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Casey Stoner second highest earning sports star in Australia

27 March, 2020
Winning a MotoGP championship title does wonders for your salary earnings. Casey Stoner moved from last year’s fourth place with $6.8 million to second place with an estimated $9.5 million (these are Australian dollars) according to Business Review Weekly’s annual…

Althea Ceramics cleared of all wrongdoings

27 March, 2020
At the end of last season, Althea Ceramics who sponsors World Superbike and Superstock Althea Racing teams was accused of commercial and social security frauds, now after six months of investigations and despite the fact that even during initial investigation…

WSBK Ducati Roma Team changes name

27 March, 2020
With just a little over a month to go before the World Superbike season opener at Phillip Island, newbie World Superbike squad Ducati Roma Team has changed its name and will be running under the banner of Red Devils Roma…

Alvaro Bautista officially leaves Rizla Suzuki

27 March, 2020
Rizla Suzuki had announced that they would be testing at Valencia, however as most of us assumed, we though it would be Alvaro Bautista doing the test, instead we saw an impressive and immediately fast Randy de Puniet debut on…

Mattia Pasini undergoes shoulder surgery

26 March, 2020
Shoulder surgery must be the latest in thing for GP riders, because Moto2 Ioda Racing Project rider Mattia Pasini, also underwent shoulder surgery yesterday after riding in his dad’s minimoto charity event on Sunday.The Italian was operated on by Dr.…

More from the Mugello GP

26 March, 2020
Andrea Dovizioso grabbed his fourth podium this season at Mugello and the Italian is still one of the contendors for a Yamaha factory ride, but apparently his podium placements aren’t enough to guarantee him a move back up the ladder,…

Yamaha Tech3 reveals new 2012 livery

26 March, 2020
Ahead of the Yamaha Factory team, Monster Yamaha Tech3 Team has unveiled its 2012 new livery at Jerez this afternoon.Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso showed off the new design, incorporating the instantly recognisable logo of title sponsor Monster Energy, on…

Honda World Superbike team Classic Corners trailer

26 March, 2020
Honda’s World Superbike team will be releasing this summer, a five part series of the most iconic corners of the circuits that are on the 2012 World Superbike calendar and have aptly named it SBK Classic Corners.To announce this great…

Yoshimura Suzuki team to wildcard at WSBK season opener

26 March, 2020
It looks like Yoshimura Suzuki has had a small change of heart or their economic situation is getting slightly rosier, because the team will be making another wildcard appearance in the 2011 WSBK season opener at Phillip Island. The Yoshi…

Hector Barbera renews with Aspar MotoGP Team

26 March, 2020
Another piece of MotoGP’s 2011 silly season has fallen into place, Hector Barbera has extended his contract with Aspar for a second season.Barbera joined the Aspar Team for the 2010 season after Alvaro Bautista, who was groomed throughout his career…

One of the scariest motorcycle crashes ever seen (w/video)

26 March, 2020
We’ve seen a lot of horrific crashes covering motorycle racing, but this footage taken during the 5th round of the Brazilian Pirelli Superbike championship the other week at the Interlagos circuit has to one of the scariest we’ve every seen.The…

Dorna and FIM to visit Crimea GP circuit this spring

26 March, 2020
Abu Dhabi, Singapore, India all may be on the changing face of the MotoGP calendar in the near future, but so might be the Crimea Grand Prix Circuit. The new racing complex is located six kilometers from the city of…

Bridgestone to introduce new 'hard' rear tire at Brno GP

26 March, 2020
Bridgestone, in their usual race recap following the U.S. GP at Laguna Seca, released the news that at the Brno round they will be bringing new hard rear (softer) option for the MotoGP riders to use. The hard option rear…

FIM suspends Monza homologation

26 March, 2020
If you have been following our posts regarding the Monza circuit then you’ll already know that the circuit is currently being investigating by Italian law for numerous wrongdoings (bid rigging, tax fraud just to name a few of the more…

Moto2: CIP Moto confirms Tomizawa and Aegerter

26 March, 2020
Another Moto2 team has confirmed their riders, Shoya Tomizawa and Dominique Aegerter have both signed up to ride with French Technomag-CIP team run by Alain Bronec.Tomizawa raced this year on a Honda with team CIP –GP 250 team finishing 17th…

Ben Spies and Yamaha together for another year

26 March, 2020
Ben Spies has signed a one-year extension to his Yamaha MotoGP contract, meaning that he’ll be staying on with the team for all 2012, and he’ll be also testing and giving feedback on the new 2012 1000cc bike which will…

Niccolo Canepa in Almeria with Bridgestone

26 March, 2020
LCR Honda rider Randy de Puniet and Pramac Racing’s Niccolo Canepa flew to the southern Spanish circuit of Almeria last week to support the media launch of Bridgestone’s Battlax BT-003 Racing Street hyper sports tyre. This is the video of…

Berlusconi to take over MV Agusta?

26 March, 2020
While the rumors regarding that private equity firm KKR could be taking over Harley Davidson with a leveraged buyout continues to put a spin on the Milwaukee based company’s stock, which which jumped big 6% on Tuesday, Italy is continuing…

ParkinGO with Chaz Davies in World Superbikes in 2012

26 March, 2020
Guliano Rovelli’s World Supersport ParkinGO winning team will make the jump to World Superbikes next season with 2011 World Champion Chaz Davies. The Australian champion will be at the helm of a Ducati according to British website MCN, even if…

Loris Baz to continue with Kawasaki in 2013

26 March, 2020
As highly expected World Superbike team Kawasaki has completed their 2013 line-up after confirming Tom Sykes, they have also confirmed Loris Baz for next season. The 19-year old French rider started the season in the FIM Superstock 1000 Championship, but…

Alberto Puig to have a new role in HRC

26 March, 2020
MotoGP in 2014 will see some interesting internal changes in several of the factory team garages. Marc Marquez' championship winning pit crew (Casey Stoner brought them with him when he switched from Ducati to Repsol Honda) will be replaced by…