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Cal Crutchlow upbeat on return to top six in Misano

16 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow upbeat on return to top six in Misano

Cal Crutchlow salvaged a hard fought sixth place out of a tough Misano MotoGP weekend to put his recent miserable home race experience at Silverstone behind him. The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider...

Nicky Hayden frustrated at Ducati upgrade snub

16 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Nicky Hayden frustrated at Ducati upgrade snub

Nicky Hayden could not disguise his frustration at being denied the chance to test and race an upgraded factory Desmosedici GP13 for the last five races of his Ducati MotoGP career. The American...

Mistakes cost impatient Marc Marquez

16 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Mistakes cost impatient Marc Marquez

Marc Marquez was delighted to collect 20 valuable world championship points with a hard fought second place behind dominant factory Yamaha rival Jorge Lorenzo in yesterday’s Misano MotoGP clash. But...

Jorge Lorenzo rues mid-season mistakes

16 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Jorge Lorenzo fears his painful crashes in Holland and Germany earlier this season will prove crucial in his bid to capture a third MotoGP world title in 2013. The Spaniard produced yet another stunning display at Misano yesterday to romp to a start-to-finish victory that cut the gap in the title chase to Marc Marquez to 34-points with five races left to run. Lorenzo has been in sparkling form...

Turkey WSB: Double win for Laverty

15 September 2013 by Liam Marsden

Turkey WSB: Double win for Laverty

Factory Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty made it two wins in two in Istanbul today to narro the gap to championship leader Tom Sykes. Sykes finished second ahead of his main championship rival Sylvain...

San Marino MotoGP: Lorenzo dominates to take win

15 September 2013 by Liam Marsden

San Marino MotoGP: Lorenzo dominates to take win

Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo showed his class in San Marino to take the win by 3.379 seconds from championship leader Marc Marquez. Lorenzo got a terrific start from second on the grid and...

San Marino Moto2: Espargaro closes championship gap with win

15 September 2013 by Liam Marsden

San Marino Moto2: Espargaro closes championship gap with win

Pol Espargaro took the win at Misano today to close the gap to championship leader Scott Redding to 23 points. Redding, who qualified on the second row, was never quite in touch with the front group...

Turkey WSS: Sofuoglu battles to home win

15 September 2013 by Liam Marsden

Turkey WSS: Sofuoglu battles to home win

Kenan Sofuoglu has taken the win at his home race in Istanbul after a thrilling battle with championship leader Sam Lowes. The two riders both got good starts, with Sam Lowes taking the early...

Turkey WSB: Laverty takes race one honours

15 September 2013 by Liam Marsden

Turkey WSB: Laverty takes race one honours

Factory Aprilia rider Eugene Laverty has won the first race of the day in Turkey – his fifth race win of the season. The Irishman rode a good race to take first place from Tom Sykes, who struggled in...

Turkey WSB: Sykes on pole

14 September 2013 by Liam Marsden

Turkey WSB: Sykes on pole

WSB championship leader Tom Sykes will start from pole position for tomorrow’s races intanbul. Sykes will be joined on the front row by factory Aprilia rider Sylvain Guintoli and Althea Aprilia’s...

Cautious Cal Crutchlow fights back in Misano

14 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow produced his best form of a tough Misano MotoGP weekend in this afternoon’s final qualifying session to secure a place in the middle of the second row for tomorrow’s 28-lap San Marino clash. Lacking confidence with his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YZR-M1 machine after a crash-strewn home race at Silverstone earlier this month, Crutchlow didn’t make the top 10 cut for QP2 for the first time...

Bradley Smith slumps to worst qualifying of 2013

14 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

British rookie Bradley Smith will start from the lowest grid position of his impressive rookie MotoGP campaign in Misano tomorrow after the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider struggled to a lowly 13th in qualifying. A run of six consecutive top 10 starts came to an abrupt end as a lap of 1.34.869 meant Smith failed to advance from the opening QP1 15-minute session for the first time this season. The...

San Marino: Marquez in Pole, Crutchlow Fifth

14 September 2013 by Steve Hunt

Marc Marquez continued his assault on the MotoGP World Championship in this, his rookie year with another pole position in qualifying at San Marino. Cal Crutchlow, starting for the first time in the earlier Q1 session claimed a second row start behind a measured Lorenzo, a jubilant Rossi, and an increasingly quiet Pedrosa. In the earlier qualifying session, Crutchlow’s teammate and compatriot...

Sykes retains WSB series lead after Guintoli appeal rejected

13 September 2013 by Michael Guy

Sykes retains WSB series lead after Guintoli appeal rejected

Britain’s Tom Sykes maintains his position at the top of the WSB standings after a long standing appeal by Sylvain Guintoli and his Aprilia Racing team was rejected by the FIM International...

Cal Crutchlow: ‘I am riding s**t’

13 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow: ‘I am riding s**t’

Cal Crutchlow pulled no punches after the British rider endured one of the worst days of an excellent 2013 MotoGP campaign at the Misano track today. The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider was left...

Turkey WSB: Guintoli fastet on day one as injuries thin out the grid

13 September 2013 by Gordon Ritchie

Turkey WSB: Guintoli fastet on day one as injuries thin out the grid

Only 15 riders kicked off the first qualifying session after the injury list following the free practice session crashes earlier in the day contained four names – Carlos Checa, Ayrton Badovini (Both...

Turkey WSS: Lowes leads the way on day one

13 September 2013 by Gordon Ritchie

Turkey WSS: Lowes leads the way on day one

A fast early start from Supersport World Championship leader Sam Lowes (Yakhnich Yamaha) placed him in the overnight pole spot at the Istanbul Park Circuit in Turkey. At the home race of his great...

