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As the saying goes, I needed another motorcycle (project) like I needed a hole in the head. And I’d been doing well to stay off…
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Malcolm Campbell William Campbell Frank Camillieri Jean Campiche Salvador Cañellas
The boss says these Arai helmets have to go! We have a few of these Snell M2010-certified Arai helmets on sale with recent build dates so you get the…
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Gianfranco Buffarello Maurice Büla Davide Bulega Theo Bult Juan Soler Bulto
Prologue:
As the saying goes, I needed another motorcycle (project) like I needed a hole in the head. And I’d been doing well to stay off…
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Gianfranco Buffarello Maurice Büla Davide Bulega Theo Bult Juan Soler Bulto
If MotoMatters.com has seemed to be relatively dormant over the past few days, there’s a very good reason. MotoMatters.com HQ is being relocated, from the Netherlands’ oldest university town to a small town in the east of the country, close to the city at the heart of Operation Market Garden. As a consequence, MotoMatters.com staff – or more specifically, your humble correspondent – is spending an inordinate amount of time on matters such as removing old wallpaper, packing up a couple of years’ worth of MotoGP memorabilia, and sorting through those piles of papers that have been sitting there doing nothing for the past thirteen years we have been in the house.
This week in Speed Dating: Happy birthday to Freddie Spencer, Hayden Gillim, Skip Van Leeuwen, Pascal Picotte, Broc Parkes, Ricky Graham, and remembering Gary Hocking.
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Paul Brady Luca Cadalora Gaspare Caffiero Benedicto Caldarella Marcello Cama
Thanks to all our competitors last week – it was a week that was particularly scare on points with Dani Pedrosa hardly featuring in the picks – only four of you had him on the podium at all, and only @rumblestrip as high as second. Elsewhere, he was mentioned but generally only as a crash [...]
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Emilio Alzamora Kunihiro Amano Daniel Amatriain Dario Ambrosini Ray Amm
With the holiday season almost upon us, teams are clearing their desks before heading off for their Christmas and New Year’s break. That explains the blizzard of press releases being issued. The latest HRC missive concerns Dani Pedrosa’s condition, and his progress during his recovery. The Spaniard broke his collarbone in Motegi in early October, after the throttle on his RC212V stuck open, causing him to crash heavily. The collarbone was plated, but bruising and swelling caused Pedrosa a number of problems while racing. Below is the HRC update on his condition:
DANI PEDROSA TO RESUME FULL TRAINING IN JANUARY
Repsol Honda Team rider Dani Pedrosa is now in the final stages of recovery from the shoulder injury he sustained last October and is excited to return to training in early January.
The Spaniard will spend a full month working on his physical condition to ensure that he is in the best possible shape for the first MotoGP test of 2011 at Sepang, Malaysia, from February 1st to 3rd.
Jean Claude Chemarin Olivier Chevallier Ricardo Chiarello Pierfrancesco Chili Gerard Choukroun
Filed under: Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Sprint Cup, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, NASCAR
As easily the most staunch threat to unseat Jimmie Johnson and Co. from their record-setting run through the previous four seasons, Joe Gibbs Racing takes second spot in our review of the top teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from 2010.
Denny Hamlin (above) delivered the last, best threat to Johnson’s run to five consecutive championships at Homestead in November by holding a narrow points lead on the No. 48 before the season finale. However, a risky decision early in the race left Hamlin spinning and scrambling while Johnson cruised to his fifth.
It was a storyline we’ve seen before from the JGR camp — most notably in Kyle Busch‘s 2008 Chase implosion.
Labeling the 2010 season a failure for JGR with one gaffe in one race, however, isn’t fair to the otherwise notable successes the team saw during the campaign. Here’s a look back, and the reasoning why, JGR was the second-best NASCAR organization in 2010.
