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Casey Stoner bounced back from yesterday's embarrassment to lead the way on Monday while World Superbike champ Ben Spies continued to impress.
SPEED (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
His eyes wide open, Ben Spies knows what he has got himself into by moving into MotoGP with Yamaha as the new World Superbike champion.
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The testing limits imposed at the beginning of the season have caused much debate throughout the year. The number of winter tests were cut to just 6 days in total (plus 2 days after the final Grand Prix at Valencia) in order to restrict engine mileage and severely cut costs. But since the announcement that there will be six new riders entering the MotoGP class next season, lobbying has started for...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Casey Stoner continues his domination of proceedings at Valencia, the fastest rider once again in the morning session of MotoGP practice. The Australian topped the timesheets just about all session, with only Jorge Lorenzo to get close. Lorenzo looked to have a firm grip on 2nd, but was bumped down to 3rd by Dani Pedrosa, who put in a blistering lap in the dying minutes of practice. Pedrosa leapfrogged...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Casey Stoner continued his domination of the MotoGP class during the first session of free practice at Valencia, coming in fresh from victory at Sepang to top the timesheets during practice. The Ducati rider took his time, though, spending most of the session as 2nd fastest behind Jorge Lorenzo. With 5 minutes to go, the Australian finally found the extra pace he was looking for, putting nearly four...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ever since Yamaha announced that Ben Spies would be making a wildcard appearance at the final round of MotoGP at Valencia, message boards across the internet have been abuzz with the question of how many engines the Texan would have for his Yamaha. The rules for the regulars - contracted riders, to use the jargon of the FIM rulebook - state that each rider has 5 engines to last the final 7 races,...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Fresh off of last week's World Superbike Championship, Ben Spies will make his MotoGP debut with this weekend's season finale ...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
When Yamaha announced that Ben Spies would make a wildcard appearance at Valencia, there was some speculation about whose logos would adorn the Texan's Yamaha M1. The early rumor was that Michael Jordan may step in and run a one-off livery for Spies, as the former NBA superstar continues to promote his clothing brand through the AMA Superbike series, or what is left of it. Those rumors were wrong,...
Motorsports Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Yamaha Racing 2009 WSB Portugal Portimão 24/10/2009 Superpole Any doubt of Ben Spies' claim to all-time rookie fame was squashed today as he took pole position ahead of tomorrow's races with an incredible flying Superpole lap. This makes eleven poles...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Ben Spies entered Sunday's final two races in the World Superbike Championship trailing Japanese rider Noriyuki Haga by 10 points. Starting from pole, Spies, a Longview, Texas native, won the first race to take a 15-point lead over Haga, who crashed, and rode strategically in the second to finish fifth and became World Champion by six points, 462-456, at the Algarve Circuit in Portugal. He's the first...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
One announcement of interest at the Phillip Island MotoGP round was that Jorge Lorenzo's team manager, Daniele Romagnoli, would be stepping down from his role and pursuing a more technical and less managerial role elsewhere. Romagnoli, whose background was as a data engineer and then crew chief, was promoted to team manager to make way for Lorenzo's choice of crew chief Ramon Forcada. But like so...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The 2010 MotoGP season is set to be a bumper year for rookies, with a grand total of 6 newcomers entering the class. Hiroshi Aoyama, Hector Barbera, Alvaro Bautista, Aleix Espargaro and Marco Simoncelli are all moving up to MotoGP from the 250cc class, while Ben Spies is parachuting in from World Superbikes. The influx of new blood into the class - including some of the most eagerly-awaited names...
Freestylextreme Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A nother insane weekend in the world of the Astar . Rossi wins a 9 th world championship (grrrrrr…). Casey Stoner is my man (have you noticed') and he won convincingly in Malaysia yesterday, but I cannot say anything other than Valentino Rossi is the master- he is the Roger Federer and Tiger Woods of the bike world, and has created his own empire, and has a huge fan base. We seriously need to...
SPEED (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Ben Spies and Yamaha made history this season, claiming the first-ever Word Superbike title for the Yamaha World Superbike Team.
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
If you want to know what it's like to win your first World Superbike championship, you need wonder no more. Ben Spies spoke to Jonathan Green for the excellent OnTheThrottle TV website on Sunday evening about the season, the races at Portimao and how it feels to go to MotoGP as a champion.
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