Superbike News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Only 18 bikes will contest the 2010 MotoGP world championship after the cash-strapped Scot Honda squad confirmed it has abandoned plans to race in the premier class next season. The Italian team had missed several deadlines to order an RC212V...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The hopes that Team Scot had of remaining in the MotoGP class have been dashed. The Italian team - home of the 2009 250cc World Champion - had failed to match the success of their 250cc riders in the MotoGP class. As a consequence, their bid to remain in MotoGP on merit has failed. The team had hoped to stay if they could secure the extra funding to run Alex de Angelis. But though initial talks...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Hiroshi ‘Hiro’ Aoyama and Honda won the last 250 World Championship at Valencia today. Aoyama secured the riders’ title aboard his Scot Honda RS250RW with a steadfast ride to seventh place, giving him the crown ahead of Hector Barbera (Aprilia) and Marco Simoncelli (Gilera). Next season the Japanese ace will move up to the premier MotoGP class, riding a Honda...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
For the past couple of weeks, the MotoGP paddock has been on tenterhooks waiting for an announcement on the future of Alex de Angelis. The Italian has been working on a deal to keep the Scot Honda team in MotoGP, with backing from De Angelis' native mountain republic of San Marino. An announcement was expected this weekend at Sepang, but it failed to come, raising fears that the deal...
Superbike News (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Honda is still willing to prop up the MotoGP grid with a seven-pronged attack on next year’s world championship. A deadline for the cash-strapped Scot Honda squad to confirm it would lease an RC212V expired last Saturday in Malaysia, with...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Uncertainty continues as to who will fill the final seat on the 2010 MotoGP grid. In the early hours of today, several sections of the Spanish media were reporting that the Scot Honda ride had gone to Alex de Angelis , leaving Toni Elias riding for the Pons team in Moto2 . But news is emerging that the deal is not yet completely finalized. According to the Catalonian sports daily Sport.es...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
One name keeps cropping up amidst all the speculation about still open seats in the various race series. Alex de Angelis has been linked with a range of options since the late summer, all of them revolving around sponsorship by the tourism agency of San Marino, the tiny Italian republic from whence De Angelis hails. It started with the Scot Honda MotoGP program, and when that was abandoned,...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... of the 2009 season. He may be out of a MotoGP ride, but he is not out of the paddock, however. The Scot Racing Team announced today that Niccolo Canepa has been signed a one-year contract to race in Moto2 next season. Like Canepa, Scot Honda found itself out of the MotoGP paddock, after both Yuki Takahashi and his later replacement Gabor Talmacsi found themselves circulating...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Andrea Dovizioso reflects on his first year with the factory Repsol Honda team, a season that yielded a maiden victory and the desire to forge his way up the grid in 2010.
Superbike News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Hiroshi Aoyama reckons he drew inspiration from late Japanese star Daijiro Kato after he claimed a historic victory in the final 250GP world championship in Valencia last weekend. The Scot Honda rider survived a massive scare to claim Honda's first...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
As the final race for the much-loved 250cc class approaches, news is starting to emerge of rider signings and ongoing negotiations for the Moto2 class which is scheduled to take its place. It was reported earlier this week that Alex de Angelis is close to a deal with Tech 3 , after the enclave republic of San Marino was not prepared to fund the Scot Honda MotoGP project which would have...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Hiroshi Aoyama struck the first blow in the battle for the 250cc championship at Sepang, the Japanese rider setting the fastest time of the day in the dying seconds of first session of free practice. It had taken much of the session until Aoyama was up to speed, though. For the first 40 minutes, Aoyama languished mid-pack with his main title rival Marco Simoncelli, but with 20 minutes to go, the Scot...