2nd- Denny Hamlin [8 wins, 14 Top-5s, 18 Top-10s, 2 DNFs, 12.9 Avg Finish]
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Gerard Choukroun Pieraldo Cipriani Claudio Cipriani Denis Clancy Harold Clark
Filed under: Sam Hornish Jr., Penske Racing, Indianapolis 500, NASCAR
LAS VEGAS — Three-time IndyCar champ and 2006 Indianapolis 500 winner Sam Hornish Jr.’s NASCAR future remains in limbo, but his team owner, Roger Penske, said Thursday that he will likely field Hornish in the Daytona 500 and possibly in the Indianapolis 500, too.
Penske confirmed the news during a sponsorship announcement at his Ferrari dealership in the Wynn Las Vegas Thursday, where the team unveiled Kurt Busch’s new No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Dodge in the Sprint Cup Series and a similar design for the iconic No. 3 Penske car that three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves will drive at Indy next May.
For all his success in open-wheel racing, Hornish has never managed to make a big splash in NASCAR’s big leagues, with only a pair of top-five finishes and eight top-10 efforts in 108 starts over three full seasons. And with no primary sponsor signed for his No. 77 Dodge, Penske said Hornish still doesn’t have a full schedule set for 2011. Penske said both a limited Cup and Nationwide Series slate were possibilities.
“I told him that, at the end of the day, I’d much rather do a program where we can support you 100 percent than have some pick-up program with not enough sponsors,” Penske said. “We need to have the continuity. We have a number of opportunities, but we just couldn’t get them closed at this point.
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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/12/03/sam-hornish-jr-may-return-to-indy-500/
František Bartoš Loek Bodelier Jarno Boesveld Jean Paul Boinet Karel Bojer
This week in Speed Dating: Happy birthday to Kenny Roberts, Phil Read, William S. Harley, Jurgen van den “Flying Dutchman” Goodbergh, Sergio Gadea, Jordan Szoke, Doug ?the Wheelie King? Domokos, and remembering Cal Rayborn.
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Richard Bay Jean Michel Bayle Jean Pierre Bayle Len Bayliss Troy Bayliss
Just got a new (for me) 2007 Ninja 500 with a badly cracked upper fairing. Looking to replace it soon, so let me know if you have one to sell me…
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Pierre Audry Karl Auer August Auinger Jean Aureal Josef Autengruber
Nearly 300 editions later, Mark Gardiner says goodbye… for now.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/backmarker-says-see-ya-later-eh/
Ingemar Bengtsson Johnny Bengtsson Angelo Bergamonti Werner Bergold Jacques Bernard
This week in Speed Dating: Happy birthday to Freddie Spencer, Hayden Gillim, Skip Van Leeuwen, Pascal Picotte, Broc Parkes, Ricky Graham, and remembering Gary Hocking.
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AMA Pro American Superbike Champion Josh Hayes has a secret weapon: physiological doctor Riggs Klika
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Gilbert Argo Manuel Arias Ken Armstrong Reg Armstrong Arciso Artesiani
“The Twelve Days of Christmas,” motorcycle-style
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Andrea Borgonovo Eduard Borisenko Juan Borja Sergio Boroncini Gino Borsoi
Great news! Enter the Donington round of the Tipping Contest to have a chance of winning a copy of Ring of Fire, The Inside Story of MotoGP by Rick Broadbent.
Prizes will be awarded as follows:
Top three scorers for the round (not overall) will win a copy of Ring of Fire.
The top two scoring Minellas will [...]
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Brian Adams Duilio Agostini Felice Agostini Giacomo Agostini Jack Ahearn
2011 New Suzuki Shogun 125 Scheduled to Introduce at January 4-5
2011 New Suzuki Shogun 125 reported is under a preparation to introduce at the market.
PT Suzuki Indomobil Sales (SIS) scheduled to reveal the 2011 New Suzuki Shogun 125 Facelift.
The bike wheels reported to come in different styles which are more detail and price revealed except the reveal-date of this bike on January 4-5.
The vehicle claimed to have sporty and dynamic design and woul facelift or minor change but it?s totally new model.
SIS is also still reluctant to reveal the price and specs of the bike.
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Juan Borja Sergio Boroncini Gino Borsoi Luca Boscoscuro Gimmi Bosio
Filed under: Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Sprint Cup, Hendrick Motorsports, NASCAR
Five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has been named Driver of the Year for the fourth time — tying a record with Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon for the most wins in the prestigious award’s 44-year history and putting him ahead of three-time winners Mario Andretti and Darrell Waltrip.
