October

Year: 2009

Month: October

Australia MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa aims for strong finish

12 October 2009 by Matthew Birt

Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa is confident he can finish a disappointing 2009 campaign on a high. The Spaniard has again failed to mount a serious world title threat this season but goes into the...

Contract? What contract?

12 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

When I got the tip-off on Saturday morning at Oulton Park that Sylvain Guintoli had been snatched from the Worx Suzuki team to ride for Alstare Suzuki in WSB I simply didn’t believe it. fter all, I...

Neukirchner confirmed at Ten Kate Honda

12 October 2009 by Michael Guy

Max Neukirchner will make a dramatic switch to Ten Kate Honda in 2010 to ride alongside Britain’s Jonathan Rea. MCN exclusively revealed on Saturday that Neukirchner met with the Dutch team at their...

Guintoli to Alstare Suzuki WSB

12 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Sylvain Guintoli will make a dramatic switch to WSB with Alstare Suzuki – replacing Max Neukirchner, who has signed for Ten Kate Honda. Guintoli’s move has been sanctioned by the Suzuki factory – even...

On the grid with Steve Plater

12 October 2009 by Gail Middlemore

Me and Platerman on the grid at Oulton minutes before setting off on his championship winning ride !

Plater takes British Supersport title in style

12 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Steve Plater clinched the British Supersport title the best way possible on Sunday at Oulton Park – by taking an emphatic win in the final race of the championship. For Plater it was the end to a...

BSB releases 12-race 2010 calendar

12 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Next year’s BSB series features 12 races with two of them – Brands in August and the final Oulton round – again scheduled as triple headers with one race on a Saturday and two races the following...

Multiple crash stops Weston Beach race

12 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

The 27th running of the Weston Beach Race was cancelled today, following a major incident on the main straight involving more than a dozen riders. A collision within the main pack, as the competitors...

The last round of BSB 2009

12 October 2009 by kierongriffiths

The last round and the last race of the season. I think the picture says it all!

Mascots at Oulton Park

12 October 2009 by kierongriffiths

At Oulton Park for the final round of BSB I think the mascots had reached breaking point!

BSB Oulton Park: Race 3 results - Camier victorious

11 October 2009 by MCN

Leon Camier finished his title-winning 2009 MCE British Superbike season in style at Oulton Park with his 19th win of the season on the Airwaves Yamaha. Camier led from the first lap to the finish,...

BSB Oulton Park: Race 2 results - Camier fends off determined Easton

11 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Leon Camier won his 18th race win of the year after another frantic scrap with Stuart Easton at Oulton Park. Following on from yesterday’s race won by Easton, the race went down to the wire with the...

BSB Oulton Park: Race 1 - Easton beats Camier in first Oulton race

10 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Stuart Easton claimed his second BSB race win of the season after a real head-to-head scrap with recently crowned champion Leon Camier to produce what most experts in pit lane were calling the race of...

Harris Promo Racing Moto2 tested

10 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

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...

Max Neukirchner to Ten Kate Honda

09 October 2009 by Michael Guy

Max Neukirchner is poised to make a dramatic switch to the Hannspree Ten Kate Honda squad in 2010. MCN understands that the 26 year old German is set to leave his current position in the Alstare...

Harris tops Oulton BSB practice

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Karl Harris set the pace during both of Friday’s free practice sessions at Oulton Park today in the final round of the MCE British Superbike Championship. With a new spec engine build for the weekend,...

Wilson stays supersport with Gearlink for 2010

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Gearlink Kawasaki has announced that Ben Wilson has signed for the 2010 season to challenge for the British Supersport championship on the Kawasaki ZX-6R. The Lincolnshire rider is currently fourth...

‘I’ll help Ben Spies’, vows Colin Edwards

09 October 2009 by Matthew Birt

Colin Edwards has vowed to do all he can to help fellow Texan Ben Spies become an instant success in the MotoGP world championship in 2010. Both hailing from Texas, Edwards and Spies are good friends...

Suzuki deny engine crisis

09 October 2009 by Matthew Birt

Suzuki has denied it will be the first factory to fall foul of new engine reliability rules in the MotoGP world championship. Factory boss Paul Denning denied rumours that both Loris Capirossi and...

