Reale Esponsorama Avintia Racing’s Hector Barbera underwent successful surgery on a broken collarbone on Thursday, his team has confirmed. The Spanish rider was training at his home circuit of Ricardo Tormo in Valencia earlier in the week when he crashed, fracturing the middle third of his left collarbone in five places. The operation, carried out […]
Aprilia Racing Team Gresini has unveiled a striking new livery design which Aleix Espargaro and Sam Lowes will carry on their RS-GP in 2017. The Noale factory enters the third season of its return to the MotoGP World Championship with their sights set high, after a positive year of development in 2016 netted them 16 […]
Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS Racing Team unveiled its livery for the 2017 season at a launch event in Madrid on Thursday. For the second year in succession, the Belgian squad will field Jack Miller and Tito Rabat in the premier class on RC213Vs, whilst in Moto2 Franco Morbidelli will once again join forces with […]
Reale Esponsorama Avintia Racing’s Hector Barbera will undergo surgery in Barcelona today (Thursday 2) on a broken collarbone sustained whilst training this week. The Spanish rider was putting in some last-minute pre-season preparations at his home circuit of Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on Wednesday when he crashed and suffered a break to his left collarbone. […]
Former grand prix rider and race winner Jeremy McWilliams has expressed his delight at being a part of the British Talent Cup, a newly-formed initiative designed to bring up the next generation of British MotoGP stars. The Northern Irishman raced in grands prix from 1993 through to 2005, enjoying moderate success in the 250cc class […]
As the 2017 MotoGP World Championship edges ever closer, Octo Pramac Racing has become the latest outfit to unveil the colours their 2017 challengers will run. The satellite Ducati squad come into their third season with Danilo Petrucci and their second with Scott Redding at the helm, the latter of the pair taking to the […]
MV Agusta’s Leon Camier endured a tougher time of things in Sunday’s second World Superbike outing , a misdirection with bike set-up robbing him of edge grip. The Briton’s weekend began dismally. An engine issue forced him into the box after just a handful of laps in FP1, and the team were unable to fix the problem […]
Aruba.it Ducati’s Chaz Davies was narrowly beaten to victory in both races at this weekend’s World Superbike season-opener at Phillip Island, but is nonetheless happy with his results. The Welsh rider came into the 2017 season as the favourite to take the fight to Jonathan Rea after a sensational run of seven wins in the […]
2015 British Superbike champion Josh Brookes ended the second race of his World Superbike wildcard appearance in Australia in a fine 12th despite almost missing the race due to a mechanical issue. Brookes and his ERMotorsport-EliteRoads.com.au team brought to Phillip Island a modified version of the Yamaha YZF-R1 the Aussie rider won the BSB title with. The idea […]
Kawasaki Racing’s Jonathan Rea kicked off the defence of his World Superbike title in perfect fashion by doing the double Down Under, putting him 10 points clear in the championship standings. The Northern Irishman was involved in a monumental battle for the victory in Saturday’s season-opener, and snatched the win by just 0.042s from Ducati’s […]
Aruba.it Ducati’s Marco Melandri made up for the disappointment of his non-finish on Saturday with a return to the World Superbike podium in the second race of the weekend. The Italian rider made his long-awaited return to the Superbike World Championship in yesterday’s season-opener at Phillip Island, and was running in the fight for the […]
Kawasaki’s Jonathan Rea took his 40th career victory after once again edging Ducati’s Chaz Davies in a thrilling second World Superbike race at Phillip Island. For the first time, the series’ reversed grid format was put into action with Yamaha’s Alex Lowes taking the lead from pole ahead of Milwaukee Aprilia’s Eugene Laverty and the […]