Ben Spies ruled out for rest of 2013

13 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Ben Spies ruled out for rest of 2013

Injury-ravaged Texan Ben Spies will not return to MotoGP action for the Ignite Ducati squad in the final five races of 2013. The left shoulder he dislocated in a practice crash for last month’s...

Nicky Hayden still weighing up 2014 options

13 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Nicky Hayden still weighing up 2014 options

Nicky Hayden might have tested Ducati’s factory Panigale World Superbike machine and visited Aprilia’s Italian HQ recently, but the popular American is still to decide whether his future lies in...

Tech 3 in dark over Yamaha’s new seamless shift gearbox

13 September 2013

Tech 3 in dark over Yamaha’s new seamless shift gearbox

Yamaha has yet to clarify whether Cal Crutchlow’s replacement Pol Espargaro and British rider Bradley Smith will race its new seamless shift gearbox from the start of the 2014 MotoGP world...

Slow healing arm troubles Cal Crutchlow

13 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Slow healing arm troubles Cal Crutchlow

British rider Cal Crutchlow’s bid to get his 2013 MotoGP campaign back on track in Misano will not be helped by a slow healing right arm injury he suffered in the first of three bruising crashes at...

Yamaha to race new gearbox in Misano

13 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha to race new gearbox in Misano

Reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi’s long wait to race Yamaha’s new seamless shift gearbox will come to an end this weekend in Misano. Yamaha has finally confirmed after months...

Cal Crutchlow seeks to regroup in Misano

11 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Cal Crutchlow seeks to regroup in Misano

Cal Crutchlow insists he and his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 squad will need to regroup in Misano this weekend after a tough recent spell in the MotoGP world championship. After coming within two seconds of...

Scott Redding ripping up history books in 2013

11 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Scott Redding ripping up history books in 2013

Scott Redding’s surge to the top of the Moto2 world championship in 2013 has seen the MotoGP-bound British star break numerous long-standing records. Three wins has moved Redding into a comfortable...

Video: BSB Donington Park Race 1 Highlights

10 September 2013 by MCN

Video: BSB Donington Park Race 1 Highlights

Check out all the action from the first race at Donington Park – round nine of the MCE British Superbike Championship and the crucial last round before the Showdown!

MotoGP crew chief search goes on for Scott Redding

10 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP crew chief search goes on for Scott Redding

Scott Redding is still waiting to learn who will be the technical mastermind behind his rookie MotoGP campaign in 2014 after current crew chief Pete Benson declined the chance to move to the Gresini...

Michael Laverty to test Aprilia ART after Misano race

10 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Michael Laverty to test Aprilia ART after Misano race

Michael Laverty will have the chance to compare the British-built PBM frame he has been racing in the 2013 MotoGP world championship against the Aprilia ART machine in a post race test at Misano next...

Yamaha: Essential to keep Jorge Lorenzo beyond 2014

09 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha: Essential to keep Jorge Lorenzo beyond 2014

Re-signing Jorge Lorenzo will be Yamaha’s number one future priority, with the Japanese factory fearing rivals Honda will try and tempt the reigning world champion into a Spanish super team with Marc...

Scott Redding: Strategy is just to beat Espargaro

09 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Scott Redding: Strategy is just to beat Espargaro

Scott Redding says his only strategy for the remainder of the 2013 Moto2 world championship will be to finish ahead of Pol Espargaro in what is sure to be a tense and dramatic final six races. A...

Suzuki not committed to wild card races in 2014

09 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Suzuki has no plans to thrust its new 1000cc factory prototype into direct competition against Honda and Yamaha in 2014. It was thought that Suzuki would make selected wild card appearances next season to ensure its new 1000cc contender returns race ready and competitive in 2015. By throwing itself into direct competition against dominant Japanese rivals Honda and Yamaha, Suzuki would at least...

Paul Bird reveals ambitious future MotoGP strategy

09 September 2013 by Matthew Birt

Paul Bird reveals ambitious future MotoGP strategy

High profile British MotoGP boss Paul Bird has unveiled ambitious plans to run a factory-backed effort for Yamaha or Ducati in the 2015 world championship. Bird currently runs an Aprilia ART machine...

Donington BSB: Lowes powers to second double in two rounds

08 September 2013 by Simon Patterson

Donington BSB: Lowes powers to second double in two rounds

Alex Lowes has scored a double win, his second on the trot, taking race two in dominant form at Brands Hatch from main championship rival Shane Byrne. Lowes led the race from start to finish, taking...

Donington BSS: Easton takes close win in red flagged race two

08 September 2013 by Simon Patterson

Donington BSS: Easton takes close win in red flagged race two

Stuart Easton has piloted his Mar-Train Yamaha to victory in the second Motorpoint Supersport race of the weekend at Donington Park, as the 600cc class produced yet another close and frantic...

Donington BSB: Lowes takes race one victory at Donington

08 September 2013 by Simon Patterson

Donington BSB: Lowes takes race one victory at Donington

Alex Lowes has taken victory in the first MCE British Superbike race at Donington, winning from Shane Byrne and James Ellison in a close but undramatic fight for the podium. The Samsung Honda rider...

Donington BSS: McConnell takes the win as Easton closes championship lead

07 September 2013 by Simon Patterson

Donington BSS: McConnell takes the win as Easton closes championship lead

Billy McConnell has taken victory in the Motorpoint Supersport sprint race at Donington Park, only just emerging victorious over Stuart Easton after a close fought battle played out over the second...

Donington BSB: Westmoreland takes debut pole to throw down marker

07 September 2013 by Simon Patterson

Donington BSB: Westmoreland takes debut pole to throw down marker

James Westmoreland was the surprise pole man for tomorrow’s first MCE British Superbike race, throwing down a marker to his rivals as he sets out to secure the last realistic place in the final rounds...