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Alan Brown Walt Brown Warwick Brown Adolf Brudes Martin Brundle Gianmaria Bruni Jimmy Bryan
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Moto Guzzi Sportbike Concept by Luca Bar Design
We are big fans of Luca Bar’s imagination and what comes from the stylus of Luca Bar Designs, and today just reinforces that point further. Drafting a Moto Guzzi sportbike concept, Luca has created a very eye-catching design that takes the longitudinal v-twin motor and places it into a modern sportbike chassis. With the frame design and tail section borrowed from the Aprilia RSV4, the front-end incorporates a Hossack suspension system, instead of the customary ...
Mixed Weather Provides Challenging Day Two in Jerez
Today’s second of three days of testing at the Jerez circuit proved to be a frustrating one ...Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/Yc4zySHKMOi/Mixed+Weather+Provides+Challenging+Day+Two
Luiz Bueno Ian Burgess Luciano Burti Roberto Bussinello Jenson Button
2012 WSBK Imola QP1 Results: Smrz beats the on-form Kawasakis
Liberty Racing Team Effenbert's Jakub Smrz was the fastest man on Friday, sneaking a fast lap in at the last minute to knock both Kawasakis off the top two places. Kawasaki's Tom Sykes has cemented his reputation as a fast qualifier, but his team mate Juan Lascorz was the quickest Kawasaki on Friday. Max Biaggi rounded off the provisional front row on his Aprilia ahead of Rea, Haslam and chief rival Checa.
Results:
Thierry Boutsen Johnny Boyd David Brabham Gary Brabham Jack Brabham† Bill Brack Ernesto Brambilla
MotoGP: Impressive Start in Jerez for Yamaha
Yamaha Factory Racing made a purposeful start to the final 2012 pre-season test today at the J ...Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/SNhNY7R2Gno/MotoGP+Impressive+Start+Jerez+Yamaha
Don Branson Tom Bridger Tony Brise Chris Bristow Peter Broeker Tony Brooks Alan Brown
Safety comes first in Portugal
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Heavy rain, fog and mud have been a constant concern throughout day two of the fourth round of the FIA World Rally...
Heavy rain, fog and mud have been a constant concern throughout day two of the fourth round of the FIA World Rally...
Source: http://www.motorsportforums.com/wrc-news/151919-safety-comes-first-portugal.html
Karun Chandhok Alain de Changy Colin Chapman Dave Charlton Pedro Matos Chaves Bill Cheesbourg Eddie Cheever
Bike vs. Car – A Story of Road Rage in Brazil
We don’t know exactly how this story started, but as the video commences we see a motorcyclist sitting on his bike between two cars. With words being exchanged and the situation already rapidly deteriorating, the biker kicks the car. The driver then rams the biker, knocking the bike over. Now on the ground, the biker gets up and walks towards the car, eyeballing the driver on the way there. The rest? You’ll have to see ...
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Paul Belmondo Tom Belso JeanPierre Beltoise Olivier Beretta Allen Berg Georges Berger Gerhard Berger
Friday, March 30, 2012
Conclusive pre-Bol tests
The team DGSPORT HEROCK just finished two days of official testing on the track of Magny-Cours in or...
Source: http://www.fim-live.com/en/media/news/news-detail/article/1332942349-conclusive-pre-bol-tests/
Roberto Bussinello Jenson Button Tommy Byrne Giulio Cabianca Phil Cade Alex Caffi John CampbellJones
Lin Jarvis: MotoGP Must Look to Asia, South America for Growth
One subject has dominated the past three years of MotoGP, and indeed all of motorcycle racing. Despite some thrilling racing, technical innovation and both fascinating and tragic stories, the main topic of conversation among those involved in motorcycle racing has been how to cut costs. A raft of new regulations have been introduced, and even more radical changes are currently under discussion for the next few years.
At the official presentation of Yamaha's 2012 MotoGP campaign, Yamaha Racing Managing Director Lin Jarvis spoke to MotoMatters.com about the need for MotoGP to shift its focus, from just tinkering with the technical regulations to trying to expand its audience base and generate more income, taking advantage of new media and a more international audience to tap into new markets and more potential sponsors. "The technical regulations are very, very important, and bringing costs down is very important," Jarvis told us. "But the other thing is how to increase the popularity of the sport, and increase the revenue. Just saving costs is still shrinking."
Antonio Creus Larry Crockett Tony Crook Art Cross Geoff Crossley Chuck Daigh Yannick Dalmas
Bike vs. Car – A Story of Road Rage in Brazil
We don’t know exactly how this story started, but as the video commences we see a motorcyclist sitting on his bike between two cars. With words being exchanged and the situation already rapidly deteriorating, the biker kicks the car. The driver then rams the biker, knocking the bike over. Now on the ground, the biker gets up and walks towards the car, eyeballing the driver on the way there. The rest? You’ll have to see ...
