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Energy T.I. to sponsor Andrea Iannone in Pramac

24 March, 2020
Energy T.I (Trading International) yesterday announced that they will be sponsoring the Juventus Football club this season, but the Italian energy company that has been on the market since 2008, has also decided to make a foray into the world…

Yamaha Factory 2012 livery and interviews (w/videos)

24 March, 2020
The Yamaha Factory Team has officially revealed its 2012 racing livery and they’ve stayed with their handsome corporate blue and white livery and there’s barely a smudge of orange that indicates oil sponsor Eneos corporate color, but the main sponsor’s…

Ben Spies Talks about the Catalunya Race

24 March, 2020
On The Throttle has inside line with Ben Spies and he continues the series of interviews with the American MotoGP rider. This time the Texas Terror talks about last weekend’s Catalunya race and reveals that his Yamaha M1 is exactly…

Lin Jarvis talks Riders

23 March, 2020
Italian website Gpone has a interesting audio interview in English with Lin Jarvis, Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing.Jarvis is now negotiating with Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies, both riders contracts are up at the end of the year and…

Yamaha Racing programming the future

23 March, 2020
While in World Superbikes, Yamaha Racing has changed all it’s riders from 2008 onwards (Corser-Haga, Spies-Sykes, Crutchlow-Toseland and in 2011 Melandri-Laverty) in MotoGP, Yamaha is looking for stability.After signing Jorge Lorenzo for two years, Lin Jarvis is looking to keep…

Yamaha Factory team leaves Sepang happy and optimistic

23 March, 2020
Casey Stoner may have left Jorge Lorenzo adrift by almost six tenths of second, but the Mallorcan rider admitted that at this stage of testing chasing lap times is not that important, even though the Yamaha rider admitted was satisfied…

Jorge Lorenzo: "I knew Stoner could overtake me"

22 March, 2020
Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo despite fighting tooth and nail to try stay with Casey Stoner in today’s race at Montmelò knew that he couldn’t match the Repsol Honda amazing race pace even if his Yamaha M1 did perform much better on…

Ben Spies to skip Jerez GP – Updated

22 March, 2020
In last weekend’s GP race at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas, Ben Spies said that he was suffering from nerve pain in his chest believing that it was caused by overcompensating his lingering shoulder issues, and then during…

Jorge Lorenzo tops final day of Aragon testing

21 March, 2020
In today’s second and final day of private testing at the Motorland Aragon circuit where the 13th round of the season will be held on September 30th, four of the five riders present were able to break under 1.49 barrier…

WSB 2009 teams and riders line up

21 March, 2020
After the break, tests and New Year a new World Superbike Championship will start and it will definitely be an exciting Superbike year. With two new manufacturers and many rider changes, 2009 in WSB will not be easily forgotten.This is…

New Livery for 2009Yamaha WSBK

21 March, 2020
The Yamaha World Superbike Team has unveiled their new racing livery for 2009, showing its new sponsors and ‘war paint’ for the upcoming season. The team now fully belong to the Yamaha Motor Europe operations and so have been renamed…

Video: Ben Spies for Alpinestars and Lexar

20 March, 2020
Alpinestars continues to promote their riders, but we found this video on the Ben Spies Official Italian fan club website, that let’s us get an even closer look at the American MotoGP rider. It gives a little more insight on…

Ben Spies out of Ducati?

20 March, 2020
There has been a lot of rumors regarding Ben Spies’ position in Pramac Ducati, following his crash during the third free practice at Indianapolis - which was supposed to be his comeback - but instead, cost him another shoulder surgery…

Ben Spies Talks Imola – Video

20 March, 2020
Ben Spies gave Jonathan Green of On The Throttle an in depth interview about all the problems he had in yesterday’s Imola races.One of the comments that really sparked our interest was when Spies was asked about the rumors of…

Ben Spies talks about His Qatar Race (w/video)

20 March, 2020
Ben Spies talking to the excellent U.S. website On The Throttle gives us some thoughtful and revealing insight on his first MotoGP race in Qatar. Listen to what the Texas Terror has to say not only about his race, but…

Official: Ducati confirms Ben Spies and Andrea Iannone

19 March, 2020
It wasn’t exactly a state secret, so the fact that Ducati has officially announced that Ben Spies and Andrea Iannone will be riding for Pramac Racing in 2013, will no longer be a big surprise for anyone after all the…

Jorge Lorenzo: "I am proud of that podium"

19 March, 2020
If Casey Stoner was over the moon about his win at Qatar, reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo was absolutely ecstatic punching the air as he crossed over the finish line as if he had actually won the race, instead of…

Yamaha competitive in wet Jerez

19 March, 2020
On a fully wet Jerez track Jorge Lorenzo was second fastest rider on the second day of testing, putting in a full 28 laps on his Yamaha M1, but opting not try to ride when the track improved in the…

Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies laugh off so-called handshake snub

19 March, 2020
The so-called ignored handshake or the believed snub that Ben Spies received from newly crowned World Champion Jorge Lorenzo at Sepang, kept websites busy for at least a couple of day, much more than comments on Lorenzo’s fantastic season and…