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Tourist Trophy Isle of Man 2006 - The Alpha Boilers Klaffi Team takes
part with Martin Finnegan (Superbike, Supersport and Superstock) and the
Sidecar duo Klaus Klaffenböck / Christian Parzer.
It was Louis Christen, the famous sidecar designer from Switzerland,
himself to build a complete new sidecar for the both Austrians. Only two
prototypes of the new LCR were delivered. Andy Laidlow/Patrick Farrance
won with one of them the sidecar races at Eastfortune.
The second one belongs to Klaffi and Parzer. Read more.....
Hawk Kawasaki are pleased to be running 36-year-old Carl Rennie at this year's famous Isle of Man TT. The Lancashire based rider will be competing in the Superbike, Superstock and Supersport classes. Rennie will ride the Kawasaki 2005 ZX10-R in the Superbike Class, the 06 ZX10-R in the Superstock races and the ZX-6RR for the Supersport events. Read more.....
Round 6 of the British Superbike Championship takes place at Mallory Park this weekend. After the event cancellation at Mondello Park in Ireland the Airwaves Ducati team are looking to get back on form and continue their run of exceptional performances which has seen them take podium finishes in the first 4 rounds this season. Read more.....
The third evening of 2006 TT solo practice got away in similar conditions to the two previous sessions and ran uninterrupted and virtually incident free. Read more.....
21-year-old Australian sensation Brendan Roberts took an epic victory as a wildcard rider at the Silverstone round of the GSXR-Cup. Staged alongside the World Superbike races Roberts was given the opportunity to once again show off his talent in front of thousands of British fans, at the sun blessed Northampton Circuit on Sunday. Read more.....
The second evening of practice got underway on Monday evening at the Isle of Man TT, again in dry but windy conditions. Lougher got away early in the session onboard the Team Black Horse Supersport 600 machine, and was posting good sector times around the circuit. Read more.....
Rizla Suzuki racers James Haydon and Shane 'Shakey' Byrne will race at a revised Mallory Park circuit featuring a new chicane for the first time when the Bennetts British Superbike Championship visits the Leicestershire track for the sixth round this weekend. Read more.....
The Camel Yamaha Team heads into its home Grand Prix this weekend looking to turn a stuttering start to the season into a consistent challenge for MotoGP World Championship honours. The fast and flowing Mugello circuit in Italy presents an entirely different challenge to the tight complexities of recent tracks such as Le Mans and Shanghai and both Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards hope it can also deliver a similar contrast in the fortunes that have followed them around the world during a dramatic opening five rounds of the campaign. Read more.....
Whilst CCM's assault on the Silkolene Short Track UK championship is spearheaded by ex speedway sensation Lee Complin, their involvement in the series is right through the ranks with CCM's Managing Director Gary Harthern also giving this new sport a try. Harthern an ex AMCA moto-x rider has not competed on a motorcycle for over a decade, but was inspired to go racing again with the advent of CCM's new flat track model the FT35. Read more.....
The 2006 Isle of Man TT Festival got underway on Saturday 27th May, the first extended solo session of 2006 took place in dry but extremely blustery conditions. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) made it seven wins on the run in the European Round of the World Superbike Championship at Silverstone with his third successive double victory this season. With his closest rival Troy Corser (Suzuki) picking up a DNF and a sixth place, the 37 year-old Australian now has a lead of 76 points in the championship with seven rounds still remaining. Japan's Noriyuki Haga and Britain's James Toseland both offered stiff opposition to today and the Yamaha and the Honda rider twice finished behind the Australian to make up identical podiums. Read more.....
Team Makita Suzuki Racing?s Ricky Carmichael captured his first AMA Toyota Motocross victory of the season in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the 30th running of the High Point National in Mt. Morris. Read more.....
Aussie Brendan Roberts took victory in the third round of the Suzuki GSX-R European Cup at Silverstone today after a race-long battle with Briton Tommy Bridewell. Read more.....
