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Boosted by his first win of 2013 in Jerez earlier this month, Dani Pedrosa continued his impressive run of form in France today to top the opening day of practice at the historic Le Mans track.A best lap of 1.34.035 put the Repsol Honda rider just 0.134s clear of world championship leader and teammate Marc Marquez in cool but dry...
Another sign of the huge growth of motorcycling in India and Asia came this week with Royal Enfield opening an all-new plant and revealing plans to produce up to 250,000 motorcycles a year %X96more than twice BMW or KTM%X92s output %X96 in 2014. The new facility at Oragadam is spread over 50 acres and will produce 150,000 machines in its first...
British rider Scott Redding%X92s stunning start to the 2013 world championship campaign continued in Le Mans today when the Marc VDS Racing rider dominated the opening day of Moto2 practice. Redding had already controlled this morning%X92s FP1 in sunny but extremely cool conditions to top the timesheets with a lap of 1.38.809 when he improved to a 1.38.283 this afternoon to...
The Manx government has said there are no plans for a national speed limit after a coroner accused it of %X93putting innocent lives at unacceptable risk%X94. Coroner of Inquests John Needham said the government had a duty %X93to protect all people sometimes from risks that they wish to impose upon themselves%X94.He was speaking at the inquest of a motorcyclist who...
The controversy surrounding Marc Marquez%X92s last gasp overtake on Jorge Lorenzo in Jerez earlier this month rumbled on in Le Mans today.In the pre-event press conference for this weekend%X92s French Grand Prix, the final corner in Jerez was a hot topic of discussion after an earlier behind-closed-doors briefing featured the entire MotoGP grid and race officials.Repsol Honda rider Marquez escaped...
Minor traffic offences will be dealt with by new dedicated courts under plans announced by the Government today.Setting up special traffic courts will free up magistrates to deal with more serious cases, according to the Ministry of Justice.About half a million traffic cases are heard by magistrates each year, often taking longer to process than major offences, the department said.The...
Valentino Rossi is still not 100% comfortable and confident on Yamaha%X92s factory YZR-M1 after an up and down return to the Japanese factory in 2013. The Italian made a fairytale return to Yamaha in Qatar last month when he produced a rousing recovery from seventh to second. But the 34-year-old struggled to a disappointing sixth in the inaugural Circuit of the Americas...
Marc Marquez stormed to his second pole position of his career, in only his fourth MotoGP race, ahead of Spanish championship rival Jorge Lorenzo. Marquez just pipped the reigning world champion, taking pole by only 0.03 seconds, having recovered from a heavy crash at turn one in the previous FP4 session. However, the real shock of the session was Andrea Dovizioso, piloting...
For the second time in three years, Saturday's race action at the International North West 200 fell victim to the weather as torrential rain led to just two laps of racing being completed. The rain that began to fall overnight ceased to stop falling, getting heavier as the day wore on, and a final course inspection by Event Director Mervyn...
As well as its promised %X91crossplane%X92 three-cylinder engine Yamaha is preparing a -parallel-twin and further variations on the R1%X92s four-cylinder crossplane motor to create an entire family of characterful new motors. With its three-cylinder concept engine, revealed at last autumn%X92s round of bike shows, Yamaha%X92s intention was to carry over the %X93character of the crossplane concept featured on the M1 and...
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