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Vote for the MCN Man of the Year 2007

MCN Sports Desk, 03 January 2008 16:26

This is where you can vote for MCN's presitigious Man of the Year Award for 2007. The 2007 motorcycle racing season produced a dramatic year of surprise, drama and British success. But who do you think did enough to win MCN's Man of the year award? In MotoGP, Valentino Rossi failed to lift the premier class crown for a second ...

Journalist's mishap with Nicky Hayden's MotoGP Honda

MCN Sports Desk, 07 November 2007 09:56

At Valencia a select number of journalists have been given the chance to ride the MotoGP machines of the 2007 season. You'll be able to see updates from MCN's Michael Neeves on this site, and also in MCN, November 14, 2007, but in the meantime, spare a though for this unamed European journalist who had a pitlane mishap with Nicky ...

Valencia MotoGP: Mika Kallio wins Valencia 250cc GP

MCN Sports Desk, 04 November 2007 12:43

Finnish KTM rider Mika Kallio has taken his second victory of 2007 in Valencia, making it two wins in his first year in the 250cc GP championship. Kallio was joined on the podium by Alex de Angelis, with Alex Debon taking third. The exiting double world champion Jorge Lorenzo took seventh due to an engine fault, whilst Alvaro Bautista crashed ...

Valencia MotoGP: Gabor Talmacsi wins 125cc GP title, as Hector Faubel wins race

MCN Sports Desk, 04 November 2007 12:31

Gabor Talmacsi has become the first Hungarian motorcycle racer to win a world championship, despite his Bancaja Aspar team-mate Hector Faubel pressuring Talmacsi up until the final corner. The pair battled throughout the race and Talmacsi, who only needed to finish third, maintained his composure as the third Bancaja Aspar rider, Sergio Gadea, made it a clean sweep of the ...

Sepang MotoGP: Casey Stoner takes 10th win of 2007 as Valentino Rossi salvages fifth

MCN Sports Desk, 21 October 2007 10:01

Casey Stoner has made history with his tenth victory of the 2007 MotoGP season, becoming the first rider to win the in the 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP classes at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia. Pole position had gone to Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa, but the Casey Stoner, the 2007 world champion, was able to take the lead into the first ...

Misano MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo wins 250cc GP

MCN Sports Desk, 02 September 2007 12:07

Jorge Lorenzo has won the 250cc Grand Prix at Misano, taking his eighth race win of the year and extending his championship lead to 54 points. Hiroshi Aoyama took second, with Hector Barbera third. Italian Andrea Dovizioso was challenging for victory until his Honda stopped with mechanical problems. The battle for second then evolved into a fight between the KTM's ...

US MotoGP: AMA: Neil Hodgson fifth, Ellison tenth, Chaz Davies retires

MCN Sports Desk, 23 July 2007 03:52

Neil Hodgson made an impressive return to racing with fifth place in the AMA Superbike race as part of the US MotoGP weekend at Laguna Seca, with James Ellison tenth. The race was won by Yoshimura Suzuki's Ben Spies, taking the win from team-mate Mat Mladin, who had to fight his way up from sixth after a bad start. Behind ...

US MotoGP: Casey Stoner dominates Laguna Seca

MCN Sports Desk, 22 July 2007 22:56

Casey Stoner has won the US MotoGP round at Laguna Seca with a totally dominant performance on the Ducati Desmosedici. Dani Pedrosa led from the start, but within two corners Casey Stoner was in the lead, and kept the advantage to the chequered flag. His closest challenger was Chris Vermeulen for Suzuki, but it proved impossible for him to catch ...

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi puts British MotoGP loss behind him

MCN Sports Desk, 25 June 2007 16:49

He may have finished a distant fourth at the British MotoGP yesterday, but Valentino Rossi is getting on with life taking in the first day's action at Wimbledon today (Monday). The Italian MotoGP star was spied spectating at the first round match of friend and world number one Roger Federer, who won with ease.

Smith takes third as Gadea wins 125GP

MCN Sports Desk, 20 May 2007 12:57

Britain's Bradley Smith claimed his first podium, by taking third in the 125cc French GP. Smith finished behind winner Sergio Gadea, who took his first ever GP win for the Bacaja Asapr team, whilst second place went to championship leader Lukas Pesek.Behind Smith, Gabor Talmcacsi finished fourth from Joan Olive in fifth and Pablo Nieto in sixth. Early race leader ...