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Camel Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi made up valuable points in the MotoGP World Championship title chase after charging from eleventh place on the grid to take fourth overall in today's Turkish Grand Prix. Despite making a quick start from his lowly grid position, the Italian made a mistake on lap two and dropped as far back as twelfth. However crucial changes made to the setup of his YZR-M1 before the race then allowed him to pass no fewer than seven riders, as he lapped at the same pace as the leading group over the course of the race. By the time he had made his way through the pack it was too late for the Italian to challenge for the podium but a crash for Dani Pedrosa (Honda) on the final lap boosted his final position to fourth. Today's result makes Rossi the highest point-scorer of all time in the Grand Prix World Championship, overtaking Max Biaggi. Read more.....
Leon Haslam & Gregorio Lavilla rode some of the fastest laps ever seen at Oulton Park today to finish 1st and 3rd in qualifying. Leon set the fastest ever motorcycle lap of the circuit, repeating his Thruxton performance, and in the process went over a second quicker than the lap record set last year by his team mate, securing pole position with a time of 1:35.120. Gregorio guaranteed his front row start in 3rd with a time of 1:35.490. Read more.....
Local weather forecasts predicting heavy rain for today's qualifying session at the Grand Prix of Turkey were borne out today as an early downfall and intermittent afternoon showers thwarted the Camel Yamaha Team's hopes of improving their YZR-M1 machines ahead of tomorrow's 22-lap race. After struggling to find an ideal setting for the demanding Istanbul Park circuit in yesterday's free practices, both Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi had hoped to complete some dry laps before this afternoon's crucial grid decider but they were forced to splash their way through the puddles and battle hard for ninth and eleventh place respectively. Read more.....
The Airwaves Ducati team achieved good results in today's free practice at the 2.692 mile Cheshire circuit. Leon Haslam rode consistently quick times on his 999F06 finishing 2nd fastest of the day. Gregorio Lavilla completed his day in 5th. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards spent the first day of practice for the Grand Prix of Turkey gathering important set-up data after encountering different track conditions to those they enjoyed here season. With this year's event taking place some six months earlier than the inaugural race here last October, overcast skies contributed to cool ambient temperatures of 20ºC and produced low grip levels on track, where Nicky Hayden (Honda) set the free practice pace with a best lap of 1'53.623. Read more.....
The Isle of Man TT isn't just about road racing you know? As well as being the scene of the greatest road races in the world, the Isle of Man TT festival is the biggest and best motorcycle party on the planet and this years promises to be bigger and better than ever! Read more.....
The MCI and the motorcycle community have welcomed a debate, which took
place this week in the House of Commons, on the opening of bus lanes for
motorcycles. The debate, responded to by Minister for Transport Dr
Stephen Ladyman MP, highlighted that there have been no negative effects
caused by bikes in bus lanes and that unless there is any special reason
Local Authorities should be permitting and encouraging this practical
and safe use of bus lanes. Read more.....
Airwaves Ducati head to the fourth round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Oulton Park this weekend with Gregorio and Leon holding first and second place in the championship. Read more.....
Rizla Suzuki's 'Shakey' Byrne was fastest in last week's official Oulton Park test and is going to the fourth round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at the circuit this Bank Holiday Monday aiming for podium results. Read more.....
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) is encouraging all motorcyclists who ride into the City of Westminster to respond to a web-based consultation on motorcycle parking. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi reaches another special milestone in his illustrious career this weekend as he contests his 100th consecutive premier-class race in the Grand Prix of Turkey. The Italian and his team-mate Colin Edwards travel to the Istanbul Park circuit, located 300 kilometres north west of the capital city of Ankara, looking to build on tentative first impressions of the track from last year, when they finished second and seventh respectively in a race won by Marco Melandri. Read more.....
