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Marco Melandri: "Sykes was the real champion"

28 March, 2020
Marco Melandri came in third in the 2012 World Superbike Championship, but too many crashes in the last part of the season kept him from the title, but the Italian can be happy that in his first year with German…

Eugene Laverty fastest in final free practice at Monza

27 March, 2020
The final free practice at Monza finally saw a completely dry track which allowed the riders to work on setup after all the previous sessions that were either wet or very damp.With a dry track Eugene Laverty was the fastest…

Kawasaki suspends MotoGP team

27 March, 2020
In a press release from today, Kawasaki announced today that it suspended its factory MotoGP racing activities for this year.Kawasaki said they can not recover the impact of the financial crisis and it pushed them to take this unpleasant decision.…

Anthony West Talks Kawasaki

27 March, 2020
In an article in Motorsprint’s weekly magazine, Anthony West who will be leaving Motogp for theSupersport series riding a Honda for Team Stiggy, had a few words about his 2008 season and team.I hope Melandri doesn’t come to Kawasaki too…

WSBK, Miller Park: massive photo gallery from the paddock

26 March, 2020
As announced, here is a photo gallery picturing some of the coolest moments away from the track taken during the latest World Superbike round, that took place at the Miller Motorsport Park circuit near Salt Lake City, in the US.…

Marco Melandri meets the Yamaha Super Ténéré 1200

26 March, 2020
Obviously this photoshoot of Marco Melandri posing with the Yamaha Super Ténéré 1200 was done before his shoulder surgery last Thursday morning.Melandri visited Yamaha’s headquarters at Gerno di Lesmo to get a closer hand look at the factory that is…

Marco Melandri – MotoGP's Dr. Freud

26 March, 2020
Marco Melandri has published on his website his own personal interpretation of Jorge Lorenzo’s post race celebration at Le Mans, where the Spanish rider sat in front of a giant screen watching the race and eating popcorn.Lorenzo’s gag was very…

Marco Melandri debuts on the Yamaha R1

26 March, 2020
Marco Melandri is now officially an ex-MotoGP rider and couldn’t get away fast enough from the paddock that left him, can we say bitter? The Italian is debuting at the Valencia race track (where his former team was yesterday with…

BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK team launches 2013 title bid

26 March, 2020
At BMW’s headquarters in Munich, the BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK team officially launched their 2013 Superbike and Superstock 1000 FIM Cup title bids, after BMW announced last season that they would handing over their SBK racing efforts to BMW Italia.The…

BMW F800R 2012 Nero Zaffiro Metallizzato

26 March, 2020
While in Monza, World Superbike stars Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad Motorsport Team) and Michel Fabrizio (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet SBK Team) attended the launch of the BMW F800R with the brand new Nero Zaffiro Metallizzato paint-job (which is Metalized Sapphir…

Marco Melandri writes shoulder recovery going slow

26 March, 2020
Marco Melandri knows he won’t be 100% fit when the second round of the season at the Motorland Aragon ciruit in Spain rolls around in mid April, but he certainly expected to be a little further along in his recovery…

Melandri says yes to the "KAWORNA"

26 March, 2020
Less than a month ago Marco Melandri said he’d “rather sit out the 2009 season that take an uncompetitve ride for the sake of it, so I will continue to train hard and keep my options open for next season.”But…

Melandri debuts in Qatar Test with Hayate Team

25 March, 2020
Marco Melandri finally made his first 2009 preseason appearance after having missed the first test of the year at Sepang in February on the Kawasaki ZX-RR machine with the newly formed Hayate Racing Team. The Hayate team will be led…

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…

Video highlights from the WSBK Donington round

25 March, 2020
Despite the chilly temperatures at Donington Park and luckily it wasn’t pissing rain, both races went off without any big hitches.Marco Melandri’s media value certainly went up a couple of notches after the ‘Biaggi Affair’ and his coming back from…

Marco Melandri signs 1 year contract with Hayate

25 March, 2020
We can call it cut and wrap, the Kawasaki/Dorna/Hayate/Melandri soap opera that started at the end of December is over and Carmelo Ezpeleta can finally stop biting his nails because Marco Melandri has finally and officially confirmed that he has…

WSBK Donington: Shake-up sees Melandri win his first race

24 March, 2020
Hot damn! Race 1 at Donington Park was everything that any hot blooded racing fan could hope for and get. If anyone was expecting to see Carlos Checa run away with it again will be slightly disappointed, but Marco Melandri’s…

Max Biaggi's girlfriend Eleonora Pedron defends her man

24 March, 2020
The Biaggi vs Melandri squabble has become a national affair in Italy, just like when the Italian parliment (hey, we’ve got a PM who still in office after making out with underage girls) discussed why Biaggi could no longer race…

Eugene Laverty regains top position in FP2 at Aragon

24 March, 2020
The second World Superbike free practice at the Motorland Aragon saw Eugene Laverty regain the top of the timesheets with a blistering lap of 1’57″409, that lowered Tom Sykes QP2 time by more three tenths of a second in preparation…

Marco Melandri worried about shoulder fitness

24 March, 2020
Ever since his crash during race 1 at Portimao last September that sent him to the hospital with a suspected kidney injury and then kept him out of race 2, Marco Melandri has been nursing a nagging shoulder injury that…