August

Year: 2014

Month: August

Indianapolis Moto2: Kallio heads Marc VDS one two

09 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Mika Kallio wwill start the Indianapolis Moto2 race from pole position ahead of team-mate and championship rival Esteve Rabat. Kallio set his fastest time of 1’36.883 fairly early in the session, but...

Indianapolis MotoGP: Marquez continues domination with pole

09 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Reigning world champion Marc Marquez got straight back into the swing of things after the summer break by taking pole position in the USA with a best time of 1’31.619. The Spaniard had a scare early...

Indianapolis Moto3: Miller on pole

09 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Australian Jack Miller will start tomorrow’s Moto3 race from pole position at the revamped Indianapolis circuit. The KTM rider set a best time of 1’40.727 to grab pole ahead of Efren Vasquez and Alex...

Oulton BSB: Kiyo wins in style

09 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Ryuichi Kiyonari has taken a dominant win in the first race of the weekend at Oulton Park, coming from his lowly tenth place on the grid after a Q2 crash to catch first Shane Byrne and then Josh...

Oulton BSB: Byrne takes pole in drama-filled qualifying

09 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Shane Byrne will start the first of the weekend’s three races at Oulton Park from pole position, after a qualifying session full ofdrama at the Cheshire track. Ryuichi Kiyonari looked set to be the...

Marc Marquez: 'I prefer bikes to girls'

08 August 2014 by Matthew Birt

It’s February 20, 2014 and Marc Marquez is grimacing in a crumpled heap after falling off his flat- track bike while training near his home in Lleida, west of Barcelona. The infectious grin has been...

PBM MotoGP riders set for Oschersleben 8hr race

08 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Paul Bird Motorsports MotoGP riders Broc Parkes and Michael Laverty will return to their superbike roots for the Oschersleben 8hr round of the Endurance World Championship, with the duo riding a...

Ride the legendary Assen circuit with MCN and MCE BSB

08 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

MCN have once again linked up with the MCE British Superbike championship to offer 200 lucky readers the opportunity to lap the legendary Assen circuit ahead of next month’s BSB round at the iconic...

Brookes escapes FP1 crash unharmed

08 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Josh Brookes was lucky to escape unharmed from a fast crash in Free Practice 1 at Oulton Park this morning, falling from the Milwaukee Yamaha at Druids half way through the opening session of the...

Yamaha: We are looking for the real Jorge Lorenzo

07 August 2014 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha bosses have said it is essential that Jorge Lorenzo can return to winning ways in the second half of the 2014 MotoGP world championship. The Spaniard’s struggle to be competitive in the first...

Lorenzo pens new two-year Yamaha deal

07 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Jorge Lorenzo has, as expected, announced a new two-year deal with Yamaha that will see him remain at the Movistar MotoGP team alongside Valentino Rossi until at least the end of the 2016 season. ...

Byrne shooting for podium credits at Oulton

07 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

With this weekend seeing a triple header battle at Oulton Park, as a Saturday evening race joins Sunday’s two feature battles, championship leader Shane Byrne says he needs to capitalise on the...

Kiyonari: More aggression needed for Oulton

07 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Three times MCE British Superbike champion Ryuichi Kiyonari says he needs to find more aggression ahead of this weekend’s Oulton Park round, after losing out at Thruxton in both races to Shane Byrne...

Bradl signs with NGM Forward Racing

07 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

The NGM Forward Racing team has officially announced that German Stefan Bradl will ride for the team in 2015. Bradl will ride one of the team’s Open Class bikes, made up of a Yamaha M1 engine with...

BSB to launch KTM 390 Cup?

06 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

KTM UK are currently in talks with MCE British Superbike organinsers MSV about the potential of seeing the Austrain’s new RC390, aimed at new riders, headlining a one-make series for 2015 in the BSB...

Mason back in BSB with Tsingtao Kawasaki

05 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Former MCE British Superbike Cup winner Gary Mason has announced a fulltime return to the series after his wildcard appearance at Brands Hatch, as he makes the move from Anvil Hire TAG Kawasaki to the...

BSB veterans Smart and Richards return for Oulton

05 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

BSB veterans and former British champions Scott Smart and Glen Richards will be reunited this weekend as teammates, as the pair rejoin the MCE British Superbike series to deputise for the injured...

Thruxton BSB: Brookes doubles up in race two

03 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Josh Brookes has doubled up on his win in the first race at Thruxton, taking a win in the second race by holding off his main title rivals Shane Byrne and Ryuichi Kiyonari. Byrne was the early...

Thruxton BSB: Brookes wins ahead of War for Four battle

03 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Josh Brookes has taken an imperious win on the Milwaukee Yamaha in the opening MCE British Superbike race at Thruxton, getting clear at the front before extending his lead out to over four seconds at...

Strong Danish team top speedway world

02 August 2014 by Tony Hoare

Denmark won the speedway world team cup in Poland tonight in one of the most dramatic conclusions to the competition in recent years. With the scores tied going into the last race, individual world number three Niels-Kristian Iversen surged around the outside of Poland’s Janusz Kolodziej on the last turn to secure victory for the Danes over the host nation by a single point. Iversen said: “It was...