Parts Unlimited Ducati Team racers Neil
Hodgson and Eric Bostrom finished fifth and sixth in the Sunday AMA
Superbike contest from Birmingham, Alabama. Hodgson finished 4.511 seconds
behind winner Ben Spies in the red-flagged 28-lap race, taking fifth in an
eight-lap shootout and finishing in front of teammate and fellow Ducati 999
pilot Ben Bostrom. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss notched up the 24th and 25th
victories of his World Superbike career with a double win at the Valencia
circuit as the Ducati Xerox rider and his fellow Australian Troy Corser
(Suzuki) put on a spectacular display of racing today. The Spanish Round saw
two similar races and identical podiums with Bayliss's young Italian
team-mate Lorenzo Lanzi grabbing third place on both occasions for his first
podiums of the year. Read more.....
Dougie Lampkin finished in third place at the second round of the Spanish domestic championship held near the city of Leon, Spain earlier today. Using the opportunity to further familiarise himself and to test new settings on the 2006 factory Repsol Montesa HRC machine, Lampkin was relatively happy with his day's work. Giving him the chance to put in some additional hours on the bike before the World championship resumes towards the end of May. Read more.....
Neil Hodgson and Ben Bostrom had a difficult
day on the Parts Unlimited Ducati 999s in Birmingham on Saturday. Hodgson
finished sixth in the 28-lap race, gaining several positions after a poor
start. Ben Bostrom was ninth as he continued to feel ill in what has been challenging weekend for the former series champion. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss and Lorenzo Lanzi (Ducati
Xerox) will line up on the front row of the grid for tomorrow's round 3 of
the World Superbike Championship at Valencia after qualifying in second and
third position in Superpole. Just three-tenths of a second separated the top
4 on the grid as the two Ducati factory riders split two more Australians,
poleman Troy Corser (Suzuki) and Steve Martin (Petronas) in fourth place. Read more.....
Sebastien Charpentier (Winston Ten Kate Honda) did not need to improve on his first day track record lap time of 1'36.913 to take his third pole of the 2006 season, putting himself in the perfect starting spot for Sunday's 23-lap Supersport race. It was the 30th consecutive front row start for a Honda machine in World Supersport. Charpentier concentrated his efforts on finding an optimum race set-up, after he found that the track offered marginally less grip than during the first day of qualifying. Read more.....
Parts Unlimited Ducati pilot Neil Hodgson
qualified sixth in the first of two Birmingham Superbike Qualifying sessions
on Friday, but the Isle of Man resident was less than one tenth off third
place in a hotly contested battle. Teammate Ben Bostrom felt ill, but put
his Ducati 999 in eighth spot nonetheless. On the day, the riders competed
against each other and the weather as five spots inside the top ten were
separated by just over half a second. Just as the session ended, the rains
that had threatened the entire 50 minutes of qualifying and forced riders to
go for their best times early finally fell. Read more.....
Rizla Suzuki's Shane 'Shakey' Byrne topped the timesheets at today's official Bennetts British Superbike test at Oulton Park in Cheshire. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss set second quickest time for
the Ducati Xerox Team as his battle with reigning champion Troy Corser
(Suzuki) continued in first qualifying at Valencia. Just 43/100ths of a
second separated the two Australian rivals after the one-hour session while
another Aussie, Steve Martin (Petronas) and Japan's Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha)
made up the other two slots on the provisional front row of the grid. Read more.....
Neil Hodgson and Ben Bostrom of the Parts
Unlimited Ducati team return to AMA Superbike action this weekend at Barber
Motorsports Park near Birmingham, Alabama. The second round of the series
will see both riders pilot their Ducati 999 Superbikes as part of the 28-lap
Superbike races on both Saturday and Sunday. Read more.....
After dominating the recent FGSport
official tests at Valencia and Misano Adriatico, championship leader Troy
Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) will return to the Ricardo Tormo circuit this weekend
as a man on a mission. The 37-year-old Australian unofficially broke both
long-standing lap records at the Spanish and the Italian tracks and his aim
is now to increase his slender one-point lead over James Toseland (Honda) at
the top of the table. Read more.....
