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Jorge Lorenzo disgruntled with new Bridgestone rear tyre

26 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Jorge Lorenzo disgruntled with new Bridgestone rear tyre

Jorge Lorenzo’s frustration with the performance of a new 2014- spec Bridgestone rear tyre continued in Sepang today, with the double MotoGP world champion clearly disgruntled to be down in fifth on...

New shock boost for Sepang pacesetter Alvaro Bautista

26 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

New shock boost for Sepang pacesetter Alvaro Bautista

A new Showa rear shock helped Alvaro Bautista claim a surprise spot at the top of the opening day timesheets at the second Sepang MotoGP test in Malaysia today. The Gresini Honda rider led an unlikely...

Bautista fastest on Sepang day one

26 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Bautista fastest on Sepang day one

The first day of the Sepang 2 MotoGP test has thrown a number of surprise packages to the fore, as Alvaro Bautista and the Espargaro brothers took advantage of unusual track conditions to finish the...

Milwaukee and Pirtek join NW200 as sponsors

26 February 2014 by Stephen Davison

Milwaukee and Pirtek join NW200 as sponsors

The Vauxhall International North West 200 has been given a huge boost this week with the announcement that the event is to have two new race sponsors for 2014. Milwaukee Power Tools, the company that...

HRC: No plans to test with Casey Stoner at Phillip Island

26 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

HRC: No plans to test with Casey Stoner at Phillip Island

Honda has said it has no plans to draft in Casey Stoner to test at next week’s Bridgestone tyre test in Phillip Island, with Marc Marquez likely to be ruled out with a broken leg. Reigning world...

Movistar return to MotoGP with Yamaha

25 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Movistar return to MotoGP with Yamaha

Yamaha’s 2014 livery, unveiled last month in Indonesia, is set to change before the first race at Qatar, as the team brings onboard Spanish mobile phone operator Movistar as title sponsor. The rumours...

Lowes ‘frustrated’ with WSB debut weekend

25 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Lowes ‘frustrated’ with WSB debut weekend

Reigning British Superbike Champion Alex Lowes has spoken of his frustration at only coming away from his debut WSB weekend having scored only three points, despite showing form to run at the front in...

No Brazil MotoGP round in 2014

24 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

No Brazil MotoGP round in 2014

The MotoGP world championship will not be returning to Brazil in 2014 after a planned race in late September at a revamped Autodromo Internacional Nelson Piquet track was dropped off the final...

Hamilton joins Wilson Craig Honda for 2014

24 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Hamilton joins Wilson Craig Honda for 2014

Northern Irishman Jamie Hamilton has signed an eleventh our deal with Wilson Craig Honda that will secure his place on the grid for the 2014 road racing season in superbike, supersport and Superstock...

Brookes to ride supersport classes at NW200

24 February 2014 by Stephen Davison

Brookes to ride supersport classes at NW200

Milwaukee Yamaha star Josh Brookes is to race in the Supersport races at this year’s Vauxhall International North West 200, alongside his entries in the Superbike class. The Australian BSB star will...

Cummins secures Jackson Racing supersport machine

24 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Cummins secures Jackson Racing supersport machine

Manxman Conor Cummins will ride a Honda CBR600 for Jackson Racing in 2014, as he adds the supersport bike to his factory Honda Fireblade and RAF Reserves Superstock at the North West 200, Isle of Man...

Pol Espargaro plans style tweaks at Sepang 2

24 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Pol Espargaro plans style tweaks at Sepang 2

Reigning Moto2 world champion Pol Espargaro will focus on riding style tweaks when he makes his third pre-season testing appearance for the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 squad in Sepang later this week. The...

Suzuki: No plans to join Open class in 2015

24 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Suzuki: No plans to join Open class in 2015

Suzuki will return to MotoGP in 2015 as a full factory entry, with the Japanese factory rejecting the chance to join the new Open category. It had been rumoured that Suzuki would participate as an...

Ex-Ducati boss understands Open class appeal

24 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Ex-Ducati boss understands Open class appeal

Former factory Ducati boss Livio Suppo says he fully understands why the Bologna factory is seriously considering entering this year’s MotoGP world championship in the new Open class. It has been...

Suzuki planning new parts assessment at Sepang 2

24 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Suzuki planning new parts assessment at Sepang 2

Suzuki is expected to try new upgrades on its new 1000cc MotoGP project when the MotoGP winter testing campaign resumes at the Sepang track in Malaysia this week. The recent opening test in Malaysia...

WSB Australia: Guintoli takes race two as Laverty challenge ended by mechanical

23 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

WSB Australia: Guintoli takes race two as Laverty challenge ended by mechanical

Sylvain Guintoli has won his first World Superbike race in exactly a year, after red flags brought a premature end to Eugene Laverty’s hopes of a double victory. Guintoli was part of a four way battle...

WSS Australia: Cluzel wins unusual supersport race

23 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

WSS Australia: Cluzel wins unusual supersport race

Jules Cluzel has taken MV Augusta’s maiden win in the opening World Supersport race of the season in highly unusual circumstances and as a host of pre-race favourites failed to score points. The...

Tech 3 confident Yamaha will supply new gearbox

23 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Tech 3 confident Yamaha will supply new gearbox

Satellite Yamaha boss Herve Poncharal remains confident that Pol Espargaro and Bradley Smith will be racing a new seamless shift gearbox when the 2014 campaign kicks off in Qatar next month. When...

