appetitesdelite.com.info

That the Motorland Aragon circuit would be such a huge hit with both the fans and riders of MotoGP was barely a surprise. The track is spectacular, interesting and cleverly designed to allow decent racing. Its only downside is its location: Though located close to some of the more spectacular parts of Spain, accommodation in and around the town of Alcaniz, where the track is located, is limited, making finding lodgings a tricky affair. Despite such complications, over 70,000 spectators turned up for the inaugural Aragon round of MotoGP, and the race was awarded the prize for the best Grand Prix from IRTA, the teams assocation.

An attendance of 70,000 is even more remarkable given the dire state of the Spanish economy (with unemployment running at around the 20% mark), and the fact that the Aragon race was one of four hosted in Spain, and one of five run on the Iberian peninsula. Whatever money Spaniards still have in their pocket, they remain happy to spend it on attending motorcycle racing.

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Donny Schmit Fritz Schneider Darrell Schultz Tommy Searle Gary Semics Andrew Short

MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]

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Kent Howerton Neil Hudson Ryan Hughes Georges Jobe Gunnar Johansson Peter Johansson

Results of the 1st day of testing for the Moto2 riders at Jerez:

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Grant Langston Danny LaPorte Mike LaRocco Jason Lawrence Ron Lechien Jeff Leisk

Finalized results of the last day of testing for the 125cc class at Jerez:

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Jamie Dobb Gert van Doorn John Dowd John Draper Doug Dubach Ryan Dungey

Not since 2006 has a driver retained a championship title. Can Vettel buck the trend?

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Shaun Simpson Joël Smets Jeff Smith Marty Smith Steve Stackable Jeff Stanton

A quiet week at the top of the standings, with @daveminella just inching away from the pack by a single point. Shouts out to @Brian_GP, @danzero and @ducatinewstoday for pulling off their Minellas. Had you guys been around earlier you would be pushing the top spots. The good news is, there is plenty of time [...]

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Victor Leloup Aigar Leok Tanel Leok Billy Liles Ove Lundell Sten Lundin

It isn't just the Moto2 teams launching this week, the San Carlo Gresini Honda team held their launch at Monza, presenting Hiroshi Aoyama and MotoGP's own Fabulous Furry Freak Brother Marco Simoncelli to the media. The team is more than just a satellite team, though: team boss Fausto Gresini told GPOne.com's Alice Margaria that the team was now a "100% factory team," and he had high hopes for both of his riders. Below is the press release from the launch:

ALBERTO VITALONI AND FAUSTO GRESINI 'MASTERS OF CEREMONY' AT TEAM SAN CARLO HONDA GRESINI 2011 PRESENTATION

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Joël Robert Ken Roczen Stephane Roncada Gerard Rond Jean Sebastien Roy Alex Salvini

Lewis Hamilton says driving on slower tyres is “just not exciting.”

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Brad Lackey Arthur Lampkin Steve Lamson Grant Langston Danny LaPorte Mike LaRocco

MotoGPBlog was lucky enough to catch up with Rick Broadbent, Times journalist and author of Ring of Fire. You can also read our review of his book, and while you’re there, pick up your copy though our Amazon store – see links at the end of the articles.

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Rick Burgett Jimmy Button Michael Byrne Antonio Cairoli Trey Canard HÃ¥kan Carlquist

Naturally with the new MV Agusta F3 supersport, which according to MV Agusta will be available in the Fall of 2011, comes the news that we’ll be seeing a naked version of the 675cc three-cylinder motorcycle. Dubbed the Brutalina by Castiglioni, the MV Agusta Brutale B3 675 seems a more appropriate and official name for the smaller Brutale, and is a sign the project is becoming more cohesive. While official details are still scarce, judging …

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Christophe Pourcel Sebastien Pourcel Wyman Priddy Alessandro Puzar Gaston Rahier Steve Ramon

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have dropped hints that all is not well with the new McLaren.

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Fritz Betzlbacher Dave Bickers Anthony Boissiere Frederic Bolley Xavier Boog Damon Bradshaw

MotoGPBlog was lucky enough to catch up with Rick Broadbent, Times journalist and author of Ring of Fire. You can also read our review of his book, and while you’re there, pick up your copy though our Amazon store – see links at the end of the articles.

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Shaun Simpson Joël Smets Jeff Smith Marty Smith Steve Stackable Jeff Stanton

Not since 2006 has a driver retained a championship title. Can Vettel buck the trend?

