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Size doesn’t matter, says Ben Spies

19 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Size doesn’t matter, says Ben Spies

Ben Spies reckons he’s calmed his apprehension about being too heavy to be a serious contender in MotoGP in 2010. The reigning World Superbike champion weighs in at 70kg and will be one of the...

Crutchlow looking for improvements at Portimao test

19 January 2010 by Michael Guy

Crutchlow looking for improvements at Portimao test

Cal Crutchlow has told MCN that he is still looking for significant improvements with his factory Yamaha R1 at this week’s official WSB test at Portimao. The 2009 World Supersport champion who has...

Loris in Belfast

18 January 2010 by jamie46rossi

Loris in Belfast

Guess who I bumped into last Friday (15/01/10) in Belfast. Non other than MotoGP legend Lori Capirossi!

My Mum and Michel Fabrizio

18 January 2010 by Jules

My Mum and Michel Fabrizio

My mum with the talented, and very good looking Michel Fabrizio in the WSB ’09 paddock at Donington Park – fantastic weekend!

Top WSB teams ready to test

18 January 2010 by Michael Guy

Top WSB teams ready to test

World Superbike testing kicks of at Portimao on Friday with all the 2010 top teams and riders going head to head for the first time. With seven manufacturers present along with leading privateer teams...

Toni Elias confirms Gresini Moto2 ride

18 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Toni Elias confirms Gresini Moto2 ride

Spaniard Toni Elias will join the new Moto2 world championship in 2010, riding a Moriwaki machine for Fausto Gresini’s squad. The 2006 Estoril MotoGP winner, who tested the Moriwaki MD600 machine in...

Nicky Hayden praises ‘special talent’ Casey Stoner

18 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Nicky Hayden praises ‘special talent’ Casey Stoner

Nicky Hayden has heaped praise on factory Ducati team-mate Casey Stoner ahead of the 2010 MotoGP world championship. Ever since the Aussie joined Ducati in 2007, he has single-handedly turned the...

Casey Stoner feeling relaxed for title assault

18 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Casey Stoner feeling relaxed for title assault

After an injury and surgery free winter, Australian rider Casey Stoner believes he’s much more relaxed and ready for a serious assault on the 2010 MotoGP world championship crown. Stoner has been...

Althea Ducati 2010 team launch

18 January 2010 by Michael Guy

Althea Ducati 2010 team launch

The Altea Ducati squad of Shane Byrne and Carlos Checa was officially launched in Italy last week. Byrne and Checa were introduced to the 1198 Ducati’s that they will campaign in 2010 while getting to...

Nicky Hayden beats Ferrari F1 duo in kart race

18 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Nicky Hayden beats Ferrari F1 duo in kart race

Nicky Hayden claimed his first win of 2010 when he claimed a surprise success over Ferrari F1 duo Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa in a go-kart clash on ice last week. Hayden also defeated factory...

2005 WSB action

17 January 2010 by adysmith

2005 WSB action

World Superbike action from the 2005 season at Brands Hatch.

Cyril Despres wins the 2010 Dakar

16 January 2010 by James Keen

Cyril Despres wins the 2010 Dakar

KTM rider Cyril Despres is the winner of the 2010 Dakar. The Frenchman finished 1hour 2min 52sec ahead of 2nd place finisher KTM rider Pal Anders Ullevalseter. Third went to Chilean rider Francisco...

Dakar stage 14 - Faria wins stage, Depres wins Dakar

16 January 2010 by James Keen

Dakar stage 14 - Faria wins stage, Depres wins Dakar

Portuguese rider Ruben Faria took his first win in the last stage of the 2010 Dakar, but it’s fellow KTM rider Cyril Depres who claimed overall victory. Second place in the final stage goes to another...

Valentino Rossi treated for appendix problem

15 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi treated for appendix problem

Valentino Rossi won’t require surgery after undergoing treatment for an inflamed appendix in Italy yesterday (Thursday). The nine-times world champion, who is bidding for a third successive MotoGP...

Dakar stage 13 - Ullevalseter earns first ever stage win

15 January 2010 by James Keen

Dakar stage 13 - Ullevalseter earns first ever stage win

KTM rider Pal Anders Ullevalseter had claimed his first ever Dakar stage victory in the Santa Rosa stage.   Norwegian Ullevalseter already has eight 2nd place stage finished to his name, but a win...

John Hopkins’ MotoGP return in doubt

15 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

John Hopkins’ MotoGP return in doubt

Hopes that John Hopkins will make a shock return to the MotoGP world championship in 2010 appear to be fading fast. It has been rumoured for several weeks that Hopkins was poised to make a premier...

Yamaha boss doubts Ducati move for Valentino Rossi

15 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha boss doubts Ducati move for Valentino Rossi

Valentino Rossi will shun any chance to complete a multi-million switch to Ducati in 2011. That’s the confident prediction of his current Fiat Yamaha team manager Davide Brivio, who believes Rossi...

Nicky Hayden’s attitude like Carl Fogarty’s

15 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Nicky Hayden’s attitude like Carl Fogarty’s

Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali has likened Nicky Hayden’s steely determination and desire to succeed to British World Superbike legend Carl Fogarty. The popular American started his Ducati MotoGP...

Dakar stage 12 - Lopez Contardo takes 3rd win

14 January 2010 by James Keen

Dakar stage 12 - Lopez Contardo takes 3rd win

With a win in stage 12 Chilean rider Francisco Lopez Contardo has taken the 3rd victory for Aprilia and claimed 2nd place in the overall standings. The Chilean said: “It was a wonderful stage and very...

