Championship leader Jonathan Rea grabbed his third pole of the 2017 season, after the Kawasaki rider obliterated the outright lap record at the TT Circuit Assen. Rea has been in superb form all weekend, setting a devastatingly consistent race run in free practice on Friday and getting to within a tenth of the outright lap record on […]
Puccetti Kawasaki rider Kenan Sofuoglu topped the combined timesheets at the end of Friday’s Supersport running after the Turk pipped PJ Jacobsen in FP2. Sofuoglu comes into this weekend’s fourth round of the championship yet to score points, after he was taken out of his comeback race in Aragon two weeks ago. Keen to set […]
World Superbike Championship leader Jonathan Rea ended the first day of running at Assen fastest of all, edging nearest rival Chaz Davies by just a tenth of a second in FP2. Rea looked strong in this morning’s first hour long session, but was unable to improve on his best effort in the closing stages and […]
MV Agusta’s PJ Jacobsen ended the opening hour of running for the World Supersport field at Assen top of the pile, in a session brought to an early conclusion due to an oil spill at Turn 1 in the closing stages. Jacobsen finally made it to the podium in 2017 last time out in Aragon, […]
Kawasaki Racing’s Tom Sykes led the field in an action-packed opening practice from the TT Circuit Assen, with team-mate Jonathan Rea a couple of tenths back in second. Sykes comes into this weekend still suffering from a virus which materialised just before the Aragon round, and which has seen him in hospital following the one-day […]
Aruba.it Ducati’s Chaz Davies says he is looking forward to this weekend’s Dutch round of the World Superbike Championship, after the Welshman made a step forward with his Panigale at a test in Aragon. Davies’ title aspirations took a knock last time out in Aragon when he crashed out of the lead of the opening […]
Pata Yamaha’s Michael van der Mark heads to his home round at the TT Circuit Assen in Holland brimming with confidence after a decent start to his 2017 campaign. The Dutchman has made steady progress across 2017’s three rounds so far, finishing inside the top 10 in all but one race. In Thailand and the previous […]
The Grand Prix of the Americas will be one Aprilia will keen to quickly forget, after both Sam Lowes and Aleix Espargaro failed to score points for the second race running. The Italian marque had expected its weekend to be a tough one, the RS-GP struggling to absorb the Circuit of the Americas bumps and […]
Maverick Vinales proved he was human in Sunday’s 21-lap Grand Prix of the Americas, as the Spaniard registered his first DNF since Argentina 2016. The Spaniard had been in imperious form all weekend, and looked a serious challenger to Honda’s Marc Marquez’s 100% pole and win record at the Circuit of the Americas. He was […]
Valentino Rossi has expressed his disgruntlement over Johann Zarco’s aggressive approach in Sunday’s American Grand Prix, after the Frenchman forced Rossi off track at Turn 3, which resulted in a time penalty for the Italian. Tech 3 Yamaha’s Zarco had already flashed his elbows in the early stages of the race, the MotoGP rookie carving […]
Marc Marquez has called his fifth successive Texas victory as ‘crucial’ following his Argentina DNF, as it puts him firmly back in the hunt for the world championship. Marquez has been the king of the Circuit of the Americas since 2013, but came into his stomping ground on the back foot after crashing out of […]
Danny Kent has confirmed via social media that he has split with the Kiefer Racing outfit due to ‘irreconcilable differences’. The British rider is in the second season of his Moto2 return following a title-winning campaign in Moto3 in 2015, in which he became the first Brit since Barry Sheene in 1977 to win a […]