dall'Igna denies any Aprilia wrongdoings

13 April, 2020
When yesterday’s rumor broke that Aprilia had run a slightly different fuel injection pump on Max Biaggi’s RSV4 at Assen, and that the Italian manufacturer had been warned to replace it with the original homologated one mounted on their street…