The MotoGP season is in full swing with 5 races down and 4 different race winners it is much more competitive than last year and, at this point, it’s very difficult to call a championship winner from this pack.
Lets take a look at the top five riders in the championship following the first 5 races. [...]
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MotoGP – The top 5 riders in the championship standings
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MotoGP – Rossi moves onto 90 GP wins at Le Mans
The stage had already been set, following Valentino Rossi’s win in Shanghai which moved him to 89 career GP victories, Angel Nieto (winner of 90 GP victories and widely considered as one of the all time greats) arranged to get some special leathers made and to meet Rossi in Le Mans, scene of his own [...]
Career best finish for Smith in Le Mans
Briton Bradley Smith claimed a career-best second-placed finish in a rain-affected 125cc French GP at Le Mans as home rider Mike Di Meglio took the chequered flag.
Di Meglio now leads Spain’s Nicolas Terol – who finished third – in the championship by eight points, while Smith jumps from 14th to eighth.
Polaris World Aprilia rider Smith [...]
Biaggi and Bayliss to test the ailing Ducati GP8?
So far this season the Ducati Desmosedici GP8 has not been the all conquering machine that it’s predecessor was, with only current MotoGP champion Casey Stoner looking capable of riding the thing. Even then Stoner, so dominant last year, has struggled in the last couple of races and sees himself falling behind championship leaders Pedrosa [...]
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Lorenzo takes his first MotoGP victory in Estoril
Rookie Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo won the Portuguese GP at Estoril from Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa. It was a maiden victory for the 20-year-old Spaniard whose Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi finished third.
Briton James Toseland finished down in seventh as he benefitted from Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden crashing out ahead of him. Toseland’s Yamaha Tech [...]
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Toseland impresses as Stoner picks up where he left off
So the 2008 MotoGP season picked up where it ended with Casey Stoner winning with a five second margin over rookie Jorge Lorenzo. However the race, under the floodlights of the Losail circuit, was a lot more impressive, exciting and interesting than many of the Stoner dominated races of 2007.
Pocket rocket Dani Pedrosa made an [...]
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The British are coming!
Ok, so it might not be as melodramatic as the title suggests, but the MotoGP 125cc World Championship holds a lot of intrigue and excitement for fans of British motorcycle racing.
The weekend started perfectly for young Bradley Smith as he took his Polaris World Aprilia to the pole position in qualifying, the first Briton to [...]
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Sepang Testing Roundup
MotoGP testing resumed in Sepang over the last few days with a much-depleted field. With only the Fiat Yamaha team and the Gresini and Repsol Honda teams testing, along with test teams from Yamaha and Kawasaki it was a lot less busy than the previous Sepang test.
Repsol Honda were further hampered by the temporary absence [...]
Edwards fastest as MotoGP testing moves down under
The MotoGP testing period has moved from Malaysia to Phillip Island, Australia as the majority of the MotoGP grid resume their testing schedule. Tech 3 Yamaha rider Colin Edwards set the fastest lap of day one with 1′29.566 about half a second quicker than Aussie Casey Stoner.
All three MotoGP rookies present in Philip Island posted [...]
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