Johnson, who is the first to win five consecutive Sprint Cup titles, edged drag racing legend John Force, who won a historic 15th National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) championship. Johnson received 10 first-place votes from the 20-member panel of racing journalists and broadcasters while Force earned seven votes. Kyle Busch, who won a NASCAR-best 24 races in three national divisions this season, received one first-place vote.
“Among such tough competition; with the voting panel, who it is and how well-versed they are in motorsports, it’s a huge, huge honor,” said Johnson, who will receive a Tissot watch and trophy from the organization.
Driver of the Year President Barry Smoyer said the final vote came following one of the most “spirited” debates in the history of the award, which honors the best driver in an American four-wheel racing series or best American driver racing overseas.
“As many people have said already, it will be a long time before anyone will set the bar as high as Jimmie Johnson,” Schmoyer said.
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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/jimmie-johnson-who-else-named-driver-of-the-year/
Darren Barton František Bartoš Günter Bartusch Eric Bataille Franco Battaini
This is a simple question, but I know it is a difficult one for many to answer. Especially here in America, were President Obama’s attempt at health…
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Roger Beaumont Leandro Beccheroni Hans Becker Alex Bedford Günter Beer
2011 New Suzuki Shogun 125 Scheduled to Introduce at January 4-5
2011 New Suzuki Shogun 125 reported is under a preparation to introduce at the market.
PT Suzuki Indomobil Sales (SIS) scheduled to reveal the 2011 New Suzuki Shogun 125 Facelift.
The bike wheels reported to come in different styles which are more detail and price revealed except the reveal-date of this bike on January 4-5.
The vehicle claimed to have sporty and dynamic design and woul facelift or minor change but it?s totally new model.
SIS is also still reluctant to reveal the price and specs of the bike.
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Paul Berwick Kees Besseling Max Biaggi Pier Paolo Bianchi Stefano Bianco
American Suzuki Motor Corporation is to present its five Suzuki champions of the 2010 AMA race season with custom commemorative awards honouring their achievements.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/american-suzuki-honors-2010-champions/
Sergio Boroncini Gino Borsoi Luca Boscoscuro Gimmi Bosio Juup Bosman
For just the second time in 37 years, a rookie stole the show during the 2010 Monster Energy AMA Sup…
Jean Pierre Bayle Len Bayliss Troy Bayliss Bruce Beale Douglas Beasley
After eight great years, Road Racer X is closing its doors.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/road-racer-x-ceases-publication/
Franco Bertoni Juan Bertran Willi Bertsch Paul Berwick Kees Besseling
HRT confirm Narain Karthikeyan will drive for the team in 2011.
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Josef Albisser Pierluigi Aldrovanti Alejandro Aleman Eduardo Aleman Jaime Alguesuari
Top talent and industry insiders from the motorcycle world give their uncut opinions and race stories. Get your weekly motorcycle news live from Pit Pass Moto Weekly. Pit Pass Moto Weekly is now heard in over 50 countries around the world.
Gerhard Boll Jacques Bolle Pierre Bolle Maurice Bolwerk Gianfranco Bonera
Cordoba – San Miguel deTucuman Road Connection: 144 kmSpecial Stage: 300 kmRoad connection: 29…
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Federico Ceroni Dave Chadwick Jean Francois Chaffin Doug Chandler Ron Chandler
Scottish rider Jimmy Storrar has confirmed that he will make his Isle of Man TT races debut in 2011. The Perth born racer will compete for Mick Charnock?s ?TC Racing Honda/DP Coldplaning? outfit in all classes at the 2011 meeting. The team have secured high spec 600cc and 1000cc Honda?s for their Isle of Man campaign.
