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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
From Kimi Raikkonen to Casey Stoner – An Interview with HRC’s Rhys Edwards
The longer I get to work in the MotoGP paddock, the more it strikes me how many talented people contribute to the show by working behind the curtain while a small percentage of personalities get most of the media attention. Rhys Edwards, whom you may recognize from his frequent position in Casey Stoner’s seat during shots of the Respol garage, is one of many people I’ve met who manage to perform roles of great responsibility ...
Who will NOT win a GP ths year
Just a bit of fun but as there's been so many winners this year, who do you think is most likely *not* to win a GP in 2012. I have limited the poll...
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Roel Cornelis Jacques Cornu Mauro Corradini Troy Corser Simone Corsi Gabriel Corsin
Fourth Tissot-Superpole of 2012 for Sykes and Kawasaki
In Superpole 3 Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) went over 0.3 seconds faster than the existing track best with a 1 minute 27.716 seconds lap that gave him his fourth Tissot-Superpole win of 2012. Close behind was his fellow Englishman Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport), the only other rider inside the 1’27 bracket. Haslam’s team-mate Marco Melandri was third and the front row for tomorrow’s races was completed by Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing), who came good after some challenging times in earlier practice sessions.
Sylvain Guintoli (Team Effenbert-Liberty Racing) earned a top five place on the grid, with Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) sixth. Leon Camier (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) scored seventh and will be joined on the second row by Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati). 2011 World champion Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) will start Sunday’s race from the third row of the grid, in ninth place.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/vBCyM0oHvCO/Fourth+Tissot+Superpole+2012+Sykes+Kawasaki
Sebastien Gimbert Anthony Gobert Peter Goddard Jurgen van den Goorbergh Rodney Gould Leslie Graham
Fourth Tissot-Superpole of 2012 for Sykes and Kawasaki
In Superpole 3 Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) went over 0.3 seconds faster than the existing track best with a 1 minute 27.716 seconds lap that gave him his fourth Tissot-Superpole win of 2012. Close behind was his fellow Englishman Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport), the only other rider inside the 1’27 bracket. Haslam’s team-mate Marco Melandri was third and the front row for tomorrow’s races was completed by Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing), who came good after some challenging times in earlier practice sessions.
Sylvain Guintoli (Team Effenbert-Liberty Racing) earned a top five place on the grid, with Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) sixth. Leon Camier (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) scored seventh and will be joined on the second row by Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati). 2011 World champion Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) will start Sunday’s race from the third row of the grid, in ninth place.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/vBCyM0oHvCO/Fourth+Tissot+Superpole+2012+Sykes+Kawasaki
Barry Ditchburn Colin Edwards Jon Ekerold Toni Elías James Ellison Aleix Espargaro
Marc VDS Racing Team Le Mans Preview
Mika Kallio and Scott Redding head for this weekend's Grand Prix de France at Le Mans confident of a return to form, after tyre and handling issues saw them finish ninth and eleventh last time out in Estoril.
Chatter issues mid race plagued Kallio, halting his progress through the field from 17th on the grid, while Redding was unable to capitalise on his front row start after using up his tyre chasing down the leading group.
The Marc VDS duo are keen to make amends this weekend and both head to France with confidence restored following a successful two-day test at the Navarra circuit in Northern Spain earlier this week.
Part of the Circuit de la Sarthe, on which the legendary 24 Heures du Mans car race is run each year, the Bugatti circuit is dominated by second gear corners and short straights, demanding a bike that is stable under braking, but with good acceleration out of the low-speed turns.
For the second year running the Elf logo will be prominent on the bikes of Kallio and Redding, which will also run a special red, white and blue colour scheme at Le Mans this weekend. The Elf logo and the one-off livery are part of an agreement that will see the French oil and lubricants giant as the primary sponsor of the Marc VDS Racing Team for five races this season, starting with the French Grand Prix this weekend.
Michael Bartholemy: Team Principal
"We had some issues in Estoril, which is why we decided to test at short notice in Navarra before heading to the French Grand Prix in Le Mans. The weather conditions in Spain couldn't have been better and both Mika and Scott managed to make improvements to the set-up of their bikes over the two days. Now we head for France, which is an important race for us. For the second year running we welcome Elf as title sponsor for the French Grand Prix, where we'll run with a very distinctive red, white and blue livery. Elf have been a strong supporter of the team since the start and I hope we can repay their commitment with two good results this weekend at Le Mans."