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Donnie Hansen Torlief Hansen Marcus Hansson Doug Henry Broc Hepler Rob Herring

A roundup of the press releases issued after the opening World Superbike round at Phillip Island:

Brilliant podium on debut for Lowes

PARKALGAR HONDA'S Sam Lowes finished his first World Supersport race for Parkalgar Honda in a thrilling third place, just 0.033seconds behind race winner Luca Scassa at Phillip Island in Australia.

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Jeff Emig Harry Everts Stefan Everts Jaroslav Falta Claudio Federici Tim Ferry

As far as we can tell right now, you can get the 2012 MV Agusta F3 in just about any color you want, as long as it’s white & red. While the F3 looks good in the classic MV Agusta livery, that fact didn’t stop some Italian fanatics from photoshopping the bike into a variety of other color schemes MV has used over the years. Big ups to our commenters for pointing them out to …

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Mike Kiedrowski Darryll King Shayne King Heinz Kinigadner Dusty Klatt Arne Kring

MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]

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Davide Guarneri Thomas Hahn Torsten Hallman Bob Hannah Donnie Hansen Torlief Hansen

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have dropped hints that all is not well with the new McLaren.

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Les Archer Nicolas Aubin Rene Baeten David Bailey John Banks Mark Barnett

Despite newly announced title sponsor Samsung, British Superbike squad Crescent Racing will not enter John Hopkins as a wildcard entry for the Donington Park round of World Superbike racing as previously expected. Instead, both the American rider and his new teammate, reigning BST Champion Jon Kirkham, will be entered for the British WSBK round at Silverstone later in the season. Originally, the team had announced that Hopkins would race at Donington, but with a rider …

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Jeremy van Horebeek Kent Howerton Neil Hudson Ryan Hughes Georges Jobe Gunnar Johansson

Results of the first day of testing for the 125cc class at Jerez, courtesy of Motoworld.es:

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Travis Pastrana Gautier Paulin David Philippaerts Mickael Pichon Jim Pomeroy Christophe Pourcel

At Imola last year, shortly after Ducati had announced it would not be entering a factory team for the 2011 World Superbike series, hardcore Ducatisti and WSBK adepts hung a range of banners along the front straight, with such messages as "Senza SBK, Ducati Vale Meno" and "Ducati-SBK, the 46 reasons for pulling out." The withdrawal of the factory team was widely regarded as a terrible betrayal by Ducati, which had built its reputation and much of its brand on the success of its World Superbike team, creating legends such as Carl Fogarty, Giancarlo Falappa and Troy Bayliss along the way. 

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Fritz Betzlbacher Dave Bickers Anthony Boissiere Frederic Bolley Xavier Boog Damon Bradshaw

Combined result of the two qualifying sessions for the World Supersport session at Phillip Island:

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Rui Goncalves Josh Grant Billy Grossi Davide Guarneri Thomas Hahn Torsten Hallman

Results of the 1st day of testing for the Moto2 riders at Jerez:

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Broc Hepler Rob Herring George Holland Jeremy van Horebeek Kent Howerton Neil Hudson

Combined result of the two qualifying sessions for the World Supersport session at Phillip Island:

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Tanel Leok Billy Liles Ove Lundell Sten Lundin Jeremy Lusk Billy MacKenzie

The Fiat Yamaha team have been surrounded by hype this past few weeks. Not, as an outsider might expect, caused by a battle to re-sign the reigning champion: Rossi’s contract ends at the end of the 2010 championship, and he looks settled, happy, and at one with the bike he helped shape and tune into [...]

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Gaston Rahier Steve Ramon Tyla Rattray Chad Reed Warren Reid Pierre Renet

Results of Race 2 for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:

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Cody Copper Gordon Crockard Craig Dack Roger De Coster Ken De Dycker Yves Demaria

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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Jeff Leisk Victor Leloup Aigar Leok Tanel Leok Billy Liles Ove Lundell

A roundup of the press releases issued after the opening World Superbike round at Phillip Island:

Brilliant podium on debut for Lowes

PARKALGAR HONDA'S Sam Lowes finished his first World Supersport race for Parkalgar Honda in a thrilling third place, just 0.033seconds behind race winner Luca Scassa at Phillip Island in Australia.