Sebastien Charpentier (Winston Ten Kate Honda) won his fourth 2006 WSS race after a front-running display at the short and tight Silverstone circuit, holding off intense early attacks from Yamaha riders Parkes and Curtain, despite a lack of dry set-up time after a mostly wet practice. Kenan Sofuoglu (Winston Ten Kate Honda) finished the race in a lowly 20th place, after qualifying 18th. Read more.....
Silverstone (UK), Saturday 27 May: Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) will line up on the front row of the starting grid in second place for tomorrow's fifth round of the World Superbike Championship following a wet Superpole session at Silverstone. British Superbike regular Tommy Hill (Yamaha) used his wild-card status to good effect in the slippery conditions to power to the pole position, while the front row of the grid is completed by Chris Walker (Kawasaki) and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha). Read more.....
Despite a first qualifying session that was red flagged twice, and suffering a highside crash at the slow Priory corner, James Toseland (Winston Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR) scored the fifth fastest time of a disjointed first day. Karl Muggeridge (Winston Ten Kate Honda) slotted into eighth place on the grid, with all the times improving as the track dried out after a wet opening unofficial practice session. Read more.....
Discover the freedom of motorcycle travel and enjoy an exclusively European contrast of hundreds of years of history and 21st Century culture. World of BMW's latest tour takes riders through the beautiful Baltic States and surrounding cities on a 16-day trip this June. Read more.....
Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) members are converging on Birmingham on the 1st July for a demonstration as part of the group's campaign to protest against unfair licensing proposals. Read more.....
The fifth Superbike World Championship round of the 2006 season takes place this weekend at Silverstone, in the Northamptonshire area of England. The race will, for the second year in a row, be held on the "short" track, 3,619 meters long, with eight rights turns and seven lefts. James Toseland has only positive recollections of this track layout: first of all because it's his home circuit, and second because last year the 25-year-old from Sheffield took his best results of the season; third in Race 1 and a hugely popular victory in Race 2. On a Honda expertly prepared by the Winston Ten Kate Team, Toseland is ready to replicate his podium prowess, prepared to turnaround the misfortune which has dogged him in the last two rounds, and to gain important points in order to stay close to first position in the Championship. Read more.....
The Motor Cycle Industry Association (MCI) is urging people to help
drive the debate on bikes in bus lanes by supporting its online lobbying
activity. The MCI is carrying out a poll to generate support from the
public to influence policy so that all Local Authorities will allow
motorcycles in bus lanes to help reduce casualties. Read more.....
SR Off-Road Aprilia rider Sam Warren made a welcome return to home soil for
the first round of the MotoGB British Supermotard Championship at Cadwell
Park securing pole position in SM1 and winning the Superfinal with two
second place finishes in the other races. Read more.....
The Ducati Xerox Team's World Superbike riders Troy Bayliss and Lorenzo
Lanzi are to make a special one-off guest appearance in the famous Harrods
department store in Knightsbridge, Central London on the morning of Thursday
25 May. Read more.....
Dougie Lampkin fought a brave battle to take another second place at day two of the USA Grand Prix earlier today. Lampkin put up a tough fight against eventual victor Raga during the opening lap, but faded in the later stages whilst still suffering the after effects of an illness that saw him take to his hotel bed early last night. Dougie's brace of runners up positions leaves him in a clear second place in the championship after the opening three rounds. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi's unfortunate start to his MotoGP World Championship defence continued today as the Italian rider was hit by another bout of bad luck at Le Mans, where he was forced to retire from the lead with an engine problem. This time his team-mate Colin Edwards was also hit by the jinx, the American being pushed wide in the second corner of the race and running into the gravel traps. The silver lining to the day for the team on a cloudy day in France was that Edwards did manage to get back on track and charge through from last place to finish in sixth - arguably the individual rider performance of the race. Read more.....
The fifth round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Mondello Park was abandoned today after torrential rain flooded the 2.176-mile long circuit in the Republic of Ireland. Read more.....
