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Assen BSB: Iddon takes surprise pole

20 September 2014 by Simon Patterson

Assen BSB: Iddon takes surprise pole

The MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship Showdown continued dramatically at Assen as Title Fighters Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne and Ryuichi Kiyonari crashed out of Datatag Extreme Qualifying, but it...

Le Mans 24hr: Honda take second ahead of strong British field

19 September 2014 by Simon Patterson

Le Mans 24hr: Honda take second ahead of strong British field

The Honda Racing team of MCE BSB racers Julien Da Costa, Freddy Foray and Jason O’Halloran, joined by former world champion Sebastian Gimbert, will start tomorrow’s Le Mans 24hr race from second...

Yamaha rethinks Open class project for Forward Racing

19 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha rethinks Open class project for Forward Racing

Yamaha will continue to supply the Forward Racing squad with a factory YZR-M1 engine and chassis after a late strategy change for 2015. Yamaha management have always been adamant that its Open class...

Danny Kent confident Honda will suit style in Moto3

19 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Danny Kent confident Honda will suit style in Moto3

Danny Kent is confident Honda’s Moto3 machine will suit his fast cornering riding style more than the Husqvarna package he has been racing in 2014. As was first reported by MCN in Misano last weekend,...

Jorge Lorenzo happy to keep crew chief

19 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Jorge Lorenzo happy to keep crew chief

Jorge Lorenzo is to keep faith with long-serving crew chief Ramon Forcada. Speculation has been rife that Lorenzo was contemplating replacing Forcada for 2015 after his failure to seriously threaten...

Dominique Aegerter explains decision to stay in Moto2

18 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Dominique Aegerter explains decision to stay in Moto2

Highly rated Swiss rider Dominique Aegerter has explained why he turned his back on a potential MotoGP switch in 2015. Aegerter, who is currently fourth in the Moto2 standings courtesy of a debut win...

Yamaha delighted with Colin Edwards testing deal

18 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha delighted with Colin Edwards testing deal

Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis reckons Colin Edwards was the outstanding candidate to play a key role in adapting the YZR-M1 to Michelin tyres for 2016. Having prematurely split from the Forward Racing squad...

Scott Redding gutted to miss out on preferred crew chief

18 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Scott Redding gutted to miss out on preferred crew chief

Scott Redding has admitted he had a lump in his throat when he realised that his number one crew chief option for 2015 was not available. The 21-year-old was hoping to work with Casey Stoner’s...

Jack Miller to make MotoGP move with LCR Honda

17 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Jack Miller to make MotoGP move with LCR Honda

Jack Miller will make the huge leap into MotoGP in 2015 after it was finally confirmed the Moto3 world championship leader is to partner Cal Crutchlow in the LCR Honda squad next season. Miller has...

LCR Honda rubbish Jerry Burgess crew chief link

17 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

LCR Honda rubbish Jerry Burgess crew chief link

A shock return to MotoGP in 2015 for Valentino Rossi’s legendary ex-crew chief Jerry Burgess has been dismissed as ‘complete fantasy.’ Burgess, who was sacked by Rossi at the end of last season after...

Lorenzo boss: Misano front tyre choice worth a gamble

17 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Lorenzo boss: Misano front tyre choice worth a gamble

Jorge Lorenzo’s factory Yamaha team boss Wilco Zeelenberg believes the Spaniard’s hard front tyre choice in Sunday’s Misano MotoGP race was a gamble worth taking. Lorenzo, who had claimed three...

Rossi tips Bastianini for big future

17 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Rossi tips Bastianini for big future

Valentino Rossi has backed Italian Moto3 sensation Enea Bastianini to emerge as a big star of the future. Bastianini has been one of the big revelations of 2014 after graduating from the Red Bull...

Cal Crutchlow worried by slow Ducati pace

16 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow worried by slow Ducati pace

Cal Crutchlow says he is not worried that his nightmare experience at Ducati will have an impact on his switch to the LCR Honda squad in 2015. Misano MotoGP winner Valentino Rossi spent most of his...

Donington Park set for MotoGP safety inspection

16 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Donington Park set for MotoGP safety inspection

A delegation of MotoGP management will visit Donington Park tomorrow (Wednesday) to check on potential modifications that the Leicestershire venue may have to implement ahead of next year’s British...

Aprilia confirms two-year MotoGP deal for Alvaro Bautista

16 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Aprilia confirms two-year MotoGP deal for Alvaro Bautista

Spaniard Alvaro Bautista will remain with the Gresini squad in 2015 after agreeing a two-year deal to lead the Italian factory’s return to MotoGP next season. Just days after Gresini Racing announced...

Spanish football forces MotoGP season opener date change?

16 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Spanish football forces MotoGP season opener date change?

The 2015 MotoGP world championship campaign was due to kick off under the Losail International Circuit floodlights in Qatar on March 22. The date was agreed in meetings during last weekend’s Misano...

Eugene Laverty confirms MotoGP switch in 2015

16 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Eugene Laverty confirms MotoGP switch in 2015

Eugene Laverty will switch to MotoGP in 2015 after confirming he will leave the Voltcom Crescent Suzuki World Superbike squad at the end of the season. As was first revealed by MCN, the Irish rider...

Eugene Laverty lands Aspar Honda deal?

15 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Eugene Laverty lands Aspar Honda deal?

Eugene Laverty is understood to have clinched a MotoGP move for 2015 with the high profile Aspar Honda squad. MCN sources understand Laverty has agreed a deal to ride a production RCV1000R next season...

