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Indianapolis MotoGP: Marquez makes it ten in a row

10 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Indianapolis MotoGP: Marquez makes it ten in a row

Marc Marquez has become the first rider to win 10 races in a row since Mick Doohan in 1997 after taking victory at Indianapolis today. Marquez didn’t have it all his own way, the pole sitter was...

Indianapolis Moto2: Kallio dominates to take win

10 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Indianapolis Moto2: Kallio dominates to take win

Marc VDS rider Mika Kallio narrowed his team-mate’s championship lead to just seven points with victory in a shortened 16 lap race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kallio led from pole position...

Indianapolis Moto3: Vazquez takes first Moto3 win

10 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Indianapolis Moto3: Vazquez takes first Moto3 win

Honda rider Efren Vazquez took his first ever victory in the Moto3 race at Indianapolis after a race-long battle between the leading group. Italian rider Romano Fenati led the final lap onboard the...

Oulton BSB: King Kiyo on top in race two

10 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Oulton BSB: King Kiyo on top in race two

Ryuichi Kiyonari has taken yet another win in the second race of the weekend at Oulton Park, muscling out Josh Brookes and Shane Byrne to take the win in damp conditions. Brookes was the early race...

Indianapolis Moto2: Kallio heads Marc VDS one two

09 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Indianapolis Moto2: Kallio heads Marc VDS one two

Mika Kallio wwill start the Indianapolis Moto2 race from pole position ahead of team-mate and championship rival Esteve Rabat. Kallio set his fastest time of 1’36.883 fairly early in the session, but...

Indianapolis MotoGP: Marquez continues domination with pole

09 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Indianapolis MotoGP: Marquez continues domination with pole

Reigning world champion Marc Marquez got straight back into the swing of things after the summer break by taking pole position in the USA with a best time of 1’31.619. The Spaniard had a scare early...

Indianapolis Moto3: Miller on pole

09 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Indianapolis Moto3: Miller on pole

Australian Jack Miller will start tomorrow’s Moto3 race from pole position at the revamped Indianapolis circuit. The KTM rider set a best time of 1’40.727 to grab pole ahead of Efren Vasquez and Alex...

Oulton BSB: Kiyo wins in style

09 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Oulton BSB: Kiyo wins in style

Ryuichi Kiyonari has taken a dominant win in the first race of the weekend at Oulton Park, coming from his lowly tenth place on the grid after a Q2 crash to catch first Shane Byrne and then Josh...

Oulton BSB: Byrne takes pole in drama-filled qualifying

09 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Oulton BSB: Byrne takes pole in drama-filled qualifying

Shane Byrne will start the first of the weekend’s three races at Oulton Park from pole position, after a qualifying session full ofdrama at the Cheshire track.   Ryuichi Kiyonari looked set to be the...

Marc Marquez: 'I prefer bikes to girls'

08 August 2014 by Matthew Birt

Marc Marquez: 'I prefer bikes to girls'

It’s February 20, 2014 and Marc Marquez is grimacing in a crumpled heap after falling off his flat-
track bike while training near his home in Lleida, west of Barcelona. The infectious grin has been...

PBM MotoGP riders set for Oschersleben 8hr race

08 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

PBM MotoGP riders set for Oschersleben 8hr race

Paul Bird Motorsports MotoGP riders Broc Parkes and Michael Laverty will return to their superbike roots for the Oschersleben 8hr round of the Endurance World Championship, with the duo riding a...

Ride the legendary Assen circuit with MCN and MCE BSB

08 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Ride the legendary Assen circuit with MCN and MCE BSB

MCN have once again linked up with the MCE British Superbike championship to offer 200 lucky readers the opportunity to lap the legendary Assen circuit ahead of next month’s BSB round at the iconic...

Brookes escapes FP1 crash unharmed

08 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Brookes escapes FP1 crash unharmed

Josh Brookes was lucky to escape unharmed from a fast crash in Free Practice 1 at Oulton Park this morning, falling from the Milwaukee Yamaha at Druids half way through the opening session of the...