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Marvin Musquin Brian Myerscough Maximilian Nagl Kurt Nicoll Bill Nilsson Jorgen Nilsson

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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Erik Eggens Richard Eierstedt Jimmy Ellis Jeff Emig Harry Everts Stefan Everts

MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]

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John Banks Mark Barnett Jonathan Barragan Andrea Bartolini Willy Bauer Jean Michel Bayle

Donington Park has passed the final FIM safety checks, and been fully approved to host the second round of the World Superbike Championship at the end of this month, the first time the circuit has held a major event since 2009. The  inspection occurred while much of the racing press watched the season-opening races at Phillip Island, though Donington has been part of the official WSBK calendar since late last year. The fame British track …

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Gordon Crockard Craig Dack Roger De Coster Ken De Dycker Yves Demaria Gilbert De Roover

A press release that came out yesterday from FTR about Kev Coghlan riding for the Motorsport 69 team:

MOTOR SPORT 69 AND FTR CONTINUE INTO 2011

FTR MOTO will supply its Moto2 machinery to Alex Debon and his Motor Sport 69 Team for a second successive year as the tough Spanish rider steps down from his racing career to take over management of the team in 2011.

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Thomas Hahn Torsten Hallman Bob Hannah Donnie Hansen Torlief Hansen Marcus Hansson

Despite newly announced title sponsor Samsung, British Superbike squad Crescent Racing will not enter John Hopkins as a wildcard entry for the Donington Park round of World Superbike racing as previously expected. Instead, both the American rider and his new teammate, reigning BST Champion Jon Kirkham, will be entered for the British WSBK round at Silverstone later in the season. Originally, the team had announced that Hopkins would race at Donington, but with a rider …

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Steve Lamson Grant Langston Danny LaPorte Mike LaRocco Jason Lawrence Ron Lechien

Results of the second session of free practice for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:

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Daryl Ecklund Erik Eggens Richard Eierstedt Jimmy Ellis Jeff Emig Harry Everts

How serious is Honda about winning the 2011 MotoGP World Championship? At Team Gresini’s MotoGP launch at Monza today, it was quietly confirmed that the San Carlo Honda Gresini squad has been given the keys to the candy store, turning the team into a factory-backed effort. While Marco Simoncelli was already assured factory support from Honda for the 2011 season, the move adds Hiroshi Aoyama to the factory rider list, and likely makes Gresini’s life …

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Danny LaPorte Mike LaRocco Jason Lawrence Ron Lechien Jeff Leisk Victor Leloup

Alpinestars has cooked up the second part to its profile on reigning MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo. As a member of the new generation of GP riders, Alpinestars focuses on Lorenzo’s elevation in the sport, and what is different for these younger riders compared to their older counterparts. Coming from the soon-to-be defunct 125GP, more riders coming in from World Superbike, and talking to fans on Twitter & Facebook, are all budding issues for the …

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Jamie Dobb Gert van Doorn John Dowd John Draper Doug Dubach Ryan Dungey

Despite newly announced title sponsor Samsung, British Superbike squad Crescent Racing will not enter John Hopkins as a wildcard entry for the Donington Park round of World Superbike racing as previously expected. Instead, both the American rider and his new teammate, reigning BST Champion Jon Kirkham, will be entered for the British WSBK round at Silverstone later in the season. Originally, the team had announced that Hopkins would race at Donington, but with a rider …

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Victor Leloup Aigar Leok Tanel Leok Billy Liles Ove Lundell Sten Lundin

Results of Race 2 for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:

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Tony DiStefano Jamie Dobb Gert van Doorn John Dowd John Draper Doug Dubach

That the Motorland Aragon circuit would be such a huge hit with both the fans and riders of MotoGP was barely a surprise. The track is spectacular, interesting and cleverly designed to allow decent racing. Its only downside is its location: Though located close to some of the more spectacular parts of Spain, accommodation in and around the town of Alcaniz, where the track is located, is limited, making finding lodgings a tricky affair. Despite such complications, over 70,000 spectators turned up for the inaugural Aragon round of MotoGP, and the race was awarded the prize for the best Grand Prix from IRTA, the teams assocation.

An attendance of 70,000 is even more remarkable given the dire state of the Spanish economy (with unemployment running at around the 20% mark), and the fact that the Aragon race was one of four hosted in Spain, and one of five run on the Iberian peninsula. Whatever money Spaniards still have in their pocket, they remain happy to spend it on attending motorcycle racing.

