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Moto2 – Daniele Romagnoli heads to Moto2 Tech3 Team

8 April, 2020
Daniele Romagnoli, Jorge Lorenzo’s ex-team manager has found a home in Herve Poncharal’s Moto2 team, Tech3. Romagnoli made the shock announcement at the Sepang GP citing that he wanted to return to the more technical aspects in a team.The French…

Dunlop single tyre rule for Moto2

7 April, 2020
While the excitement of the Assen MotoGP got underway on the weekend, a meeting was being had to decide some new rules for the series, one of which is the significant choice of Dunlop as the single supplier of tyres…

Moto2 – Niccolò Canepa in Team Scot

7 April, 2020
Niccolò Canepa will be in the new Moto2 series next season. Canepa has signed a one year contract with Cirano Mularoni’s Scot Racing.Canepa in 2007 won the Superstock 1000 World Championship and then become a Ducati test rider 2008 and…

Giampiero Sacchi to return with new Moto2 team

6 April, 2020
Giampiero Sacchi (between Biaggi and Dall’Igna in the photo) Aprilia’s former director of Piaggio Group racing operations is heading a new two rider Moto2 team next season.Sacchi left the Italian manufacturer earlier this year after reported infighting with Leo Mercanti,…

Moto2 – Alex De Angelis in Scot Racing

6 April, 2020
Alex De Angelis has finally come to an agreement with Scot Racing to ride their prototype bike next season in the Moto2 category in its first ever season next year.The Sammarinese has signed a one year contract and an option…

Moto2 : Luca Boscoscuro talks Moto2, Honda Engine and Costs

5 April, 2020
We’ve come across this video interview by Giovanni Zamagni of Italian website Moto.it with Speed Up Team owner Luca Boscoscuro at the Valencia Moto2 offical tests that are seeing former MotoGP rider Gabor Talmacsi and former 125cc rider, but better…

Wind tunnel testing for El Tenerife 40 Pons Moto2 team

5 April, 2020
Sito Pons’s El Tenerife 40 Pons Moto2 team were in Germany last week to undergo wind tunnel testing on their Kalex bike at Volkswagen’s technical development center.Pons who is 180 cm tall and similar in build to his team mate…

Rumours from Assen: 250cc class back soon?

5 April, 2020
With Moto2 replacing the previous 250cc class and now forming part of the three classes of the MotoGP championship, you may think it was time to settle for a while and limit changes. But it seems everything is being done…

Moto2: Mattia Pasini and JiR Racing Break Up

4 April, 2020
That Mattia Pasini was profoundly unhappy with his MotoBI/TSR chassis Moto2 bike and that he was on the outs with Gianluca Montiron of JiR (Japan Italy Racing) was a well known fact, but in the past few days the rumors…

Moto2: Kino Racing out, MZ Racing in

3 April, 2020
The inaugural Moto2 season hasn’t even started yet and we’ve already had the first pull out due to financial reasons. The Spanish Kino Racing team who was to compete in the new series on the BQR chassis with 21 year…

Moto2: Valentin Debise confirmed with Speed Up Team

3 April, 2020
Valentin Debise is another Moto2 rider that has gotten an early Christmas gift this year, because he’s been confirmed with Luca Boscoscuro’s Speed Up team for the 2011 season.Debise secured a ride with the Italian team after the Moto2 testing…

Moto2 Jerez Day 3 : Alex De Angelis on top in the wet

2 April, 2020
More rain and cold temperatures affected most of the final day of Moto2 testing at Jerez, but saw Alex De Angelis rise once again to the top of the timesheet for the second time in this official three day test.De…

Moto2 – Alex De Angelis on top on 3rd Day

2 April, 2020
The final day of Moto2 testing at Valencia, saw rain and colder temperatures than from the previous two days but at the end of the day when the track dried out it looked like an ex-MotoGP riders class reunion with…

Kenny Noyes gets a new Moto2 GP ride

1 April, 2020
When Moto2 team Jack&Jones by Antonio Banderas folded at the beginning of December, Kenny Noyes and Gabor Talmacsi were suddenly jobless and searching for other options.While Talmacsi is still deciding what to do with his future, Kenny Noyes has found…

More on the Uccio and Valentino Rossi Moto2 team

1 April, 2020
Could we see Valentino Rossi and his sidekick Uccio make an appearance as team managers in Moto2? It would be an exciting thing if we did and firmly stamp Rossi’s legacy all over the MotoGP and its younger series. According…

Antonio Bandera's Promoracing Moto 2 Racing Team

31 March, 2020
Last December several spanish websites including AS.com ran a story that international movie star Antonio Banderas wanted to get into racing and was looking for funding to run teams in the 125cc and 250cc championships, as well as the Spanish…

Moto2 Jerez Day 2 – Toni Elias on top on Sunday

30 March, 2020
Mixed weather conditions at Jerez saw Gresini’s Toni Elias set the best time with a lap of 1’45.024 leaving Yonny Hernandez (Blusens STX) in second and more than half a second behind him and American Kenny Noyes in third.Alex De…

Moto2 – Mattia Pasini with Team JIR

30 March, 2020
Another 250cc rider has found a home in the new Moto2 series. This time it’s Mattia Pasini who’ll be with Gianluca Montiron’s JIR Moto2 team next season. Pasini has had a torrid 2009 season with Team Toth who got their…

Moto2: Tech3 Bike gets first shakedown

28 March, 2020
Yesterday at the Ledenon circuit in the south of France, finally saw the first debut on a race track of Tech3’s Moto2 bike. The chassis was designed and built by chief engineer Guy Coulon who switched from Yamaha Tech3 MotoGP…

Honda to Supply Engines to Moto2

27 March, 2020
The initial engine supplier for the Moto2 class, the 600cc prototype World Championship series which will run for the first time in 2010, has been confirmed as Japanese manufacturer Honda. After receiving offers from various potential suppliers, the Permanent Bureau…

Mattia Pasini undergoes shoulder surgery

26 March, 2020
Shoulder surgery must be the latest in thing for GP riders, because Moto2 Ioda Racing Project rider Mattia Pasini, also underwent shoulder surgery yesterday after riding in his dad’s minimoto charity event on Sunday.The Italian was operated on by Dr.…

Antonio Banderas Officially Presents his Moto2 Team

25 March, 2020
Antonio Banderas officially presented yesterday evening at the Compac Theatre in Madrid his Moto2 team, Jack&Jones by Antonio Banderas. The Spanish team will compete in the inaugural Moto2 World Championship that kicks off on April 11th in Qatar with riders…

First Look: Gabor Talmacsi's Moto2 Leathers

25 March, 2020
This isn’t the official FTR Moto M210 in the photo, but Hungarian rider Gabor Talmacsi who is posing with his new Spidi leathers that he’ll be wearing in this year’s Moto2 championship. If the leathers are black and gold, we…