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William Campbell Frank Camillieri Jean Campiche Salvador Cañellas Maurice Cann
The Canucks are getting into the hybrid scene, as news from up north reveals that BRP, with help from the Canadian government, will develop a hybrid model of its Can-Am Spyder three-wheeler. Working alongside the Université de Sherbrooke, BRP is investing $5.1 million CAD ($5 million USD) into the school’s Centre de Technologies Avancees (CTA), while the Canadian government’s Automotive Partnership Canada program is matching funds to the tune of $6.2 million CAD ($6.1 million USD). …
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Andre Luc Appietto Robin Appleyard Junya Arai Toshiyuki Arakaki Fernando Aranda
Gardiner is spending his winter hunting tires for his Honda Dream.
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Fergus Anderson Hugh Anderson John Anderson Kent Andersson George Andrews
The Canucks are getting into the hybrid scene, as news from up north reveals that BRP, with help from the Canadian government, will develop a hybrid model of its Can-Am Spyder three-wheeler. Working alongside the Université de Sherbrooke, BRP is investing $5.1 million CAD ($5 million USD) into the school’s Centre de Technologies Avancees (CTA), while the Canadian government’s Automotive Partnership Canada program is matching funds to the tune of $6.2 million CAD ($6.1 million USD). …
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Pierre Cecchini Johnny Cecotto Adu Celso Santos Enrico Cereda Federico Ceroni
While snow fell on the Northeast, Florida’s CCS racers were feeling just fine on the asphalt of Florida’s Homestead Miami Speedway. Wake up?and warm up?with results from all thirty-seven classes.
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Benedicto Caldarella Marcello Cama Paolo Campanelli Keith Campbell Malcolm Campbell
2010 brought a seven-year collaboration between the Italian rider and Japanese factory to a close, one which shaped four World Championship titles and wrote another chapter into the MotoGP history books you can revive the best moments of the partnership between the two, starting at Welkom in 2004.Three further titles followed ? in 2005, 2008 and 2009 ? as Rossi underlined his status as one of the sport?s modern greats, and a stream of highlights were delivered along the way as a formidable force in MotoGP sustained to enjoy great success amassing 46 race victories along the way.
With the end of the 2010 season came the beginning of a change as Rossi prepared to make the switch to Ducati for 2011, and in the fond of motogp the 31 year-old?s finest moments on the M1 are compiled, from his first kiss subsequent victory at Welkom in 2004 to his farewell to the bike at Valencia in the final round of the 2010 campaign.
Appraisal the highlights of the Rossi-Yamaha years and enjoy the most recent chapter in the nine-time World Champion?s memorable career, before a new episode gets happening with Ducati?
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Ingemar Bengtsson Johnny Bengtsson Angelo Bergamonti Werner Bergold Jacques Bernard
Filed under: Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Kurt Busch, Mark Martin, Tony Stewart, Daytona Int’l Speedway, Sprint Cup, NASCAR
The fresh asphalt laid at NASCAR’s Mecca — all 50,000 tons of it — will get its first big workout next week.
At least 18 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers are scheduled to test the new surface of the high banks of the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway Dec. 15 and 16 as part of a Goodyear tire test, the track said Wednesday.
It will mark the first time NASCAR drivers will have driven on a new surface at the Florida superspeedway since the last time it was repaved in 1978.
“This place is going to have a totally new look to the drivers and the teams,” two-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart said in October. “We’re going to fill every square inch of the race track because the surface is so even now.”
Goodyear will utilize the test to develop appropriate tire compounds for the preseason Sprint Cup Series test to be held in the middle of January.
The track was faced with repaving after a pot hole opened up in turn two during this year’s Daytona 500, forcing substantial, hours-long delays to the race. Essentially, the force of the cars began to tear an ever-widening gouge into the typically smooth surface.
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Pieraldo Cipriani Claudio Cipriani Denis Clancy Harold Clark John Clark
Repsol Honda Team rider Dani Pedrosa is now in the final stages of recovery from the shoulder injury he sustained last October and is excited to return to training in early January.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/pedrosa-to-resume-full-training-in-january/
Guy Martin had his first taste of Relentless Suzuki by TAS machinery at Almeria in Spain when he tested the team’s GSX-R1000 Superbike at the weekend.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/guy-martin-tests-relentless-suzuki-in-spain-pic/
Manfred Bernsee Bruno Bertacchini Silvano Bertarelli Albert Bertholet Guy Bertin
There’s good news and bad news for the opponents of electronics in motorcycle racing from today’s meeting of the Grand Prix Commission, held in Madrid in Spain. MotoGP’s rule-making body met to discuss changes to the regulations for the 2011 and 2012 seasons, and electronics was one of the subjects under discussion.
