British rider Scott Redding’s 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’s 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 ...
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- 17 May 2013
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 ...
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- 17 May 2013
Time to reflect and analyse his last ditch defeat to Marc Marquez in the recent Spanish MotoGP race has not altered Jorge Lorenzo’s judgement that the last corner move by the Repsol Honda rider warranted a penalty.Lorenzo was furious after Marquez made contact with his factory Yamaha YZR-M1 with an aggressive pass to snatch second at the final corner on ...
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- 16 May 2013
Yamaha has exclusively revealed to MCN more details of its plan to lease a YZR-M1 engine package for the 2014 MotoGP world championship. In Texas last month, the Japanese factory confirmed its plan to lease YZR-M1 engines for a maximum of four riders in an initial scheme to run between 2014 and 2016. Interest in the project started to intensify ...
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- 10 May 2013
Dani Pedrosa has given his impressions of the last corner collision between Repsol Honda teammate Marc Marquez and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo in Jerez last weekend. Pedrosa took his first win of the season in Jerez with an impressive ride in front of a massive crowd of 111.000 fans, but he was oblivious to the drama unfolding behind him ...
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- 08 May 2013
Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden tested Ducati’s ‘lab’ bike in Jerez yesterday (Monday) and both reported only minimal gains over the factory Desmosedici GP13 they are currently racing in MotoGP. The development machine features a revised aluminium chassis and has been ridden extensively by Michele Pirro in private testing. And the Italian raced the experimental bike to a respectable 11th ...
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- 07 May 2013
It may not have been the first podium of the season he was looking for, but after two big crashes on Saturday, British rider Cal Crutchlow was delighted to be leaving Jerez with a third straight top five finish in 2013. Struggling with pain in his lower back after suffering bleeding around his left kidney, Crutchlow initially fought for fourth ...
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- 06 May 2013
The final standings in Jerez didn’t make pleasant reading for factory Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso after the Italian struggled to a dismal eighth place. Dovizioso had not expected an easy Spanish MotoGP experience but he had not anticipated the 27-lap race being such a tough affair too as he took the chequered flag a massive 41.8s behind winner Dani Pedrosa’s ...
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- 06 May 2013
Cal Crutchlow will ride through the pain barrier in tomorrow’s Spanish MotoGP race at Jerez after the British rider suffered two high-speed crashes in practice and qualifying earlier. The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider had made a perfect start to the day when he topped the timesheets at the end of the third and final practice. But with track ...
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- 04 May 2013
Valentino Rossi said he was lucky to emerge unscathed from a crash in the fastest corner in an incident-packed qualifying session ahead of tomorrow's Spanish MotoGP showdown at Jerez. The Italian fell heavily at the first fast right-hander in the final section at Jerez and while his factory Yamaha YZR-M1 suffered extensive damage, he walked away unhurt and still managed ...
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- 04 May 2013