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Pit Beirer Christian Beggi Mike Bell John van den Berk Marnicq Bervoets Fritz Betzlbacher

Results of the first session of qualifying for the World Superbike class at Phillip Island:

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Harry Everts Stefan Everts Jaroslav Falta Claudio Federici Tim Ferry Ashley Fiolek

While the factory Marlboro Ducati team were testing in Sepang at the official IRTA MotoGP tests, Ducati's test team was taking part in a private test at Jerez, working on solutions to take to Qatar, a necessity given the worrying results at Sepang. Test rider Franco Battaini spent time trying out some electronic and chassis setup changes, under the watchful eye of Ducati Corse director Filippo Preziosi. Below is the press release issued after that test:

DUCATI DEVELOPMENT TEAM COMPLETE THREE DAY TEST IN JEREZ

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Travis Pastrana Gautier Paulin David Philippaerts Mickael Pichon Jim Pomeroy Christophe Pourcel

Results of World Superbike Race 1 from Phillip Island:

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Daryl Ecklund Erik Eggens Richard Eierstedt Jimmy Ellis Jeff Emig Harry Everts

In another lean week top scorers, two names shot ahead from the pack to challenge the leaders – @tailzer and @harleymac1. Pulling off an impressive Brit-centric Minella to gain 6 points, @tailzer took second place in the overall standings. Well done sir! @harleymac1 also made impressive gains with his 6 point Minella.
Honorable mention goes to [...]

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Mike Brown Rick Burgett Jimmy Button Michael Byrne Antonio Cairoli Trey Canard

MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]

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Tanel Leok Billy Liles Ove Lundell Sten Lundin Jeremy Lusk Billy MacKenzie

Results of the second set of free practice for the World Supersport class at Phillip Island:

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Les Archer Nicolas Aubin Rene Baeten David Bailey John Banks Mark Barnett

In today’s round-up: F1 drivers appear in a “get well” video message for Robert Kubica.

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Ricky Carmichael Danny Chandler Eric Cheney Alessio Chiodi Jaromir Cizek Guy Cooper

The news of the 2011 Aprilia RSV4 R APRC got me thinking today about where the sport bike market is headed from a big picture perspective. The sport bike market has been dominated the constant need to develop motorcycles with more power, less weight, and new performance enhancing technologies, and you’d be hard pressed to find a year where the bike with the most horsepower wasn’t the top-seller in this category (case in point: the …

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Jean Sebastien Roy Alex Salvini Donny Schmit Fritz Schneider Darrell Schultz Tommy Searle

Spanish fans might get short-changed one of their four MotoGP rounds this year, as news comes that the managing group of the Jerez de la Frontera track has hit financial troubles. Missing a ?2.5 million payment to the city of Jerez, courts have frozen Cirjesa’s assets (the company that oversees the circuit’s operations), which includes its payment to Dorna to host the Spanish GP round. Jerez de la Frontera incurred these costs after re-vamping its …

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Bob Hannah Donnie Hansen Torlief Hansen Marcus Hansson Doug Henry Broc Hepler

After four seasons and 71 races, has the ‘mandatory pit stop’ rule been a success?

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Chad Reed Warren Reid Pierre Renet Marc de Reuver Michele Rinaldi Joël Robert

Surgery means Timo Glock will miss the Barcelona test.

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Gautier Paulin David Philippaerts Mickael Pichon Jim Pomeroy Christophe Pourcel Sebastien Pourcel

“I think the teams are sensible enough even to race in Bahrain in the summer break.”

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Arthur Lampkin Steve Lamson Grant Langston Danny LaPorte Mike LaRocco Jason Lawrence

“I think the teams are sensible enough even to race in Bahrain in the summer break.”

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Graham Noyce Carl Nunn Johnny O Mara Zach Osborne Trampas Parker Travis Pastrana

Below are the press releases received after qualifying at Phillip Island:

Phillip Island – Qualifying Practice 2 & Superpole.

After a tough start to the first race weekend of the 2011 season, Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport is happy with today's Superpole Qualifying result. Both riders, Leon Haslam (GBR) and Troy Corser (AUS), made it into the third and final qualifying session, with Leon starting tomorrow's races from fourth and Troy seventh.

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Jeff Stanton Rex Staten James Stewart Jr Brian Stonebridge David Strijbos Kevin Strijbos

Surgery means Timo Glock will miss the Barcelona test.

