Barni Racing Ducati’s Xavi Fores topped the time sheets in the opening practice session for the Jerez round of the 2016 WorldSBK season, narrowly pipping Honda’s Nicky Hayden. Fores will be hoping to carry on his strong form from the last Spanish round at Aragon at the start of the season, where the Spaniard finished […]
Repsol Honda Team rider Dani Pedrosa has been ruled out of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix from the Twin Ring Motegi after suffering a fracture to his right collarbone in a crash in practice. The Spaniard was flicked from his factory RC213V at Turn 11 during the second free practice session this afternoon, landing heavily […]
Idemitsu Honda Team Asia’s Takaaki Nakagami gave the home fans something to smile about after he ended the first Moto2 free practice session at the Twin Ring Motegi fastest. The Japanese rider will have some pretty big expectation weighing on his shoulders this weekend as he comes to his home race for the first time […]
Ducati Corse’s Andrea Dovizioso ended the opening practice session from the Twin Ring Motegi fastest after a blistering final lap on fresh rubber. The Italian took Ducati to their first pole position in four years when he took top spot in qualifying back in 2014, and with the Desmosedici GP now a proven race-winner Ducati […]
Sky Racing Team VR46 rider Nicolo Bulega ended his first encounter with the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in fine fashion, after he topped the first free practice session ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix. The Italian has proven on numerous occasions this season that he is a very quick learner, and it didn’t take him […]
Aruba.it Ducati’s Chaz Davies heads to the penultimate round of the 2016 WorldSBK season at Jerez focussing on simply winning races, admitting that he has ‘the luxury to be able to race with nothing to lose.’ The Welshman still has a mathematical shot at winning this year’s world championship, but with an 81-point deficit to […]
I’m not going to lie, when the first Ride game from Italian developer Milestone dropped in 2015 I was greatly disappointed. The excitement of having a Forza-type game based on bikes quickly faded away when a fairly average, pretty empty racer was the end result. So you can imagine that, when Milestone announced that they […]
Avintia Racing’s Hector Barbera has been called up by the factory Ducati squad to replace the injured Andrea Iannone this weekend in Japan. 2015 Australian Superbike Champion Mike Jones will take the Spaniard’s place at Avintia. Iannone fractured his T3 vertebra in a heavy fall during FP1 at Misano last month. He tried to ride two […]
Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS Honda’s Jack Miller is looking forward to getting back on his RC213V at Motegi after being forced out of the Aragon Grand Prix through injury. The Australian suffered a fracture to his right hand in a crash during warm up in Austria in August, forcing him out of the […]
Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Bradley Smith has expressed his excitement about returning to action after seven weeks spent on the sidelines with a leg injury. The British rider was due to contest the Oschersleben 8-Hour endurance race with YART between the Czech and British Grand Prix. A crash during the first free practice session at […]
Movistar Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi says he is ‘ready for the three races in a row’, as MotoGP begins its annual triple-header trek across Japan, Australia and Malaysia this weekend. The Italian comes into this weekend off the back of a third-place finish in Aragon three weeks ago after a hard battle with Yamaha teammate Jorge […]
The Saxoprint Peugeot Moto3 team have announced an all new rider line-up for 2017, with Jakub Kornfeil joining rookie Patrik Pulkkinen at the German squad next season. Kornfeil has been racing in the lightweight class of the World Championship since the 2010 season and has made two trips to the podium so far in his […]