Yamaha: We are looking for the real Jorge Lorenzo

07 August 2014 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha: We are looking for the real Jorge Lorenzo

Yamaha bosses have said it is essential that Jorge Lorenzo can return to winning ways in the second half of the 2014 MotoGP world championship. The Spaniard’s struggle to be competitive in the first...

Lorenzo pens new two-year Yamaha deal

07 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Lorenzo pens new two-year Yamaha deal

Jorge Lorenzo has, as expected, announced a new two-year deal with Yamaha that will see him remain at the Movistar MotoGP team alongside Valentino Rossi until at least the end of the 2016 season.  ...

Byrne shooting for podium credits at Oulton

07 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Byrne shooting for podium credits at Oulton

With this weekend seeing a triple header battle at Oulton Park, as a Saturday evening race joins Sunday’s two feature battles, championship leader Shane Byrne says he needs to capitalise on the...

Kiyonari: More aggression needed for Oulton

07 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Kiyonari: More aggression needed for Oulton

Three times MCE British Superbike champion Ryuichi Kiyonari says he needs to find more aggression ahead of this weekend’s Oulton Park round, after losing out at Thruxton in both races to Shane Byrne...

Bradl signs with NGM Forward Racing

07 August 2014 by Liam Marsden

Bradl signs with NGM Forward Racing

The NGM Forward Racing team has officially announced that German Stefan Bradl will ride for the team in 2015. Bradl will ride one of the team’s Open Class bikes, made up of a Yamaha M1 engine with...

BSB to launch KTM 390 Cup?

06 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

BSB to launch KTM 390 Cup?

KTM UK are currently in talks with MCE British Superbike organinsers MSV about the potential of seeing the Austrain’s new RC390, aimed at new riders, headlining a one-make series for 2015 in the BSB...

Mason back in BSB with Tsingtao Kawasaki

05 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Mason back in BSB with Tsingtao Kawasaki

Former MCE British Superbike Cup winner Gary Mason has announced a fulltime return to the series after his wildcard appearance at Brands Hatch, as he makes the move from Anvil Hire TAG Kawasaki to the...

BSB veterans Smart and Richards return for Oulton

05 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

BSB veterans Smart and Richards return for Oulton

BSB veterans and former British champions Scott Smart and Glen Richards will be reunited this weekend as teammates, as the pair rejoin the MCE British Superbike series to deputise for the injured...

Thruxton BSB: Brookes doubles up in race two

03 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Thruxton BSB: Brookes doubles up in race two

Josh Brookes has doubled up on his win in the first race at Thruxton, taking a win in the second race by holding off his main title rivals Shane Byrne and Ryuichi Kiyonari.   Byrne was the early...

Thruxton BSB: Brookes wins ahead of War for Four battle

03 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Thruxton BSB: Brookes wins ahead of War for Four battle

Josh Brookes has taken an imperious win on the Milwaukee Yamaha in the opening MCE British Superbike race at Thruxton, getting clear at the front before extending his lead out to over four seconds at...

Strong Danish team top speedway world

02 August 2014 by Tony Hoare

Denmark won the speedway world team cup in Poland tonight in one of the most dramatic conclusions to the competition in recent years. With the scores tied going into the last race, individual world number three Niels-Kristian Iversen surged around the outside of Poland’s Janusz Kolodziej on the last turn to secure victory for the Danes over the host nation by a single point. Iversen said: “It was...

LCR Honda confirms Crutchlow for 2015

02 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

LCR Honda confirms Crutchlow for 2015

Lucio Cecchinello’s LCR Honda squad have confirmed that Brit Cal Crutchlow will replace Stefan Bradl for 2015, closing the circle of speculation opened this afternoon when Ducati announced the 29 year...