But the first order of business was to rearrange practice. The changes made in the cost-cutting frenzy between the 2008 and 2009 seasons have finally been scrapped once again, and the four-practice schedule used by MotoGP for so many years before makes a welcome return. The schedule had been partially reinstated at the end of the 2010 season, with four sessions of 45 minutes replacing the three one-hour sessions which had been used for the past two seasons. Though the reception was overwhelmingly positive, the one complaint that riders had being that the 45 minute sessions left little time to make changes during the session.
That problem has now been solved, as the GP Commission has agreed to return to four one-hour sessions for the MotoGP class from 2011. The Moto2 class will see four sessions of 45 minutes on each race weekend, while the 125cc class will have two sessions of 45 minutes on Friday and Saturday morning, and two sessions of half an hour in the afternoons.
Jean François Balde Mike Baldinger Alex Baldolini Mike Baldwin Brian Ball
Wake up with results from weekend superbike, supermoto, and sidecar racing at New Zealand’s Cemetery Circuit!
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Philippe Bouzanne Ellis Boyce Helmut Bradl Stefan Bradl Umberto Braga
Just got a new (for me) 2007 Ninja 500 with a badly cracked upper fairing. Looking to replace it soon, so let me know if you have one to sell me…
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Domenico Brigaglia Aramis Brito Massimo Broccoli Bo Brolin Rob Bron
Filed under: Crew Chiefs, Sprint Cup, NASCAR
No driver competing in NASCAR‘s two top series showed greater disparity in results in 2010 than Brad Keselowski, who won the Nationwide series championship with six victories while eking out a couple of top-10 finishes in a forgettable Sprint Cup campaign.
Both cars came from Penske Racing, and when Roger Penske is involved, nonperformance won’t stand.
Thus, the organization announced Tuesday that Paul Wolfe, Keselowski’s championship-winning crew chief in Nationwide, has been promoted to become his Sprint Cup crew chief, replacing Jay Guy.
In addition to the six victories and the championship, Keselowski and Wolfe scored 29 top-10 finishes in 35 races. Twenty six of those were top fives — a series single-season record. He also won five poles, led 1,147 laps and had an average finish of 5.2.
By contrast, in his Sprint Cup car, Keselowski had no victories, one pole position, no top fives and just two top 10s — 10th-place finishes at Martinsville and Talladega late in the season. He led 41 laps and had an average finish of 22.4.
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Karel Abrahám Brian Adams Duilio Agostini Felice Agostini Giacomo Agostini
Filed under: Sprint Cup, Scott Speed, Red Bull Racing, NASCAR
A NASCAR driver usually don’t sue his car owner after parting ways, since taking legal action could dissuade potential future car owners from getting involved with the driver.
But after more than seven years with Red Bull in both Formula One and NASCAR, Scott Speed has made that move, suing his former team for alleged breach of contract in a complaint asking the court to award him $6.5 million, SceneDaily.com reported late Friday.
Red Bull “significantly reduced its financial commitment to Speed’s race team and was unable and/or unwilling to provide [Speed] with ‘supporting equipment’ satisfactory for a driver of [his] skill to [be] effective [to] compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series,” Speed’s complaint states, according to SceneDaily.
Speed’s complaint also provides a rare, inside look at the money being paid in the Sprint Cup series for a driver at his level.
According to SceneDaily, the lawsuit says Speed signed a three-year deal in September 2007 for a salary of $300,000 in 2008, $500,000 in 2009 and $1 million in 2010. He was to receive 50 percent of his purse winnings for each top-10 finish, 45 percent for finishing 11th through 20th and 40 percent for finishes of 21st or worse.
