Repsol Honda Team rider Marc Marquez has highlighted the Japanese Grand Prix from the TwinRing Motegi as a race for ‘giving up as few points as possible’ as the 2016 championship nears its conclusion. The Spaniard demolished the competition last time out in Aragon, qualifying on pole by over six tenths of a second and […]
Movistar Yamaha are reportedly blocking Jorge Lorenzo from taking part in a test with Ducati at Jerez at the end of next month, despite the fact that he will ride for the Italian manufacturer for the first time at the post-Valencia test on November 15 & 16. In an interview with Italian publication Gazzeta dello […]
Avintia Racing’s Hector Barbera is looking forward to getting the triple-header flyaway portion of the season underway at Japan this weekend, as the TwinRing Motegi is one of his favourite circuits on the schedule. The Spaniard heads into this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix still holding onto 10th in the World Championship standings after finishing 13th […]
Ducati Corse rider Andrea Iannone will miss this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at the TwinRing Motegi and will instead defer his return to action to the Australian Grand Prix in order to allow for his back injury to heal further. Iannone was forced to miss the San Marino round last month after cracking his T3 vertebra […]
The carXpert Interwetten Moto2 team have announced that they will no longer field Swiss rider Dominique Aegerter after he apparently breached contract with the team by signing for Leopard Racing. It was announced earlier this week that Aegerter would be joining Danny Kent at the Leopard team next season, the German outfit also confirming their […]
This week, Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo tested the 2014 Mercedes W05 F1 car, the same car that took Lewis Hamilton to that year’s World Drivers’ Championship. The Spaniard found the transition from two to four wheels fairly smooth and apparently set some very competitive lap times. Lorenzo is a five-time World Champion on two […]
Double 250cc and triple MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo hailed his test of the 2014 Mercedes W05 F1 car at Silverstone as a ‘dream come true’. The news was announced earlier in the week in the Spanish press that Lorenzo would be taking to the wheel of the car that took Lewis Hamilton to his […]
The Leopard Racing team have confirmed that current rider Danny Kent will be joined by former Grand Prix winner Dominique Aegerter next season, with the squad also announcing a switch to Suter frames. Former Moto2 Champions under the Kiefer Racing banner, Leopard stepped back up to the intermediate class this season after successfully winning the Riders’ World […]
Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo is set to test a Mercedes W05, the car that propelled Lewis Hamilton to the 2014 F1 World Drivers’ Championship, at Silverstone this week, according to Spanish press. The triple MotoGP World Champion has made no secret of the fact that he is desperate to drive a Formula 1 car, and has […]
Aruba.it Ducati’s Chaz Davies secured his seventh win of the 2016 season after making it back-to-back victories at Magny-Cours on Sunday. But the Welshman later revealed that Sunday’s race was far from easy, his pace lacking somewhat to the leading Kawasaki duo. Davies got a good start and took the lead into the Adelaide hairpin […]
Kawasaki Racing’s Jonathan Rea says that he is happy with the second place he achieved in the second race of the weekend at Magny-Cours, as he felt that this was the best possible result he could take away from the 21-lap contest. For the first time this season, the Northern Irishman finished a race off […]
Aruba.it Ducati’s Chaz Davies capped off a perfect weekend for himself and the Italian manufacturer by doing the double at Magny-Cours, storming to victory in the second race ahead of the Kawasaki pairing of Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes. The Welshman got off the line well and swooped past Sykes into Turn 1, before mugging […]