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 [...]
The FIM have released the provisional entry list for the 2012 MotoGP championship. 1 CASEY STONER AUS – HONDA TEAM, HONDA 4 ANDREA DOVIZIOSO ITA – YAMAHA TECH 3, YAMAHA 5 COLIN EDWARDS USA – FORWARD RACING, SUTER* 6 STEFAN BRADL GER – LCR HONDA MotoGP, HONDA 8 HECTOR BARBERA SPA – PRAMAC RACING TEAM, [...]
Bel-Ray Company, Inc., the leading United States based lubrication manufacturing company ,is pleased to announce a partnership with Team Aspar as the official oil for their MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 teams for 2012, 2013 and 2014 racing seasons. The world championship season begins in Qatar on April 8th and concludes in Valencia on November 11th [...]
Re-live the most significant events and exciting races of the MotoGP decade with the official MotoGP™ History app. From its inception into the FIM World Championship in 2002 when the 500cc category became MotoGP with the introduction of four-stroke prototypes, until 2011 which closed the 800cc machine era, the MotoGP™ History app is a must [...]
The successful partnership between Dorna Sports S.L. and bwin is to continue for another two seasons. The high profile presence of bwin at MotoGP stretches back to 2004 and this commitment to the sport has been reaffirmed with the title sponsorship of two MotoGP Grands Prix; Gran Premio de España at Jerez and the Grand [...]
The addition of the Argentina GP to the World Championship calendar beginning in 2013 was officially announced on Tuesday, in a formal ceremony attended by Italian MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso and several Argentine athletes. Minister of Tourism, Enrique Meyer, made an offical announcement on Tuesday that the Gran Premio de la República Argentina will be [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
Pos Rider Nation Team Motorcycle Total Time Km/h Gap 1 25 27 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team HONDA 48’18.645 149.221 2 20 11 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Factory Racing YAMAHA 48’18.660 149.220 0.015 3 16 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Repsol Honda Team HONDA 48’24.581 148.916 5.936 4 13 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha [...]
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 [...]