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Silverstone WSB: Sofuoglu battles to controversial supersport win

04 August 2013 by Liam Marsden

Silverstone WSB: Sofuoglu battles to controversial supersport win

Kawasaki rider Kenan Sofuogolu won the World Supersport race at Silverstone after a race long battle with Sam Lowes, which saw the two riders collide on the final lap. Sofuoglu’s Kawasaki was visibly...

Silverstone WSB: Rea braves tricky conditions to take race win

04 August 2013 by Liam Marsden

Silverstone WSB: Rea braves tricky conditions to take race win

Pata Honda rider Jonathan Rea braved changing conditions during the first WSB race at Silverstone today to take his first victory of 2013. The start was delayed after rain began to fall, but the race...

Sykes fuming after Superpole fiasco

03 August 2013 by Michael Guy

Sykes fuming after Superpole fiasco

Tom Sykes has blasted WSB race organisers for their decision to stop the final Superpole session and then restart it after declaring it wet. Moments before the red flags were shown, Sykes had set a...

Silverstone WSB: Laverty to start from pole

03 August 2013 by Liam Marsden

Silverstone WSB: Laverty to start from pole

Factory Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty will start tomrrow’s races from Silverstone in pole position after setting the fastest lap during a final superpole session which was declared wet by...

Exclusive: Cal Crutchlow ready for Ducati challenge

03 August 2013 by Matthew Birt

Exclusive: Cal Crutchlow ready for Ducati challenge

Cal Crutchlow has admitted the challenge of making Ducati’s struggling factory Desmosedici machine a winner again in the MotoGP world championship will be the toughest of his career. Speaking for the...

WSB Silverstone: Sykes stays on top despite failing to improve on first qualifying time

03 August 2013 by Michael Guy

WSB Silverstone: Sykes stays on top despite failing to improve on first qualifying time

Tom Sykes secured provisional pole position at Silverstone despite being unable to better his first qualifying best in this morning’s second qualifying  session. The Kawasaki Superbike man spent the...

Silverstone WSB: Sykes from Camier in opening Free practice

02 August 2013 by Michael Guy

Silverstone WSB: Sykes from Camier in opening Free practice

Tom Sykes was the fastest man out of the blocks in free practice session today at Silverstone setting the fastest  time of the 45 minutes session. Sykes came under pressure from fellow Brit Leon...

Tech 3 boss ‘sad’ at Cal Crutchlow departure

02 August 2013 by Matthew Birt

Tech 3 boss ‘sad’ at Cal Crutchlow departure

Cal Crutchlow’s Monster Yamaha Tech 3 boss Herve Poncharal has spoken of his sadness at the British rider’s decision to complete a lucrative switch to Ducati’s struggling factory MotoGP squad in...

Bradley Smith happy to have future speculation ended

02 August 2013 by Matthew Birt

Bradley Smith happy to have future speculation ended

Cal Crutchlow’s decision to join Ducati for 2014 has at least ended constant speculation about the MotoGP future of current Monster Yamaha Tech 3 teammate Bradley Smith. With Pol Espargaro signed for...

Cal Crutchlow signs for Ducati

01 August 2013 by MCN

Cal Crutchlow signs for Ducati

Cal Crutchlow has taken a massive career gamble by accepting the tough challenge of transforming Ducati’s flagging fortunes in MotoGP next season. The British rider rejected an improved pay deal to...

Sidecars at Oliver's Mount

31 July 2013 by John

Sidecars at Oliver's Mount

Oliver’s Mount, Scarborough. Cock o’ The North races 21/07/2013

Suzuka 8hrs: Haslam becomes second British winner in two years

29 July 2013 by Simon Patterson

Suzuka 8hrs: Haslam becomes second British winner in two years

For the second year in a row, a British rider has triumphed at the Suzuka 8hr race, as the MuSASHI Harc-Pro Honda team of Leon Haslam, Michael van der Mark and Takumi Takahashi took the win by a...