Cal Crutchlow: FTR-Yamaha speed won’t influence Ducati strategy

23 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow: FTR-Yamaha speed won’t influence Ducati strategy

British rider Cal Crutchlow doesn’t believe Ducati will be influenced to adopt Open class status in MotoGP this year following Aleix Espargaro’s brilliant display in Sepang testing earlier this...

Colin Edwards pushing for FTR chassis test

23 February 2014 by Matthew Birt

Colin Edwards pushing for FTR chassis test

Colin Edwards is pushing to test a new British-built FTR frame on his new Yamaha-powered Forward Racing MotoGP machine after a tough start to winter testing in Malaysia recently. The experienced Texan...

WSB Australia: Laverty takes sublime race one win

23 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

WSB Australia: Laverty takes sublime race one win

Eugene Laverty has taken a sublime victory in the opening race of the 2014 World Superbike Championship at Philip Island, coming back from a bad start to move past all his title rivals to the...

WSB Australia: Guintoli takes pole with fastest ever lap

22 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

WSB Australia: Guintoli takes pole with fastest ever lap

Sylvain Guintoli will start the first round of the 2014 World Superbike campaign from pole position after a blisteringly fast lap of Phillip Island from the Aprilia rider during the first new-look WSB...

Australia WSB: Wonder rookie Lowes leads the early charge

21 February 2014 by Gordon Ritchie

Australia WSB: Wonder rookie Lowes leads the early charge

The dream start to his first WSB season continued for Alex Lowes (Voltcom Crescent Suzuki) as he pushed his way to the top of the first day’s time sheets in the new-look qualifying. After the first...

Breaking news: Marquez breaks leg

20 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Breaking news: Marquez breaks leg

MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has suffered a broken fibula in a training crash just weeks before the start of the 2014 season. The 21 year old was flat tracking in in Lleida, west of Barcelona,...

News and injury latest ahead of WSB opener

20 February 2014 by Gordon Ritchie

News and injury latest ahead of WSB opener

The heavy toll of crashes from Phillip Island testing has already affected the possible raceday line-up, but there are still some uncertainties one day before first practice starts. Sylvain Barrier...

Voltcom Crescent Suzuki ‘couldn’t be happier’ with Philip Island test

19 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Voltcom Crescent Suzuki ‘couldn’t be happier’ with Philip Island test

Crescent Suzuki team boss Paul Denning says he ‘couldn’t be happier’ with his team’s performance at the last WSB test before the 2014 season kicks off, with his all-British team of Eugene Laverty and...

Sofuoglu dominates final Supersport testing

19 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Sofuoglu dominates final Supersport testing

Former WSS champion Kenan Sofuoglu has dominated the final pre-season World Supersport test session, finishing 0.2 seconds ahead of British Superbike podium finisher American PJ Jacobsen, who makes...

Pata Honda prepared to go the distance

19 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Pata Honda prepared to go the distance

The Pata Honda pair of Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam have come away from the final pre-season test at Philip Island confident that they have the pace for Sunday’s races, after using the final day to...

Kennedy breaks ankle in testing crash

19 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Kennedy breaks ankle in testing crash

PTR Honda rider Jack Kennedy has suffered a broken ankle in pre-season testing at Philip Island just days before his World Supersport campaign was due to kick off. The Irishman missed a gear at turn...

Rea sits out Jerez test with broken foot

19 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Rea sits out Jerez test with broken foot

British rider Gino Rea has been forced to sit out this week’s three-day official Moto2 test at Jerez, after breaking a bone in his foot at last week’s Valencia test.   The former Moto2 podium finisher...

Hartley to become youngest ever BSB racer with Halsall Kawasaki

18 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Harry Hartley will become the youngest ever MCE British Superbike racer this season, with the youngster making the jump from National Superstock 600 to the superbike class with Bolton based Halsall Kawasaki. Hartley will join Lee Costello, who scored a remarkable podium place at the season finale at Brands Hatch, as the team look to captialise on an impressive debut BSB season. The signing of the...

Phillip Island WSB test: Sykes on top and on circuit record pace

18 February 2014 by Gordon Ritchie

Phillip Island WSB test: Sykes on top and on circuit record pace

The two days of warm and dry official track time at Phillip Island were unfettered in terms of weather conditions but it was the high attrition rate of crashing riders and some technical issues that...

Laverty Jumps Up On Day One Of Official WSB Tests

17 February 2014 by Michael Guy

Laverty Jumps Up On Day One Of Official WSB Tests

The first of two days of official testing at the Phillip Island circuit saw the Voltcom Suzuki of Eugene Laverty lead the field at a pace that shocked even the fastest rider on show himself. “This...

Andrews and Cummins joins RAF Racing

15 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Andrews and Cummins joins RAF Racing

TT hero Simon Andrews will bounce back from life threatening injuries suffered at Le Mans last year to join the MCE British Superbike Championship with RAF Reserves Honda. However, Andrews won’t be...

Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki unveil new bikes at MCN London Show

14 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki unveil new bikes at MCN London Show

The Paul Bird Motorsport team have kicked off a busy weekend of announcements for the MCE British Superbike Championship with the unveiling of their 2014 machines at the Show in London’s Docklands...

BT Sport team break cover

13 February 2014 by Simon Patterson

BT Sport team break cover

After months of speculation, BT Sport has finally announced the team that will head their 2014 MotoGP coverage.   The team will be led by one of the most famous commentary teams in biking history,...