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Bob Hannah Donnie Hansen Torlief Hansen Marcus Hansson Doug Henry Broc Hepler

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, [...]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/motogpblog/postfeed/~3/6qUEbE6xdtw/1167

Johnny O Mara Zach Osborne Trampas Parker Travis Pastrana Gautier Paulin David Philippaerts

MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/motogpblog/postfeed/~3/X1nGI63_INM/1100

Jean Sebastien Roy Alex Salvini Donny Schmit Fritz Schneider Darrell Schultz Tommy Searle

Mark Webber endorses Jackie Stewart’s view that modern F1 tracks don’t punish mistakes.

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Doug Henry Broc Hepler Rob Herring George Holland Jeremy van Horebeek Kent Howerton

A selection of photos from Andrew Gosling, from the Phillip Island World Superbike round:

Champion elect? Carlos Checa has dominated at the Island so far…

Don't look back in anger. Eugene Laverty rolls out of pit lane

Whither Xaus?

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Jeremy Lusk Billy MacKenzie Corrado Maddii Andre Malherbe Paul Malin Jacky Martens

“I think the teams are sensible enough even to race in Bahrain in the summer break.”

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Pierre Renet Marc de Reuver Michele Rinaldi Joël Robert Ken Roczen Stephane Roncada

This quote comes from the Spanish language website elmundodeportivo.es. The message and the sentiment are clear: “You aren’t worth what I get paid Jorge”.
From elmundodeportive.es, translation by Fans.Moto.GP (Thanks!):
What Jorge is looking for seems presumptuous to me: Arrive at Yamaha, and in his second year ask that he be given the same treatment as me. [...]

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Gert van Doorn John Dowd John Draper Doug Dubach Ryan Dungey Vic Eastwood

Daimler has completed its purchase of the Mercedes Grand Prix team.

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Darrell Schultz Tommy Searle Gary Semics Andrew Short Shaun Simpson Joël Smets

In today’s round-up: Red Bull to announce a deal with Infiniti.

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Steve Stackable Jeff Stanton Rex Staten James Stewart Jr Brian Stonebridge David Strijbos

In today’s round-up: Red Bull to announce a deal with Infiniti.

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Torsten Hallman Bob Hannah Donnie Hansen Torlief Hansen Marcus Hansson Doug Henry

While the factory Marlboro Ducati team were testing in Sepang at the official IRTA MotoGP tests, Ducati's test team was taking part in a private test at Jerez, working on solutions to take to Qatar, a necessity given the worrying results at Sepang. Test rider Franco Battaini spent time trying out some electronic and chassis setup changes, under the watchful eye of Ducati Corse director Filippo Preziosi. Below is the press release issued after that test:

DUCATI DEVELOPMENT TEAM COMPLETE THREE DAY TEST IN JEREZ

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Paul Cooper Josh Coppins Cody Copper Gordon Crockard Craig Dack Roger De Coster

MotoGPBlog has been following Dan Lo of CornerSpeedPhoto, (Twitter: @cspeedphoto) for a while now. He’s a talented photographer based in the States, and we’re honoured to feature some of his shots from this year’s Laguna Seca MotoGP round. In particular, the shot of Canepa at turn 2 is awesome. Thanks Dan!
Dan used the following kit [...]

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Brian Myerscough Maximilian Nagl Kurt Nicoll Bill Nilsson Jorgen Nilsson Graham Noyce

When did Formula 1 stop being about the pursuit of speed?

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Eric Geboers Sylvain Geboers Broc Glover Rui Goncalves Josh Grant Billy Grossi

Combined result of the two qualifying sessions for the World Supersport session at Phillip Island:

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Tim Ferry Ashley Fiolek Ernesto Fonseca Lauris Freibergs Paul Friedrichs Steven Frossard

Lapping by a very narrow margin over reigning World Champion Max Biaggi, Carlos Checa won the pole position for the 2011 World Superbike season opener at Phillip Island today. Though the Spaniard dominated the testing and practice sessions this week, Biaggi continued to improve his times, and was only .013s slower at the end of qualifying session. Also showing strong results were Sylvain Guintoli and Leon Haslam, who complete the front row for Sunday’s races. Jonathan …

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Jimmy Button Michael Byrne Antonio Cairoli Trey Canard Håkan Carlquist Ricky Carmichael

“The cars are going to be travelling anything up to 15kph faster down the straight.”

