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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It has not been Niccolo Canepa's season. After a long and difficult year struggling with the Pramac Ducati, the Italian is to miss the final round of MotoGP at Valencia, leaving the series without a final chance to prove his mettle. The Valencia round will be the third race in a row that Canepa has been forced to miss, as he is still recovering from the skin transplant necessitated by his crash in...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
There have been a host of riders who have tried to ride the Ducati Desmosedici, and apart from Casey Stoner, they have been at best only moderately successful. This struggle, combined with Casey Stoner's unexpected illness, has prompted Ducati to mount a search for someone - anyone - else who showed any aptitude at all for riding the GP9. So when Aleix Espargaro was given the opportunity to replace...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
The MotoGP silly season is just about played out. With four races left in the season, the rider line up for 2010 is almost complete. As expected, once Jorge Lorenzo finally made up his mind, the remaining pieces in the puzzle fell into place, leaving just a few gaps to fill. All of the factory seats are now full, and largely unchanged, with Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo back at Yamaha, Casey Stoner...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
The saga of Pramac Ducati is become a very off-again-on-again affair. After Aleix Espargaro made such a positive impression at Indianapolis and Misano, subbing for Mika Kallio who had been temporarily promoted to the factory Marlboro Ducati team, the Spaniard looked set to replace the current holder of the second seat at Pramac, Niccolo Canepa. But the decision has fallen in favor of the Italian instead....
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Since being called up to take the place of Mika Kallio at Pramac Ducati, Aleix Espargaro has made a big impression. So good an impression has the Spanish former 250 rider made that Pramac are looking to keep the Spaniard, even though Kallio will be returning to the satellite Ducati squad now that Casey Stoner will - presumably - be returning to action at Estoril. As predicted last week , Pramac have...
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Valentino Rossi - MotoGP 2007 (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Race results from the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano, round 13 of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Casey Stoner has withdrawn until the next round at Estoril on October 4 to try and return to full fitness. Stoner’s place at Ducati Marlboro was taken by Mika Kallio, whose Pramac ride was handed to Aleix Espargaro. Repsol Honda’s [...]
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Valentino Rossi - MotoGP 2007 (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Full qualifying times from the Indianapolis Grand Prix, round twelve of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Third in the championship Casey Stoner has withdrawn until Estoril on October 4 to try and return to full fitness. Stoner’s place at Ducati Marlboro has been taken by Mika Kallio, whose Pramac ride has been handed to Aleix Espargaro for [...]
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Dani Pedrosa obviously likes it in the US. After his relatively easy victory at Laguna Seca, he has come to Indianapolis and dominated. He was comfortably fastest in the rain yesterday, and during this morning's second free practice session, he completely blew away the rest of the field, smashing last year's pole record - set on qualifiers - leaving 2nd place man Jorge Lorenzo over a second behind....
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Since Mika Kallio crashed Casey Stoner's Ducati GP9 twice at the last race at Brno, one of the things that we at MotoGPMatters.com have been interested in is how the crashes will affect the way the teams view the new rules limiting engine numbers. Now that we are here at Indianapolis, we have an opportunity to ask the people who should know, the crew chiefs and engineers. The first person we buttonholed...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
After Mattia Pasini was drafted in to test the Pramac Ducati MotoGP bike, on the official one-day test after the Brno MotoGP round, speculation grew that the Italian 250cc star would be given the nod to race the Pramac bike for the next two MotoGP rounds, at Indianapolis and Misano. To many people's surprise, once he gave the Desmosedici GP9 back to the Pramac mechanics, he thanked them nicely and...
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Valentino Rossi - MotoGP 2007 (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Race results from the Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno, round eleven of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. Jorge Lorenzo crashed out of the lead with five laps to go, just one lap after overtaking team-mate Valentino Rossi. Rossi’s title lead over Lorenzo has now doubled to 50 points. Mika Kallio and Marco Melandri collided on the [...]
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
Jorge Lorenzo once again topped the timesheets at Brno during the second session of free practice, but unlike yesterday afternoon, when it was all but a runaway for the Spaniard, the competition was a lot tighter on Saturday morning. Lorenzo took an early lead, cracking straight into the 1'56s, before setting the bar at 1'56.458. Only team mate Valentino Rossi could follow at first, and the closest...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Mattia Pasini has had a season of ups and downs in 2009. The Italian won the Mugello 250cc Grand Prix, then a couple of weeks later, he nearly missed out on riding after a dispute over unpaid lease fees saw Aprilia refuse to provide Team Toth with the ECUs for Pasini's Aprilia RSA. As Team Toth continues to teeter on the brink of financial collapse, Pasini has just received news of another positive...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Yesterday, Dorna released a list of engines presented to MotoGP's Technical Director Mike Webb to be officially sealed. The seals are placed to comply with the engine limit which comes into effect at Brno, which stipulates that each rider is only allowed to use 5 engines until the end of the season. The teams only needed to submit 1, or at most 2 engines to be sealed before practice started, but instead...
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