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BMW 's message to Marco Melandri post EuroCup

24 March, 2020
If you don’t live in Europe you can’t imagine how important the UEFA EuroCup soccer matches are. Cities and towns across the continent gear up with giant screens to allow huge crowds of frenzied football (soccer) fans to watch the…

Good-Bye Hayate

23 March, 2020
The Hayate Racing Team was born on the ashes of the late Kawasaki team who officially pulled out of the MotoGP championship last January, now according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Kawasaki has decided also to pull the plug on…

WSBK Monza: No one crashed because of the bubbles

23 March, 2020
The never ending Italian telenovela regarding the bubbles on Monza circuit that may have been the cause of several crashes during that polemic World Superbike weekend in May, is still occupying space in major sports newspapers in the country. The…

Q&A with BMW's Marco Melandri

22 March, 2020
The World Superbike championship kicks off at the end of the month and the BMW Motorrad factory team has decided to go for a pre-season Q&A with their new rider Marco Melandri and the Italian talks about his impressions on…

BMW factory team to test at Jerez

22 March, 2020
World Superbike BMW Motorrad team will be at Jerez de la Frontera circuit for a three day test with the new 2012 BMW S1000RR (Moto2 teams will also be present).For Leon Haslam it will be his second season with the…

Marco Melandri troubled with continuing shoulder pain

21 March, 2020
Marco Melandri has injured himself more times than we can count and runs a very close second to Dani Pedrosa for riding injured; even this year he highsided during Friday’s practice session at Assen, dislocating his shoulder and had to…

Biaggi vs Melandri: WSBK 2011 Donington Park Superpole Video

21 March, 2020
If you saw today’s WSBK Superpole, you witnessed reigning world champion Max Biaggi not at his utmost best at Donington Park after blocking both Marco Melandri and Noriuki Haga.What you probably didn’t see was this not so very edifying scene…

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…

Marco Melandri confirmed to WSBK with Yamaha Sterilgarda

20 March, 2020
As we reported yesterday, Marco Melandri has joined the World Superbike championship and will be riding for the Yamaha Sterilgarda team next season. The announcement came after Team Honda Gresini’s press release announcing that Melandri and the team were parting…

Marco Melandri wins race 1 at Aragon, Checa crashes

18 March, 2020
Marco Melandri used the same technique to win todays’ race 1 at Aragon that let him grab yesterday’s Superpole by tailing and pressuring Max Biaggi for almost the entire race.Melandri’s tatics proved correct because the Roman Emperor outbraked himself with…

WSBK, Brno: all the images from the track

18 March, 2020
Here are the best images of the Czech Grand Prix, ninth round of the 2012 World Superbike Championship. At the famous Brno circuit, Italy’s Marco Melandri was the absolute hero of the day clinching the first double win ever for…

Marco Melandri to sign with Yamaha Sterilgarda

17 March, 2020
This year’s silly season had Marco Melandri joining the factory BMW team in WSBK next season with team manager Davide Tardozzi - who switched to BMW this year admitting that they are close to a deal to place Melandri next…

Ten Best MotoGP and Superbike Slides

16 March, 2020
Casey Stoner’s sliding at Phillip Island GP just blew everyone over and brought back some exciting and fond memories and we’ve decided to list our top ten slides with the relative videos. We hope that you’ll enjoy watching them again,…

Marco Melandri on top on final day of testing at Jerez

16 March, 2020
On the second and final day of World Superbike testing at Jerez de La Frontera, the rain that had hampered testing from last Saturday to Monday as expected finally left the Andalucian track and the teams were finally able to…

WSBK Portimao: massive photo gallery from the track

16 March, 2020
The Portuguese GP of the World Superbike Championship saw Max Biaggi’s hopes to clinch his second SBK title grow esponentially thanks to the 4th and 3rd places collected by the Aprilia rider in the two races and the concurrent mistakes…

Marco Melandri's extorsionist sentenced to jail

16 March, 2020
This story dates back to 2007 when Fabrizio Corona who runs photo agency Coronàs, with dozens of paparazzi under his wing, tried to extort € 10,000 from MotoGP rider Marco Melandri.Corona telephoned Melandri’s manager Alberto Vergani, who also the president…

WSBK, Miller Park: massive photo gallery from the track

16 March, 2020
In the wake of the gallery we published yesterday picturing some of the best moments of the first sessions at Miller Park, here are a few more images of the World Superbike riders taken during the two races, that took…

Davide Giugliano fastest in the wet on day 1 at Jerez

15 March, 2020
The weather at Jerez de la Frontera continues to hamper World Superbike testing, however this time the rain and the wet track didn’t prevent the riders from Althea Racing, Pata Honda, Kawasaki Racing, BMW GoldBet and Fixi Crescent Suzuki squads…

WSBK Aragon: FP1 goes to Marco Melandri

15 March, 2020
The World Superbike championship is debuting for the first time at the Motorland Aragon circuit for its seventh round and during the first free practice the fastest rider on the circuit wasn’t Carlos Checa as we expected, but Marco Melandri.Melandri…