Dougie Lampkin kept his dream of an eighth outdoor World title very much alive, when he took second place during the opening day of the USA Grand Prix. Lampkin rode himself into the runners up position with a stunning second lap performance, Dougie being one of only two riders to complete the tough course in single figures. His last lap loss of just seven marks pushed Bou into third place at the finish, the young Spanish rider having headed Dougie at the halfway point. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards will start from the third row of the grid in the Grand Prix of France tomorrow after setting the seventh and ninth fastest times respectively in this afternoon's qualifying practice. The session took place in dry conditions with ambient temperatures reaching 18ºC after the sunshine finally overpowered the thick black clouds that hovered over the Le Mans circuit and caused the third free practice session to be held in wet conditions during the morning. Read more.....
Gregorio Lavilla will start on the front row of the grid for round 5 of the British Superbike Championship at Mondello Park. The Spaniard clocked a time of 1:38.482 to finish 3rd in qualifying, his Airwaves Ducati team mate, Leon Haslam, will start on the second row, in 6th, after qualifying with a time of 1:38.992. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards were the fastest two riders in each of the first free practice sessions on the opening day of action at the Grand Prix of France today. Rossi lapped the Le Mans circuit in a time of 1'35.288 during the morning, when Edwards was just behind him with the second fastest time, whilst in the afternoon the roles were reversed as the American set the pace with a lap of 1'35.170, followed closely by his Italian team-mate. Read more.....
Round 5 of the British Superbike Championship promises to be another exciting event for Airwaves Ducati after Greg & Leon had two good practice session's at Mondello Park today. The Irish circuit saw the teams' first one-two last year but with poor weather expected over the weekend it may prove a more difficult task this year. Read more.....
The Parts Unlimited Ducati Team returns to
action this week at Infineon Raceway, located in the scenic Sonoma Valley
just north of San Francisco. Neil Hodgson and Ben Bostrom will race their
Ducati 999 Superbikes at the tight and twisty track known for its
challenging elevation changes. The Infineon Raceway Superbike doubleheader
(with races on Saturday and Sunday) is near the Ducati North America
headquarters in Cupertino, California. Read more.....
arl Fogarty is one of the most famous names in motorcycle racing and a legend among the fans that followed his World Superbike career. But when he decided to ride across New Zealand there was only one choice of bike to use - BMW's all-conquering GS. Read more.....
With the Airwaves Ducati riders currently lying first and second in the British Superbike Championship the team heads to Southern Ireland this weekend looking to secure more championship points and extend their lead at the top of the championship standings. Read more.....
Record breaking crowds basked in glorious sunshine throughout the Kennedy International North West 200 week, and in sharp contrast to the 2005 event, temperatures soared on race day. Read more.....
The Motor Cycle Industry Association (MCI) has adopted the slogan 'Have
You Got the F Factor?' for this years National Motorcycle Week 16th
-23rd July. Read more.....
The Camel Yamaha Team get back to European territory this weekend as they look to bring their MotoGP World Championship points quest back on track in France, following a disappointing run of races on unfamiliar shores. The legendary Le Mans circuit, which has intermittently played home to the MotoGP World Championship since 1969, has been a fixture on the calendar for the last six seasons and this year plays host to the fifth round of an incredible campaign that has already seen four different winners. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team rider Colin Edwards charged from the front row of the grid to the podium today with a determined performance in the Grand Prix of China. Whilst his team-mate Valentino Rossi was denied the chance to challenge for a top three spot after pulling in with a tyre problem on the sixteenth lap, Edwards reaped the rewards of a blistering start to the race, when he snatched the hole-shot and led the field over the opening stages. Read more.....
Dougie Lampkin slumped to a disappointing sixth place at today's third round of the Spanish domestic championship held near Madrid, Spain. Lampkin arrived in the region with fond memories, having clinched his last World title at a venue in the same area. Comprising of a course very similar to that special day back in 2003, today's trial featured fifteen sections of a mainly dry nature. Read more.....
