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End of the road for title winning Yamaha World Supersport team?

18 December 2009 by Michael Guy

End of the road for title winning Yamaha World Supersport team?

Cal Crutchlow’s World Supersport Championship winning Yamaha team are looking increasing likely that they will not be in a position to defend their title in 2010. The Yamaha Europe backed squad who...

Attention to detail key to Rea’s success

18 December 2009 by Michael Guy

Attention to detail key to Rea’s success

Jonathan Rea believes that last weeks test in Valencia played a vital role in the teams winter development programme in preparation for the 2010 season. Although Rea was only fourth fastest he feels...

Yamaha confirm 2011 talks with Valentino Rossi

18 December 2009 by Matthew Birt

Yamaha confirm 2011 talks with Valentino Rossi

Yamaha has confirmed talks have started to keep nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi beyond the 2010 MotoGP world championship. With endless speculation linking the 30-year-old with a big money...

Nicky Hayden excited about 1000cc MotoGP switch

18 December 2009 by Matthew Birt

Nicky Hayden excited about 1000cc MotoGP switch

Nicky Hayden is ecstatic that MotoGP will revert back to a 1000cc format from the start of the 2012 world championship campaign. The American believes the new rule, which will allow prototype 1000cc...

Kawasaki Superbike satisfied with day of testing in Almeria

18 December 2009 by Michael Guy

Kawasaki Superbike satisfied with day of testing in Almeria

Kawasaki men Chris Vermeulen and Tom Sykes have begun their second day of testing at Almeria this morning. The two men spent the opening day evaluating a new gearbox, clutch and engine specification.

Kawasaki Superbike begin testing in Spain

17 December 2009 by Michael Guy

Kawasaki Superbike begin testing in Spain

The Kawasaki World Superbike team of Chris Vermeulen and Tom Sykes kicked off it’s latest round of testing with two days of track time at Almeria today. The British run team elected not to attend last...

Pitt reignites WSB career with BMW

16 December 2009 by Michael Guy

Pitt reignites WSB career with BMW

Australian, Andrew Pitt will ride a BMW S1000RR in WSB in 2010. The double World Supersport champion has agreed terms with the Reitwagen Motorsport team and will line up alongside Austrian Roland...

TTXGP World Final at Albacete

16 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

TTXGP World Final at Albacete

The grand final of the TTXGP 2010 series, in partnership with the European Motorcycle Union (UEM), will be held in October at Albacete, Spain. Azhar Hussain organised the first “real” race of electric...

TTXGP motorcycles to demo at Paris eGrand Prix

16 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

TTXGP motorcycles to demo at Paris eGrand Prix

TTXGP electric motorcycles will feature in a demo lap at the inaugural zero carbon, celan emission car race on a 2.5 mile street circuit in the city centre of Levallois, Paris in June 2010. M. Patrick...

TTXGP announce final UK series schedule

16 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

TTXGP announce final UK series schedule

The fourth and final event in the TTXGP UK Championship 2010 will be held at Brands Hatch, 2-3 October. The 2010 TTXGP UK Championship is sanctioned by the Auto Cycle Union (ACU) and supported by the...

Westmoreland joins McConnell in new-look Yamaha team

16 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Westmoreland joins McConnell in new-look Yamaha team

The new CAME Yamaha team, previously known as Raceways Yamaha, have announced that James Westmoreland will be joining Billy McConnell in the 2010 British Supersport series. Westmoreland strengthens...

Mason signs for MSS Kawasaki

16 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Mason signs for MSS Kawasaki

BSB Cup Champion Gary Mason lines-up alongside Simon Andrews on the MSS Colchester Kawasaki in BSB next year. Mason got the nod ahead of Chris Walker and Karl Harris – both arguably with more...

Rob McElnea on Almeria test

16 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Rob McElnea on Almeria test

At the end of a disappointing 2009 season Motorpoint Yamaha team boss Rob McElnea was on the verge of winding up his team. As a last-ditch effort he asked rival team GSE Racing’s James Ellison to test...

Mavizen launch world’s first production electric supersport bike

16 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Mavizen launch world’s first production electric supersport bike

On the very day Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown was taking delivery of the ministerial fleet’s first all-electric car, British motorcycle manufacturer Mavizen unveiled their TTX02 at Bloomberg,...

Linfoot casts off the best

16 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Linfoot casts off the best

Last year Dan Linfoot was Rob McElnea’s supersport runner. Mid-season injuries ruled him out of the title race on the Node 4 R6 so McElnea switched him to one of the team’s superbike R1s for the end...

Hodgson: “we achieved so much at Almeria”

16 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Hodgson: “we achieved so much at Almeria”

Neil Hodgson, along with new Motorpoint Yamaha team-mate Dan Linfoot spent three days at Almeria last week, testing the R1s they will race in BSB next year. MCN asked Hodgson for his views on the...

Andrews back with MSS Kawasaki

16 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Andrews back with MSS Kawasaki

Simon Andrews is back with MSS Colchester Kawasaki  in BSB next year. He admits he talked to lots of teams before committing to Nick Morgan’s team for a second season but now he’s back and looking...

Stiggy Honda out of WSB

15 December 2009 by Michael Guy

Stiggy Honda out of WSB

The Stiggy Honda team that ran Leon Haslam and John Hopkins in World Superbike in 2009 has been forced out of racing due to the ongoing economical crisis and budget shortfall. The Johan Stigefelt run...

