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Estoril MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo fastest in 250 free practice one

14 September 2007 by Sarah Carnell

Estoril MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo fastest in 250 free practice one

Jorge Lorenzo was the fastest man out on track this afternoon in the first 250 free practice. The Aprilia man recorded a best lap of 1:41.445 on the final circuit of the Portugese track. Andrea...

Estoril MotoGP: Casey Stoner fastest as Valentino Rossi and Michelin fight back

14 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

Estoril MotoGP: Casey Stoner fastest as Valentino Rossi and Michelin fight back

MotoGP world championship leader Casey Stoner topped the timesheets in this morning’s opening free practice session in Estoril, fending off an improved challenge from Valentino Rossi and...

Estoril MotoGP: Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner square up off track

14 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

Estoril MotoGP: Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner square up off track

Fiat Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi and Marlboro Ducati’s Casey Stoner took their rivalry off the track in Estoril yesterday afternoon when they squared up for a game of table football. The top two in the...

Estoril MotoGP: Mattia Pasini leads 125 free practice one

14 September 2007 by Sarah Carnell

Estoril MotoGP: Mattia Pasini leads 125 free practice one

Aprilia’s Mattia Paini was the fastest rider in the first 125 MotoGP practice in Estoril this morning. The Italian recorded a best lap of 1:45.949 which was just under half a second ahead of next best...

Estoril MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo to test Yamaha MotoGP bike in Japan

14 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

Estoril MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo to test Yamaha MotoGP bike in Japan

New Yamaha MotoGP recruit Jorge Lorenzo will test a factory YZR-M1 800 machine for the second time in a one-day session after next weekend’s Japanese GP in the Twin Ring Motegi. The reigning world 250...

Estoril MotoGP: Casey Stoner hoping Chaz Davies gets 2008 MotoGP chance

13 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

Estoril MotoGP: Casey Stoner hoping Chaz Davies gets 2008 MotoGP chance

MotoGP world championship leader Casey Stoner has told MCN that he hopes close friend Chaz Davies gets the chance of a full-time ride in the 2008 MotoGP world championship. The Australian attended the...

Estoril MotoGP: Valentino Rossi to stick with Michelin tyres in 2008

13 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

Estoril MotoGP: Valentino Rossi to stick with Michelin tyres in 2008

Fiat Yamaha boss Davide Brivio has confirmed on the eve of the Estoril GP in Portugal this weekend that Valentino Rossi’s factory YZR-M1 will definitely run on Michelin tyres in 2008. With Michelin...

Estoril MotoGP: Alex Barros says electronics are taking away rider skill

13 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

Estoril MotoGP: Alex Barros says electronics are taking away rider skill

Veteran Brazilian Alex Barros believes that sophisticated electronics are now diminishing the influence that rider talent currently has in the MotoGP world championship. The D’Antin Ducati rider,...

Competition: Be aThink! reporter at Donington Park

13 September 2007 by Dave Rawlings

Competition: Be aThink! reporter at Donington Park

Be a THINK! race reporter for www.motorcyclenews.com at the Donington British Superbike round next weekend. Here’s the latest chance for a MCN reader and friend to win a reporter’s role complete with...

MotoGP: Chaz Davies in anxious wait about 2008 Ducati MotoGP ride

12 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: Chaz Davies in anxious wait about 2008 Ducati MotoGP ride

Chaz Davies will learn in the next few days whether he has landed a coveted Ducati ride in the 2008 MotoGP world championship. The British rider has been told by factory team boss Livio Suppo he...

Estoril MotoGP: Michelin hope for rules victory

12 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

Estoril MotoGP: Michelin hope for rules victory

Michelin boss Jean-Philippe Weber is confident the French company will at least triumph in a battle with rivals Bridgestone off the track in this weekend’s Estoril MotoGP. Hammered by Bridgestone on...

