Maverick Vinales’ win at the 2017 MotoGP season opening race at Losail circuit in Qatar also marks another record been achieved – the Spaniard is the first Arai-sponsored rider to win race and leading the championship since American rider Nicky Hayden in 2006. All other world champions from 2007 till 2016 are not an Arai…
After months of speculations of whether new Movistar Yamaha Factory signing Maverick Vinales will win the season opener after an impressive 2017 pre-season tests where he had been the fastest rider was fulfilled tonight. The Spaniard has taken victory on his debut race for his Movistar Yamaha team at the Qatar MotoGP round after a…
Kawasaki Racing Team’s (KRT) Jonathan Rea and teammate Tom Sykes with Ducati Aruba. IT’s Marco Melandri took the Top Three spots in FP2 as they battled it out for the final spots in Superpole 2, which will take place before Saturday’s opening race at the Chang International Circuit. Setting the fastest time in the morning…
Reigning World Champion Jonathan Rea completed a near-perfect weekend at the sensational Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, taking the double victory as he started from ninth position in race two under the updated grid format. Beginning the season on the winning foot following a strong winter testing the new ZX-10RR machine, Rea was lost…
The first race to be held under the new grid rules, where the top three from race one start race two from the third row, had little effect on the winning machine that is Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team). He had to fight for his second race victory again, the 40th in his career, with…
The Red Bull Honda World Superbike Team has contested the opening race of the 2017 FIM Superbike World Championship today at Phillip Island, with Nicky Hayden and Stefan Bradl finishing eleventh and fifteenth respectively. Hayden launched from eleventh place on the grid and was immediately eighth on board his Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP2 machine as…
In a brilliant first race of the 2017 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship at Phillip Island on Saturday Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) took a superb win, to start the season in style. Rea beat Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) by just 0.042s across the line as the pair battled hard to the last…
The famous Hangar-7 facility in Salzburg, Austria, provided the stunning backdrop for the unveiling of the Red Bull Honda World Superbike team, which will charge into the 2017 WorldSBK season with Nicky Hayden and Stefan Bradl riding the brand-new Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade SP2. At centrestage were the two riders and their machines sporting the world-famous…
Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa today unveiled the 2017 Repsol Honda Team racing effort to the Indonesian and International media in the beautiful compound at the Jakarta International Expo (JIExpo), located in the centre of the Indonesian capital. Having spent yesterday enjoying the warm welcome and proud support of the associates at the AHM Factory…
The 2017 MotoGP Winter Test had come and went. The 3 days of testing saw the circuit been hampered by the slow drying asphalt on Day 1, rendering the testing schedule to be less productive than expected for all teams. Despite that, it managed to produce a surprise result by the end of Day 1,…
Day 2 of the Sepang Winter Test 2017 saw Team Suzuki Ecstar’s Andrea Iannone to set the best chrono of the day, leading today’s classification by 0.406s with the best lap of 1’59.452 as the Italian rider exploited the closing minutes and track conditions to put in a positive series of laps, being in the…
Photos: Ducati Corse and EDPIXS.com Those expecting to see new signings like Ducati’s Jorge Lorenzo, Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone and Factory Yamaha Racing’s Maverick Vinales topping the time sheets from Day 1 of the 2017 Sepang MotoGP Winter Test got a big surprise instead. It is former double World MotoGP Champion Casey Stoner who topped the…