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Off-road race dates

18 March 2005

Find dates for 2005 off-road action here. We’ve just added the dates for the British MX series (see page 2 of this story). See below for the dates for the Speedway Grand Prix, Speedway World Cup,...

WSB champ James Toseland is joining Ducati customers and fans at the joint birthday party for Ducati London South and Central on Saturday night (March 19). The event, at the Sports Café in Haymarket,...

Hodgson 3rd on AMA grid

11 March 2005

Neil Hodgson has qualified in third place for the first round of the AMA Superbike championship in Daytona, Florida. Hodgson set a 1:39.884 lap but it was Suzuki Rider Matt Mladin that really...

Hodgson 2nd at Daytona

11 March 2005

Britain’s Neil Hodgson has taken an impressive second place at Daytona on his AMA Superbike debut. The former World Superbike champion had a good start on the Parts Unlimited Austin Ducati 999R,...

Kiyonari heads BSB test

11 March 2005

Ryuichi Kiyonari has topped the timesheets at the British Superbikes official test day at Donington park on Sunday, March 13. The Japanese rider put in 52 laps with a best time of 1:32.676, nearly...

New sponsor for Davies

11 March 2005

British 250cc Grand Prix rider Chaz Davies has signed up for an innovative new sponsorship deal with insurance firm BikerPlan. The Bikerplan policy covers riders in the event they lose their licence...

Getting in on the picture

11 March 2005

We were actually just going to use Noriyuki Haga posing seductively as our babe of the day, but this young lady suddenly appeared in the picture…

GP season kicks off

11 March 2005

The 2005 MotoGP season kicks off in earnest tomorrow with the first of two official tests starting at Catalunya. All the teams bar WCM Blata will be at the circuit for the three day test and there...

De Reuver to miss MX2

11 March 2005

KTM MX2 rider Marc De Reuver will miss the first half of the 2005 motocross season. The Dutch rider broke three ligaments in his left knee after crashing during a race in Holland. Surgey took place...

Hawk land top totty deal

11 March 2005

Hawk Kawasaki has a new sponsor – which should mean they have some of the hottest brolly babes on the grid. TottyMob.com is backing the team in the 2005 Bennetts British Superbike Championship. The...

BSB rider profiles

11 March 2005

Find details on all the riders competing in the 2005 British SUperbike championship by following the links on the right. 2005 British Superbike dates: March 26 – 28, Brands Hatch (Indy) April 8 – 10,...

2005 BSB official launch

11 March 2005

The official media launch of the 2005 Bennetts British Superbike championship took place at the glamorous Audi Forum in the West End of London on Wednesday, March 16. Almost all of the top riders...

Rossi tops Yamaha test

11 March 2005

Valentino Rossi finished the three-day Yamaha Phillip Island MotoGP test with the fastest time. The first two days of the test were drenched with rain and although it did clear for the final session...

Can I interest you?

11 March 2005

For some reason, we just kept coming back for another leaflet. By the end of the Scottish Show we had about 250 of the things…

Club rookie sets records

11 March 2005

At his first ever race meeting, 19-year-old Tom Gazzard won all four races, set the fastest lap, and was awarded the ‘Rider of the Meeting’ Riding for Go Star racing, the RAF trainee engineer...

A classic babe?

11 March 2005

Jodie Marsh shows us an unusual take on the racing crouch on this modern classic, and probably gives at least a couple of elderly Enfield enthusiasts a heart attack. See more of Jodie as Babe of the...

KTM delay 250GP debut

11 March 2005

The new KTM 250cc GP bike will not race until the French GP, the fourth round of the season. “The KTM 250 was always planned as a development project for 2005 so not being present for the opening...

Reed wins Daytona SX

11 March 2005

Chad Reed has won the 35th Daytona Supercross, ending the winning run of championship leader Ricky Carmichael. Carmichael, riding for Suzuki, battled for the lead until lap 17 when he left the track...