Thruxton BSB: Smrz takes maiden BSB pole

02 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Thruxton BSB: Smrz takes maiden BSB pole

Jakub Smrz has taken his long overdue virgin MCE British Superbike pole position, finishing 0.2 ahead of Josh Brookes to give Millsport Ducati their debut on the top spot as well, with his 1:15.281...

Crutchlow parts with Ducati, linked to LCR Honda

02 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Crutchlow parts with Ducati, linked to LCR Honda

Only a week after confirming at World Ducati Week and in an exclusive interview to MCN that he would remain with Ducati for 2014, the Italian manufacturer has dramatically confirmed that they will...

Camier to finally make MotoGP debut replacing injured Hayden

02 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Camier to finally make MotoGP debut replacing injured Hayden

Leon Camier will deputise for the injured Nicky Hayden at the next two rounds of the MotoGP championship, riding the Aspar Honda RCV1000 at Indianapolis and Brno.   Hayden, who is sitting out the two...

Rutter finds form on return from injury

01 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Rutter finds form on return from injury

Michael Rutter has found a return to the sharp end of the action in the MCE British Superbike Championship, taking third place in Friday’s free practicing at Thruxton. Rutter was less than0.1 off...

Thruxton BSB: Bridewell tops free practice

01 August 2014 by Simon Patterson

Thruxton BSB: Bridewell tops free practice

Local boy Tommy Bridewell has topped the time sheets on the opening day of action at Thruxton, taking the Milwaukee Yamaha to the top spot, but only 0.039 faster than Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne in...

Danes through to speedway team final

30 July 2014 by Tony Hoare

The British speedway team will face Denmark in the world cup final in Poland on Saturday night after the Danes won last night’s qualifying round in Sweden. Despite resting their two top riders, the Danes were still strong enough to comfortably see off Sweden, Czech Republic and Latvia in the qualifying round at Vastervik. Denmark’s team manager announced after the meeting that Grand Prix racers...

Suzuka 8hr: Haslam makes it two from two as Rea's TSR Honda crashes out

27 July 2014 by Simon Patterson

The MuSASHi Honda team of Michael van der Mark, Leon Haslam and Takumi Takahashi have taken their second consecutive victory in the Suzuka 8hr, after bad luck once again robbed their WSB teammate Jonathan Rea of what looked like an assured victory.   Rea’s FCC TSR Honda squad were early leaders when the race eventually got underway after a delay of over an hour caused by torrential rain that saw...

British speedway team through to world final

26 July 2014 by Tony Hoare

British speedway team through to world final

Great Britain pulled off a surprise win on night one of the Monster Energy Speedway World Cup at King’s Lynn in Norfolk to qualify directly for next Saturday’s final in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Led by world...

Suzuka 8hr: Tsuda breaks circuit record to take Yoshimura Suzuki to pole

26 July 2014 by Simon Patterson

Suzuka 8hr: Tsuda breaks circuit record to take Yoshimura Suzuki to pole

Takuya Tsuda has dipped under the Suzuka absolute lap record to secure pole position for his Yoshimura Suzuki team in tomorrow’s 8hr race. His incredible 1:06.703 lap means that he will line up front...

Haslam with 'lots still to do' despite Suzuka provisional pole

25 July 2014 by Simon Patterson

Haslam with 'lots still to do' despite Suzuka provisional pole

Leon Haslam says that despite teammate Michael van der Mar putting their Musashi Honda team on provisional pole for Sunday’s Suzuka 8hr race, the Derbyshire man still has a lot of work to do to find...

Suzuka 8hr: Van der Mark takes pole for Musashi Honda at record pace

25 July 2014 by Simon Patterson

Suzuka 8hr: Van der Mark takes pole for Musashi Honda at record pace

Michael van der Mark has blown away the opposition with a record pace lap to take provisional pole position for the Musashi Honda squad in the Suzuka 8hr. The young Dutchman set a lap of 2:07.839,...