Sam Warren and the SR Off-Road Aprilia team made the most of their first
competitive outing in the UK by winning all three A-Group races at the Three
Sisters NORA Sport round on Easter Monday. Read more.....
After a month and half of break, the SBK World Championship restarts from the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, the first of ten races which will be raced in Europe. The Winston Ten Kate Honda Team will present in Spain after the strong results obtained in the first two races of the season, which have placed James Toseland at the second position of the standing, only one point behind the leader Troy Bayliss. Read more.....
Overall registration figures of motorcycle, mopeds and scooters were up eight percent for the year to date in March 2006. Year to date statistics for motorcycle registrations saw a notable increase of nine percent, scooters increased by five percent and mopeds remained stable. Read more.....
The Airwaves Ducati team secured first and second places in both races in round three of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship today at Thruxton. Gregorio Lavilla won both races with team mate Leon Haslam gaining two second place finishes. The duo are now in first and second place in the Championship. Read more.....
Airwaves Ducati secured first and third place on the grid at Thruxton today, making it 3 pole positions out of 3 for the team. Leon Haslam completed the circuit's fastest ever lap on two wheels, with a time of 1:14.626, to take pole position for tomorrow's race. Team mate Gregorio Lavilla will start the race in third, having set a best time of 1:15.219. Read more.....
Airwaves Ducati had a successful day of practice in both wet and dry conditions at the 2.356 mile Thruxton circuit in Hampshire. At the end of the two sessions 2005 British Superbike Champion, Gregorio Lavilla was placed 2nd and Leon Haslam 3rd, looking set to start where they left off at Donington Park. Read more.....
The Motorcycle Action Group has fired the first round in the campaign against the motorcycle aspects contained in the 3rd European Driving Licence Directive. Read more.....
The greatest motorcycling road race in the world is set for yet another breathtaking festival in 2006. For the fifth year running, Men and Motors is proud to broadcast highlights from the world-famous Isle of Man TT Races which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2007. With over 40,000 fans travelling to the island every year for two weeks of pure adrenaline, the Isle of Man has gained a reputation as "The Road Racing Capital of The World". The TT mountain circuit is without doubt the greatest challenge any racing motorcyclist can take on and is certainly not for the faint of heart. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss (Ducati
Xerox) followed up his stunning performance at Valencia two weeks ago with
another dominant display in more than nine hours of FGSport-organised World
Superbike tests at Misano Adriatico. The two days of action at the
Santamonica circuit have concluded the two tests that split the second and
third round of the championship. Read more.....
- the annual Open Day at the team's workshop in Burton upon Trent on Saturday 20 May 2006,
and
- the 'Evening With FPR' event at Silverstone Circuit on Thursday 25 May 2006 Read more.....
Troy Bayliss again set
the pace for the Ducati Xerox Team on the first day of a two-day FGSport
official test at the Santamonica circuit in Misano Adriatico. Championship
leader Bayliss, who had not raced at the Misano circuit since 2002, powered
around in a time of 1m33.814s, just three-tenths of a second off his best
lap of four years back and seven-tenths of a second quicker than Troy Corser
(Suzuki). Read more.....
The Airwaves Ducati team are looking to maintain their form at round three of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship on bank holiday Monday having secured 77 points in the last round at Donington. Read more.....
Karl Muggeridge, rider of the Winston Ten Kate Honda Team, really wanted to participate to the 3rd Superbike World Championship round of the 2006 season, but doctors have been really prudent from the first exams. The Mobile Clinic's doctors declared from the beginning, and after further medical controls in Switzerland and Australia the result was the same. Karl will not be able to compete on the Ricardo Tormo circuit in the next weekend of race in Valencia. Read more.....
Thruxton is Rizla Suzuki's home circuit that boasts a 112mph+ average lap speed, making it the fastest circuit the British Superbikes visit, a fact the team will be hoping to use to its advantage at the third round of the Championship this weekend. Read more.....