Vitrans offer VIP tickets

11 March 2005

You can be part of the paddock action with a VIP offer from the Vitrans Honda team at the first British Superbike round at Brands Hatch. You’ll be able to meet team riders Martin Finnegan and John...

Catalunya tests: 250GP

11 March 2005

125cc Catalunya test times: Day two. 1. Pasini 1:51.538. 2. Luthi 1:51.547. 3. Simoncelli 1:52.005. 4. Talmacsi 1:52.405. 5. Faubel 1:52.545. 6. lai 1:52.567. 7. Nieto 1:52.764. 8. Kallio 1:52.811. 9.

Supermono 2005 dates

11 March 2005

The British Supermono Association has announced its 2005 dates and a new championship sponsor. 90-ONE Education, who provide motor vehicle and road user studies to provide safer riding and driving, have teamed up with the BSA to sponsor this year’s 11-round series. The series kicks off at Brands Hatch on April 9 and 10, which is also the UK round of the European Supermono championship.

Corser tops WSB test

11 March 2005

Troy Corser has set the fastest time at the first day of World Superbike testing at Valencia in Spain. The Australian achieved the quickest time of the day in the dying stages of the second session...

Daytona warm-up

11 March 2005

Britain’s Neil Hodgson has continued his promising AMA debut with the fourth fastest time in warm-up for the first race at Daytona. The session was dominated by the Suzuki GSX-R1000s of Matt Mladin...

Teen star in British 125s

11 March 2005

Fourteen-year-old Alex Gault will enter the 2005 British 125GP Championship, riding one of only five Malaguti GP bikes in the world. Gault, sponsored by Barrus Malaguti, may be entering his teens,...

TT rider in record book

11 March 2005

TT rider Maria Costello will receive her official Guiness World Record Certificate as the fastest woman around the Isle of Man TT course on Saturday March 19. Costello recorded a spead of 114.73mph...

Set your pulse racing...

11 March 2005

To be honest, we’re not sure it’s actually the thought of the Knockhill track that’s affecting our blood flow…

She knows something!

11 March 2005 by Kevin Ash

Only a grid girl can look this shifty and still look gorgeous.

Classic riding attire

11 March 2005

Here’s more of Jodie Marsh, as promised yesterday, modelling riding attire we can’t condone…but can admire…

Four babes on a bike

11 March 2005

And the little one said, “Roll over”

Corser dominates test

11 March 2005

Troy Corser heads the timesheets following at a two-day World Superbike test at Valencia in Spain. The Australian has been fastest from the first session on Saturday, March 12, and only failed to...

18,000 at Hawkstone MX

04 March 2005

A crowd of close to 18,000 saw the International Motocross at Hawkstone Park at the weekend. Rinaldi Yamaha rider Cedric Melotte dominated the MX2 races. He won both MX2 races and took third in the...

Carmichael's seventh win

04 March 2005

Suzuki rider Ricky Carmichael increased his lead in the US AMA Supercross Championship to 35 points with his seventh win of the season at St Louis. The 25-year-old led all the way during the 20-lap...

Knight's enduro double

04 March 2005

David Knight began his defence of the British Enduro Championship with two wins and a limp at the Breckland Enduro on March 5 and 6. Competitors battled against snow, ice and rain over the two days.

Not racer focussed?

04 March 2005

Suddenly the photographer stopped concentrating on WSB rider Ben Bostrom, and noticed this young lady… Obviously we can’t blame him

Rossi unveils new colours

04 March 2005

Yamaha has unveiled the new look YZR-M1 that world champion Valentino Rossi and team-mate Colin Edwards will be riding this year in MotoGP. The pair travelled to Japan to reveal the bike with team...

Byrne back on track

04 March 2005

Shane Byrne got his first chance to ride Kenny Roberts’ Proton KTM MotoGP bike yesterday, after nearly five months away from the track. Shakey has had a difficult winter first waiting to hear if the...