January

Year: 2007

Month: January

Dorna take on new man

05 January 2007 by MCN

Dorna UK, the commercial rights holder of the British Superbike Championship, have announced (January 5, 2007) the appointment of Colin Clark to the new position of head of sales and marketing. Colin...

Roberts V4 imminent

05 January 2007 by Matthew Birt

Kenny Roberts’ new 800cc MotoGP contender will be flown to Honda’s Japan headquarters next Wednesday before making its track debut in Sepang later this month. Team Roberts are in the final stages of...

Rizla get ’07 bikes

04 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Chris Walker and Call Crutchlow will have four brand new 2007 GSX-R1000s between them when they resume their pre-season winter testing programme in February. The team took delivery of three 2007...

KTM Target Dakar

04 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Austrian firm KTM are making a massive effort to win this year’s Dakar – and the bikes they are sending are works of art. KTM already have an enviable reputation as kings of desert racing having...

Six Brits in ’07 GPs

03 January 2007 by Matthew Birt

Six British riders will race in next year’s three GP world championships. The FIM announced the provisional 2007 entry list today, though it doesn’t yet feature Jeremy McWilliams, who will be...

Bayliss heads WSB test

03 January 2007 by Michael Guy

Troy Bayliss topped the time sheets on the opening day of the top team Pirelli test at the Losail circuit in Qatar today. Despite previous heavy rain and winds blowing sand on to the track, grip...

Ilmor signs Jezza and Pitt

03 January 2007 by MCN

Jeremy McWilliams got an early Christmas present and a huge lift after his broken leg nightmare, when it was confirmed that he will definitely make a shock return to the MotoGP championship in...

No testing for Kiyo

03 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Any hopes Ryuichi Kiyonari had about getting a jump on his BSB rivals with some pre-Christmas testing have been blown away in Japan, where Suzuka is being lashed by bad conditions. HM Plant wanted to get Kiyonari out on his 2007 bike, but the weather in Japan is worse than here, and Honda Racing boss Neil Tuxworth said: The temperature was never above nine degrees and it was wet so the test was...

Shakey’s Spanish test

03 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Stobart Honda stars Shane Byrne and Tom Sykes have wrapped up a three-day test in Spain, as they get stuck into the task of trying to wrest the British Superbike title from Honda’s official HRC team. With Byrne’s major complaint last year with Rizla Suzuki being the lack of pre-season testing, barely a week after signing with the Stobart team for ’07 he was riding at Cartagena, racking up miles on...

WSB top teams test

03 January 2007 by Michael Guy

World Superbike’s big guns head to Qatar this week for the second official Pirelli top teams test of the year. The Losail circuit in Qatar hosts the first round of the series in just 68 days time – and all the teams know that a strong test will be vital if they want to get their season off to a winning start. At the first test of the year last month in Valencia, new boy Max Biaggi stunned the WSB...

Clerk of Course wins MBE

03 January 2007 by Dermot James

Mervyn Whyte, Clerk of the Course of the North-West 200 road races in Ireland, has been awarded the MBE in the New Year Honours. Whyte was first involved with the NW200 in 1971as a marshal and has...

Shorttrack roadracers

03 January 2007 by MCN

Neil Hodgson spent two years racing a Ducati in the American Superbike Championship but it took a cold wet winter’s day at Scunthorpe Speedway before he got his first ride in an American-style...

Roadracers at Shorttrack

03 January 2007 by MCN

Neil Hodgson wasn’t the only road racer to get among the country’s top shorttrack riders in the American-style dirttrack meeting at Scunthorpe Speedway last Saturday. Former Vivaldi Suzuki rider Ben...

AMA supercross is back

03 January 2007 by MCN

AMA Supercross kicks off this Saturday, Jan. 6, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif and marks a new new era in the series. Five-time and defending series champ Ricky Carmichael will be riding his...

Shorttrack cracker

03 January 2007 by MCN

British Shorttrack champion Lee Complin defeated an array of motorcycling greats in the Christmas Cracker Shorttrack meeting at Scunthorpe Speedway last Saturday. He lost just one race all afternoon...

Sheffield Indoor Trial

03 January 2007 by MCN

Former World Trials champion Dougie Lampkin left the Sheffield International Indoor Trail empty-handed and ‘gutted’ in fourth place overall after leading the event for much of the evening. Lampkin, an...

Jones fund hits £70K

03 January 2007 by MCN

The memorial fund for British 125 racer Chris Jones who died on Bank Holiday Monday back in August 2005 has hit the £70,000 mark. And the parents of the teenage racer say more fund raising will...

Up the front

02 January 2007 by MCN

Looks like Bennetts were struggling for space to fit in this beauty…

GP tests diary dates

02 January 2007 by MCN

A massive seven pre-season tests are planned for the six British riders preparing to campaign the GP world championships in 2007. Here are some of the key winter test dates for your diary. January...

Jezza steps up training

01 January 2007 by Matthew Birt

Jeremy McWilliams is hoping to resume full training again by the middle of January. The British veteran, who is back in MotoGP in 2007 with the new Ilmor squad, reckons he should have recovered from...