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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
With the announcement at Estoril that Hiroshi Aoyama is to ascend to the MotoGP class aboard a Honda RC212V in a team run by Daniel Epp, the man behind the current Caffe Latte team in the 250 class, the number of Hondas on the grid for 2010 increased from six to seven. The team is to be sponsored in part by the Swiss iced coffee company Caffe Latte, but the effort is also to be heavily supported by...
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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) | 09/22/2009
Randy de Puniet has been one of the revelations of the 2009 season. The Frenchman has lost his reputation for being the first to hit the gravel trap, and instead become one of the men most likely to get on the podium, despite having only a satellite spec Honda RC212V at his disposal. De Puniet's transformation is in part down to the spec Bridgestone tires, and in part down to a new training regime,...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
No motorcycle has acquired quite such a fearsome reputation as the Ducati Desmosedici GP9. Though there are no doubts about the speed of the Ducati - Casey Stoner has proved the bike is fast over and over again - there are huge question marks about its ridability. Loris Capirossi went from being a title candidate to an occasional podium visitor on the 800, Marco Melandri turned from podium regular...
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Casey Stoner,
Gabor Talmacsi,
James Toseland,
Jorge Lorenzo,
Loris Capirossi,
Marco Melandri,
Marco Simoncelli,
Niccolo Canepa,
Nicky Hayden,
Pol Espargaro
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
The intense rivalry between Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo continues apace, the next instalment taking place on Saturday morning during the second session of free practice for the MotoGP class. After Rossi took first blood yesterday, Jorge Lorenzo set about extracting revenge, but that would be no easy task. Rossi and Lorenzo swapped the lead multiple times during the session, with Dani Pedrosa...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
In addition to the in-depth explanation which Lucio Cecchinello gave us about his single-event sponsorship model , which we published yesterday, the former 125cc race winner and now boss of the LCR Honda team also spoke to us about a few other topics. We discussed the role that the Bridgestone tires had played in limiting the number of crashes Randy de Puniet has had this season, and how LCR is trying...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
The bikes are out on track at the final test of the year at Brno, and the first times are starting to appear. The field is still a little empty, as Valentino Rossi is yet to emerge from his motorhome, while the Tech 3 Yamahas of Colin Edwards and James Toseland have been crated up ready for their journey to the next Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Randy de Puniet is giving his fractured ankle a rest....
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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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Andrea Dovizioso,
Casey Stoner,
Chris Vermeulen,
Colin Edwards,
Gabor Talmacsi,
James Toseland,
Jorge Lorenzo,
Loris Capirossi,
Marco Melandri,
Mika Kallio,
Niccolo Canepa,
Nicky Hayden,
Toni Elias,
Valentino Rossi
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
In the final chapter of our summer break round up of the MotoGP season, we turn towards the unknown. After our discussions of the things we know for sure , and the things which are extremely probable , we stray from the path of solid research, head down the trail of the likely, making a left turn into the tangled brush and undergrowth of the possible and onwards to wishful thinking and the frankly...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
After the joy of his surprise podium at Donington Park, Randy de Puniet had misfortune to deal with last weekend. The Frenchman was training with his coach, former motocross champion Yves Demaria, at a track near Aix-en-Provence when he crashed his motocross bike, falling heavily on his leg. He was immediately taken to a local hospital where X-rays revealed a fractured in his left ankle. A screw was...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
One of the most remarkable transformations this year has been Randy de Puniet's change from crash test dummy to fast, consistent finisher. MotoGPMatters was fascinated by this change, so we caught up with de Puniet in LCR Honda's rather splendid hospitality unit. MotoGPMatters: Last year, you got 61 points, and after just 9 races you're already up to 58 points this season (this was before RDP's podium...
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Valentino Rossi - MotoGP 2007 (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Race results from the British Grand Prix at Donington Park, round ten of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. 1. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 48min 26.267 sec 2. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 48min 27.627 sec 3. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP 48min 27.867 sec 4. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini 48min 35.225 sec 5. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 48min 47.889...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
The Aliens. That's what Randy de Puniet calls them. The Frenchman can find no other logical explanation for why Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner should be so much faster than the rest of the field. Certainly, the Yamaha is the best bike of the field, but in the hands of two-time World Superbike Champion Colin Edwards, it isn't half a second a lap or more faster. The Honda...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
Qualifying at the Sachsenring was a thoroughly wet affair. The track had been soaked all afternoon and rain continuing to fall throughout the session, coming and going in intensity. And so everyone set about finding a wet setup, given the entirely plausible prospect of rain spoiling the race tomorrow. Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi swapped the lead in the early part of the session, the times edging...
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MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
A drying track turned the first session of free practice for the MotoGP riders into a confusing and thrilling chase for times, lap times tumbling throughout. On the damp track, it was the Ducatis of Nicky Hayden and Casey Stoner that led the charts, with Marco Melandri and Andrea Dovizioso constantly close. Around the halfway mark the track began to dry properly, and the top spot started swapping...
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