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WSBK: Liberty Racing Team officially launched

7 April, 2020
Last Thursday at the Hard Rock Cafè in Prague, Liberty Racing, the new Czech based team that will contest next season in the World Superbike Championship, gave it’s official launch party. Fielding Jakub Smrz and Sylvain Guintoli and run by…

Troy Bayliss is another Ducati teaser (w/video)

7 April, 2020
Three-time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss is highly involved in the development of Ducati’s new Superbike, with names like Xtreme, 1199, SuperQuadro or Panigale which are just some of the names that are being bandied about.Bayliss is the star of…

Find Your Face on Rossi's and Lorenzo's M1s

7 April, 2020
The Fiat Yamaha team unrevealed their one off paint job for their two M1’s for this weekend’s Laguna Seca GP and now we’ve got some close-up shots of the livery with fan photos.If your one of those thousands of fans…

World Superbikes 2012 Russian round officially presented

7 April, 2020
The Russian Round of the FIM Superbike World Championship, to be held next year on August 26th at Moscow Raceway and which marks the first time ever a world-scale motorsports event takes place in Russia, was successfully launched Friday in…

MotoGP Motegi: Andrea Dovizioso takes his first pole positon

7 April, 2020
Dani Pedrosa may be out of the Motegi race after breaking his collarbone, but team mate Andrea Dovizioso kept the Honda Repsol colours flying by taking the pole position in today’s exciting qualifying session on the sunny Japanese track.The Italian…

Jules Cluzel confirmed with PTR Honda

7 April, 2020
The rumors launched by our French colleagues last week regarding Jules Cluzel having found a Supersport ride with PTR Honda have now been confirmed.Cluzel, after being dumped by WTR Tent 10 Racing Team when they merged with Bike Service Team,…

Bordone-Ferrari Italian Rally Motorbike to be launched

7 April, 2020
If you follow rallies and enduro meets, you may have heard of the Bordone-Ferrari Racing Team and you’ll know that Alessandro Botturi, Paolo Ceci, Gerard Farrés and Jordi Viladoms and Francisco “Chaleco” Lopez all ride for this ambitious Italian team…

Cold temperatures at Aragon limit CRT testing

7 April, 2020
Today’s final day of testing for the four CRT teams at Aragon was hindered by cold air and track temperatures and some wind and the only lap times reported were for Avintia Racing riders Ivan Silva and Yonny Hernandez who…

Diesel to sponsor Ducati

7 April, 2020
While other MotoGP teams are searching for any type of sponsor to help support their racing efforts, others or shall we say one factory team has sponsors lining up and knocking on their door, and that’s Ducati.The latest sponsor to…

Danilo Soncini joins Red Devils Roma SBK team

7 April, 2020
Danilo Soncini used to be the team owner of Supersonic Racing who competed in World Superbikes in 2010 (with Luca Scassa) and 2011 (with Maxime Berger) before pulling out and selling the team to Andrea Petricca who renamed the squad…

Valentino Rossi to race Ferrari at Nurburgring

7 April, 2020
Valentino Rossi will be switching to four wheels again and will take part in the fifth round of Blancpain Endurance Series next weekend at Nurburgring. The Italian made his debut in the series at Monza last April driving a Ferrari…

James Bond's Honda RF250R from Skyfall to be auctioned

7 April, 2020
If you’re a James Bond fan and love movie memorabilia - besides loving motorcycles- here’s your opportunity to take bid on the modified Honda CRF250R that the world’s most known spook used in the opening chase scene in the lastest…

KTM and Kalex partner in Moto3 in 2012

7 April, 2020
KTM has confirmed that it is returning to GP racing in the new Moto3 class with its own motorycle racer (which saw the first prototype testing at Cartagena at the beginning of January) and team in 2012, and will also…

Important week for the future of Ducati says Andrea Bonomi

7 April, 2020
With rumors that VW/Audi will be formalizing their agreement with Investindustrial tomorrow (April 18th) to buy Ducati Motor Holding, the president of the private equity firm Andrea Bonomi, has acknowledged that the exclusive negotiation period for VW has expired, but…

Niccolò Canepa to replace Carlos Checa at Laguna Seca

7 April, 2020
World Superstock rider Niccolò Canepa will be replacing injured Carlos Checa in the Alstare Racing team when the championship goes all the way to California for the 12th round of the season that will take place at the iconic Mazda…

Bridgestone bows to criticism, will bring in a softer tire

7 April, 2020
After all the stinging criticism that Bridgestone has received lately regarding their tires which are difficult to bring up to temperature and cool down too fast, that have resulted in a rash of closed throttle corner entry crashes that according…

Andrea Iannone to ride a Ducati Panigale at Laguna Seca

7 April, 2020
Pramac Ducati’s Andrea Iannone will be heading to the US a few days early, but he won’t be going directly to the Circuit of the Americas in Texas for next week’s second MotoGP round, instead he’ll spend two days at…

Norton motorcycles export plans

7 April, 2020
It’s a mixed motorcycle news day as reports of the continuing economic crisis and its effect on the European motorcycle market continue (Italy’s July motorcycles sales for 2011 are down 23 percent on last year), but now we get the…

CEV Moto3 race continues with ambulance on track

7 April, 2020
Sometimes you’re left wondering how a Race Direction comes up with certain decisions in regards to rider safety, as in the case of last Sunday’s third round of CEV Moto3 championship at the Motorland Aragon circuit, in Spain, following a…

Jonas Folger to ride for Ioda Racing in Moto3

7 April, 2020
Jonas Folger was to ride for MZ Racing this season, but since the German ended up with budget troubles due to the bankruptcy of a parts suppliers and he was relegated to the role of test and substitute rider.Over the…