Marc VDS Racing Team Press Release
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Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/21PDL-hx5kj/Marc+VDS+Racing+Team+Le+Mans+Preview
Boet van Dulmen Barry Ditchburn Colin Edwards Jon Ekerold Toni Elías James Ellison
History for BMW and Melandri, dramatic win for Rea
Donington Park (UK), Sunday 13 May 2012 – A 48,500 strong crowd saw some astounding race action at D...
Ernst Hiller Eric Hinton Harry Hinton Osamu Hiwatashi Gary Hocking Alex Hofmann
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Incredible drama as Rea wins and other top riders go out
Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) took his second race win of the season after an incident-strewn race at Donington. On the first corner Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) and Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) touched and Checa went down, taking out Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati) and Checa’s team-mate Davide Giugliano.
Then Laverty crashed down Craner Curves, as up front eventual third place man Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) led for most of the race distance. He was finally mugged by a warring faction which included eventual second place man Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing Team) and both BMW Motorrad Motorsport Riders, Leon Haslam and Marco Melandri. After a multitude of overtakes and riders running off track on occasion, Haslam looked to have it won until both he and Melandri ran wide at the very last corner and Rea pushed inside. They collided and Haslam fell, knocking off Melandri as he slid on the track. Rea held on to win by just over half a second from Biaggi, with Sykes two second back. Leon Camier (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) was an impressive fourth.
In the championship, the final dramas mean that Biaggi has 128.5 points, Sykes 123.5, Rea 108, Checa 105.5 and Melandri 97.5.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/aY11GlAhPnA/Incredible+drama+Rea+wins+other+top+riders
Romolo Ferri Jack Findlay Jonas Folger Marc Fontan Bob Foster Ted Frend
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Tetsuya Harada John Hartle Wil Hartog Gary Haslam Leon Haslam Ron Haslam
More Photos of the Confederate X132 Hellcat
The Confederate X132 Hellcat is the latest creation from the boutique southern motorcycle brand, and continues the Hellcat lineage’s custom-roadster aesthetic. Like any machine produced by Confederate, the real beauty of the new Hellcat comes down to the bike’s detail finishes, which for the X132 includes a motor casing that was built out of two pieces of billet 6061 aircraft grade aluminum. Officially spec’d with “sufficient” power and torque figures, the 2,163cc v-twin motor on the X132 is more ...
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Wil Hartog Gary Haslam Leon Haslam Ron Haslam Bjorn Hasli Yasumasa Hatakeyama
Get Your Bike Ready To Ride!
MotoSport.com has everything you will need to get you ride running smooth and looking great this summer! *_SHOP NOW_*...
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Eric Hinton Harry Hinton Osamu Hiwatashi Gary Hocking Alex Hofmann Andreas Hofmann
Melandri makes history with first BMW SBK race win
A truly historic 1-2 for the BMW Motorrad Motorsport Team saw Marco Melandri win a 23-lap opening race at Donington with his team-mate Leon Haslam only 0.728 seconds behind.
An eventual five rider fight for the podium places provided overtaking manoeuvres and personal duels aplenty as the race order changed multiple times. Tissot-Superpole winner Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) won a tense battle to go third, with Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) making up places in the final laps to overhaul Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) and take fourth place. The leading five were covered by 2.102 seconds at the end of the race.
World Champion Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) was sixth, four seconds from the win. He made it five different manufacturers in the top six at the flag.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/pMpN0O0I0ec/Melandri+makes+history+first+BMW+SBK+race
Fabrizio Lai Teuvo Länsivuori Carlos Lavado Eddie Lawson Eugenio Lazzarini Gianni Leoni
Ferrari “expect change of gear right away” from Massa | F1 Fanatic round-up
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In the round-up: Ferrari say Felipe Massa needs to up his game in the next race at Monaco.
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Tomoko Igata Dennis Ireland Fumio Ito Shinichi Itoh Bill Ivy Olivier Jacque
Suter 500 Factory V4 – Thank You for Smoking
Asphalt & Rubber is based out of California, so that means smoking is akin to a cardinal sin out here, and on the hierarchy of egregious crimes against humanity, it ranks just slightly under torturing babies with hot pincers (heaven forbid you cause a baby to start smoking). Smoking indoors in outright verboten virtually everywhere, while puffing some nicotine anywhere outside that is near a restaurant, bar, club, ATM, hospital, pre-school, or tobacco shop is liable ...