Norasport round eight from Blyton

12 September 2007 by Kathryn Drayton

Norasport round eight from Blyton

Saturday’s Youth Racing Saturday saw Oliver Harrison as the fastest qualifier, and James Moore who is improving vastly was to start the first race behind Lewis Cornish in third position. Oliver...

MotoGP: Rules for 600cc MotoGP class drawn up

12 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: Rules for 600cc MotoGP class drawn up

Four-stroke 600cc bikes racing in 2010 as replacement for the current world 250 championship has moved a step closer with draft technical rules for the new class being drawn up. The new class will be...

Video: Dawn to Dusk endurance challenge

12 September 2007 by Dave Rawlings

This is a shortened version of the Dawn to Dusk race (don’t worry its nowhere near 12 hours) but here you can see how the three riders passed on info to each other and kept their team-mates going when the going got tough. It seems like a life time ago now but the Dawn to Dusk took it out of all of us. We set out to finish and that’s what we achieved. In fact we didn’t do too badly at all, in our...

World Supersport: Craig Jones team faces cash crunch

12 September 2007 by Michael Guy

World Supersport: Craig Jones team faces cash crunch

Craig Jones’ Ekerold Honda team is facing a dilemma over staying in World Supersport next year after saying most UK sponsors are stuck in the past when it comes to funding world championship race...

MotoGP: Michelin has more work to do than Yamaha says Jerry Burgess

12 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: Michelin has more work to do than Yamaha says Jerry Burgess

Valentino Rossi’s crew chief Jerry Burgess believes Michelin must take a bigger step in performance than Yamaha for the 2008 MotoGP world championship.  The Australian reckons tyres have been the...

World Superbikes: Ten Kate Honda nears 2008 rider choice

12 September 2007 by Michael Guy

World Superbikes: Ten Kate Honda nears 2008 rider choice

Ronald Ten Kate is expected to decide in the next few days which rider will join his number one World Superbike squad next year to replace James Toseland.  It is a given that reigning British...

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi admits MotoGP is a ‘little boring’

12 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi admits MotoGP is a ‘little boring’

Valentino Rossi has branded the current racing in MotoGP as a ‘little boring.’   Speaking to MCN, the seven-times world champion has blamed tyres and electronics for killing MotoGP, and called on...

MotoGP: Nicky Hayden wants Honda loyalty to Michelin

11 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: Nicky Hayden wants Honda loyalty to Michelin

Reigning MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden believes that Honda should remain loyal to Michelin instead of bowing to pressure from Dani Pedrosa to switch to rivals Bridgestone. Dani Pedrosa is...

All This For 48 Seconds Racing

11 September 2007 by Andy Downes

All This For 48 Seconds Racing

It takes a huge amount of time, money and effort to get a drag racing team up and running. We joined the European championship leading outfit during the final round at Santa Pod raceway last weekend...

MotoGP: Colin Edwards praises Michelin revival effort

11 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: Colin Edwards praises Michelin revival effort

Texan Colin Edwards has praised Michelin for the effort being put in to try and stop Bridgestone’s domination of the 2007 MotoGP world championship. With just four wins in 13 races, Michelin has come...

MotoGP: John Hopkins says third in MotoGP is ‘realistic’ target

11 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: John Hopkins says third in MotoGP is ‘realistic’ target

American John Hopkins believes he has a realistic chance of catching Honda rival Dani Pedrosa to snatch third place in the MotoGP world championship. Two successive podium finishes in Brno and Misano...

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi set to stay with Michelin for 2008

11 September 2007 by Matthew Birt

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi set to stay with Michelin for 2008

Valentino Rossi’s Fiat Yamaha boss Davide Brivio has told MCN that the Italian is likely to remain on Michelin tyres for the 2008 MotoGP world championship.  Davide Brivio says he has told the...

World Superbikes: Michel Fabrizio talks of Xerox Ducati move

11 September 2007 by Michael Guy

World Superbikes: Michel Fabrizio talks of Xerox Ducati move

New Xerox Ducati signing Michel Fabrizio has spoken officially about his one-year deal to partner Troy Bayliss on the new 1200cc works World Superbikes next year. The 22-year-old Italian agreed a...