Alex de Angelis signs Moto2 deal

14 December 2009 by Matthew Birt

Alex de Angelis signs Moto2 deal

Alex de Angelis may not have been able to clinch a MotoGP deal with the Scot squad for 2010, but the San Marino rider has signed for the Italian team to ride in the new Moto2 600cc four-stroke...

Honours shared in first-ever Eco Enduro

14 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Honours shared in first-ever Eco Enduro

Honours were shared in the world’s first-ever Eco Enduro for electric-powered motorcycles, held in Svanemoellen kaserne, Copenhagen French Enduro champion, Fabien Planet was the top rider in the...

MotoGP goes 1000cc from 2012

11 December 2009 by MCN

MotoGP goes 1000cc from 2012

FIM President Vito Ippolito and Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta confirm today that MotoGP will run to a new 1000cc engine capacity for the 2012 season. Following talks between MotoGP’s governing...

Video: Hodgson successful Almeria test

11 December 2009 by MCN

Video: Hodgson successful Almeria test

Neil Hodgson and Dan Linfoot were both upbeat after their three-day test on the Motorpoint Yamaha R1 at Almeria.   For Hodgson is was his first time back on a bike after recent remedial surgery to...

North West race date confirmed

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

North West race date confirmed

The 2010 North West 200 race day will take place on Saturday, May 15. During the past few months NW200 Race Director Mervyn Whyte has been consulting with BSB organisers MSVR, to ensure that North...

Mat Mladin linked to WSB ride with BMW

11 December 2009 by Michael Guy

Mat Mladin linked to WSB ride with BMW

Seven times AMA Superbike champion Mat Mladin could be poised for a sensational switch to WSB in 2010. The 37 year old Australian who retired at the end of the 2009 season has been linked with a...

World class Sheffield Indoor Trial

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

World class Sheffield Indoor Trial

The world’s top trials riders will be taking part in the 15th International Indoor Motorcycle Trial at the Sheffield Indoor Arena prepares on Saturday January 9. The World’s top three riders Toni Bou,...

Eco Enduro line-up

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Eco Enduro line-up

The World First environmental friendly Enduro race for electrical competition motorbikes takes place in Denmark on December 11-13. The races, which start at the Feddet area south of Faxe in Denmark...

North West 200 ditches 250s

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

North West 200 ditches 250s

The Coleraine & District Motor Club Ltd will next year  promote a six-race North West 200 programme following a decision to remove the 250cc race category. The revised programme will comprise two ...

Lowes signs British Supersport deal

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Lowes signs British Supersport deal

2009 British Supersport Cup Champion, Sam Lowes has signed to ride for Gary Stubbington’s Southampton-based GNS Honda Racing in British Supersport alongside Paul Jordan from Magherafelt. Lowes, 19...

Ducati Challenge dates announced

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Ducati Challenge dates announced

The dates and venues have now been announced for the inaugural Ducati 848 Challenge race series which will be held over eight rounds including two televised BSB rounds and two overseas rounds at...

Maria Costello gets her mojo working

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Maria Costello gets her mojo working

Female bike racer Maria Costello says she cannot wait for the start of the 2010 season after recovering her racing ‘mojo’. Costello, the first woman to achieve a podium finish at the Isle of Man, says...

Grant and Marshall at North Yorks chat show

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Eighties racing legends Mick Grant & Roger Marshall are the stars of a North Yorks Road Racing Supporters Club chat show hosted by another former race hero Andy McGalddery on Tuesday, December 15 at The Golden Lion Hotel, Mowbray Suite, High Street, Northallerton DL7 8PP. Doors open 7.30pm. Show starts 8.15pm. Admission Price: £5 for all as includes buffet/nibbles. There’s also a bar, raffle and...

Chris Burns returns to National Superstock

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Chris Burns returns to National Superstock

Chris Burns returns to National Superstock 1000 in 2010 riding with the Splitlath Motorsport squad. The former WCM MotoGP rider will partner younger brother Joe to lead the Welsh outfit’s two-pronged...

Billown loses TT races

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

The Southern 100 Club have publicly expressed their feelings that the Department of Tourism and Leisure will no longer fund the 125 and 250 TT races that have been run on the Billown course for the past two years. A tersely-worded press statement from the club said: “We are very disappointed that the Department of Tourism and Leisure have decided that they would not fund the 125cc and 250cc...

Donington out. Second Cadwell BSB race in 2010

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Donington out. Second Cadwell BSB race in 2010

There will be a second Cadwell Park BSB championship round next year, replacing Donington Park, according to the revised 2010 calendar released today by MSVR. Donington Park has not been included in...

Moto2 bikes humbled by World Supersport at Valencia test

11 December 2009 by Michael Guy

Moto2 bikes humbled by World Supersport at Valencia test

After two days of testing in Valencia alongside Ten Kate Honda’s world Supersport team, it appears that the current Moto2 teams are not yet going as fast as expected. Despite running prototype...

Plater and McGuinness at Braintree Indoor Shorttrack

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports desk

Plater and McGuinness at Braintree Indoor Shorttrack

TT heroes John McGuinness, Steve Plater and Gary Johnson line up against 24 of the best shorttrack riders in Europe on Sunday, December 27 at the Towerlands Centre, Braintree in Essex. Their...