Superbike star Leon Haslam wheelies and slides his Ducati 1000 and the crowd screams for more. The howls of classic Honda 4s and Gilera GP bikes bounce off the walls of the town centre stores whilst the folk singers strum their guitars: you just know that there is no-where else this could be but the Thundersprint in Northwich town centre. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team rider Colin Edwards will start from the front row of the MotoGP grid in tomorrow's Grand Prix of China after setting the third fastest time in a dramatic single qualifying session today. After battling through torrentially wet conditions yesterday, the riders enjoyed a cloudy but dry free practice this morning as they sought to find a suitable dry set-up for their machines. The afternoon started in similar conditions but a brief rain shower midway through the session confined the riders to a tense spell in their pit garages before a thrilling late shootout for grid positions. Read more.....
Camel Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi returned to the top of the MotoGP time sheets today as hard work during practice and testing following the last round at Istanbul began to bear fruit on the opening day of the Grand Prix of China. In soaking conditions caused by a steady downpour of fine rain throughout the day, Rossi repeated the form that saw him take a wet victory at the Shanghai circuit last season with the fastest times in both today's free practice sessions. Read more.....
It's time once again for Europe's biggest annual outdoor motorcycle show and BMW Motorrad will be celebrating the event with the appearance of two very special guests. The BMF Show will take place on 20-21 May at the East of England Showground in Peterborough and visitors to the BMW Motorrad stand will have the chance to meet Dave Myers and Si King - better known as BBC 2 TV's Hairy Bikers. Read more.....
Little more than six weeks after launching the fund at Brand's Hatch in late March, support for the Chris Jones Memorial Fund is growing. Read more.....
Shane 'Shakey' Byrne and James Haydon completed more than 100-laps each during a test at the Croft circuit in North Yorkshire today. Read more.....
The Griso only arrived a few months ago, but has already taken the market by storm. So far available in Midnight Black and Rosso Corsa Red, the Griso's latest colour scheme will continue to flatter its stunning Italian designer looks, and give prospective owners even greater choice when it comes to owning a modern creation from this historic Italian marque. Read more.....
YOU could win two VIP passes worth £600 to join Rizla Suzuki at the ninth round of the 2006 British Superbike Championship at Oulton Park on Sunday, July 23rd, in this free to enter competition in conjunction with Express Insurance. Read more.....
Silverstone is gearing up to open its gates to one of the most exciting events of the year - the FIM Corona Extra
Superbike World Championship on 26-28 May. The two-wheeled series is one of the biggest and best in the
world, guaranteeing hardcore racing, dramatic overtaking, and non-stop action as some of the world's top riders
go wheel-to-wheel in the battle to be crowned World Champion. Tickets are on sale now at
www.silverstone.co.uk. Read more.....
Rizla Suzuki's British Superbike Race Operations Manager Niall Mackenzie will lead the ride-in at this year's Riders for Health Day of Champions at Donington Park on Thursday, June 29th. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) extended his World
Superbike winning streak to five as he notched up another two wins at Monza
to add to his race 2 triumph in Australia and his double at Valencia. The
37-year-old, whose return to the championship this year after three years in
MotoGP, has been nothing short of sensational, now leads the table by 36
points from his closest rival Troy Corser (Suzuki), who twice finished on
the podium today. The wins were Troy's fifth and sixth at the high-speed
Autodromo, and his third double win at Monza to go with the same results in
2001 and 2002. Read more.....
After five testing days at an event that remains one of the most prestigious in the International trials calendar, James Dabill saw his chances of a podium finish cruelly slip away on the sixth and final day. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss will line up on the grid for
tomorrow's two World Superbike races at the Autodromo di Monza in second
place after a thrilling Superpole battle with his arch-rival Troy Corser
(Suzuki), who took the pole. Read more.....
Once more the Supersport qualifying sheets were dominated by the imperious figure of 2005 World Champion Sebastien Charpentier (Winston Ten Kate Honda) and once more he scored pole with a new record lap time. He improved his peerless first day pace with an outstanding lap of 1'50.580, earning himself his fourth straight pole position of the 2006 season, one day before he goes for his fourth straight win. Charpentier's time was over a second in front of his closest challenger, Gianluca Vizziello. Even a morning crash could not hold back Charpentier's latest march into the record books. Read more.....
