April

Year: 2006

Month: April

Four in a row for Spies

29 April 2006

Suzuki’s Ben Spies took his fourth consecutive victory in today’s (Sunday) AMA Superbike race at Fontana in California. Spies drafted team mate and six times AMA Champion Matt Mladin on lap 18 and...

Mladin slips further

29 April 2006

Matt Mladin’s dominance of the AMA Superbike championship slipped further today as he finished second to team mate Ben Spies at today’s race in Fontana, California. After his third non-win of the...

National Motos Honda won the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race after an eventful day of racing. The Suzuki 1 and 2 teams looked set to clear up but the number 1 team crashed out halfway through and had...

Spies does US double

22 April 2006

Yoshimura Suzuki’s Ben Spies raced to his first-ever double-header victory at the weekend’s two US Superbike races at Barber, Alabama, taking the lead in the series after three rounds. Neil Hodgson...

Corser on pole

22 April 2006

Troy Corser took his 34th career pole position at Valencia almost two tenths of a second ahead of Troy Bayliss. Bayliss went out last and set a storming lap despite running on a race tyre instead of...

Bayliss does the double

22 April 2006

Troy Bayliss did the double at Valencia leading two identical podiums ahead of Troy Corser and team-mate Lorenzo Lanzi. Both races played out pretty much the same with Corser dominating the first...

Hodgson: Your questions

22 April 2006

MCN Editor Marc Potter is flying out to California this weekend to meet former World Superbike champion Neil Hodgson. We’ve got an exclusive chance to meet up with the Brit, who now races in the AMA...

Hodgson targets US title

15 April 2006

Neil Hodgson aims to up his American Superbike challenge this weekend at the Birmingham, Alabama round of the series. The second round of the championship sees racing is on both Saturday and Sunday.

1200cc chance for WSB

15 April 2006

World Superbike organiser FG Sport has come one step closer to saying that 1200cc twins could compete in WSB. There has been rising pressure on the series to let the larger capacity twins – currently...

Valencia: Corser fastest

15 April 2006

WSB’s first qualifying session for racing at Valencia on Sunday has finished with Suzuki’s Troy Corser fastest. His best of 1:34.920 was just 0.043 of a second ahead of Aussie rival Troy Bayliss...

Endurance qualifying

15 April 2006

The Suzuki Castrol team is on provisional pole for the Assen 500, with Vincent Philippe posting a time of 1:42.718 – half a second ahead of the rest of the field. Second quickest was the Alpha Technik Honda with Michael Schulten, third was Yamaha Austria’s Igor Jerman, and fourth the Kawasaki Bolliger team’s Patric Muff. Looking to buy a bike? Click here. Wondering which bike to buy? Click...

Le Mans qualifying

15 April 2006

The Yamaha GMT94 team has taken pole for the Le Mans 24-hour World Endurance race which takes place on Satruday, April 22, 2006. Team Rider Sebastien Gimbert posted a time of 1:38.174 to put them on...

World Endurance times

15 April 2006

The World Endurance riders have been learning the new Assen circuit in preparation for the Assen 500 event on Monday, April 17,2006, with the Suzuki Castrol team setting the fastest time. The best...

Assen 500 win for Suzuki

15 April 2006

The Suzuki Castrol team has won the opening round of the 2006 World Endurance Championship on the new Assen circuit in Holland on Monday, April 17, 2006. By the halfway stage of the Assen 500km race,...

Bayliss tops Misano day 1

08 April 2006

Troy Bayliss has stormed to the top of the time sheets at the last official World Superbike test this season. Fonsi Nieto was the second fastest rider in the 26-strong crowd at Misano finishing just...

Brits test for Le Mans

08 April 2006

The Diablo 666 World Endurance team has tested at the Le Mans circuit in preparation for the start of the World Endurance championship at Assen on April 17, and the Le Mans 24 Hours race on April 22...

Bayliss fastest at Misano

08 April 2006

Troy Bayliss remains fastest rider at the official Misano WSB tests after session one of the second and final day (April 13). His 1.33.411 places him 0.413 ahead of Troy Corser. Bayliss’s closest championship rival James Toseland was not taking part. Pick your Fantasy Road Race team here April 13: times after session 1 1. Bayliss Ducati 1:33.411 2. Corser Suzuki 1:33.824 3. Haga Yamaha 1:...

Big names in Endurance

01 April 2006

The World Endurance championship will be boosted in 2006 with a number of famous names joining the series. Ex-250 and 125cc GP star Simon Sanna will ride for the Yama X-One team alongside Paolo...