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Gallery: Aruba Ducati launch 2017 World Superbike effort

08 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Ducati’s World Supersbike effort has been unveiled ahead of the 2017 season kicking off in Phillip Island in just over two weeks’ time. Minimal changes have been made to the striking fluorescent red...

WSB: Ducati unveil 2017 challenger

08 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Chaz Davies and Marco Melandri have uncovered the 2017 Panigale R they will race in the 2017 World Superbike Championship at the team launch in Italy. Welshman Davies heads in to the 2017 season a...

Gallery: Yamaha unveil EWC contenders for 2017

08 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Yamaha Endurance World Championship squads GMT94 and Yamaha Austria have pulled the covers off their 2017 machines alongside their fellow Yamaha superbike and off-road teams at the company’s racing...

MotoGP: Monster Yamaha rookies impress on 2017 debut

08 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

While headlines at last week’s opening test of the 2017 MotoGP season were firmly on factory Movistar Yamaha duo of Maverick Viñales and Valentino Rossi, they weren’t the only Yamaha riders to impress...

Gallery: Red Bull Honda launch 2017 WSB campaign

07 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Nicky Hayden and Stefan Bradl lifted the covers off the all new Red Bull Honda World Superbike challenger at a presentation in Austria yesterday. The team will race the all-new CBR1000RR Fireblade...

MotoGP: Bautista impresses at Sepang test

07 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Alvaro Bautista has impressed the MotoGP paddock after a stunning first test of the 2017 season to finish the three days top independent rider and in a strong seventh place overall, as he comes to...

WSB: PATA Yamaha launch 2017 livery

07 February 2017 by Gordon Ritchie

A multi-discipline pre-season launch of Yamaha’s official racing teams, from WorldSBK to off road and back again, took place at 11am on 7 February 2016, at the racing headquarters in Gerno di Lesmo,...

WSB: Jerez confirmed as penultimate round

07 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Jerez has been confirmed as the penultimate round of this year’s Superbike World Championship as the FIM release the finalised calendar for 2017. It was well rumoured that the Andalusian circuit would...

Moto3: SIC58 Squadra Corse launched ahead of debut season

07 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Marco Simoncelli’s father Paulo has pulled the covers off the Moto3 machines that Tatsuki Suzuki and Tony Arbolino will campaign in the Moto3 world championship when the team steps up from the Junior...

MotoGP: New Tata deal set to revolutionise TV coverage

07 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

MotoGP organisers Dorna say that a new deal signed with television back end provider Tata Communications will revolutionise the coverage of MotoGP that they provide to both host broadcasters and...

Video: Repsol Honda unveil 2017 bike in Indonesia

06 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

The Repsol Honda duo of Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa have once again received a hero’s welcome in Indonesia, one of MotoGP’s biggest market and home to a hugely passionate fanbase. Travelling to...

WSB: Honda unveil stunning Red Bull-liveried Fireblade

06 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Honda’s World Superbike team have announced a new sponsorship deal with energy drinks firm Red Bull for the 2017 World Superbike season. Former Grand Prix World Champions Nicky Hayden and Stefan...

Son of double world champion Brian Reid to make racing debut

06 February 2017 by Stephen Davison

20 year old Simon Reid has inherited his famous father Brian’s love of speed. Reid senior was a double Formula Two world champion on the roads in 1985 and ’86 and now Simon will follow in his...

MotoGP: KTM crew chiefs pleased with progress

06 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

The KTM crew chief duo of Tom Jojic and Paul Trevathan, responsible for Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaró respectively in their first year with the factory, say that they’re both pleased with the...

MotoGP: Lowes ‘not focusing on final position’ at Sepang test

06 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Sam Lowes has come away from his first test of 2017 as a factory Gresini Aprilia racer delighted with his progress on the RS-GP machine despite finishing the time sheets last of the regular riders...

BSB: ITV4 highlights deal extended to 2020

06 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Highlights of the MCE British Superbike Championship will continue to be broadcast on ITV4 after the signing of a new deal between the network and series’ rights holders Motorsport Vision. The deal...

MotoGP: Honda’s engine crisis continues

05 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

The crisis of confidence that Honda Racing had hoped that they’d seen the back of at the end of the 2016 season looks set to plague the team for another season, with both factory and satellite riders...