The first ever Steve Webster International Trophy Race was an eagerly anticipated event at Donington Park, running alongside the prestigious British Superbike Championship. Read more.....
BMW Motorrad's Rider Training facility is a new initiative for 2006 and includes a Direct Access programme for anyone aged 21 or over to obtain a full motorcycle licence. People with absolutely no motorcycling experience as well as those who have already obtained a CBT (Compulsory Basic Training) qualification are catered for in the range of courses available. Read more.....
The MCI is delighted to announce the successful launch of the 'Guidelines for Powered Two-Wheelers - Safer Road Design in Europe' at the close of the Intertraffic conference in Amsterdam 4th-7th April. Read more.....
Last year hundreds of British motorcyclists filled an entire Eurotunnel train as part of a mass ride-out to the International BMW Motorrad Biker Meeting, held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the Austrian/German border. Read more.....
MAG has withdrawn its support of the UKIP meeting on the European Licensing Directive set for April 23 in Salisbury. The decision follows a vigorous debate at the group's annual conference. Read more.....
Following Valentino Rossi's hard-fought victory in yesterday's Grand Prix of Qatar, the Italian was back out on track today alongside his Camel Yamaha team-mate Colin Edwards for a one-day test today. Despite Rossi's win, the team still saw remnants of their vibration problem arise during the weekend and today's test was aimed once again at working to understand and finally eliminate this problem from the 2006 YZR-M1. Read more.....
Round two at Donington Park was an outstanding success for the Airwaves Ducati team with a first and third place in race one and a second and third in race two. Gregorio Lavilla showed his class on the Derbyshire circuit setting a new lap record of 1:31.243 in race one. Read more.....
Motivated by the extremely positive result in the Qatar GP, a circuit
considered to be the most difficult in the MotoGP World Championship
(3rd place for Loris Capirossi and 4th place for Sete Gibernau), the
Ducati Marlboro Team men today continued their unrelenting development
work on the Ducati Desmosedici GP6 and Bridgestone tyres. Read more.....
Marco Melandri worked on the weight distribution in order to improve his
feeling with the bike. Together with the Team, the Italian rider found
some good solutions that allowed him to be fast and consistent. He made
a very fast lap with race tyres (1'55"95) and lapped with a good pace. Read more.....
After just two rounds of the 2006 World outdoor series James Dabill finds himself amongst the planet's most elite riders, thanks to a career best seventh place at today's Portuguese Grand Prix. James' pair of opening results sees him holding ninth place in the World championship, to add to the lead he now holds in the European series. Read more.....
Dougie Lampkin recorded his second third place in a row when he stepped on to the lower tier of the podium at the Portuguese Grand Prix held in Mortagua earlier today. Lampkin suffered from similar mistakes to those that cost him in Spain, as he again took two fives in a section with a big step to put him out of contention in terms of taking the victory. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi returned to the top step of the podium after a stunning ride in today's Grand Prix of Qatar. Rossi's 54th career MotoGP victory was sealed with a perfectly timed run in the second half of the race, passing early leader Casey Stoner (Honda) on lap 10 of 22 and holding off a late attack from Nicky Hayden (Honda) and Loris Capirossi (Ducati), who completed the podium. The win brings Rossi's premier-class tally level with that of Mick Doohan, with only the legendary Giacomo Agostini now ahead of him on 68 victories. Read more.....
The Airwaves Ducati team made a promising start to the second round at Donington Park in the Bennetts British Superbike Championship. Gregorio Lavilla will start tomorrow's race on pole position with his team mate also on the front row in third. Read more.....