Armoy 2013

28 July 2013 by jamierob

Armoy 2013

Michael Dunlop has time to give me a look as he celebrates winning the race of legends at Armoy, where the big crowd and fantastic weather made for a great days racing.

Suzuka 8-hour: Monster Yart Yamaha team on pole

27 July 2013 by Simon Patterson

Suzuka 8-hour: Monster Yart Yamaha team on pole

The Monster YART squad of Kats Nakasuga, Broc Parkes and Josh Waters continued to top the time sheets in this afternoon’s delayed final qualifying session to take pole for tomorrow’s Suzuka 8 hours...

Suzuka 8hrs: Monster YART take provisional pole

26 July 2013 by Simon Patterson

Suzuka 8hrs: Monster YART take provisional pole

Monster Yamaha Austria is on provisional pole position for the 2013 Suzuka 8hrs, beating off the Japanese ‘special’ teams to take the front spot at the home of Honda.   The team, consisting of...

Bradley Smith confident Tech 3 seat is safe for 2014

26 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Bradley Smith confident Tech 3 seat is safe for 2014

Bradley Smith is convinced his YZR-M1 seat in the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 squad is not in jeopardy for 2014 as teammate Cal Crutchlow’s future gets closer to being finalised. Ducati appears to have won...

Honda unlikely to sell all production machines for 2014

26 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Honda has admitted as many of two of its new production RC213V racers could go unsold for the 2014 MotoGP world championship. The Japanese factory had made available five production versions of its factory RC213V prototypes at a cost of between £800,000 and £1m for next season but presently only one order has been placed by Fausto Gresini’s Italian-based squad. That bike has been strongly linked...

Ducati: No time to replace Andrea Iannone at Laguna Seca

26 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Ducati has explained why it knocked back the chance to give John Hopkins a shock chance to return to MotoGP action during last weekend’s US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. Former BSB runner-up Hopkins was one of numerous candidates considered by the Pramac Ducati squad to replace injured Italian rookie Andrea Iannone, who was forced to withdraw from the American round after dislocating his right...

Suzuka 8hrs: Rea tops first day at Suzuka

25 July 2013 by Simon Patterson

Suzuka 8hrs: Rea tops first day at Suzuka

Defending champion Jonathan Rea topped the time sheets after the first day of free practice for the Suzuka 8hrs race in Japan.   Rea, riding for the FCC TSR Honda team alongside former BSB champion...

BMW withdraw from WSB

24 July 2013 by Michael Guy

BMW withdraw from WSB

BMW have confirmed today that they will terminate their involvement in the World Superbike championship at the end of the 2013 season. BMW joined WSB with a big budget full factory team with their...

Aspar torn between Aprilia and Honda for 2014 MotoGP season

24 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Aspar torn between Aprilia and Honda for 2014 MotoGP season

Spain’s high-profile Aspar MotoGP squad is torn over its future premier class plans, with options to remain as Aprilia’s number one outfit or buy Honda’s new production RC213V racer on the table. The...

Andrea Iannone: Too risky to race in Laguna Seca

24 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Andrea Iannone: Too risky to race in Laguna Seca

Andrea Iannone could have wrecked his rookie MotoGP campaign had he gambled on riding in Laguna Seca last weekend just a week after dislocating his right shoulder. The Italian damaged his right...

Bridewell joins Valentine at Halsall Racing

24 July 2013 by Phil Wain

Bridewell joins Valentine at Halsall Racing

Just over a week after parting company with the Bathams Honda team, Tommy Bridewell will now be seeing out the rest of the MCE British Superbike Championship season with the Halsall Racing squad. The...

Exclusive: Casey Stoner to test factory Honda in Japan

22 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Exclusive: Casey Stoner to test factory Honda in Japan

Double world champion Casey Stoner will make a dramatic return to MotoGP action next month when he tests a factory Honda RC213V at the Twin Ring Motegi track in Japan, MCN can reveal. The outspoken...

Rossi expected more errors from rookie Marquez

22 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Rossi expected more errors from rookie Marquez

Valentino Rossi believed 2013 MotoGP rookie sensation Marc Marquez would have made more mistakes at the start of his premier class career after the Spaniard claimed a stunning victory on his Laguna...