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Jorgen Nilsson Graham Noyce Carl Nunn Johnny O Mara Zach Osborne Trampas Parker

If you’ve bought a Suzuki motorcycle in the past few years, you might want to check out the list for the Japanese company’s latest motorcycle recall. Affecting 73,426 motorcycles from various product lines and model years (2008-2010), Suzuki has discovered a faulty electrical rectifier/regulator in its design that needs replacing. According to the recall, rectifiers/regulators on bikes built between July 2007 and September 2009 have an inadequate amount of adhesion between the power module and …

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George Holland Jeremy van Horebeek Kent Howerton Neil Hudson Ryan Hughes Georges Jobe

Ross Brawn says he’s “comfortable” with Mercedes’ position despite their apparent lack of pace.

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Brett Metcalfe Heikki Mikkola Auguste Mingels Marty Moates Guennady Moisseev Bobby Moore

MotoGPBlog was lucky enough to catch up with Rick Broadbent, Times journalist and author of Ring of Fire. You can also read our review of his book, and while you’re there, pick up your copy though our Amazon store – see links at the end of the articles.

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Marcus Hansson Doug Henry Broc Hepler Rob Herring George Holland Jeremy van Horebeek

A roundup of the press releases issued after the opening World Superbike round at Phillip Island:

Brilliant podium on debut for Lowes

PARKALGAR HONDA'S Sam Lowes finished his first World Supersport race for Parkalgar Honda in a thrilling third place, just 0.033seconds behind race winner Luca Scassa at Phillip Island in Australia.

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Jeremy McGrath Andrew McFarlane Brett Metcalfe Heikki Mikkola Auguste Mingels Marty Moates

“The cars are going to be travelling anything up to 15kph faster down the straight.”

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Warren Reid Pierre Renet Marc de Reuver Michele Rinaldi Joël Robert Ken Roczen

“The cars are going to be travelling anything up to 15kph faster down the straight.”

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Doug Henry Broc Hepler Rob Herring George Holland Jeremy van Horebeek Kent Howerton

Lapping by a very narrow margin over reigning World Champion Max Biaggi, Carlos Checa won the pole position for the 2011 World Superbike season opener at Phillip Island today. Though the Spaniard dominated the testing and practice sessions this week, Biaggi continued to improve his times, and was only .013s slower at the end of qualifying session. Also showing strong results were Sylvain Guintoli and Leon Haslam, who complete the front row for Sunday’s races. Jonathan …

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Dave Bickers Anthony Boissiere Frederic Bolley Xavier Boog Damon Bradshaw Goat Breker

In today’s round-up: Red Bull will save £7m with new engine deal.

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Larry Brooks Mike Brown Rick Burgett Jimmy Button Michael Byrne Antonio Cairoli

Results of the first session of qualifiying for the World Supersport class at Phillip Island:

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Brad Lackey Arthur Lampkin Steve Lamson Grant Langston Danny LaPorte Mike LaRocco

Ross Brawn says he’s “comfortable” with Mercedes’ position despite their apparent lack of pace.

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Steven Frossard Eric Geboers Sylvain Geboers Broc Glover Rui Goncalves Josh Grant

Fresh off its victory in the 2010 FIM World Superbike Championship, Aprilia is bringing its WSBK tech to the masses. Designated as Aprilia Performance Ride Control (APRC), The Italian company first debuted its 8-stage adjustable traction control, wheelie control, launch control, and a quick shifter package on the 2011 Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC, which debuted at the 2010 EICMA show. Now the company from Noale is bringing that same electronics package to its more affordable …

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Sylvain Geboers Broc Glover Rui Goncalves Josh Grant Billy Grossi Davide Guarneri

At Imola last year, shortly after Ducati had announced it would not be entering a factory team for the 2011 World Superbike series, hardcore Ducatisti and WSBK adepts hung a range of banners along the front straight, with such messages as "Senza SBK, Ducati Vale Meno" and "Ducati-SBK, the 46 reasons for pulling out." The withdrawal of the factory team was widely regarded as a terrible betrayal by Ducati, which had built its reputation and much of its brand on the success of its World Superbike team, creating legends such as Carl Fogarty, Giancarlo Falappa and Troy Bayliss along the way. 

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Andrew Short Shaun Simpson Joël Smets Jeff Smith Marty Smith Steve Stackable