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Qatar confirms Monday race if rain strikes again
The opening round of the 2010 MotoGP world championship will be held at night on Monday, April 12 if the scheduled race on the previous night is postponed. Teams have already been notified of the Monday night race plan after…
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Ben Spies reveals modest 2010 ambitions
Ben Spies has never been one for making outlandish predictions. Yet the normally guarded Texan broke rank recently, revealing his 2010 MotoGP aspirations after another attention-grabbing performance last month in winter testing at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia. Given his…
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2010 is make or break, admits Marco Melandri
Marco Melandri has conceded 2010 could make or break his career. The Italian reckons he’s got one last chance in the premier class after an appalling 2008 campaign with Ducati and the stress of Kawasaki’s shock withdrawal ahead of last…
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Jorge Lorenzo confirms Qatar test participation
Last year’s MotoGP world championship runner-up Jorge Lorenzo has confirmed he will participate in the final winter test session in Qatar later this week. The Spaniard was a major doubt having broken his right hand in a motocross training accident…
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Track Day to Benefit Breast Cancer Research
Motorcycle Solutions, MotoVid.com and Blackhawk Farms Raceway have teamed up to hold a special track day event on Saturday, May [...]
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The Engelhart Center Motorcycle Track Day Benefit for Dane County Humane Society
Join us for a very special event, The Engelhart Center Motorcycle Track Day Benefit for Dane County Humane Society on [...]
American Ben Spies reckons the help and advice he’s getting from the likes of former world champion Casey Stoner is proving a massive help in him adapting to the MotoGP world championship.
Valentino Rossi’s Fiat Yamaha team boss Davide Brivio doesn’t believe Jorge Lorenzo’s early 2010 MotoGP title assault will be badly hindered by the Spaniard missing a third of pre-season testing. The 22-year-old missed last month’s second Sepang test in Malaysia…
Supermoto star Christian Iddon has signed to ride for sorrymate.com SMT Honda in BSB this year. Iddon, a nine-times British Supermoto champion and former factory Aprilia rider in the World Supermoto series, has just 10 road races under his belt…
Reigning world 125GP champion Julian Simon headed the timesheets on the second day of official Moto2 testing at the Valencia circuit in Spain yesterday. And hopes that a spec Honda engine, controlled electronics and Dunlop tyres would create close and…
Supermoto star Christian Iddon will make his BSB debut this year riding for the sorrymate.com SMT Honda team. He told MCN about his switch from supermoto to superbike. So you’ve got a BSB ride with SMT?How cool is that? It’s…
Toni Elias showed why he is a hot favourite to win the inaugural Moto2 world championship after he topped the timesheets on the first day of the opening official test session in Valencia. The three-day test is the first time…
Dani Pedrosa is confident he will be competitive when the new MotoGP season kicks off in Qatar next month. The Spaniard has had a tough pre-season campaign so far and issues in setting up his new factory Honda RC212V in…
British GP winner Andrea Dovizioso has praised the effort Honda is putting in to try and claim its first 800cc MotoGP world championship in 2010. The Repsol Honda rider reckons development of the new factory RC212V is moving in the…
Colin Edwards has tipped former factory Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi as an overwhelming favourite to retain his MotoGP world title in 2010.
The new FB Corse squad will only be given clearance to race in the 2010 MotoGP world championship if it can demonstrate its new three-cylinder 800cc machine is competitive. International Race Teams Association boss Mike Trimby has confirmed to MCN…
Valentino Rossi’s crew chief Jerry Burgess reckons Yamaha has achieved its double target with the new 2010 factory YZR-M1 engine. With a team now restricted to using only six engines for the entire 18-round world championship, Burgess is confident Yamaha…
Happy times at Snetterton. The racing was fun too!
Althea Ducati rider Carlos Checa won the second World Superbike race at Phillip Island after a last-lap pass on race 1 winner Leon Haslam. Alstare Suzuki rider Haslam finished just 0.3 secs behind Checa in the second close finish of…
Parkalgar Honda rider Eugene Laverty claimed victory in the opening World Supersport race at Phillip Island today. Laverty dominated the race from the start. He got into a comfortable rhythm at the front of the pack and finished more than 4 seconds ahead of 2nd…
A photo finish was need to confirm Brit Leon Haslam’s first ever World Superbike victory in race 1 at Philip Island today. The Team Suzuki Alstare rider finished just 0.004secs ahead of Ducati Xerox rider Michel Fabrizio. Haslam said: “It’s…
Leon Haslam claimed his first ever World Superbike pole position with a stunning 1m 31.229 second lap around the Phillip Island circuit today. Onboard his Alstare Suzuki GSXR1000, Haslam survived a high speed crash in this mornings qualifying to bounce…