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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/12/11/scott-speed-sues-red-bull-after-team-releases-him/
Enrico Cereda Federico Ceroni Dave Chadwick Jean Francois Chaffin Doug Chandler
Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hendrick Motorsports, NASCAR
LAS VEGAS — The only suspense in Thursday’s announcement of NASCAR‘s 2010 Most Popular Driver Award rested with the winner. For the eighth consecutive year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. claimed the honor — tops among the 1.5 million fan votes — once again proving his popularity is soaring even if his on-track efforts have fallen flat.
“Oh yeah, I was surprised,” Earnhardt claimed moments after accepting the award during NASCAR Champion’s Week. “You just never know. There’s the performance factor we’ve suffered from on the race track, there’s the new guys coming into the sport all the time. You never take it for granted.”
The same could be said for winning.
Earnhardt hasn’t won a race in nearly three seasons and hasn’t even been consistently competitive in the No. 88 National Guard-Amp Energy Chevrolet, while his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson will be crowned champion for the fifth consecutive year in Friday night’s lavish NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Banquet at the Wynn Las Vegas.
The juxtaposition isn’t lost on the third-generation driver, son of the late seven-time champion, Dale Earnhardt. The 2004 Daytona 500 champ and 18-race winner is hoping a three-way crew chief swap at Hendrick will infuse new life into his career. And it can’t happen soon enough.
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Hans Jorg Butz Shane Byrne Paul Brady Luca Cadalora Gaspare Caffiero
Because Mondays need all the help they can get….
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Julien Allemand Dick Allen Rudy Allison Pedro Alvarez Luis Alvaro
In response to feedback from motorcycle show visitors, Ducati is pleased to announce the addition of a stunning diamond black color scheme for the new 2011 Ducati Diavel.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/industry-news/ducati-annouces-2011-diavel-now-available-in-black/
Jean Aureal Josef Autengruber Stu Avant Rex Avery Masao Azuma
While snow fell on the Northeast, Florida’s CCS racers were feeling just fine on the asphalt of Florida’s Homestead Miami Speedway. Wake up?and warm up?with results from all thirty-seven classes.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/features/monday-wake-up-call/the-yamaha-monday-wake-up-call-5/
Hans Bartl Harald Bartol Darren Barton František Bartoš Günter Bartusch
The 33rd Dakar Rally draws ever closer and the 2011 edition of the historic and daunting event will …
Source: http://www.fim-live.com//en/media/news/news-detail/article/1292923182-yamaha-primed-for-2011-dakar/
Domenico Brigaglia Aramis Brito Massimo Broccoli Bo Brolin Rob Bron
Fiat Yamaha rider and current championship leader Jorge Lorenzo has secured pole position on the grid for tomorrow’s Mugello GP clash.
The 22-year old Spaniard put in a 1’48.987 lap of the Italian circuit to secure the top spot on the time sheets. Ducati Marlboro rider Casey Stoner qualified second, leaving Loris Capirossi to take third for the Rizla Suzuki squad.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/YafTuVy-h8f/Fiat+Yamaha+MotoGP
Jaime Alguesuari Julien Allemand Dick Allen Rudy Allison Pedro Alvarez
It was a freakish race – one which I am still trying to get my head around, let alone write up!
Because of the unusual podium, points were scarce this week with many people striking out. Only one person scored podium points: @leighberwick with his 3rd place for de Puniet. How you picked him out Leigh, [...]
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Fabio Biliotti Wilf Billington Hartmut Bischoff Gastone Biscia Norman Black
Well, afterwards Black Ducati, actuality is the absolute Fiat Ducati !! Rossi on the Fiat Ducati looks abundant !!, i beggarly the red Ducati is awesome.. Valentino Rossi still with 46 logo on the Ducati Bike.. I can’t say annihilation afresh about Valentino Rossi with Fiat Ducati,.. so guys.. bigger you analysis this out..
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Norick Abe Hubert Abold Karel Abrahám Brian Adams Duilio Agostini
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/alms-falken-partners-with-walker-for-2011/
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Falken Tire and Derrick Walker will join forces in…
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Javier Arumi Sadao Asami Giuseppe Ascareggi Franz Aschenbrenner Stuart Aspin
Because Mondays need all the help they can get….
