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More Photos from MotoGP test at Valencia

15 March, 2020
After yesterday’s small gallery of photos from the MotoGP Valencia test, with Valentino Rossi’s photos dominating the day, we’ve got another gallery from yesterday’s first day of testing but this time we’ve got pics of Ben Spies on the 2011…

World Superbikes to head to Russia

15 March, 2020
Infront Motor Sport just one upped Dorna as they have announced that the World Superbike Championship will be heading to Russia as soon as 2012.The partnership agreement was reached between Paolo Flamini’s Infront Motor Sports and Yakhnich Motorsport who is…

WSBK Aragon: FP1 goes to Marco Melandri

15 March, 2020
The World Superbike championship is debuting for the first time at the Motorland Aragon circuit for its seventh round and during the first free practice the fastest rider on the circuit wasn’t Carlos Checa as we expected, but Marco Melandri.Melandri…

Bajaj raises stake in KTM

15 March, 2020
The KTM-Bajaj project has seen the Indian company slowly acquire more KTM stock over time, with a recent 1.21 percent acquisition taking it to a total of 39.3 percent ownership of KTM stock. Majority shareholder CROSS has a 50.1 percent…

HIRP 2008: Starting 25 April

15 March, 2020
After 150 applications and 90 riders on the track, only 24 made it. With trials having been conducted on the Aprilia track on the 12th and 13th of March, the Honda Italia Racing Project 2008 is officially taking shape. The…

GSR Kawasaki Wins 24 Hours Of Le Mans

15 March, 2020
It took them eleven long years but Kawasaki finally got back on the top of the podium in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans with Julien da Costa, Olivier Four and GrĂ©gory Leblanc of GSR Kawasaki taking the first…

More Ducati GP12 testing for Valentino Rossi

15 March, 2020
After Nicky Hayden on Tuesday, Valentino Rossi got his third day of testing on the Ducati GP12 yesterday at the Mugello and turned 80 laps on the new bike, but the Ducati wasn’t just testing the GP12 and Franco Battaini…

Ducati Hypermotard 1100 Evo SP onboard video

15 March, 2020
Here’s an onboard video of the new Ducati Hypermotard 1100. This particular version is the Hypermotard 1100 Evo SP, which is equipped with a Desmodue Evoluzione 1100 cc engine, with bore and stroke of 98×71,5mm. Other modifications increase the power…

Ryota Haga and Ben Spies: "You've got a Friend"

15 March, 2020
I was checking out SPEED.Tv.com website yesterday and found this great story about Noriyuki Haga’s son, Ryota and new WSBK rider Ben Spies. This story was so lovely and heart warming that I just had to share. A special thanks…

Casey Stoner sets MotoGP tests on fire

15 March, 2020
What we can say about today’s MotoGP testing at Valencia except wow! Casey Stoner adaption to the Honda RC212V is simply amazing. The Australian blitzed the testing field and put down the fastest lap of the day and was faster…

Gérard Depardieu on the Münch Mammut (w/video)

15 March, 2020
Actor Gérard Depardieu in the movie Mammuth, a sort of French road movie that was first seen at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival rides a Münch Mammut.Münch is one of the rarest names in motorcycling, with less than 250…

New Ford Focus ST

15 March, 2020
These are the first pictures of the Ford Focus ST facelift. With the freshened up car the brand wants to keep fighting german hot-hatches such as VW Golf GTI and Opel Astra OPC. Under the hood we still find the…

MotoGP: Randy de Puniet to Ducati?

15 March, 2020
MotoGP’s silly season should soon wind down, but there’s a little less than three weeks before the 2010 season ends and several riders have yet to be confirmed and one of these is Randy de Puniet.While Lucio Checchinello is trying…

Prince Harry on Ducati D16 with Randy Mamola

15 March, 2020
Prince Harry showed up at Donington to take in the British Gran Prix races. Usually royalty likes to lay low and avoid the paps like the plague, but in this case young Harry got photographed while riding pillion behind Randy…

MotoGP Assen: Jorge Lorenzo sets the pace in FP1

15 March, 2020
Jorge Lorenzo set the pace in this morning’s free practice at the TT Circuit Van Drenthe at Assen with a best lap of 1.35.106 but it ended up being a very tight session for the top three riders with just…

Sepang organizers fined

15 March, 2020
Normally it’s the GP riders getting fined for doing some half-assed thing on track and putting other riders in danger, but this time it was the Sepang International circuit organizers who got fined € 15.000 following this morning’s Moto2 first…

Valentino Rossi rules out Suzuki move in 2015

15 March, 2020
In an interview with Germany’s Speedweek, Yamaha Factory rider Valentino Rossi has released some interesting statements regarding his recent past (in Ducati), the present (with Yamaha) and the plans for the near future, which apparently do not include the possibility…

New Italian boot brand

15 March, 2020
TOOB is a new Italian motorcycle boot brand, now on the market with its road and racing boot, Xanto. The new boot is made from microfibre and breathable materials, with polyurethane protection points and rubber sole with custom design. The…

Santa Claus Ducati Gives Fernando Alonso a Desmosedici RR

15 March, 2020
Everyone knows that Ferrari and Ducati are tied together in more ways than one, you just have see the week long Wrooom event to understand how important these two iconic Italian companies are on a marketing level.Ducati has decided to…

MV Agusta Brutale video: chassis and engine

15 March, 2020
Here’s a close-up look of the chassis and engine of the new MV Agusta Brutale for 2010. The first video shows the detail of the chassis, suspension, swing arm, steering damper, instrumentation and the like. After the jump is the…

World Superbike gets new rules for 2013

15 March, 2020
The Superbike Commission (for Infront Motorsports it will be the last time, with Dorna doing the deed from 2014) has released the new rules for the 2013 season - some we’ve already known for several months, while others were only…