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Jaroslav Huleš Eero Hyvärinen Andrea Iannone Tomoko Igata Dennis Ireland Fumio Ito
new Street Triple deal
I might have missed the deal of the week, last week. Clinton Cycles in Camp Springs gave up their franchise, and was supposedly selling the remaining...
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Roberto Locatelli Johnny Lockett Bill Lomas Dino Lombardi Enrico Lorenzetti Jorge Lorenzo
Maurizio Flammini: Valentino Rossi Will Join WSBK Soon
On an interview between Italian magazine, Riders, as quoted on GPOne, WSBK promotor, Maurizio Flammini told that he convinced that Valentino Rossi will join World Superbike soon enough. He also told that without Valentino Rossi, MotoGP is nothing.
Flammini said, ""I don't know if Rossi will come to WSBK, but I'm convinced we will have him in our family soon enough, in our automobile racing series. MotoGP wants to try and be like Formula 1, but without Rossi they would be nowhere. But superbike hasn't copied anyone, and indeed some of the car racing series have actually copied us.
He continue, "MotoGP is an open championship, and it's not possible to move it towards production bikes. If they mandated something production based, the engineers would completely modify them after just ten days. Racers like to change things. I spoke to an engineer from a CRT team, who is using a SBK spec engine without a removable gearbox. They are trying to modify it now, and by the end of the year it will have little or nothing in common with the SBK engine. The two championships will always be different, since it's in their nature."
No confirmation from Valentino Rossi, but according to Rossi's explanation about his future with Ducati, Rossi said that he is still with Ducati until now.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/e7BaLGtliyL/Maurizio+Flammini+Valentino+Rossi+Will+Join
Jack Findlay Jonas Folger Marc Fontan Bob Foster Ted Frend Freddie Frith
04 Busa new clutch slipping
I replaced the clutch in my girls 04 Busa with 3 heavy springs bike rides fine, she says the clutch effort is to great so I remove to 3 heavy...
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Bill Doran Stefan Dorflinger Andrea Dovizioso János Drapál Geoff Duke Boet van Dulmen
'The Volcano' erupts yet again
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I guess it's not anymore fun for the guy this year, than it was...
I guess it's not anymore fun for the guy this year, than it was...
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Carlos Lavado Eddie Lawson Eugenio Lazzarini Gianni Leoni Libero Liberati Dan Linfoot
Photo of the Week: Here’s to the Unsung Heroes of MotoGP
This, race fans, is Danilo Petrucci, one of the brave souls trying his luck on the future of MotoGP hardware, in his case the doggedly underpowered Came IodaRacing Project machine. Not on a (relatively) zippy Aprilia ART, or a Honda-powered FTR, Petrucci qualifies on the same grid as Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo, and brings to this gunfight a knife that packs a whopping 185 bhp, compared to the factory prototype engines that are rumored ...
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Bruno Kneubühler Randy Krummenacher Hiroaki Kuzuhara Gijs Lagervey Fabrizio Lai Teuvo Länsivuori
Monday, May 14, 2012
Pickem! 2012 Indianapolis 500
Round 5 of 15
Please make your picks using the link above.
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Please make your picks using the link above.
If you must amend your picks, please post a new reply and do not use your "edit"...
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Kensuke Haga Noriyuki Haga Josef Hage Andreas Hahn Richard Haidegger Mike Hailwood
2012 Donington World Superbikes Race Two - Thrilling Race Decided At The Last Corner
World Superbikes race two at Donington Park was a five-way dice that was settled in the last corner of the last lap in thrilling fashion.
Gregg Hansford Tetsuya Harada John Hartle Wil Hartog Gary Haslam Leon Haslam
04 Busa new clutch slipping
I replaced the clutch in my girls 04 Busa with 3 heavy springs bike rides fine, she says the clutch effort is to great so I remove to 3 heavy...
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Sergio Gadea Roberto Gallina Wayne Gardner Juan Garriga Alex George Ezio Gianola
Williams welcome home team members after fire
Following Sunday's dramatic fire in the Williams garage after the Spanish Grand Prix, the team have confirmed that a further two team members have...
Noriyuki Haga Josef Hage Andreas Hahn Richard Haidegger Mike Hailwood Mike Hale
2012 Donington World Supersport QP2 - A Few Cold Crashes
World Supersports qualifying took place on a cold dry day, with riders breaking last year's lap records.
