January

Year: 2014

Month: January

Scott Redding eager to assess new Honda at full strength

31 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Scott Redding says he can’t wait to get his first opportunity to evaluate the new Gresini Honda RCV1000R production bike in peak physical condition during the first MotoGP test of 2014 in Malaysia...

Gresini: ‘High expectations’ for Scott Redding

30 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Long-serving Honda MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini has said he has high expectations ahead of Scott Redding’s rookie premier class campaign in 2014. The Italian team boss is confident the 21-year-old...

Scott Redding unveils 2014 MotoGP livery

30 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Scott Redding has unveiled the new 2014 Gresini Honda RCV1000R livery that the British rider will campaign in his eagerly anticipated first season in the MotoGP world championship. The 2013 Moto2...

Secure best priced British MotoGP tickets

27 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Last year’s British MotoGP round at the Silverstone track was one of the most unforgettable in recent memory. With Gloucestershire rider Scott Redding taking a fantastic Moto2 win and Jorge Lorenzo...

Cal Crutchlow: Every factory interested in Lorenzo

27 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha, Honda, Ducati and Suzuki will be all be chasing double MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo’s prized signature for the 2015 world championship. That’s the view of British rider Cal Crutchlow,...

Bradley Smith in dark on new Yamaha gearbox

24 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Bradley Smith is in the dark over whether his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YZR-M1 will be fitted with a new seamless shift gearbox when MotoGP testing commences in Malaysia early next month. Factory duo...

Doohan: No doubt Stoner would return at top

24 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Five-time MotoGP world champion Mick Doohan reckons Casey Stoner would have slipped seamlessly back into winning contention had the Australian been returning to racing action in 2014. Stoner retired...

Honda not planning Dani Pedrosa axe

22 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Honda has denied 2014 will be Dani Pedrosa’s farewell season as a factory HRC rider after rookie teammate Marc Marquez wrapped up a historic MotoGP world title last season. Last year was Pedrosa’s...

Tech 3 Yamaha workshop damaged by floods

21 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

The French base of Bradley Smith’s Monster Yamaha Tech 3 MotoGP squad has suffered extensive flood damage after torrential rain battered southern France. The workshop in Bormes les Mimosas was under...

Jorge Lorenzo keen on extending Yamaha deal

17 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Jorge Lorenzo has quashed rumours that he is already seriously considering quitting Yamaha to join Ducati for 2015 during a special unveiling of this year’s factory YZR-M1 livery in Indonesia. Reports...

Valentino Rossi aims for consistent podium challenge in 2014

17 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi has targeted a fight for the podium in every race in 2014 after unveiling the new livery of this year’s factory Yamaha YZR-M1 in Indonesia earlier today. Rossi’s much anticipated...

Yamaha unveil 2014 MotoGP livery

17 January 2014 by Simon Patterson

Yamaha have unveiled their 2014 MotoGP livery today at an event in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. The 2014 M1, unveiled in person by Rossi and Lorenzo, features a similar paint scheme to the 2013...

Yamaha rubbishes Ducati swoop for Jorge Lorenzo

17 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis has strongly denied rumours that double MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo is close to clinching a shock switch to Ducati for 2015. A wheel hasn’t even been turned in anger in...

No BT Sport commentary deal for Toby Moody

16 January 2014 by MCN

Popular MotoGP commentator Toby Moody has confirmed he will not be part of the new BT Sport coverage in 2014. Moody has been a regular behind the microphone in MotoGP with British Eurosport since...

Leon Camier excited by 'amazing' MotoGP chance

15 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Leon Camier has spoken of the ‘amazing’ chance he has to line-up against the likes of boyhood hero Valentino Rossi and current MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez in 2014. The former British Superbike...

Leon Camier added to MotoGP entry list

14 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

British rider Leon Camier has been added to the 2014 provisional MotoGP entry list. The 27-year-old is down to ride an Aprilia ART 1000cc machine for the Italian-based Ioda Racing squad on an updated...

Tardozzi makes a return to Ducati Corse

13 January 2014 by Simon Patterson

Davide Tardozzi, the former Ducati team boss who took Carl Fogarty to his four World Superbike titles, will once again help lead a top level British rider in 2014, as he returns to Bologna to...

Baker takes Superprestigio victory as Marquez crashes out

13 January 2014 by Simon Patterson

AMA flat track champion Brad ‘the Bullet’ Baker emerged victorious on Sunday night from the resurrected Superprestigio race in Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi, after MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez...

Video: Watch Marc Marquez train for the Superprestigio

11 January 2014 by Simon Patterson

With MotoGP champion involved in Marc Marquez resurrecting the illustrious Superprestigio flattrack race, some of the world’s greatest riders will line up this afternoon to race each other in...

Ducati cagey on shock MotoGP strategy plans

10 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Ducati has refused to confirm speculation that it is seriously contemplating a radical strategy change by racing in the new Open class format in the 2014 MotoGP world championship. It has been widely...

Pol Espargaro: Racing Marquez not 2014 target

07 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rookie Pol Espargaro has said battling with former Moto2 adversary Marc Marquez in MotoGP this year is not a realistic ambition. Espargaro was the only rider to consistently...

Schwantz backs Lorenzo to bounce back in 2014

06 January 2014 by Matthew Birt

Kevin Schwantz believes dethroned MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo will bounce back from defeat to rookie Marc Marquez in 2014. Lorenzo surrendered the premier class crown by just four-points to...