James Dabill took control of the European championship by winning the second round of the series held in Mortagua, Portugal earlier today. Dabill gave his rivals no real chance and won by a massive fifteen mark margin after posting the best score on both laps. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards improved the setting of their Yamaha M1 machines for tomorrow's Grand Prix of Qatar despite struggling for a fast single lap in this afternoon's qualifying practice. Whilst both riders again demonstrated encouraging pace on race rubber, the improved rear grip offered by the qualifying tyre at the end of the session exaggerated the remaining traces of vibration problems and prevented them from mounting a serious challenge for a front row start. Read more.....
After an impressive performance at Brands Hatch in round one of the British Superbike Championship the Airwaves Ducati riders look set to continue their form in round two at Donington Park this weekend. Read more.....
Rizla Suzuki's Shane 'Shakey' Byrne was sixth and James Haydon eighth after today's practice for this weekend's second round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Donington Park in Derbyshire. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards began key set-up work on their Yamaha YZR-M1 machines for the Grand Prix of Qatar in relatively mild temperatures of 27ºC today. After excelling at this track in pre-season tests the riders were keen to gauge the bike's performance against the other main contenders in the MotoGP class and after two intense free practice sessions they ended the day in optimistic moods about their chances for Saturday's race. Read more.....
Vast football-stadium style lamps illuminated the Losail racetrack from
the startline to the first corner this evening, to allow the three
permanent riders on the Security Commission (Valentino Rossi, Kenny
Roberts Junior and Loris Capirossi) try out the circuit during the hours
of darkness, to evaluate the feasibility of holding races at night. (The
test was carried out between 18.30 and 19.00, in full darkness). Read more.....
British Superbike Champion Gregorio Lavilla and team mate Leon Haslam are looking ahead to the second round of BSB action this weekend. The Airwaves Ducati riders are hoping to further improve their championship standings after the first round. Read more.....
Motorcyclists who have experienced a BMW Off-Road Skills course can now take on a new challenge by joining a World of BMW nine-day off-road tour in Portugal this September. Read more.....
Xpress Racewear are proud to present an opportunity that every rider dreams of. To celebrate the launch of their new site - www.xpressracewear.co.uk and the start of the 2006 racing season they are offering an exclusive deal for one lucky rider for 2007. The company who produce clothing and graphics to various riders including top British Superbike stars Leon Haslam and Dean Ellison plus up-and-coming 125 rider Brian Clarke are offering this fantastic competition. Read more.....
Following on from this year's popular Hairy Bikers BBC Two television series, the two big bearded bikers - Dave Myers and Simon King - are preparing to recreate their mixture of motorcycle tales and delicious delicacies from around the world with the launch of a new book, aptly named The Hairy Bikers Cookbook. Read more.....
Rizla Suzuki's Shane 'Shakey' Byrne and James Haydon completed nearly 400-laps during the last two days during a private test at the Guadix circuit in southern Spain. Read more.....
The Camel Yamaha Team move on to the Middle East next weekend with the objective of making up for lost points and pride following a disappointing start to the season in the opening round at Jerez. The Grand Prix of Qatar represents the ideal opportunity of a reprieve, with Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards having performed well in pre-season testing at the Losail International Circuit in February. Read more.....
Suzuki's GSX-R European Cup kicks off the 2006 season at Valencia in Spain on 21-23 April as a thrilling support series to the rejuvenated World Superbike championship and a fitting celebration of the Suzuki GSX-R750's 21st birthday. Read more.....
The European Parliament turns a blind eye on motorcycling citizens. Read more.....
Dougie Lampkin re-established himself back amongst the World's best riders by taking third place at the opening round of the outdoor World championship following a disappointing indoor campaign. Lampkin had second place within his grasp, but two marks in the final section of the day allowed Raga to beat him by virtue of having the most cleans. Read more.....
If you thought last year's Isle of Man TT Races were special, then the word from the organisers of this year's event is quite simple - you ain't seen nothing yet! From World Champions to British Champions, British Superbike riders to American Superbike riders and from European stars to some of real road racing's finest, this year's entry list has it all and will serve up a treat, arguably the best quality of talent ever to have been assembled on the Island. Read more.....
