The 2012 World Championship will commence on April 8th, and this day also marks the debut of CRT prototypes in MotoGP. Among the 21 bikes lining up on the grid will be the familiar names of Randy de Puniet and Aleix Espargaró, the men set to ride the CRT motorcycles on the Aspar Team. Sporting [...]
With the dust having only settled on the 2011 campaign just three weeks ago the teams and riders have been hard at work with post-season testing at Valencia, immediately following the final Grand Prix of the season, and at Jerez earlier this week. Much of development has been aimed at changes to MotoGP next season, [...]
Wet races are always something of a lottery, but a dry race with constant rain is an even trickier challenge for riders. The Moto2 Valencia GP experienced such conditions today. The title had already been clinched by Stefan Bradl, but there was still one last race win for which to fight. Aegerter started out strong, [...]
The MotoGP race in Valencia was surprising and strange in equal measures, above all at the end of the thirty-lap contest. Light rain had been a prominent feature of the 125cc and Moto2 races, and the premier class also had to tackle tricky conditions. The field was reduced at turn one of the opening lap, [...]
The MotoGP riders had to contend with every condition imaginable today, with wind, rain and cold hampering their progress in the final free practice and qualifying sessions for the Grand Prix of Valencia. Despite this being a short track at just 4.005km the conditions led to significant disparity in the lap times today although the [...]
After the excursion to Asia and Australia, the MotoGP World Championship returns to Europe this weekend for the final round of the 2011 season. The paddock remains in mourning following a tragic accident which took the life of Marco Simoncelli in Sepang, and this atmosphere will continue as the series reaches Valencia. However, the teams [...]
Intense heat proved to be the main obstacle for the MotoGP riders at Sepang today as they made their final preparations for one of the toughest races of the season. Even newly crowned MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner struggled to maintain his pace, giving his team-mate Dani Pedrosa the opportunity to snatch pole by just [...]
A frenetic fortnight for the MotoGP World Championship continued today as the riders took to the Sepang circuit in Malaysia just days after packing away their leathers at Phillip Island, Australia. The most familiar circuit to the premier-class riders due to its role as the main winter testing venue is also the most demanding, with [...]
Only fourteen riders took the start in the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix. The absence of Cudlin, Lorenzo and Spies from the starting grid made for a sparse startline image at Phillip Island, but there was still a race to be contested. With title rival Lorenzo out of action, Casey Stoner had a free run at [...]
A drop in temperature and increase in wind led to a crash-strewn day of MotoGP action at Phillip Island today, with MAPFRE Aspar stand-in rider Damian Cudlin amongst the victims. Casey Stoner took a comfortable pole position with a series of fast laps in the final fifteen minutes, leaving Jorge Lorenzo – the only man [...]