May

Le Mans Moto3: Miller battles to take win

Le Mans Moto3: Miller battles to take win

Australian Jack Miller left it until the final lap to take victory at Le Mans and extend his championship lead after Romano Fenati retired from the race. Miller struggled as his factory KTM was...

NW200 Superbikes: Dunlop controls race to hold off BSB stars

NW200 Superbikes: Dunlop controls race to hold off BSB stars

Michael Dunlop had ended the day at the 2014 Vauxhall North West 200 with a controlling win in the final superbike race of the day, wrestling the lead from BSB stars Josh Brookes and Alastair Seeley...

NW200 Superstock: Dunlop takes first win on BMW in shortened race

NW200 Superstock: Dunlop takes first win on BMW in shortened race

Michael Dunlop has taken his debut in on the BMW S1000RR in the superstock race at the Vauxhall North West 200, winning after leading for only one lap in the shortened race after a serious incident...

NW200 Supertwins: Johnston does the double with a clear break

NW200 Supertwins: Johnston does the double with a clear break

Local star Lee Johnston has made up for his race one crash at the Vauxhall North West 200 by taking victory in the supertwin race, doubling up in the class after his Thursday night victory. He was...

NW200 Supersport: Anstey takes the win as Seeley and Johnston throw it away

NW200 Supersport: Anstey takes the win as Seeley and Johnston throw it away

Bruce Anstey has taken an astonishing win in the opening race of the day at the Vauxhall North West 200, picking up the pieces from third place after a last lap collision between the leading duo of...

Le Mans Moto2: Folger breaks record to take pole

Le Mans Moto2: Folger breaks record to take pole

Jonas Folger broke the pole position lap record set by Marc Marquez in 2012 with a lap of 1.37.619 at Le Mans to secure the first place spot for tomorrow’s Moto2 race. Folger just edged out Esteve...

Le Mans MotoGP: Marquez eases to another pole

Le Mans MotoGP: Marquez eases to another pole

Marc Marquez has taken his fifth pole position from five race weekends in 2014 at the Le Mans circuit in France with a fastest time of 1.32.042 onboard his Repsol Honda. The reigning champion will be...

Le Mans Moto3: Vazquez to start from pole

Le Mans Moto3: Vazquez to start from pole

Spanish rider Efren Vazquez has secured his first ever Moto3 pole position at the Le Mans circuit with a time of 1.42.491. The Honda rider beat championship hopeful Jack Miller to the front spot.

NW200 Superstock: Seeley makes it two from two

NW200 Superstock: Seeley makes it two from two

Alastair Seeley has made it two from two on the opening night of action at the North West 200, adding a Superstock race win to his Supersport victory from earlier in the night, after holding off the...

NW200 Supertwins: Lee Johnston takes debut North West win

NW200 Supertwins: Lee Johnston takes debut North West win

Lee Johnston has bounced back from a crash in the opening race of the day at the Vauxhall North West 200 to take his debut win at the Triangle circuit, with a series of late fast laps allowing him to...

NW200 Supersport: Seeley takes dramatic opening race win

NW200 Supersport: Seeley takes dramatic opening race win

Alastair Seeley has taken a dramatic win in the opening race of the 2014 Vauxhall North West 200, coming back from a first-lap incident that dropped him back to sixteenth and left to pick his way...

NW200 Superbikes: Dunlop scorches to pole position

NW200 Superbikes: Dunlop scorches to pole position

Michael Dunlop has taken pole position for Saturday’s North West 200 headline superbike races, taking the top spot with a late lap that blew away the lap record around the 9 mile circuit to lap it at...

Rossi confident he can take fight to Marquez

Rossi confident he can take fight to Marquez

Valentino Rossi is ready to go toe-to-toe with Marc Marquez – even though the nine-times world champion fears the Spanish sensation is unbeatable on current form. Marquez heads to this weekend’s...

NW200 Superstocks: Dunlop on lap record pace for pole

NW200 Superstocks: Dunlop on lap record pace for pole

Michael Dunlop has taken pole for the two superstock races at the North West 200 with a stunning late lap around the 9 mile Triangle circuit, only 0.1 from the lap record held by fellow front row...

NW200 Supertwins: Johnston goes pole ahead of opening races

NW200 Supertwins: Johnston goes pole ahead of opening races

Lee Johnston has secured pole position for the Supertwins races at the Vauxhall North West 200, taking his East Coast Construction Kawasaki ER-6 bike to the top spot with the first sub-5 minute lap...

Marquez: No pressure to extend winning streak

Marquez: No pressure to extend winning streak

Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has played down the pressure and expectation to continue his scintillating start to 2014 at the legendary Le Mans track this weekend. The Spaniard is...

Colin Edwards to race Harris-built frame in Mugello?

Colin Edwards to race Harris-built frame in Mugello?

Colin Edwards could be racing a British-built chassis on his Forward Racing Yamaha from the Mugello round later this month. But it won’t be the FTR frame the veteran Texan had expected to campaign...

Pol Espargaro aims to calm aggressive style

Pol Espargaro aims to calm aggressive style

Treat a lady bad and you’ll never be happy. The same applies to a 1000cc MotoGP bike, according to reigning Moto2 world champion Pol Espargaro, who has found the switch to MotoGP in 2014 a tough...

