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MotoGP: New Rules for 2009 and 2010

26 March, 2020

In today’s press conference in Jerez, Vito Ippolito President of the FIM and Dorna’s CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta outlined the new rules that will be introduced for the 2009 and 2010 seasons.2009:1) From the Czech Republic GP in Brno and for…

Marco Melandri to test in Qatar

25 March, 2020

Marco Melandri has written on his Facebook profile that he will be present at the official night test this weekend in Qatar and will be joining the other Motogp riders after his appearance at the SpeedCar Series in Dubai, the…

Infront on sale, Bridgepoint Capital interested?

25 March, 2020

Infront Sports and Media, is the Swiss agency that holds the majority rights to the World Superbikes series has been put up for sale on June 20th and supposedly one of the bidders will be Bridgepoint Capital, the investment firm…

Magneti Marelli gets MotoGP deal to supply standard ECU's

25 March, 2020

As highly expected Dorna has announced today that next season they will make availabe a standard ECU unit in MotoGP supplied by Magneti Marelli. The system which will include “an engine and chassis control unit with inboard datalogger, as well…

Paolo Flammini says everything and nothing on Dorna taking over WSBK's

22 March, 2020

When Bridgepoint announced the other day - and just before the World Superbike championship finale - that WSBK’s will now be run under Dorna’s command there was an immediately backlash from fans afraid that Dorna will soon start to change…

MotoGP vs WSBK: Dorna doesn't want Infront at Valencia

22 March, 2020

Dorna and Infront Sports are squaring off to have the exclusive rights to race at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia. The World Superbike Championship has had Valencia on their calendar since the year 2000, but they may be forced…

Kawasaki – Back in MotoGP

20 March, 2020

Marco Melandri will race in the 2009 MotoGP world championship as part of a one-man Kawasaki team.Kawasaki confirmed its plans to quit MotoGP in January because of the global economic crisis, but after negotiations involving Kawasaki and Dorna, an agreement…

New Circuit of Wales gets Dorna's approval

20 March, 2020

Despite talks of opening MotoGP to new venues in South American and the Far East to cash in on the booming motorcycle markets, Dorna still remains very Eurocentric, as Carmelo Ezpeleta visited the new proposed Circuit of Wales facility that…

Not so secret meeting between Dorna and BMW

19 March, 2020

Rumors of BMW and Aprilia entering MotoGP in 2012 have been floating around for some time now, with Aprilia more or less denying that they want to enter the premier racing series, but BMW has a slightly different attitude, and…

Alpinestars and MotoGP clothing line

17 March, 2020

Alpinestars and Dorna have reached an agreement for the production of a limited series exclusive clothing line, characterised by the MotoGP logo.The MotoGP branded clothes will be a symbol of sports style and will vary from more technical examples to…

Texas GP is a now official

14 March, 2020

The Texas/Austin GP has been finally confirmed for the 2013 season. The event will be held at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) and will be held on April 21st, 2013 and it will be the third round of the…

MotoGP fans put your stetsons on, because Texas here we come

14 March, 2020

Hold your horses, we sort of expected that MotoGP would be heading to the new Austin F1 track in Texas, especially after well connected Superbikeplanet.com revealed that it would be confirmed this week, but what we didn’t expect was that…