Title thoughts creeping in for Marc Marquez

22 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Title thoughts creeping in for Marc Marquez

Laguna Seca MotoGP winner Marc Marquez has admitted he has started to think about the prospect of becoming the first rookie to win the premier class title since American legend Kenny Roberts in...

Cal Crutchlow reflects on worst finish for 12 months

22 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow reflects on worst finish for 12 months

British rider Cal Crutchlow saw his hopes of becoming the first British rider since Barry Sheene in 1982 to collect three consecutive MotoGP podiums end in disappointment at the US Grand Prix. The...

Engine failure ends Bradley Smith’s top 10 run

22 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Engine failure ends Bradley Smith’s top 10 run

An undiagnosed engine failure robbed British rookie Bradley Smith of the chance to notch a seventh successive top 10 finish in the 2013 MotoGP campaign at Laguna Seca yesterday (Sunday). Smith was...

MotoGP Laguna Seca: Marquez secures audacious victory

21 July 2013 by Steve Hunt

MotoGP Laguna Seca: Marquez secures audacious victory

With three, unfamiliar Hondas on the front row at Laguna Seca, it took superb reactions from the lights by Rossi to separate them with a blistering start.  Stefan Bradl, showing no sign of rookie,...

BSB: Brands Hatch Race Two- Byrne extends championship lead with second race victory

21 July 2013 by Steve Hunt

BSB: Brands Hatch Race Two- Byrne extends championship lead with second race victory

Shane Byrne extended his lead to twenty-one points in the MCE BSB Championship this afternoon with a win in race two to make amends for his failure to finish in the earlier contest. ‘Shakey’ Byrne...

BSB: Brookes takes race one win at Brands Hatch

21 July 2013 by Steve Hunt

Pole starter Shane Byrne crashed out on lap 14 of the first race of the MCE BSB Championship at Brands Hatch whilst attempting to overtake eventual winner, Josh Brookes on his Tyco Suzuki. Having taken the lead on the fourth lap, Australian Brookes held on for the win and to narrow the lead of ‘Shakey’ Byrne to just ten points at the top of the championship.   MCE British Superbikes Championship  ...

WSBK/WSS: Remainder of Moscow races cancelled due to accident.

21 July 2013 by Steve Hunt

The remaining races for the weekend at the Moscow Raceway have been cancelled due to a tragic accident involving Go Elevent Supersport rider, Andrea Antonelli. The Italian rider fell on the final straight of the first lap of the World Supersport race – ran in severely wet conditions – and was unavoidably struck by Lorenzo Zanetti as he fell. Although there has been – as of yet – no official...

WSB Moscow Race One: Eventful race sees Melandri take victory

21 July 2013 by Steve Hunt

WSB Moscow Race One: Eventful race sees Melandri take victory

The twenty-five laps of race one at the tight Moscow raceway saw Chaz Davies make a great start to lead from turn one. The same could not be said of Carlos Checa however, who was taken out on only the...

Stefan Bradl snatches last gasp Laguna Seca pole

21 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Stefan Bradl snatches last gasp Laguna Seca pole

LCR Honda rider Stefan Bradl stormed to a career first MotoGP pole position in dramatic fashion at Laguna Seca this afternoon after a late crash denied Marc Marquez top spot in qualifying. Bradl’s...

Ben Spies ready to return in Indianapolis

20 July 2013 by Matthew Birt

Ben Spies ready to return in Indianapolis

Ben Spies has confirmed he will attempt to put a nightmare 10-month injury spell behind him when he returns to MotoGP action at the legendary Indianapolis track in mid-August. Spies has only raced...

BSB Brands Hatch: Shakey claims third pole of season

20 July 2013 by Philip Wain

BSB Brands Hatch: Shakey claims third pole of season

Shane Byrne claimed his third pole position of the season at Brands Hatch on Saturday, edging out season long rival Alex Lowes. The Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki rider went top of the time sheets with...