ABC (Free subscription) | yesterday
Spain's Dani Pedrosa has taken advantage of a Casey Stoner crash on the warm-up lap to win the Valencia Grand Prix, his second victory of the season securing third place in the MotoGP world championship.
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The 2009 MotoGP weekend at Valencia will be one that features in motorcycle racing trivia contests for many, many years to come. Both the 250 and the MotoGP races started with grids slightly different from those set during qualifying. While the alteration to the 250 grid was understandable - Alex Debon was in too much pain to race from the pole position he set on Saturday - the events leading up to...
ABC (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Australia's Ducati rider Casey Stoner has maintained his excellent end-of-season form to clinch pole position for the Valencia Grand Prix overnight.
SPEED (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Casey Stoner will start the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana in pole position after repeating his domination of the free practice sessions in qualifying.
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...
SPEED (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Casey Stoner continued his hot streak today in Valencia, leading the way on the opening day of action at the 2009 MotoGP World Championship season finale.
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
After Livio Suppo's shock departure from the Marlboro Ducati team, details of his new role at HRC are emerging which cast a new light on how the Italian came to leave Ducati. Suppo's departure had caused speculation of problems inside the team over Casey Stoner's absence, but it is now emerging that the switch was very much down to Suppo, rather than Ducati. Suppo has been hired by HRC to fulfill...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Shockwaves are running through both MotoGP and World Superbike paddocks today, as news of further management shakeups in Ducati's World Superbike and MotoGP teams is leaking out. We reported yesterday that Livio Suppo would be leaving the MotoGP team at the end of the season, but now it has emerged that Davide Tardozzi, head of Ducati's World Superbike team is also to leave. The reasons for each departure,...
SPEED (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Wayne Gardner has a master plan for Honda to regain MotoGP supremacy in 2011 -- sign Casey Stoner and team him with Dani Pedrosa.
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The motorcycle racing season is winding down, and is due to reach its conclusion at the final race of the season, the Valencia MotoGP Round. Should you have any funds squirreled away for a rainy day (and here in Northern Europe, it is a VERY rainy day), then traveling to Valencia to celebrate the season's end with 130,000 crazed MotoGP fans is not a bad way to spend it. While you're there, you can...
FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Valentino Rossi received a special gift from Inter Milan after winning his ninth World title of his career in Malaysia on Sunday. Rossi is a huge Inter fan and and has been spotted frequently in the stands at the San Siro in recent years and the Nerazzurri have been quick to congratulate the 30-year-old on their official website. A club statement read: "He had to wait until the end of a violent...
Valentino Rossi - MotoGP 2007 (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Full Saturday free practice times from the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, round 16 of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Niccolo Canepa, who injured his arm in Friday practice at Phillip Island last weekend, has been replaced by Aleix Espargaro. 1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 2min 0.518 sec 2. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 2min 1.087 sec 3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 2min 1.254...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Dani Pedrosa was the fastest man in the second session of free practice at Sepang. The Repsol Honda rider edged Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner by the narrowest of margins, less than six hundredths of a second separating Pedrosa and Stoner, and all three well under the lap record. Jorge Lorenzo was also under the 2'02 bracket, but nearly four tenths behind Pedrosa. Results: read more
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
There is an unspoken rule among motorcycle racers: you always ride, no matter what. Broken bones are shrugged off, bruises laughed at and only very severe injury is enough to keep riders off their bikes. There is one exception, and that is one honored more in the breach than in the observance: brain injuries (usually contusions and concussions) and broken vertebrae are taken deadly seriously, and...
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