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Tony Crook Art Cross Geoff Crossley Chuck Daigh Yannick Dalmas Derek Daly Christian Danner
2012 IRTA MotoGP Jerez Test Day 2 Press Release Round Up
Press releases from the MotoGP team after the washed-out second day of testing at Jerez:
Year:
2012
Michael Andretti Keith Andrews Elio de Angelis Marco Apicella Mário de Araújo Cabral Frank Armi Chuck Arnold
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Capito to lead Volkswagen Motorsport
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Capito was Ford’s director of global performance vehicles and motorsport business development. Under his guidance, Ford...
Capito was Ford’s director of global performance vehicles and motorsport business development. Under his guidance, Ford...
Source: http://www.motorsportforums.com/wrc-news/151886-capito-lead-volkswagen-motorsport.html
Franco Comotti George Connor George Constantine John Cordts David Coulthard Piers Courage Chris Craft
2012 IRTA MotoGP Jerez Test Day 1 Round Up: On Fast Factories, CRTs, Tires, and Ducati's Travails
The first day of the final test ahead of the MotoGP season, and normal service has been resumed. The factory boys - well, the factory Hondas and Yamahas - are top of the pile, and fairly comfortably ahead of the rest. In bright, sunny, but very windy conditions, it looked like Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa would battle it out for top honors, rather as they did at last year's race, but just as everyone in the press room - your humble author included - was trotting out the old "Jerez is Stoner's bogey track" chestnut, the Australian turned up the wick and took half a second off his best time, propelling him to the top of the timesheets, and well under race lap record pace.
Cliff Allison Fernando Alonso Giovanna Amati George Amick Red Amick Chris Amon Bob Anderson
Motogp: Stoner dominates Jerez tests, Rossi 6th - Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
 BBC Sport | Motogp: Stoner dominates Jerez tests, Rossi 6th Agenzia Giornalistica Italia (AGI) Jerez de la Frontera - Casey Stoner has once again recorded the fastest time on the final day of testing in Jerez. The defending world champion of team Repsol Honda, who had dominated both the first day of testing and yesterday's rain-soaked ... MotoGP: Casey Stoner fastest on final day in JerezBBC Sport Stoner: We can still improve the bike quite a bitcrash.net Stoner tops MotoGP testing times in JerezAFP Herald Sun -Yahoo! Eurosport UK -The Age all 183 news articles » |
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Christijan Albers Michele Alboreto Jean Alesi Jaime Alguersuari Philippe Alliot Cliff Allison Fernando Alonso
Photo of the Week: Enemy at the Gates
Rewind back to the 2008, where the MotoGP pit walk was under full swing at the inaugural Red Bull Indianapolis GP. Even without the riders present, the machines themselves drew plenty of attention from the fans, many of whom were probably experiencing their first GP weekend. The Repsol Honda garage, then home to Nicky Hayden and Dani Pedrosa, inevitably had a particularly large crowd of observers. It turns out that Honda’s stunning RCV attracted more ...
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Kevin Cogan Peter Collins Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo Erik Comas Franco Comotti George Connor
Hamilton: “I should have 50 points, but I don’t” | F1 Fanatic round-up
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In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton admits he should have scored more points so far this year.
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Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi Bobby Ball Marcel Balsa Lorenzo Bandini Henry Banks Fabrizio Barbazza
Audi Offers €750 Million for Ducati
According to Italy’s Correrie di Bologna, the Volkswagen Group has made a €750 million bid on Ducati Motor Holdings. Just shy of Investindustrial’s reported €832 million asking price on the Italian motorcycle manufacturer. Reports are also saying that Volkswagen’s due diligence process has uncovered that Ducati has less debt on its books than previously thought (previously rumored to be in the €200 million range), and that the €750 million offer would nearly double Investindustrial’s initial purchase price of the Italian company. Said ...
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Birabongse Bhanubandh Lucien Bianchi Gino Bianco Hans Binder Clemente Biondetti Pablo Birger Art Bisch
Icefest in Uppsala - The Rivalry Continues
The destiny of the 2012 FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship will be decided this weekend ...
David Coulthard Piers Courage Chris Craft Jim Crawford Ray Crawford Alberto Crespo Antonio Creus
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
2012 SERT Suzuki GSX-R1000 Debuts at Bol d’Or Practice
With 33 years of history surrounding the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team (SERT), the Japanese manufacturer has one of the winningest legacies in the FIM World Endurance Championship (WEC). Set to start again with the 24-hour-long Bol d’Or race at Magny-Cours on April 14th-15th, WEC teams were out at the French track this week, with many debuting their 2012 squads. Winning nine of the last ten runnings of the Bol d’Or, SERT is of course this ...
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Elie Bayol Don Beauman Karl Gunther Bechem Jean Behra Derek Bell Stefan Bellof Paul Belmondo
Yamaha MotoGP Team Launched At Jerez: Photos And Video
On the eve of the final MotoGP test at Jerez, Yamaha used the opportunity to officially present their MotoGP team and livery for the 2012 season. The bikes are similar to last years, but with more white, giving a cleaner look, but once again, Yamaha have no title sponsor. Asked at the presentation whether that would be a problem, Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis told the media that Yamaha was not in racing to make money, but to promote the Yamaha brand, something which is more difficult with a title sponsor.
Alex Caffi John CampbellJones Adrián Campos John Cannon Eitel Cantoni Bill Cantrell Ivan Capelli