Lintin takes Gold Cup victory ahead of McGuinness

15 September 2014 by Stephen Davison

Lintin takes Gold Cup victory ahead of McGuinness

Ivan Lintin was the surprise winner of Scarborough’s Gold Cup on the Taylor Lindsey Racing Honda on Sunday. With Guy Martin, Michael and William Dunlop and Ian Hutchinson all sitting out the last...

Scott Redding back with Marc VDS on factory Honda

15 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Scott Redding back with Marc VDS on factory Honda

Scott Redding will make a dream return to the Marc VDS Racing squad in 2015 to ride a factory Honda RC213V in next year’s MotoGP world championship. After a period of intense negotiations, Marc VDS...

MotoGP Misano: Rossi wins after commanding race

14 September 2014

MotoGP Misano: Rossi wins after commanding race

The yellow, number 46 flags will be waving long into the Misano evening, as Valentino Rossi secured a solid race win and became the first rider to score 5000 Championship points, after riding a...

Misano MotoGP: Lorenzo secures first pole of the season

13 September 2014

Misano MotoGP: Lorenzo secures first pole of the season

Jorge Lorenzo scored his first pole of the season at Misano today and with it came a visible surge of confidence. Despite his fastest lap of 1’33.328 being only 0.051 seconds ahead of the Ducati...

Qatar to kick off 2015 MotoGP campaign on March 22

13 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

The 2015 MotoGP world championship campaign will kick off under the Losail International Circuit floodlights on March 22. MCN obtained a final winter testing schedule that was approved in Misano yesterday (Friday) that confirmed the season opener will be run over four nights, with practice commencing on Thursday, March 19. The 2015 winter testing schedule will kick off as originally intended at...

Iddon joins Bimota team for BSB Assen

12 September 2014 by Simon Patterson

Iddon joins Bimota team for BSB Assen

Christian Iddon will join the Alstare Junior team at next weekend’s Assen round of the MCE British Superbike championship, coming onboard as the team’s WSB effort was axed by homologation rules.

Gresini to head Aprilia’s MotoGP return in 2015

12 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

Gresini to head Aprilia’s MotoGP return in 2015

Fausto Gresini will lead Aprilia’s long awaited return to MotoGP competition next season after he confirmed a four-year collaboration with the Italian brand in Misano today. Gresini will end his long...

WSB extend Pirelli tyre contract until 2018

11 September 2014 by Simon Patterson

WSB extend Pirelli tyre contract until 2018

World Superbike organisers have extended their one-make tyre deal with Pirelli until the end of the 2018 season, extending the deal until its fifteenth year. Javier Alonso, WSBK Executive Director...

Hutchinson set for National Stock 1000 and Macau GP return with Paul Bird

11 September 2014 by Simon Patterson

Hutchinson set for National Stock 1000 and Macau GP return with Paul Bird

Ian Hutchinson will return to the national Superstock 1000 championship for the last two races of this season, signing a deal with Paul Bird’s Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki after losing his seat with the...

MV Agusta set for BSB with Tsingtao Kawasaki

11 September 2014 by Simon Patterson

MV Agusta set for BSB with Tsingtao Kawasaki

MV Agusta will return to the MCE British Superbike paddock for 2015, with national Superstock 1000 championship leaders Tsingtao Hampshire Motorcycles making the switch from Kawasaki, for not only...

MotoGP boss: ‘Important’ Valentino Rossi is racing on

10 September 2014 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP boss: ‘Important’ Valentino Rossi is racing on

Never underestimate the power and influence of nine-times world champion Valentino Rossi. Marc Marquez might be rapidly emerging as the new poster boy of MotoGP with a string of record-breaking...

Kiyonari to stay with Buildbase BMW for 2015

10 September 2014 by Simon Patterson

Kiyonari to stay with Buildbase BMW for 2015

Ryuichi Kiyonari, fresh from his double win at Donington and heading into the BSB Showdown as one of the title favourites, has extended his deal with the Buildbase BMW team for the 2015...

Donington BSB: Kiyo takes the double to set up Showdown

07 September 2014 by Sports desk

Donington BSB: Kiyo takes the double to set up Showdown

Ryuichi Kiyonari celebrated his second double win of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship, holding off a hard-charging Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne in the second race at Donington Park, as the...

Donington BSB: Kiyo from Byrne in epic first race

07 September 2014 by Sports desk

Donington BSB: Kiyo from Byrne in epic first race

The MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship ‘War for Four’ titles continued to rage between Ryuichi Kiyonari and Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne in an epic opening race at Donington Park as the pair...

Jerez WSB: Melandri wins as Guintoli keeps title fight alive

07 September 2014 by Sports desk

Jerez WSB: Melandri wins as Guintoli keeps title fight alive

The drama in race 2 at Jerez began almost immediately as best EVO classified rider in race one David Salom (Kawasaki Racing Team) crashed out on lap one with Davide Giugliano (Ducati Superbike Team)...

Jerez WSS: Van Der Mark wins title in style with epic race victory

07 September 2014 by Sports desk

Jerez WSS: Van Der Mark wins title in style with epic race victory

A race long fight at the front involving 5 riders raged in Spain this afternoon as Michael van der Mark (Pata Honda World Supersport Team) became the 2014 World Supersport Champion in style by winning...

Jerez WSB: Melandri wins Spanish thriller

07 September 2014 by Sports Desk

Jerez WSB: Melandri wins Spanish thriller

In of the closest races of the season so far Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team) has taken the win in race one at Jerez after a 20 lap encounter that saw the leading group of eight riders exchanging...

Jerez WSB: Baz storms to pole with new circuit record

06 September 2014 by Sports Desk

Jerez WSB: Baz storms to pole with new circuit record

An intense Tissot-Superpole second session has been won by Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) who claimed Pole Position today at Jerez. the young Frenchman will move off ahead of everyone else in the...