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Yamaha factory riders leave Jerez happy

19 March, 2020
Casey Stoner may have pipped Jorge Lorenzo for the top spot on Day 3 at Jerez, but the Mallorcan rider can head to Qatar for the first race of this 2012 season with a Yamaha M1 that is in the…
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MotoGP Indianapolis: Ben Spies on Pole!

18 March, 2020
Today’s MotoGP qualifying session at Indianapolis saw Monster Yamaha Tech3 rider Ben Spies stun the paddock by taking his first ever pole position with a blazing lap of 1′40.105 that not even his future Yamaha factory team mate Jorge Lorenzo…
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Ben Spies to skip Phillip Island GP – Update

18 March, 2020
While Yamaha has yet to issue an official statement, it looks like Ben Spies will be forced to miss this weekend’s penultimate race of the 2012 season at Phillip Island, following his highside during yesterday’s MotoGP race at Sepang.The unlucky…
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Jorge Lorenzo's Yamaha M1: development for 2011

18 March, 2020
Current 2010 MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo has apparently asked for improvement to the Yamaha M1 engine, or things will be very difficult for the team next year. According to Valentino Rossi’s crew chief, Jeremy Burgess, departing with Rossi for Ducati,…
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Ben Spies explains why he left Yamaha

18 March, 2020
“You need luck and preparation, not make mistakes and be focused. Those are the things that Ben clearly has to work on this season,” said Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis in January of last year who also added “I also think…
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Superbikers on Solex Mopeds

18 March, 2020
Several top World Superbike riders took a break from their usual race routine in Assen today as they got to grips with Solex mopeds.Noriyuki Haga, Ben Spies, Jonathan Rea and Ruben Xaus together with Dutch World Supersport riders Barry Veneman…
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Yamaha to decide on 2nd rider very soon

18 March, 2020
Yamaha may not wait until Brno to decide on their second rider to field next to Jorge Lorenzo for next season.In an interview with Italia 2 during yesterday’s Moto2 practice Massimo Meregalli, team director on Ben Spies side of the…
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MotoGP Qatar FP2: And it's Casey Stoner again

18 March, 2020
The second free practice (there’s another one later this evening) ahead of Sunday’s Qatar GP saw Casey Stoner again on top of the timesheets with another blistering lap of 1’55″457, dropping another three tenths of second from his yesterday’s best…
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Ben Spies: "Happy to be Rookie of the Year"

18 March, 2020
Ben Spies finished in fifth today at Phillip Island and mathematically took this year’s Rookie of the Year title beating Marco Simoncelli not only in the race, but also for the best rookie on a de-tuned satellite Yamaha compared to…
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Alex de Angelis completes Ducati GP13 test at Misano

17 March, 2020
Alex de Angelis will be replacing Ben Spies in the Laguna Seca GP round later this month, and he joined Ducati MotoGP riders Nicky Hayden, Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone, and Ducati Alstare’s Carlos Checa and Ayrton Badovini who are…
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MotoGP Assen: Tight FP2 sees Ben Spies prevail

16 March, 2020
MotoGP’s FP2 at Assen turned out to be almost a qualifying session in the last minutes and it was also very tight with eleven riders in less than half a second (something that hasn’t ever happened so far this season)…
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More from Ben Spies and Eddie Lawson – Part 2

16 March, 2020
Yamaha USA has released part two of their One on One series with Ben Spies and Eddie Lawson. In this video both champions come across much more relaxed, especially Spies. Listen to these guys talk about competitivenss, fans and rider…
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Ben Spies to Switch to MotoGP in 2010?

15 March, 2020
Just two weeks ago, Yamaha announced that they had signed Ben Spies to a two year contract, and that the American would be riding in the WSBK series in 2010 and then make a switch to MotoGP in 2011, however…
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Jorge Lorenzo happy and calmer with Misano result

14 March, 2020
It was supposed to be a tight race with Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa almost evenly paced which could have turned into a supremacy battle at Misano, but in turn Lorenzo was gifted with a comanding victory, while the unlucky…
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Ben Spies talks about Aragon (video)

14 March, 2020
We definitely enjoy these in-depth interviews that On The Throttle does with a very accommodating Ben Spies. This time the Texas Terror, who is very good explaining his races, talks about the impressive Aragon GP circuit where he took an…
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Ben Spies to ride at Sepang GP

14 March, 2020
There was some doubt whether Ben Spies would be able to ride in this weekend’s MotoGP race at Sepang following his highspeed crash during qualifying at Phillip Island which ruled him out out of the Australian race, but the Yamaha…
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Ben Spies ruled out of Indianapolis GP

14 March, 2020
Ben Spies has been ruled out of this weekend’s MotoGP round at Indianpolis. The hapless Pramac Ducati rider suffered a horrific looking highside during the third free practice, hitting his shoulder first on his Ducati as it pitched him forward,…
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Jorge Lorenzo tests new engine spec at Sepang 2

14 March, 2020
Yamaha factory duo Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies concluded the first day of testing at Sepang in 3th and 4th place respectively, with the former World champion the last rider to be within a second of timesheet leader Casey Stoner.Lorenzo…
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Ben Spies withdraws from Sepang GP

14 March, 2020
Ben Spies arrived in Malaysia full of aches and pains following his qualifying crash at Phillip Island that left him with concussion and ripped tissue around his ribs which ruled him out of the Australian GP. Now seven days later…
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