2011

Year: 2011

Month: ALL

British MotoGP: Stoner dominates wet race

12 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner has taken the lead in the MotoGP championship with a dominant victory at a rain soaked Silverstone circuit. Current champion Jorge Lorenzo got the holeshot into the...

British MotoGP: Bradl wins, Smith battles to second

12 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

Viessmann Kiefer Racing rider Stefan Bradl has won the British Moto2 race in wet conditions after by 7.601secs from Britain’s Bradley Smith. Bradl got the holeshot, with pole setter Marc Marquez...

British Grand Prix: Casey Stoner saddened by Crutchlow injury

11 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Australian Casey Stoner said he was saddened to learn that British star Cal Crutchlow will miss his home race at Silverstone tomorrow through injury. The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider broke his...

British Grand Prix: Rivals surprised by Valentino Rossi’s slump

11 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Casey Stoner, Marco Simoncelli and Jorge Lorenzo were all at a loss to explain Valentino Rossi’s surprise slump during qualifying for tomorrow’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Rossi finished a...

British Grand Prix: Valentino Rossi slow and frustrated

11 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi admitted he was way too slow and deeply frustrated after he endured a nightmare qualifying session at the Silverstone circuit today. The Italian will start tomorrow’s 20-lap British...

British MotoGP: Marquez gets Moto2 pole, Redding second

11 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

125GP champion Marc Marquez has taken pole position for the 18 lap Moto2 race at Silverstone tomorrow. Marquez dominated the session, looking much more like the racer he was last year in the 125GP...

British MotoGP: Cal Crutchlow out of home GP

11 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

British hopeful Cal Crutchlow will not start tomorrow’s British MotoGP race after crashing in the early stages of qualifying. The Tech 3 rider had just started his third lap when he fell at the first...

British MotoGP: Stoner takes pole position

11 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner will start tomorrow’s Silverstone MotoGP from pole position after battling with Jorge Lorenzo and Marco Simoncelli for the entirity of the session. Stoner set the...

British MotoGP: Vinales takes 125GP pole

11 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

Spaniard Maverick Vinales will start tomorrow’s 125GP race at Silverstone from pole position after setting a best time of 2’14.684 in qualifying. The Blusens by Paris Hilton rider takes his first ever...

Great day at MotoGP

11 June 2011 by Laura & Richard

I secured ride-in tickets again this year for MotoGP but was disappointed that paddock passes were all sold out. Having met a wonderful lady in the Riders for Health tent we were able to buy two...

British MotoGP: Stoner consistent in FP2

10 June 2011 by MCN

Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner was consistently fastest throughout the damp second practice session at Silverstone this afternoon. Stoner led the session until Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda...

Silverstone MotoGP: Stoner sets pace in FP1

10 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner has ended the first free practice session of the weekend at Silverstone with the fastest time under cloudy skies. Stoner topped the session with a fastest time of...

British Grand Prix: Colin Edwards fit to race after medical

09 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Colin Edwards has been declared fit to ride in this weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, just six days after he broke his right collarbone in a practice crash at Catalunya. Edwards was...

Mick Doohan: Winning easier at Honda for Casey Stoner

08 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Five-times MotoGP world champion Mick Doohan reckons the impressive 2011 factory Honda RC212V is making winning races a much easier job for Casey Stoner than when he was at Ducati. Doohan, who enjoyed...

Ben Spies signs new Yamaha deal

08 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Ben Spies has signed an extension to his factory Yamaha deal to partner Jorge Lorenzo in the new 1000cc MotoGP world championship in 2012. Talks have been going on for months between the Texan and the...

British MotoGP: Ducati improving but work to be done, says Burgess

08 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi might be edging closer to the front in the 2011 MotoGP world championship, but further improvements are still needed to make the factory Ducati GP11 a more competitive force. Rossi has...

British MotoGP: Shoulder close to 100 per cent, says Valentino Rossi

08 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Relieved Valentino Rossi expects his right shoulder to be close to 100 per cent strength for this weekend’s British MotoGP race at the Silverstone circuit. The 32-year-old has been troubled by a...

British MotoGP: Bradley Smith expects competitive weekend

08 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Bradley Smith believes his Tech 3 Racing Moto2 machine will be perfectly suited to the fast nature of the Silverstone circuit as he bids for a podium challenge in this weekend’s British Grand Prix.

