Reigning World Supersport champion Kenan Sofuoglu has signed a one-year deal to remain with the Puccetti Racing Kawasaki team for the 2018 season. The Turkish rider is a five-times world champion in the 600cc class, winning three of his titles with Kawasaki and the previous two with the Puccetti outfit. The defence of his fifth […]
Jorge Lorenzo comes into his first Italian Grand Prix as a Ducati rider confident of returning to the form he showed at Jerez last month, a positive two days of testing in Barcelona filling the Spaniard with optimism. Lorenzo completed 150 laps across the two days of running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, ending the […]
Honda’s Marc Marquez is confident the older style 2017 front tyre, which will enter the allocation for the remainder of the season this weekend, will suit his riding style at Mugello following a positive test on it in Barcelona. After a vote in the Safety Commission at Le Mans, in which 20 of the 23 […]
Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi says he is determined to ride in this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, despite suffering still from ‘sever epain’ in his abdomen and chest following a motorcross training crash last week. Rossi sustained mild trauma to his chest and abdomen when he fell off his motocross bike while out training in Italy last week. […]
MV Agusta’s PJ Jacobsen snatched top spot away from Kenan Sofuoglu in FP2 to head the combined times on Friday at Donington Park. Improvements were few and far between in the opening half of the session, with a red flag 25 minutes in halting proceedings while debris from Zulfhami Khairuddin’s spill at the Turn 9 […]
Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea continued to lead the timesheets at Donington Park at the end of second practice, with team-mate Tom Sykes close behind in second. Despite a small tumble at the Melbourne hairpin in the early stages of FP1, Rea still went on to finish the session top of the pile. His time came under […]
Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi has suffered no further complications with the injuries he sustained in a motocross training accident on Thursday, his team has confirmed. The nine-times world champion Italian was training at the Cross Club Cavallara in Mondavio, Italy, on his motocross bike when he injured himself, Rossi sustaining mild thoracic and abdominal […]
Kenan Sofuoglu ended the first practice session ahead of the sixth round of the 2017 World Supersport season at Donington Park top of the pile. The three-times Donington race winner comes into this round with the aim of further cutting his 35-point deficit in the championship standings, after he became the first repeat winner of […]
Championship leader Jonathan Rea topped the opening practice session for the sixth round of the 2017 World Superbike season at Donington Park, despite suffering an early fall. Rea comes into this weekend”s action with a comfortable 74-point advantage in the championship standings following two second-place finishes at Imola. Confident he could be a contender at […]
Red Bull Honda rider Stefan Bradl hopes he and his team can pay tribute to their fallen team-mate Nicky Hayden with a strong result at this weekend’s Donington Park round. On May 22, 2006 MotoGP World Champion and World Superbike race winner Nicky Hayden tragically succumbed to injuries he sustained in a cycling accident in […]
A number of MotoGP riders have expressed their dislike for the revisions made to the layout of the Barcelona circuit at a test at the track this week. Following the tragic death of Moto2 rider Luis Salom during practice for last year’s event, the MotoGP field agreed to run on the alternate Turn 10 and […]
Championship leader Jonathan Rea heads to this weekend’s UK round from Donington Park confident of being able to challenge Kawasaki team-mate Tom Sykes, who has been dominant at the circuit for the past four years. Sykes is the World Superbike paddock’s Donington master, the 2013 world champion tallying up an impressive eight successive victories at […]