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Blog: Toseland, race 2

27 May 2006

Even after two times standing on the grid I’m still not used to it. I’m helping prepare the bike that just took James Toseland to a home podium. After the frantic dash to collect up everything and...

Continued from page 1 New tyres were put on and everything was double checked to make sure it was all still ok for the restart and more fuel was put in. Then it was back out on the grid for the second...

Three wise babes...

20 May 2006

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Rossi wins sport award

20 May 2006

Valentino Rossi has been awarded the ‘Spirit of Sport’ award at the annual Laureus World Sports Awards in Barcelona on Monday, May 22. The ‘Spirit of Sport’ award was present to the Camel Yamaha...

Blog: In the Ten Kate pit

20 May 2006

Angus Farquhar is spending the weekend working in the Winston Ten Kate World Superbike garage with James Toseland at Silverstone: I’ve just finished my first day at Silverstone and it’s pretty amazing to see what it is like behind the scenes at a meeting like this. When you sit in the grandstands or watch it at home on telly it’s really hard to appreciate just how much work goes in to trying to...

Babes are still smiling

20 May 2006

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Kiyo seals Mondello pole

20 May 2006

RUICHI Kiyonari confirmed his pace around the twisty Mondello track in securing pole for tomorrow’s two Bennett’s BSB races here. The HM Plant Honda rider sits ahead of Shane Byrne and championship...

Suzuki wins at Albecete

20 May 2006

The Suzuki Castrol team of Keiichi Kitagwa, Matthieu Lagrive and Vincent Philippe has won the Albacete 8 Hour endurance race. The team ran a consistent race despite drama from the start when a...

Blog: Substitute racer

20 May 2006

Mr Neeves is away racing his long-term GSXR1000 in France; therefore I’ve taken his seat in the Bracken KTM 660 cup. He didn’t need to ask me twice, I nearly bit his arm off, but on reflection I may...

Fantasy race month 3

20 May 2006

The third Game Month of Fantasy Road Race 2006 commenced with the MotoGP meeting in France and the BSB race weekend at Mondello Park, although adverse weather conditions ultimately caused the cancellation of the latter. At Le Mans, Valentino Rossi looked all set for his second race victory of the season before mechanical problems resulted in his retirement for the second successive race. This...

MotoGP results: Le Mans

20 May 2006

Marco Melandri took the win at the Le Mans GP in a race that saw Valentino Rossi retire for the second time in a row. MotoGP finishing positions: Marco MELANDRI Loris CAPIROSSI Dani PEDROSA Casey...

Brit wins in Japan

20 May 2006

British off-roader Billy Mackenzie has won the MX2 class at the Grand Prix of Japan at Sugo, one year after taking his maiden victory at the same track. In the first race, Mackenzie, 22, seized the...

Win MX tickets

20 May 2006

We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to each of the three rounds of the Rhayader evening motocross series in Wales. The series takes place on Wednesday evenings throughout the summer and provides...

Pedrosa on French pole

20 May 2006

Dani Pedrosa notched up his second consecutive pole position today when he set the fastest qualifying time for tomorrow’s French MotoGP race at Le Mans. The Spanish Repsol Honda star, who won the...

Rossi stays in MotoGP

20 May 2006

Valentino Rossi has turned his back on a multi-million pound switch to Formula One in 2007 by confirming today he is to continue racing on two wheels in the MotoGP world championship. The...

Pretty as a picture...

20 May 2006

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Eyeing up the talent...

20 May 2006

We’re sure they’re just trying to deicde which stunningly handsome and suave Motor Cycle News journalist to try and seduce…. Or in reality, trying to spot the lunch being brough into the pits… See...

Club racer report: 5

20 May 2006

We’re covering the fortunes of club racer Nigel Baines as he competes in both the New Era and Wirral 100 championships, and his latest outing was the New Era Superclub round three at Oulton Park: ...

WSB: Silverstone Friday

20 May 2006

WSB First qualifying: Troy Bayliss and Troy Corser dominated the first qualifying session for Silverstone WSB despite big crashes for Bayliss and Toseland. Toseland, Chris Walker and Bayliss all...

MX crash for Carmichael

20 May 2006

Ricky Carmichael had to settle for second place following a first lap crash, as he begins his final season of competitve AMA motocross. The reigning champion took the holeshot, but lost the front end...

Brolly good babe...

20 May 2006

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Toseland wins World Cup

20 May 2006

In the build-up to the Silverstone round of the World Superbike championship at Silverstone from May 26-28, 2006, James Toseland has already claimed a footballing victory against his WSB rivals. ...

Fancy a roll-up?

20 May 2006

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Iddon takes SM win

20 May 2006

Christian Iddon took two wins in the SM1 class at the opening round of the Moto GB British Supermotard Championship at Cadwell Park on Saturday, May 20, despite switching from his Apirlia GP bike to...

Making the babes smile

20 May 2006

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Mondello BSB wash-out

20 May 2006

The Mondello Park round of the British Superbike championship was canceled on Sunday after heavy rain caused the track to flood. Circuit staff tried desperately to drain the water from the track,...

Hodgson's year improves

20 May 2006

Britain’s Neil Hodgson had a positive race weekend at the Infineon Raceway on May 20-21, as Suzuki’s Ben Spies took a fifth and sixth consecutive win. Spies led from the start of both 28 lap races to...

Melandri wins - Rossi out

20 May 2006

Marco Melandri took the win at the Le Mans GP in a race that saw Valentino Rossi retire for the second time in a row. The race was dominated by a two way battle between Rossi and Dani Pedrosa until...

Edwards' provisional pole

13 May 2006

The new chassis that Yamaha’s Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi are using for the Le Mans GP seems to have sorted their problems with the two riders taking a first and second fastest laps at the end...

Fantasy: Game month 2

13 May 2006

The second Game Month of Fantasy Road Race 2006 came to a close with MotoGP action from China. Dani Pedrosa took his first race win at the Shanghai circuit to score himself 25 Road Race points.

Babes apart...

13 May 2006

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MotoGP: China results

13 May 2006

250cc race results. 1. Hector Barbera. 2. Andrea Dovizioso. 3. Hiroshi Aoyama. 4. Jorge Lorenzo. 5. Yuki Takahashi. 6. Marco Simoncelli. 7. Roberto Locatelli. 8. Shuhei Aoyama. 9. Anthony West. 10.

A wry smile....

13 May 2006

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Kiyo tops first practice

13 May 2006

Honda’s Ryuichi Kiyonari has been the dominant force in the first day of practice for this weekend’s British Superbike race at Mondello Park. The Japanese rider came in a close second behind the...

BLOG: A very surreal day

13 May 2006

So this week we’re deep in the middle of hunting down some new bikes that are on the distant horizon, digging around in hushed conversations with factory people who should really know better but still...

Club racer report: 4

13 May 2006

We’re covering the fortunes of club racer Nigel Baines as he competes in both the New Era and Wirral 100 championships. Having competed in the opening two rounds of the Wirral 100 races, he now...