July

Year: 2010

Month: July

German MotoGP: Ben Spies rues qualifying crash

19 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Ben Spies is adamant he could have challenged for a top five result in yesterday’s German MotoGP race after he settled for a hard fought eighth in front of over 98,000 fans at the Sachsenring. The...

German MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo happy with safe second

19 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Jorge Lorenzo decided to play safe and settle for an easy second place at the Sachsenring as he suffered a rare defeat in 2010. The 23-year-old led the shortened 21-lap race until lap ten when Repsol...

German MotoGP: Casey Stoner snatches last gasp podium

19 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Casey Stoner continued his recent MotoGP revival with a brilliant last ditch overtake to deny Valentino Rossi a heroic podium on his return to action in Germany. Stoner and Rossi were locked in an...

German MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa thrilled with vital win

19 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Dani Pedrosa put the brakes on Jorge Lorenzo’s relentless surge to the 2010 MotoGP world title with a deserved victory in Germany yesterday. Pedrosa lost the lead in the restarted race on the second...

Roger Lee Hayden gets LCR Honda chance

19 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Roger Lee Hayden, younger brother of factory Ducati rider Nicky Hayden, will replace injured Randy de Puniet in this weekend’s American MotoGP race at Laguna Seca. Hayden will substitute for French...

Snetterton and the MCN Girls

19 July 2010 by supersport6

Ian Barker at the Snetterton BSB round with two of the beautiful MCN Girls.

German MotoGP: Randy de Puniet breaks left leg

19 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

A second big crash in less than 24 hours left luckless French rider Randy de Puniet with a double break in his left leg at the Sachsenring. Having escaped injury when he crashed at high speed on oil...

How many men does it take to fix a pothole?

19 July 2010 by martin woods

Here’s how many people it took to fix the pothole at Russel’s corner at Snetterton BSB at the weekend!

Snetterton BSB: Kiyonari wins third race

18 July 2010 by MCN

HM Plant Honda rider Ryuichi Kiyonari secured victory in the third race at Snetterton after team-mate Josh Brookes was forced to retire. Worx Suzuki rider Tommy Hill finished second ahead...

German MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa wins restarted Sachsenring clash

18 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Dani Pedrosa stormed to only his second win of the 2010 campaign in a restarted German MotoGP race at the Sachsenring this afternoon. The 24-year-old cruised to a relatively comfortable win over...

Snetterton BSB: Brookes takes second win

18 July 2010 by Liam Marsden

HM Plant Honda rider Josh Brookes has taken his second victory of the weekend at Snetterton after winning the first race yesterday. Ducati rider Michael Rutter took the lead fro the start, and led for...

German MotoGP: Elias takes Moto2 win

18 July 2010 by MCN

Toni Elias extended his Moto2 championship lead with victory at the Sachsenring today after battling from 11th position at the end of the first lap. Team-mates Andrea Iannone and Gabor Talmacsi pulled...

German MotoGP: Bradley Smith fifth, Marc Marquez wins again

18 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Bradley Smith had to settle for a disappointing fifth place in today’s German 125GP as Marc Marquez continued his unstoppable surge to the 2010 world title. Desperate to end Marquez’s golden run,...

German MotoGP: Valentino Rossi doubts podium challenge

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi has cast serious doubt on his podium hopes in tomorrow’s German MotoGP race, despite producing a heroic performance in qualifying this afternoon. Back in action just six weeks after...

German MotoGP: Casey Stoner disappointed to miss pole

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Casey Stoner admitted he was disappointed having just been thwarted in his bid to secure a first MotoGP pole position since the opening race in Qatar today. The 24-year-old looked on course to deny...

German MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa lucky to avoid oil trouble

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Dani Pedrosa admitted he was lucky not to have been caught up in the oil crash carnage caused by Jorge Lorenzo’s factory Yamaha YZR-M1 in Germany today. Pedrosa, who finished third in today’s close...

German MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo sorry after oil chaos

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Jorge Lorenzo apologised to Ben Spies and Randy de Puniet after a spectacular engine blow-up on his factory Yamaha resulted in heavy crashes for the American and Frenchman. Lorenzo was trying to...

German MotoGP: Ben Spies relieved after lucky escape

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Ben Spies was a relieved man in the Sachsenring paddock tonight after he escaped serious injury in a horror crash during today’s qualifying session. The Texan was an innocent victim when he lost...

German MotoGP: Randy de Puniet expects gruelling race

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Randy de Puniet faces the prospect of a physically gruelling German MotoGP race tomorrow after he was involved in a high-speed crash at the tight and twisty Sachsenring track today. The Frenchman has...

German MotoGP: Iannone takes Moto2 pole

17 July 2010 by MCN

Fimmco Speedup rider Andrea Iannone has taken his fourth pole of the season and third in a row at the Sachsenring in Germany. Local star Arne Tode was a surprise second. The German rider is currently...

Snetterton BSB: Josh Brookes takes race one win

17 July 2010 by Liam Marsden

Josh Brookes extended his lead in the MCE British Superbike Championship to 13 points over Tommy Hill with a stunning win in today’s (Saturday) 18-lap race. Brookes made a bad start and had to work...

Snetterton BSB: Brookes on pole again

17 July 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Josh Brookes will start Sunday’s first BSB race at Snetterton from pole position – his second successive pole position. The HM Plant Honda rider set the pace in the first two elements of qualifying...

German MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo claims pole in dramatic qualifying

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP world championship leader Jorge Lorenzo claimed his fourth successive pole position of the season in Germany today after a dramatic qualifying session at the Sachsenring circuit. Less than four...

German MotoGP: Bradley Smith clinches front row

17 July 2010 by Matthew Birt

Bradley Smith bounced back from a heavy crash in a wet morning practice session to qualify on the front row of the grid for tomorrow’s German 125GP. The British rider secured his fifth successive...

Bridewell’s Silverstone WSB wild card ride

17 July 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Quay Garage Honda rider Tommy Bridewell has secured a wild card entry for the forthcoming Hannspree World Superbike Championship round to be held at Silverstone on August 1. Having proved to be a...

Southern 100 - IOM

17 July 2010 by Erin Thomas

Dawn rose on historical Castletown, Isle of Man, with the crying of hungry seagulls and the salty smells of the freshly caught catch in the harbour. Castletown was the picturesque setting of the Southern 100 round of the motorbike racing and a strong contingency of Irish riders were waking for the four days of scheduled road racing. ortadown’s very own road racing champion, Wayne Hamilton, 19,...