Nine-times MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi leaves Phillip Island disappointed following a tough three days of testing at the Australian circuit. The Movistar Yamaha rider spent the day running the new chassis and on used rubber in order to improve his performance in the second half of a race, which was an area Yamaha struggled […]
Movistar Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales topped the combined time sheets for the third successive test this pre-season after posting the fastest lap of the week on the final day of running in Australia. The Spaniard has been on incredible form this week. For much of it he spent his time doing race runs as he seeks […]
A leading economist and advisor to the Welsh Government has branded the £425million Circuit of Wales project as ‘highly risky’ in an article for WalesOnline.com. Professor Gerry Holtham, who advises the Welsh Government on strategic infrastructure investment, said that the project was ‘highly risky at best’ and concluded that the only reasoning behind investing in […]
IodaRacing will miss the season-opening Phillip Island round of the 2017 World Superbike Championship next weekend after Leandro Mercado broke several ribs in a training accident. The Italian team stepped over to WorldSBK in 2016 after several seasons in the MotoGP World Championship with Alex De Angelis and Danilo Petrucci before him. Ioda fielded De […]
LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow says that, while the RC213V may not be perfect yet, he is at least satisfied with his speed on it after producing the third quickest lap of the Thursday’s session at Phillip Island. The British rider is helping HRC develop the new ‘big-bang-style’ engine, as well as a raft of other […]
Aprilia unveiled their ‘winglet’ fairing at Phillip Island today, as the quest to reclaim aerodynamic benefit from the now banned strakes continues. Reintroduced into the MotoGP World Championship by Ducati in 2015, aerodynamic wings became commonplace on the grid in 2016. Fears over safety and, above all, development costs saw the Grand Prix Commission outlaw […]
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez ended the second day of testing from Phillip Island second on the time sheets after completing a massive 107 laps, but says that something is still amiss with the new ‘big-bang-style’ engine. Marquez shot to the top of the pile for the first time during any of the 2017 pre-season winter […]
A busy second day of testing for the MotoGP field in Australia concluded with Movistar Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales on top of the time sheets from Honda’s Marc Marquez. Today saw two new front and three new rear tyres introduced by Michelin for the grid to try, while Aprilia and Suzuki debuted their versions of the […]
Ducati Corse’s Jorge Lorenzo has said that the Phillip Island test has started off a lot better for him than it did in Malaysia, despite only managing 11th on the time sheets. The five-times world champion, who makes his Ducati debut in 2017 after nine years as a Yamaha rider, struggled to adapt to the […]
Movistar Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales ended the first day of testing at the Phillip Island circuit fourth on the time sheets, and felt happy with his long-run pace. The 2013 Moto3 world champion was in superior form when testing got under way in Malaysia at the start of the month, and was once again sending a […]
Marc Marquez says his Repsol Honda team still need to work on the RC213V’s electronics despite ending the first day of track action at Phillip Island top of the pile. Honda introduced an updated version of its ‘big-bang’ engine at the Malaysia test at the start of the month, but found that the electronics weren’t […]
The MotoGP field returned to action at Phillip Island today as the second pre-season test of the year got under way, with Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez topping the time sheets. After a difficult opening test in Sepang two weeks ago, in which Honda struggled to get the electronics to work properly with the latest version […]