No replacement for Dani Pedrosa at Silverstone

07 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Honda has scrapped plans to draft Japanese rider Hiroshi Aoyama into its factory MotoGP squad as injury cover for Dani Pedrosa at this weekend’s Silverstone race. Pedrosa has withdrawn from the...

Decision looming on Japanese Grand Prix

07 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

A final decision on whether the Japanese MotoGP race will go ahead in early October will be taken by the Mugello round next month. The contentious issue of whether the Twin Ring Motegi race,...

Dani Pedrosa out of British Grand Prix

07 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Dani Pedrosa has confirmed he will not contest this weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone as he struggles to regain full fitness from a broken right collarbone he suffered in Le Mans last...

Catalunya MotoGP: Casey Stoner ups pressure on Jorge Lorenzo

06 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Casey Stoner piled the pressure on reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo with a second successive dominant victory in the 2011 MotoGP world championship in Catalunya yesterday. Stoner’s third win of...

Catalunya MotoGP: 125GP penalty too harsh

06 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

The decision to penalise French rider Johann Zarco 20-seconds for an illegal overtake in the closing stages of yesterday’s Catalunya 125GP was too harsh, according to Casey Stoner and Jorge...

Catalunya MotoGP: Rear set-up mistake costs Valentino Rossi

06 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi believes a wrong rear set-up cost him the chance to notch his second successive podium for Ducati in the Catalunya MotoGP race yesterday. For the third successive race, the nine-times...

Catalunya MotoGP: Seventh heaven for Cal Crutchlow

06 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow warmed up for his British Grand Prix debut at Silverstone this weekend with a career best seventh place finish in yesterday’s Catalunya MotoGP round. The British rider got the better of...

Catalunya MotoGP: Colin Edwards denied race start

06 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Colin Edwards saw his record of never missing a MotoGP race in his career ended yesterday in Catalunya when he was banned from racing after failing a late medical check on his injured right...

Catalunya MotoGP: Ben Spies relieved with podium return

06 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Ben Spies put a difficult start to 2011 behind him in Catalunya as the factory Yamaha rider claimed his first MotoGP podium since last August. Two sixth places in the opening four races had left the...

Catalunya MotoGP: Stoner dominates to take win

05 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner has dominated the Barcelona MotoGP at Catalunya to take his third win of the 2011 season. World champion Jorge Lorenzo got a good start to lead for the first couple of...

Catalunya MotoGP: Bradl wins Moto2 race from pole

05 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

German Stefan Bradl has won an incident-packed Moto2 race at Ctalunya after starting from pole position. Stefan Bradl was unable to pull away from the res of the pack early on, but a crash from Thomas...

Catalunya MotoGP: Terol wins after Zarco gets 20 second penalty

05 June 2011 by Liam Marsden

Nicolas Terol has won the Catalunya 125GP race after Johann Zarco was given a 20 second penalty for what race direction feel was an ‘illegal overtake’ on the final sprint to the line. Championship...

Catalunya MotoGP: Marco Simoncelli vows to race hard but fair

04 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Italian Marco Simoncelli has vowed to race hard but fair in tomorrow’s Catalunya MotoGP race after he stormed to a brilliant maiden pole position at the Montmelo track today. Simoncelli’s riding will...

Catalunya MotoGP: Valentino Rossi pushing for Ducati upgrades

04 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi has urged Ducati to continue rolling out new parts for his factory GP11 machine after he finished over 0.8s off pole position in Catalunya today. The Italian emerged unscathed from a...

Catalunya MotoGP: Bradl takes Moto2 pole

04 June 2011 by MCN

Stefan Bradl continued his 100% pol position record in 2011 today with another pole position at Catalunya. The German dominated tha majority of the qualifying session, setting a best time of 1’46.753.

Catalunya MotoGP: Terol on pole

04 June 2011 by MCN

125GP championship leader has continued his dominance of the 2011 season by taking pole position at his home GP at Catalunya. Team-mate Hector Faubel stole pole position from Terol towards the end of...

Catalunya MotoGP: Simoncelli takes first MotoGP pole

04 June 2011 by MCN

San Carlo Honda rider Marco Simoncelli has taken his first pole position in MotoGP at Catalunya. Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner had to settle for second on the grid, just 0.016 seconds behind...

John Hopkins turns down Repsol Honda and Tech 3

04 June 2011 by Matthew Birt

MCN understands that John Hopkins has turned down approaches from Repsol Honda and Monster Yamaha Tech 3 to ride in next weekend’s British MotoGP round at Silverstone. HRC apparently approached...