Osmo Hansen Gregg Hansford Tetsuya Harada John Hartle Wil Hartog Gary Haslam
Czech Michek fastest in Troyan
Troyan circuit waked up to sunny morning. Everybody was looking forward to racing on this well prepa...
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Alex de Angelis Randy de Puniet Didier de Radiguès Raffaele de Rosa Alex Debon Ernst Degner
2012 Donington World Superbikes: Friday - Cold, but not wet
Before we quickly gloss over the inevitable mention of the weather, it would be unfair not to mention the current reason for the increase in popcorn sales in the Superbike paddock. Jakub Smrz put his Effenbert-sponsored Ducati on provisional pole while his sponsor's future is uncertain. After a rather odd press release that seems to have been written while angry at one of their bikes braking down on the warm up lap at Monza, the Czech brewer refused to bring their hospitality suite to Donington. The Liberty Racing teams look set to continue racing for the remainder of the year, and may even be a bit embarrassed by their heated press release, but time will tell if it will be under the same sponsor's banner. The bikes at Donington sported the Effenbert livery and the garage was still decked in their colours, but no word yet on brolly dollies or other promotional activities.
results/2012/05/11/2012_donington_world_superbikes_saturday.html
Tomoko Igata Dennis Ireland Fumio Ito Shinichi Itoh Bill Ivy Olivier Jacque
Fourth Tissot-Superpole of 2012 for Sykes and Kawasaki
In Superpole 3 Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) went over 0.3 seconds faster than the existing track best with a 1 minute 27.716 seconds lap that gave him his fourth Tissot-Superpole win of 2012. Close behind was his fellow Englishman Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport), the only other rider inside the 1’27 bracket. Haslam’s team-mate Marco Melandri was third and the front row for tomorrow’s races was completed by Max Biaggi (Aprilia Racing), who came good after some challenging times in earlier practice sessions.
Sylvain Guintoli (Team Effenbert-Liberty Racing) earned a top five place on the grid, with Jonathan Rea (Honda World Superbike Team) sixth. Leon Camier (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) scored seventh and will be joined on the second row by Jakub Smrz (Liberty Racing Team Effenbert Ducati). 2011 World champion Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) will start Sunday’s race from the third row of the grid, in ninth place.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/OEnoT08aiCY/Fourth+Tissot+Superpole+2012+Sykes+Kawasaki
Frank Cope Angelo Copeta Roel Cornelis Jacques Cornu Mauro Corradini Troy Corser
Greatest MotoGP™ rivalry continues at historic Le Mans
MotoGP™ returns this weekend at the Monster Energy Grand Prix de France, where Repsol Honda's Casey ...
Thierry Crine Fernando Cristobal Daniel Crivello Àlex Criville Graeme Crosby Francis Cufi
FIM Regulation: Wild Card for MotoGP
A changes on wild card regulation on MotoGP class:
Wild-Card Entries
The deadline for applying for a wild-card entry in the MotoGP class has been changed. In future an entry can be proposed by an FMN, the FIM, the MSMA or Dorna at any time prior to the event. (Previously the deadline was 45 days which gave little time for accepted entries to prepare and test machinery).
Applications must be made to the FIM who will, upon receipt, submit them to the Grand Prix Commission who will decide which, if any, of the entries will be accepted.
The deadline for applying for a wild-card entry in the Moto3 and Moto2 classes remains unchanged at 45 days. An entry can now be proposed by an FMN, the FIM or Dorna. At the deadline for entries the list of candidates will be submitted to the Grand Prix Commission who will decide which, if any, of the entries will be accepted.
Engine Durability For MotoGP Class Wild-Cards
Each wild-card entry in the MotoGP class will now be allowed three engines for their exclusive use during each event.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/TQ1nf_dDz1m/FIM+Regulation+Wild+Card+MotoGP
Michael Doohan Bill Doran Stefan Dorflinger Andrea Dovizioso János Drapál Geoff Duke
2012 Donington World Superbikes - Superpole results
Superpole 1 was, for the first time in a while, a dry Superpole, meaning three sessions, with 12 going through from the first one, and 8 qualifying for the last.
Wayne Gardner Juan Garriga Alex George Ezio Gianola Sete Gibernau Sebastien Gimbert
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