Valentino Rossi may have sealed the 2009 MotoGP World Championship at Sepang, but there’s plenty to play for in the final MotoGP round of the season at Valencia this weekend. Probably the most tantalising head to head of the weekend for Brit fans is how James Toseland shapes up against American star Ben Spies, who takes to the track as ...
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- 04 November 2009
Brit-based Harris Performance has completed the latest development tests of its Moto2 race machine and announced that it is ready to accept orders from confirmed Moto2 teams and other interested parties. When the outline specifications for the new Moto2 class were first announced in January 2009, Harris Performance took the early decision to develop its machine in association with top ...
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- 09 October 2009
Mike Nicks and I wandered over to the Loop to watch - and hear - the two Nortons in practice for Sunday’s GP1 15-lap sprint race, part of the Thundersport GB support programme at this year’s Donington British Grand Prix. That’s right. Nortons. At the GP. Fantastic. Mike is the Editorial Director at Bauer Media, the company that owns MCN, ...
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- 24 July 2009
Fourteen-year-old Gloucestershire schoolboy Scott Redding has clinched a three-year deal with the Spanish-based BQR Blusens Aprilia world championship team. He will become the team’s number one rider in the 2008 and 2009 MotoGP 125 World Championship and has an option on the third year to progress to the MotoGP 250 class. Scott Redding was originally going to continue in the ...
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- 23 October 2007
British riders who raced newly crowned MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner early in his career paid tribute to the Aussie who kick-started his career on UK tracks. Cal Crutchlow “I raced against him all year in the 2000 Aprilia Supersteen season. He rode an OGK-backed bike. I was riding for Kickstart Motorcycles. First time I ever saw him was at ...
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- 26 September 2007
Anthony West was one of the sensations of the British MotoGP at Donington Park, running as high as fifth before sliding off the track and ending what looked like a strong podium chance in his Kawasaki MotoGP race debut. The Australian has shone before this season in the wet, winning the Silverstone World Supersport race at a canter in another ...
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- 26 June 2007
Bradley Smith survived three crashes in practice including a particularly vicious highside at Coppice to finish seventh in Sunday’s GP125 race at Donington.The 16-year-old Brit is now equal seventh in the championship on 63 points, 45 behind series leader Hector Faubel but goes to Assen this weekend in hope of a stronger result.He said: “It’s good to be going straight ...
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- 24 June 2007
Dan Linfoot finished ninth in the appalling wet conditions of the Donington GP250 race in his debut on the Team Sicilia Aprilia. It was the 18-year-old’s first race of the season and his only previous track time this year had been testing in Spain on a 125 and a brief run out on an old TZ250 Yamaha at Mallory several ...
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- 24 June 2007