MotoGP: Cecchinello hopeful of better Honda links

05 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

LCR Honda boss Lucio Cecchinello says he’s hopeful of an improved relationship with Honda in the coming season off the back of Cal Crutchlow’s double wins, after a successful meeting with the firm’s...

Gallery: A closer look at the 2017 Repsol Hondas

05 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

With Repsol Honda pulling to covers off their 2017 MotoGP machine this week in Indonesia, we went up close and personal for a look at the machines that Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa will campaign when...

Video: Big goals for Andrea Iannone in 2017

05 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

With the 2017 MotoGP season underway after the first test got underway today at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia and with the Suzuki squad launching their new bikes at the track, we got the...

BSB: Michael Dunlop hires Carl Phillips as Stock 1000 protégé

04 February 2017 by Stephen Davison

Although Michael Dunlop has still not revealed his own 2017 race plans, the winner of last year’s Superbike and Senior TTs has announced a new protégé for this season. The 13 times TT winner is set to...

Gallery: Rossi's special testing helmet

04 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

With special testing liveries now almost a thing of the past come the first pre-season test at Malaysia as team launches get earlier and earlier every year, one splash of new colour that can usually...

MotoGP: Stoner says Ducati flying without wings

04 February 2017 by Colin Young

Casey Stoner has laid down an incredible marker to the MotoGP field by topping the opening day of the season’s first test at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit, shattering the lap record as he joined the...

MotoGP: Relieved Rossi reassured of Yamaha potential

04 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Valentino Rossi has admitted that he’s now much more relieved than he was before MotoGP returned to track in Sepang at the first of the official pre-season tests. He’s jumped onto a much-improved...

MotoGP: Repsol Honda reveal largely unchanged RC213V

03 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

The Repsol Honda squad of Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa have pulled off the covers from their 2017 RC213V machines, travelling to Honda’s Indonesian Astra factory to show off a largely unchanged...

BSB: Rain halts progress for Byrne in Jerez

03 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

MCE British Superbike Champion Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne enjoyed a rapid start to his second test of the 2017 season at Jerez this week to lap within 0.4 seconds of World Superbike man Tom Sykes. Byrne...

WSB: Rea ends European testing on a high

03 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Reigning World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea heads to Australia brimming with confidence after a positive European testing programme. Since November, Rea and his Kawasaki team have tested three...

Video: Davide Brivio talks about Suzuki's 2017 MotoGP targets

03 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

With the 2017 MotoGP season underway after the first test got underway today at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia and with the Suzuki squad launching their new bikes at the track, we got the...

MotoGP: Welsh MP questions Circuit of Wales over FTR purchase

02 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Welsh MP David Davies, who has emerged as the most vocal voice in questioning the Circuit of Wales project in recent months, has criticised circuit bosses for their purchase of chassis manufacturer...

MotoGP: Rabat has successful surgery after Sepang crash

02 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Marc VDS Honda rider Tito Rabat has undergone a successful surgery in Barcelona today to repair the damage he sustained during a testing crash on Tuesday at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit. The Spaniard...

Video: Rookie Rins keen to make his mark

02 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

With the 2017 MotoGP season underway after the first test got underway today at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia and with the Suzuki squad launching their new bikes at the track, we got the...

WSB: Breakthrough for Laverty in Portimao

01 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Eugene Laverty and the Milwaukee Aprilia squad were able to make a breakthrough in their final European pre-season test before heading to Phillip Island to start the 2017 Superbike World...

MotoGP: Crutchlow with a lot of work still to do

01 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Cal Crutchlow says he still has a lot of work to do on the LCR Honda machine before he and the team are ready to race come the first round of the 2016 MotoGP championship next month in Qatar after...

MotoGP: Iannone pleased with positive test

01 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Andrea Iannone says he’s delighted with the positive feeling that he and his new Suzuki team have made with his new GSX-RR machine after three days of testing in Sepang, where the Italian finished...

Opinion: BSB 2017 - Year of the young gun?

01 February 2017 by Oli Rushby

Following the announcement of Sylvain Guintoli’s return to the MCE British Superbike Championship in November, someone tweeted me to ask why rides in the British series weren’t being offered up to...

MotoGP: Viñales ends Sepang test on top

01 February 2017 by Simon Patterson

Maverick Viñales has finished the first test of the 2017 MotoGP season on the top of the timesheets, controlling the final day of action at the Sepang circuit to finish ahead of a surprise result from...

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