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/tgi-monday-trivia-contest-motomatters-com-2011-calendar/
Roy Boughey Dennis Boulom Christian Bourgeois Philippe Bouzanne Ellis Boyce
Very Interesting development and I’m happy they went with this lineup, and it seems like Friday testing will be done by…
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Jarno Boesveld Jean Paul Boinet Karel Bojer Juan Bolart Gerhard Boll
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Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/NqmIYjHbKPQ/motoGP+motorsports+Andrea+Dovizioso+New+Contract
Dennis Casement Paolo Casoli Kevin Cass Miguel Castilla Corrado Catalano
The Dakar 2011 is approaching fast for Team “BMW Motorrad by speedbrain”. As bikes and equ…
Willi Bertsch Paul Berwick Kees Besseling Max Biaggi Pier Paolo Bianchi
For the last week of the year, we’re offering up dual Tuesday Conversations–both with a certain family from Owensboro.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/features/tuesday-conversation/tuesday-conversation-ii-roger-hayden/
Werner Bergold Jacques Bernard Adrian Bernetic Manfred Bernsee Bruno Bertacchini
Sometimes after the day is done, we lay in bed thinking about the world around us. Will Sarah Palin run for President in 2012? Will the North Korea continue to escalate matters with South Korea and the de-militarized zone? What would the love child from the alien in Predator and an Yamaha R1 look like after the pair had a lurid one night affair fully of empty promises and awkward moments at breakfast the next day? …
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Adrian Coates Adriano Cocchi Norick Abe Hubert Abold Karel Abrahám
Shift’s product developer and technical-design manager is a woman kicking butt in a man’s world.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/features/between-the-races/between-the-races-sonia-lunardon/
Hans Otto Butenuth Hans Jorg Butz Shane Byrne Paul Brady Luca Cadalora
Happy holiday wishes from around the motorcycle industry.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/features/road-racerhead/honda-road-racerhead-52-2/
Jean Francois Chaffin Doug Chandler Ron Chandler Derek Chatterton Mick Chatterton
Filed under: IRL, Indianapolis 500
Reigning IZOD IndyCar Series championship owner Chip Ganassi will be doubling his efforts in the series in 2011, adding two additional cars to his trophy stable.
The team, which would not confirm or comment on the long-rumored news, has scheduled a press conference Thursday in Indianapolis where Ganassi will introduce the newest additions to a driver lineup that already features two-time defending series champ Dario Franchitti and former two-time champ Scott Dixon.
Second-generation driver Graham Rahal — son of 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal — and Charlie Kimball, 25, a young talent moving up from the feeder Indy Lights Series, will campaign for Ganassi next year, working out of a “satellite” team shop rented from drag racing legend Don Prudhomme.
Rahal, 21, is the youngest IndyCar Series winner in history, scoring his only victory in the 2008 season-opener at St. Petersburg, Fla. However, he did not race full time last season. Kimball will be making his debut in the series.
Thursday’s announcement will also confirm full-time sponsorship for both Rahal and Kimball — significant for the series, which had several high-profile teams struggling to find primary corporate backing in 2010. In a unusual twist, Rahal actually announced a two-year sponsorship deal with TBC Corporation — which owns several automobile tire retailers — at this season’s finale in Homestead, Fla. before having a contract in place with a team.
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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/12/15/chip-ganassi-set-to-double-up-indycar-champion-team/
Claudio Cipriani Denis Clancy Harold Clark John Clark Brendan Clarke
The definitive cancellation of the second FIM Indoor Enduro World Championship 2011 was announced to…
Source: http://www.fim-live.com//en/media/news/news-detail/article/1292499206-brazil-event-cancelled/
Bruce Beale Douglas Beasley Daryl Beattie Roger Beaumont Leandro Beccheroni
Since its inception, the Red Bull Rookies Cup (and its predecessor, the MotoGP Academy) has proved to be a rich source of talent for the MotoGP series. Top riders such as Bradley Smith and promising youngsters such as Sturla Fagerhaug and Jonas Folger have come through the system, with a steady flow of more youngsters coming through all the time.
