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World Superbike Racing in New Zealand in 2012?

6 April, 2020
While Infront Motor Sports announced last week during the first round of the World Superbike Championship that thePhillip Island venue would be kept on the calendar until 2014, there have been rumors that the Flammini Brothers would like to add…

WSBK Phillip Island Day 1: Carlos Checa fastest

6 April, 2020
The first day of official testing at Phillip Island, saw three Ducati’s on the top of the charts, with Carlos Checa, the fastest overall. The Spaniard who won race 2 at the Australian circuit last year put down a hot…

MotoGP Qatar Test – Day 3 Results and Quotes

6 April, 2020
Even if track and weather conditions were far from perfect on the final night of testing at the Losail circuit in Qatar, it was again Ducati rider Casey Stoner who topped the charts with a stunning 1′55.744 lap and ended…

A new production line for the Ferrari California

6 April, 2020
As per the photo, production of the Ferrari California has commenced, and for the occasion a new assembly line has been inaugurated at Maranello. The program called “formula Uomo” (a play on words meaning “formula man”) started in 1997 and…

2013 WSBK: Tom Sykes does the double at Imola

6 April, 2020
The Imola track surface was hot (57°) and offered much less grip for the second race of the seventh round of the World Superbike championship, but this didn’t stop Tom Sykes from taking a dominating lights-to-flag and uncontested victory, with…

Superlativa MV Agusta F4 1000, a rich man's dream

6 April, 2020
This is the Superlativa based on MV Agusta’s F4 1000 was presented at the Luxury Garage fair in Vicenza, Italy last week.The F4 got the very rich man’s treatment and will make some multi millionaire happy to have sitting in…

BMW to sell Husqvarna to KTM?

6 April, 2020
In the last few hours rumors are multiplying about the impending sale of Husqvarna from German giant BMW to Austrian manufacturer KTM, with the official announcement of the agreement that could even be officially disclosed by the end of the…

Update on Dani Pedrosa's Condition

6 April, 2020
Like your read here on Saturday after the MotoGP qualifying session about Dani Pedrosa’s fracture and pulled muscle that he picked up during FP 2 when his Honda gave him a big shake after a wheel slide. The unlucky Spaniard…

WSBK Magny-Cours: Lorenzo Lanzi takes over QP1

6 April, 2020
This afternoon’s QP1 at Magny-Cours saw privateer Lorenzo Lanzi on the DFX Corse Ducati take the top spot on the time charts. Lanzi fresh from last week’s podium in race 2 at Imola put in a best lap of 1′38.856…

Motorcycle helmets may cause loss of hearing

6 April, 2020
Wearing helmets could increase the loss of hearing. The study carried out by researchers from Britain’s University of Bath and Bath Spa University and described in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, reveals that the biggest source of noise…

Brendan Roberts moving to SBK in 2009?

6 April, 2020
Next update for riders changing in World Superbike is here. Not only Superbike riders are looking for opportunities but also Superstock riders are looking for their future. Today, we bring news from Brendan Roberts, Superstock 1000 rider in the Ducati…

New Ferrari F450 spy shots

6 April, 2020
These lovely spy shots of the Ferrari F450, project code named F142, were taken in Sweden and give us a first glimpse of the mechanical modifications to the vehicle. Compared to previous photos of the F450, the differences to the…

Moto2 – Alex De Angelis in Scot Racing

6 April, 2020
Alex De Angelis has finally come to an agreement with Scot Racing to ride their prototype bike next season in the Moto2 category in its first ever season next year.The Sammarinese has signed a one year contract and an option…

Ten Kate Honda confirms Ruben Xaus

6 April, 2020
Just the other day we reported the rumor that Ruben Xaus was on the verge of signing a deal with Ten Kate Honda and we can now confirm that the Spaniard will officially be with the Dutch team next season.Xaus…

Leon Haslam's New Helmet Design

6 April, 2020
Leon Haslam took his first ever Superpole today at Phillip Island, so we decided to give you a closer look at Pocket Rocket’s new helmet design for the 2010 season. Designed by Drudi Performance, the Arai lid is two toned…

WSBK Magny Cours – Images

6 April, 2020
Check out our gallery of pics from this weekend’s World Superbike round at Magny-Cours. Title contenders, Ben Spies and Noriyuki Haga won one race each and the 2009 Champion will be crowned at the Portimao track, October 25th.Will it be…

Carlos Checa says WSBK rules and politics handicap Ducati

6 April, 2020
In 2011 Carlos Checa won the World Superbike championship with an extraordinary fifteen wins and six podium finishes, however the 2012 season went backwards for the Althea rider who struggled with an extra six kilos on his 1098R.Checa and other…

Jorge Lorenzo is the new King of Qatar

6 April, 2020
After the thrills in Moto3 and Moto2 we settled in expecting a MotoGP snooze fest in Qatar especially when Casey Stoner took off leaving Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa behind him, instead it turned into another race thriller with Jorge…

Honda CB1100F to arrive in 2009?

6 April, 2020
The site Solomoto30 reports that Honda has sped up its project of the CB1100F, presented at the Tokyo show in 2007 as a four cylinder, retro style concept.This could mean that Honda will anticipate the market launch of this final…

Cardion AB Motoracing debuts team livery

6 April, 2020
While the media was captivated with the 2011 Vrooom and Valentino Rossi, the newest team in MotoGP, Czech based Cardion AB Motoracing debuted their Ducati GP11 livery for the upcoming race season, which to say the least, is much more…

Marco Melandri supermoto riding at Castelletto

6 April, 2020
Marco Melandri usually likes to train with motocross bikes and is a big friend of 4-time Motocross champion Tony Cairoli, but this time the Superbike rider decided to put in a little supermoto training at the Castelletto di Branduzzo circuit,…

WSS: Broc Parkes to sub for Joan Lascorz

6 April, 2020
It didn’t take Broc Parkes very long to find another ride to finish the season after leaving Echo CRS world superbike team. The Australian will be replacing the very heavily injured Joan Lascorz in the Kawasaki Provec Motocard WSS squad…