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Dani Pedrosa remains keen on new Honda deal

21 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

Dani Pedrosa remains adamant his priority is to remain an official factory Honda rider in 2015. The Spaniard has been linked with a lucrative switch to lead Suzuki’s new 1000cc project, but he is keen...

Simon Andrews 1984 to 2014

20 May 2014 by Michael Guy

Following his crash on lap four of the Superstock race at the North West 200 on Saturday, Simon Andrews succumbed to his injuries on Monday afternoon. The hugely popular 29 year old had enjoyed an...

Sachsenring’s spectacular Turn 11 unchanged for 2014

20 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

One of the most jaw-dropping and spectacular corners on the MotoGP calendar – Sachsenring’s famous Turn 11 – will not be modified for 2014. The downhill plunge, nicknamed the ‘Waterfall’, faced a...

Colin Edwards cagey on Michelin testing role

20 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

Colin Edwards has played down talk that he will lead development for Michelin if the French brand takes over from Bridgestone as official MotoGP tyre supplier in 2016. Michelin submitted its formal...

Pol Espargaro admits imminent factory Yamaha move unlikely

20 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

Pol Espargaro’s ambitions of being a factory Yamaha rider in the near future might be on hold for considerably longer than he might have imagined. The current Moto2 world champion rides for the...

Marquez: Rossi hard to beat in Mugello

19 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

Marc Marquez may have won all five races so far in a dominant 2014 MotoGP campaign, but the Spaniard fears it could be tough to defeat Valentino Rossi in Mugello next time out. Rossi has been the only...

Valentino Rossi: Marquez not Honda making difference

19 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi says it is the man and not the machine that is propelling Marc Marquez effortlessly towards a successful defence of his MotoGP world title in 2014. The Spaniard was unstoppable again...

Woffy surges back into title fight

18 May 2014 by Tony Hoare

Tai Woffinden charged back into world speedway championship contention with second place in Saturday night’s Finnish Grand Prix. Britain’s defending world champion was leading the deciding final heat...

Le Mans MotoGP: Marquez battles to another win

18 May 2014 by Liam Marsden

Reigning champion Marc Marquez has made it five wins in the first five races of 2014 despite running off track on the opening lap. The 21-year-old Spaniard was pushed wide and over the kerb by Jorge...

Le Mans Moto2: Kallio takes second successive win

18 May 2014 by Liam Marsden

Marc VDS rider Mika Kallio made it two on the bounce with victory at Le Mans today to keep up the pressure on team-mate and championship leader Esteve Rabat. Kallio rode a calculated race, allowing...

Le Mans Moto3: Miller battles to take win

18 May 2014 by Liam Marsden

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

17 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

17 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

17 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

17 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

17 May 2014 by Liam Marsden

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

17 May 2014 by Liam Marsden

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

17 May 2014 by Liam Marsden

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

15 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

15 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

15 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

15 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

15 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

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

15 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

15 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

15 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

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?

14 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

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

14 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

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

14 May 2014 by Matthew Birt

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

13 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

13 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

13 May 2014 by Ssimon Patterson

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

13 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

12 May 2014 by Gordon Ritchie

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

11 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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

11 May 2014 by Simon Patterson

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...

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