Video: Ducati shows off new GP10 MotoGP machine

14 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Video: Ducati shows off new GP10 MotoGP machine

Ducati rolled out its new 2010 MotoGP challenger in Italy yesterday (Wednesday). The GP10, which features a revised Big Bang firing order, was unveiled at the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort, with...

Ducati boss talks about 2010 GP bike

13 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Ducati boss talks about 2010 GP bike

Ducati race boss Claudio Domenicali has given some insight into the significant changes made to the Bologna factory’s new GP10 MotoGP challenger. The new bike was officially unveiled today at Ducati’s...

Ducati unveil 2010 MotoGP contender

13 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Ducati unveil 2010 MotoGP contender

This is the bike Ducati hopes will end Yamaha’s recent domination of the MotoGP world championship in 2010. The GP10 was officially rolled out at Ducati’s 2010 team launch at the spectacular Italian...

Valentino Rossi set for Ferrari F1 test

13 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Valentino Rossi set for Ferrari F1 test

Valentino Rossi will be back behind the wheel of a Ferrari Formula One car next week. The reigning MotoGP world champion will get a two-day run out in an older version of Ferrari’s F1 car at the...

Dakar stage 11 - Verhoeven victorious for BMW

13 January 2010 by James Keen

Dakar stage 11 - Verhoeven victorious for BMW

Dutchman Frans Verhoeven took an unexpected victory for BMW in the 11th Dakar stage. It looked like we were set to witness another victory for Catalan rider Marc Coma and KTM, but a navigation error...

Interwetten squad unveil Moto2 plan

13 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Interwetten squad unveil Moto2 plan

Hiroshi Aoyama’s Interwetten Honda MotoGP squad has announced it will also contest the new Moto2 600cc four-stroke world championship in 2010. The new squad will run former world 125GP champion Thomas...

2010 HM Plant Honda: talking tech

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

2010 HM Plant Honda: talking tech

MCN talked to the team’s two crew chiefs Adrian Gorst (with Ryuichi Kiyonari in 2010) and Chris Pike (in Brookes’ corner this year) to find out what they think about their rider’s chances in 2010 –...

Honda Racing’s stats makes them top team in BSB

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Honda Racing’s stats makes them top team in BSB

Honda Racing, based in Louth since 1990 (and home to the HM Plant Honda team), is Britain’s most successful racing team. Don’t believe it? Check out the stats! 57 – WSB race wins between 1994 and 2002...

Michael Laverty signs for Relentless Suzuki

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Michael Laverty signs for Relentless Suzuki

Michael Laverty has signed to ride for the Relentless by TAS Suzuki team in BSB this year. He joins National Superstock champion Alastair Seeley in the all-Irish team line-up. Laverty won the 2007...

Video: Ducati duo talk illness, new bikes and team changes

13 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Video: Ducati duo talk illness, new bikes and team changes

Former MotoGP world champions Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden have ended the annual factory Ducati launch at the spectacular Madonna di Campiglio ski resort in Italy. But before they were allowed to...

Kev Coghlan rides FTR in Spanish Moto2 ride

13 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Kev Coghlan rides FTR in Spanish Moto2 ride

Spanish and European Supersport champion Kev Coghlan is racing in Spain again this year with the title-winning Joe Darcy team – but is switching to ride in the national Moto2 championship on a...

Ducati duo excited about 1000cc MotoGP switch

12 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Ducati duo excited about 1000cc MotoGP switch

Factory Ducati duo Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden have spoken of their excitement and anticipation ahead of MotoGP reverting back to a 1000cc capacity limit for 2012. MotoGP bosses thrashed out an...

Nicky Hayden optimistic for 2010

12 January 2010 by Matthew Birt

Nicky Hayden optimistic for 2010

Nicky Hayden has backed himself to impress on Ducati’s new GP10 machine this season after a tough debut MotoGP campaign for the Bologna factory last year. Hayden scored a solitary podium in 2009 and...

Tom Sykes: “We’ve still got a lot to test”

12 January 2010 by Michael Guy

Tom Sykes: “We’ve still got a lot to test”

Tom Sykes has revealed that he still have a host of new parts and settings to test on his factory Kawasaki when he heads to the three day test at Portimao next week. The 24 year old who switched from...

Relentless back North West 200

12 January 2010 by Stephen Davison

Relentless back North West 200

Relentless Energy Drink was named today as the title sponsor of the 2010 International North West 200 road race, which takes place on Saturday, May 15 on the famed 8.9-mile course that links to the...

Dakar stage 10 - Coma claims consecutive stage win

12 January 2010 by James Keen

Dakar stage 10 - Coma claims consecutive stage win

KTM rider Marc Coma took his 4th victory for the KTM team in the 10th Dakar stage in Chile.  Yamaha riders Frétigné and Rodrigues finished in second and third respectively. Catalan Coma said: “Now...

Dakar Stage 9 – Coma takes stage victory from Despres in thrilling head to head race

12 January 2010 by Michael Guy

Dakar Stage 9 – Coma takes stage victory from Despres in thrilling head to head race

KTM riders Marc Coma and Cyril Despres showed their dominance on stage nine of the Dakar with a wheel to wheel race to the finish line. After countless passes during the 170KM special stage, Coma won...