Moto2: Simone Corsi Interview
Simone Corsi currently rides in Team JiR Moto2 and has taken the Motobi chassis to two third place finishes and is sixth in the world championship with 65 points The 22 year old Italian who debuted full time in GP…
Valentino Rossi talks at Le Mans for Monster Energy (w/videos)
Since the Le Mans GP is actually called Monster Energy Grand Prix of France, their sponsored riders have to do a little promo work to earn their paycheck, but it isn’t hard when you have an army of Monster girls…
Max Biaggi announces retirement
Two time World Superbike champion Max Biaggi has officially announced this morning in a press conference at the Vallelunga circuit that he will be retiring after 21 years of racing.The Roman Emperor who is 41, has 63 victories to his…
Marc Marquez more popular than Dani Pedrosa
The former MotoGp champion has been more popular than his fellow citizen Dani Pedrosa.
Troy Bayliss at Superbike Monza before Desmosedici GP9 test
Troy Bayliss will be watching the fifth round of the WSBK at Monza this weekend from the Ducati garage at the event. He will appear at Monza before participating in a Ducati testing program from May 12th to 14th.Bayliss will…
Valentino Rossi receives Italian National Olympic Committee award
Valentino Rossi may no longer be podium regular in MotoGP since his ill-fated switch in 2011 to Ducati (he has only two podiums and no wins), but he still is a highly popular rider, a racing legend, and his nine…
Waiting for Valentino: official Rossi site to be launched…when?
Motoblog had reported some time ago that Valentino Rossi was set to have, finally, his own official blog. But after a few months of waiting, it seems the official Rossi blog is still under construction. The site, Valentino Rossi -…
Mick Doohan not suprised that Casey Stoner misses riding bikes
Casey Stoner’s decision to come out of his retirement to test for HRC took many by suprise - even if earlier in this month the Australian seemed slightly unsatisfied regarding his new career on four wheels, and following the Coates…
Valentino Rossi: "Racing was the best medicine"
Valentino Rossi and ‘Uccio’ Salucci may have finished only 18th in the Blancpain Endurance Series race at Monza on Sunday, but taking part in the event seems to have recharged the batteries of the former World Champion after his controversial…
Jeremy Burgess on everything: after working with Doohan, anyone's easy
World famous mechanic and Valentino Rossi’s crew chief has left a long interview with SuperBikePlanet in which he reveals many aspects of his long and rich career with riders like Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan and Freddie Spencer. Jeremy Burgess discusses…
Anthony West has a change of heart and no longer thinking of retiring
It looks like Anthony West has changed his mind regarding retiring from motorcycle racing. The Australian was dropped by Speed Master’s CRT team after he couldn’t come up the sponsorship money to fund his MotoGP ride late last month -…
Markus Hofmann wanders down the supernatural side of the BMW S1000RR
Vampires are no longer scary and ugly like they were once, but Hollywood has now made them dangerously sexy and very cool looking even when they vamp out and ready to bite into their latest food source, just check out…
Kevin Schwantz and Valentino Rossi Team Up on Merchandising
We sort of knew that the Kevin Schwantz and Valentino Rossi were friends, and they often exchanged text messages and Rossi got the legendary #34 to come over to Italy to ride in his Motocross dei Campioni charity event last…
Rossi sending messages to Yamaha and Ducati?
Masao Furusawa may have said that Valentino Rossi is a genius and that he wants the Italian superstar to finish his career in Yamaha and Rossi has said confirmed several times that he too would like to finish his career…
Giorgio Bettinelli, Vespa adventurer and writer, dies
The Italian writer Giorgio Bettinelli, has died in China at the age of 53. He was an incredible man, with a different path in life and a vision of things that was appreciated by many Italians.Bettinelli was one who had…
Marco Simoncelli gets Punk'd Italian Style
Lately Marco Simoncelli, the 250cc World Champion, is always on some show in Italy. This rider is getting more air time than the Italian Prime Minister. The show is called Scherzi a Parte (on a network that belongs to the…
Stefan Bradl's Honda benefits
Being the only German MotoGP rider and for Honda to boot, has certain fringe benefits as Stefan Bradl can attest to, as can LCR Honda.The reigning Moto2 World champion and MotoGP rookie received from Honda Germany - who continues to…
Colin Furze breaks his own record longest motorcycle record
The saying idle hands are the devil’s tools certainly can’t be applied to Colin Furze, because the 31-year old plumber/inventor is back with another world record. Furze, in 2008 broke the world record for the longest and ridable motorcycle that…
Valentino Rossi invites Marc Marquez to ride at his Motoranch
Valentino Rossi’s personal track, the Biscia, is already home for a number of his cronies, and he often welcomes other riders from the Moto3 and Moto2 championships to train and have fun at his motoranch, where they often organize races.…
Nicky Hayden undergoes carpal tunnel surgery
MotoGP test ban time is when all the riders fix themselves up with major or minor surgery that they’ve put off during the racing season and now it’s Nicky Hayden’s turn.Yesterday, the Ducati rider underwent carpal tunnel surgery on his…
Valentino Rossi adds his name to support 2020 Olympics in Rome
Motorcycling isn’t one of the specialities of the Olympics, but that hasn’t stopped nine time World Champion Valentino Rossi from adding his name to the roster of 60 high profile Italian athletes who signed a letter - that will be…
Thank-you Casey from Ducati
While Ducati will be getting Valentino Rossi next year and making an Italian marketing dream come true, the manufacturer hasn’t forgetten what Casey Stoner has done for the marque in MotoGP racing in these last three years and before his…
Valentino Rossi Receives a 5 Euro Gas Stamp for his Yamaha M1 (w/video)
We’ve already posted a couple of videos from Italian TV show Le Iene, with Valentino Rossi getting married at Monza and Jorge Lorenzo getting chased by Elena Di Ciocco and putting a scooter back together, but the other day when…
Jorge Lorenzo finishes 24th in car endurance race
Jorge Lorenzo took off his motorcycle leathers this weekend and donned his driver’s ones to take part in the Copa de España de Resistencia, a car endurance race with a Fiat 500 Abarth Assetto Corse at the Catalunya race track.The…
Valentino Rossi Gets to Test the Ferrari Again
When Valentino Rossi won his ninth Championship title at Sepang he sent a text message to Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali asking him if he could drive the F1 car again. Domenicali didn’t answer right away, as he had to check with…