Honda boss angry at new engine penalty

09 October 2009 by Matthew Birt

Honda boss Shuhei Nakamoto has spoken of his ‘disappointment’ at recent changes to MotoGP engine durability rules. Cost-cutting rules introduced for the final seven races of 2009 meant riders could...

Suzuki delay Chris Vermeulen’s Kawasaki WSB debut

09 October 2009 by Matthew Birt

Suzuki will not give special permission for Aussie rider Chris Vermeulen to make his Kawasaki World Superbike debut before the end of the MotoGP season. Kawasaki will test immediately after the final...

Plater and McConnell shape up for Oulton scrap

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Everything hangs on the final race of the British Supersport series at Oulton Park this weekend with Steve Plater leading Billy McConnell by just 11 points. At Silverstone two weeks ago the pair...

Team Green road race

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Kawasaki’s ‘Team Green’ has been in existence in the UK for well over 25 years but in recent years has primarily been focussed on off-road racing. But, from next year, Team Green will re-enter the...

Camier aims for 20 race wins at Oulton Park

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Leon Camier might have wrapped up the BSB title at Silverstone two weeks ago but now his target is taking his season tally of race wins to 20 – in the season ending triple header at Oulton Park in...

Simpson headlines Weston Beach Race

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Factory KTM star Shaun Simpson and former World Motocross Champion Stefan Everts headline this weekend’s Weston Beach Race. Everts won last year’s race from Simpson and the pair of them line up...

Kymco back British 125 race team

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Danny Kent will be riding the Aztec GP125 bike with new backing from Kymco UK in this weekend’s 125cc British Championship round at Oulton Park. Kymco UK and Aztec are working on a plan 2010 to...

Guintoli to race at Thruxton

09 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Worx Suzuki star Sylvain Guintoli will line-up for the MRO Powerbike club race at Thruxton on October 17. Ironically a year ago on the corresponding weekend, the Frenchman was finishing 14th in the...

Plater: Oulton BSB is business as usual

08 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

The British Supersport title is on the line but experience campaigner Steve Plater aims to go about business as usual this weekend at Oulton Park in the final round of the series. He’s 11 points ahead...

Finnegan book launched in Lusk

08 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

In his new book, Flying Finn, Stephen Davison charts the spectacular career of the late Martin Finnegan, one of Ireland’s most colourful and successful road racers. Called simply ‘Flying Finn’, the...

Cooper wins Stars at Darley

08 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Co-ordit Performance’s Richard Cooper made the perfect preparations for the final round of this weekend’s National Superstock championship at Oulton by his Stars at Darley title last Sunday. Cooper...

Airwaves aim to sign off in style at Oulton BSB

08 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

The MCE British Superbike Championship heads to Oulton Park this weekend and championship winning team for a record fifth time, GSE Racing aim to end the season, and their five-year relationship with...

Tommy Hill aims for Oulton podium

08 October 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Tommy Hill goes to the final MCE British Superbike round at Oulton Park this weekend, still aiming to achieve his goal of at least one podium finish this year. He said: “At Silverstone we improved the...

Another member of the Rossi fanclub

08 October 2009 by sean13

My 3 month old daughter Natalia already gearing up for next year’s Silverstone MotoGP

Alstare Suzuki v Dr Brux - who’s suing who?

08 October 2009 by Michael Guy

Further to the Alstare Suzuki squad announcing that it has terminated it’s title sponsorship deal with Italian mouth guard manufacturer Dr Brux on 28th September, Dr Brux have issued their own press...

Colin Edwards: 'Electronics have extended my career’

08 October 2009 by Matthew Birt

Colin Edwards reckons the huge advances in electronic rider aids have helped extend his career after the popular American signed a new MotoGP deal for 2010. The double World Superbike champion has...

Valentino Rossi impressed with Ben Spies

08 October 2009 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi has told MCN how impressed he has been with World Superbike sensation Ben Spies in 2009. The 30-year-old Italian, who is chasing a seventh MotoGP world title in 2009 as the paqddock...