In a bid to tap into the same vein of young talent, the World Superbike series is about to set up its own rival to the Red Bull Rookies Cup. As we reported back in November, WSBK is to run the European Junior Cup, series open to 14 to 17-year-olds, and will run at six of the European World Superbike rounds. The youngsters will be picked from entries consisting of riders with at least one year of experience in any motorcycle discipline, and will compete aboard specially prepared – and identical – Kawasaki Ninja 250R machines, Kawasaki’s entry level 250cc four-stroke twin sports bike.
The press release announcing the European Junior Cup is displayed below:
European Junior Cup launched in 2011
Adrian Bosshard Christian Boudinot Roy Boughey Dennis Boulom Christian Bourgeois
Many of the riders and machines have already been confirmed for the 2011 TT ?Milestones of the Mountain? Parade lap to celebrate the centenary of racing around the iconic Isle of Man TT Mountain Course.
Juan Bertran Willi Bertsch Paul Berwick Kees Besseling Max Biaggi
Öhlins USA technicians will be at the Öhlins display this weekend, December 17-19, during the International Motorcycle Show in Long Beach, California, and all other IMS shows, including at the Daytona Beach Ocean Center in March during Bikeweek 2011. The Öhlins USA kiosk at each show is located in the ?Market Place? display area.
Hans Rudi Brüngger Ralph Bryans Keith Bryen Simon Buckmaster Gianfranco Buffarello
Because Mondays need all the help they can get….
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/tgi-monday-trivia-contest-motomatters-com-2011-calendar/
Jean Michel Bayle Jean Pierre Bayle Len Bayliss Troy Bayliss Bruce Beale
Filed under: Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sprint Cup, NASCAR
Twenty years ago, when I started covering NASCAR stock car racing, the sanctioning body’s public relations staff consisted almost exclusively of one man who ran ‘his’ media centers in the same dictatorial manner that his boss, the late Bill France Jr., ran NASCAR.
That PR guy is now doing hard time in prison, but that’s another story. Today, the many-tentacled NASCAR public relations operation is a media bureaucracy — an endlessly churning mill of facts, figures, videos, press conferences, photos and other information and content.
In their efficiency and zeal, bless their hearts, the PR folks at NASCAR have informed us exactly which five of the season’s 36 Sprint Cup races were the best of the year. Although I don’t agree with all the choices — I think the race in Texas last month was one of the best races I’ve seen in years — NASCAR says these five were selected “from discussions with the national series director, competition department and NASCAR PR managers.”
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Source: http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/12/10/tell-us-the-best-nascar-race-of-2010/
Willi Bertsch Paul Berwick Kees Besseling Max Biaggi Pier Paolo Bianchi
The Mission R electric Superbike is just one of many new projects to come out of San Francisco based startup Mission Motors. Despite the newswires over the past year being noticeably quiet from Mission, the company has been toiling away on more than a few projects, especially after launching its MissionEVT components and services offering. Showing off its electric and hybrid chops at SEMA this year, we get news that Mission Motors has been working …
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At the end of last year we learned that KTM had committed itself internally to competing in the upcoming Moto3 class, which is slated to replace 125GP in 2012. At the time of that news, the Austrian company was still in the early stages of planning for its 250cc four-stroke single-cylinder race bike; but not wanting to let Honda take all of the Moto3 development spotlight with its NRS 250, this past week KTM began …
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Werner Bergold Jacques Bernard Adrian Bernetic Manfred Bernsee Bruno Bertacchini
i know there isnt anyone here anymore but to my old friends here is my new bike.
BMW s1000rr
loaded.. M paint, DCT, ABS, shift assist.
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Hubert Abold Karel Abrahám Brian Adams Duilio Agostini Felice Agostini
Repsol Honda Team rider Dani Pedrosa is now in the final stages of recovery from the shoulder injury he sustained last October and is excited to return to training in early January.
Source: http://www.roadracerx.com/breaking-news/pedrosa-to-resume-full-training-in-january/
Johnny Bengtsson Angelo Bergamonti Werner Bergold Jacques Bernard Adrian Bernetic