Marc Marquez signs new two-year HRC deal

Marc Marquez signs new two-year HRC deal

Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will remain with Honda until the end of 2016, the Japanese factory has confirmed this morning. The Spaniard, who is undefeated in four races so far in 2014,...

NW200 Superstock: Saiger a surprise pole in red flagged session

NW200 Superstock: Saiger a surprise pole in red flagged session

Austrian rider Horst Saiger was a surprise provisional pole position in the first qualifying session for the Superstock class at the Vauxhall North West 200, topping the time sheets with a 4:32.427...

NW200 Supertwins: Amor and Farquhar go 1-2 on their return to racing

NW200 Supertwins: Amor and Farquhar go 1-2 on their return to racing

Keith Amor has made a speedy return to international road racing as he returned from two years of retirement to top the super twins class in first qualifying on the KMR Kawasaki 650 machine, with a...

NW200 Superbike: Old hand Rutter on provisional pole

NW200 Superbike: Old hand Rutter on provisional pole

British Superbike veteran and thirteen time North West 200 race winner Michael Rutter has put his Bathams Ale BMW on provisional pole for the superbike races at this weekend’s event, out-qulifying...

NW200 Supersport: Dunlop on top as Hutchy crashes out

NW200 Supersport: Dunlop on top as Hutchy crashes out

William Dunlop has topped the timing sheets in the opening supersport session at the North West 200, taking the Tyco Suzuki some 1.3 seconds quicker over the 9 mile circuit than second place man...

Rea picks up where he left off

 Rea picks up where he left off

No fewer than 21 riders set times in the one-day test at Imola, which were held in dry conditions after the dry race weekend. To no-one’s surprise Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda) was fastest, using some new...

WSB Imola: Rea makes it two from two as he dominates in Italy

WSB Imola: Rea makes it two from two as he dominates in Italy

An imperious Jonathan Rea has taken a double victory at Imola by dominating race two, to complete a fairytale weekend for the Pata Honda, taking the championship lead in the process. Similar to race...

WSS Imola: Pata take a double as Zanetti wins, van der Mark second

WSS Imola: Pata take a double as Zanetti wins, van der Mark second

Lorenzo Zanetti has taken a home victory in the World Supersport race at Imola, taking his first ever win in the class as Pata Honda take back-to-back victories in the supersport class after Michael...

WSB Imola: Rea goes back to back with race one win

WSB Imola: Rea goes back to back with race one win

Jonathan Rea has taken back to back wins in World Superbike, taking the first win at Imola to double up his victory last time out in Assen and heading up an all-British podium of Chaz Davies and Tom...

WSB Imola: Rea scores his first 2014 Superpole win

WSB Imola: Rea scores his first 2014 Superpole win

Following on from a race win in the wet at Assen last time out Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike) fired in a strong Superpole lap at a blisteringly hot Imola to take his first pole of 2014 and...

WSB Imola: Rea on top after early end to Friday's action

WSB Imola: Rea on top after early end to Friday's action

A broken drain cover on the exit of the Tamburello chicane brought the second Superbike session of the opening day at Imola to a close with 12 minutes left on the clock. British riders were in the...

WSS Imola: Sofuoglu from Coghlan after one day of action

WSS Imola: Sofuoglu from Coghlan after one day of action

Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Mahi Racing Team India) scored the early advantage at the Imola race weekend, setting the best lap of the first two practice sessions as he tries to get back into the...

Suzuki working on new bike for 2015

Suzuki working on new bike for 2015

Suzuki will roll out a heavily revamped new 1000cc MotoGP bike in time for the start of the 2015 pre-season testing campaign in Valencia in early November. There is no doubt the Japanese factory,...

KTM begins 2015 Moto3 assault

KTM begins 2015 Moto3 assault

KTM has already kicked off its factory Moto3 assault for 2015 after testing next year’s factory bike in a behind-closed-doors test at the Almeria track in Spain recently. The bike is a complete revamp...

Honda happy to keep Dani Pedrosa for 2015

Honda happy to keep Dani Pedrosa for 2015

Honda has denied giving serious consideration to axing long-serving factory rider Dani Pedrosa at the end of 2014. Pedrosa has already been strongly linked with Suzuki, with the Japanese factory eager...

Suzuki switch appealing for Andrea Dovizioso

Suzuki switch appealing for Andrea Dovizioso

Andrea Dovizioso is emerging as an early favourite to clinch a switch to Suzuki’s factory MotoGP squad in 2015. Tentative talks between the Italian’s manager Simone Battistella and Suzuki senior...

Valentino Rossi to race on with new chassis

Valentino Rossi to race on with new chassis

It may only offer a minimal gain in feeling on corner entry, but Valentino Rossi will continue to race a new Yamaha chassis he rode to a brilliant second place in Jerez last Sunday. Rossi spent more...

Scott Redding gets edge grip boost in Jerez test

Scott Redding gets edge grip boost in Jerez test

British rider Scott Redding is confident he has found a solution to the rear tyre edge grip troubles that left him struggling to match the pace of production Honda rivals Nicky Hayden and Hiroshi...