Troy Bayliss set the second quickest time for
the Ducati Xerox Team in the opening World Superbike qualifying session at
the Autodromo di Monza. The 37 year-old Australian, who knocked four-tenths
of a second off his own circuit lap record, set way back in 2002, was just a
fraction behind provisional poleman Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha). Read more.....
Whilst tens of thousands of fans are expected to converge on the Isle of Man this June for the 2006 TT Races, millions more will tune in all around the world via their TV sets to see all the action as captured by on Island motorsport specialists Greenlight Television. Read more.....
The 2006 Kennedy International North West 200 kicks off in earnest on Tuesday 9th May with the first of two evenings of practice, Thursday evening sees the second practice and qualifying sessions, with the action packed week of events and attractions culminating in the North West 200 race day on Saturday 13th May. L Read more.....
Thursday 25th May will see Dainese officially open its first D-Store in the UK. Read more.....
The Ducati Xerox Team riders Troy Bayliss and
Lorenzo Lanzi come to the legendary Autodromo Nazionale di Monza on the
crest of a wave following sensational results in the recent round 3 of the
World Superbike Championship at Valencia. Read more.....
After a hard Valencia weekend, the Winston Ten Kate Honda Team is looking to the Monza round with a sense of anticipation. The Team has worked hard to analyse the problems which arose in Spain and on the Italian circuit there will be some new parts to improve traction, the Achilles heel in Valencia. The power of the Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR suits Monza and this give good hope to the Team to repeat last year results, when Chris Vermeulen won race 2. James Toseland, who is still fighting for the Title in third place overall, restarts full of determination, with the only objective to score podiums in each of the two Superbike races. On the other side of the garage, Karl Muggeridge makes his comeback after a hard fall during the recent Valencia test. The Australian is fully recovered, largely thanks to his great determination, and he wants to give an important result to the Winston Ten Kate Honda Team. Read more.....
Monza has frequently been a venue of triumph for the Ten Kate Team. In the last four years there have been four victories and in the last two years, two firsts and seconds; the 2005 1-2 being completed in Winston colours. The objective therefore is to continue this extraordinary running flush, a hope bolstered by recent results obtained by World Champion Sebastien Charpentier, who is leading the championship with the maximum points available after three races. Last year he finished second behind his then team-mate Fujiwara, this year he wants victory, which would be his first at Monza. The Winston Ten Kate Honda Team also expect a great race from Kenan Sofuoglu after the last two unlucky races in Australia and Spain. The Turkish rider is looking for revenge and will do all things possible to reach the podium alongside his "captain". Read more.....
While the sun may still be struggling to emerge this spring, the BMW Motorrad UK dealership network has already turned up the heat in preparation for the appearance of two of the most eagerly awaited new models for some time. Read more.....
Factory test-rider Vittoriano Guareschi carries out the first shakedown
test of the Ducati Desmosedici GP7, fitted with a new 800cc engine in
compliance with 2007 MotoGP regulations. Read more.....
Following Sundays' Turkish Grand Prix, the Camel Yamaha Team stayed on to test in Istanbul, making the most of a dry day after a rain-interrupted weekend as they searched for improvements to the 2006-spec YZR-M1. Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards, who finished fourth and ninth respectively in the MotoGP race, had continued to experience problems throughout the weekend and were unable to find a perfect race set-up. Yesterday's test was therefore aimed at finding a better base setting and gathering yet more data in order to provide the Yamaha engineers with more information to work with ahead of the next race in China. Read more.....
Airwaves Ducati rider Gregorio Lavilla now leads the championship by 61 points after a double win in round four of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship. Ducati also lead the manufacturers' championship by a commanding 49 points. Leon Haslam had a mixed day of results coming 3rd in the first race before stalling prior to the warm up lap in the second race; he then had to start from the pit lane on his spare bike, resulting in a well fought 7th place finish. Read more.....
Parts Unlimited Ducati's Neil Hodgson
and Ben Bostrom saw their Sunday fortunes at Californian Speedway mirror
Saturday's results. Neil earned fifth place on his Ducati 999 and Ben was
seventh after the 28-lap race. Both riders battled in a pack that saw four
factory riders trade positions around the 21-turn circuit. Read more.....