World Superbikes exclusive: Michel Fabrizio lands 2008 Xerox Ducati ride

10 September 2007 by Michael Guy

World Superbikes exclusive: Michel Fabrizio lands 2008 Xerox Ducati ride

Italian young gun Michel Fabrizio has secured the most coveted ride in World Superbikes after signing to join Troy Bayliss in the XeroxDucati squad 2008.   Although no official announcement has been...

Adam Child races in the Auto 66 championship at Elvington

10 September 2007 by Adam Child

MCN Road Tester Adam Child has spent most of the season trying to carefully look after his GSX-R600 to take part in the Auto 66 championship around the country. Despite the gearbox internals deciding to part company with each other, like Frankenstein the GSX-R600 lives again. And so with the Suzuki GSX-R600 alive again he headed off to Elvington in North Yorkshire for the latest round. Check out...

Riding Solo to the top of the World

10 September 2007 by battleaxe1973

Cubicle dwellers who also love motorcycles are often enchanted by the idea of motorcycle travel. We fantasize about setting off on that really long journey, riding off into the sunset someday. We watch, again and again, our favourite bits in the Long Way Round series and promise ourselves we’ll do something similar, someday. And then the weekend ends, and it’s back to the office cubicle on Monday...

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Xerox Ducati's Troy Bayliss rids himself of tyre demons for race two win

09 September 2007 by Sarah Carnell

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Xerox Ducati's Troy Bayliss rids himself of tyre demons for race two win

Xerox Ducati’s Troy Bayliss overcame his tyre demons from race one to secure victory in race two at the Lausitzring in Germany. In a repeat of the start of race one, Bayliss battled hard with Yamaha’s...

Lausitzring World Supersport: Broc Parkes wins as Brits Craig Jones and Tommy Hill impress in Germany

09 September 2007 by Sarah Carnell

Lausitzring World Supersport: Broc Parkes wins as Brits Craig Jones and Tommy Hill impress in Germany

Yamaha’s Broc Parkes won the battle at the front with Hannspree Ten Kate Honda’s Kenan Sofoglu to take victory in the World Supersport race at the Lausitzring. The pair had fought all the way through...

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Noriyuki Haga dominates as tyres fail for Troy Bayliss and James Toseland

09 September 2007 by Sarah Carnell

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Noriyuki Haga dominates as tyres fail for Troy Bayliss and James Toseland

Yamaha’s Noriyuki Haga has won race one of the World Superbikes at the Lausitzring in Germany. The Japanese rider took full advantage of tyre problems which forced initial leader Xerox Ducati’s Troy...

Flame spitting

09 September 2007 by Martin Wigg

Flame spitting

Flames from a Kawasaki taken at Brands Hatch WSB.

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Alstare Suzuki's Yukio Kagayama out with injury

09 September 2007 by Michael Guy

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Alstare Suzuki's Yukio Kagayama out with injury

Yukio Kagayama will not race at the Lausitzring today after braking his fifth metacarpal of his left hand.   The Alstare Suzuki rider crashed during the wet second qualifying session on Saturday...

Whistle for a hottie!

09 September 2007 by karla macey

Thought it was going to be such a boring day ouy when my boyfriend suggested a trip to Donington for the motocross GP. But oh my God, when I looked at the program and saw the British rider we’d be supporting, Tommy Searle, my day brightened up! Not only was he fit, but he was an awsome rider, flew over the jumps with extreme confidence, really had the crowd’s support and even took my breath away...

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Kawasaki's Fonsi Nieto takes surprise first pole

08 September 2007 by Michael Guy

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Kawasaki's Fonsi Nieto takes surprise first pole

Fonsi Nieto is the surprise pole man for Sunday’s two World Superbike races after making the best use of the dry track at the start of the Superpole session. With Superpole declared wet each rider...

Lausitzring World Supersport: Sebastien Charpentier starts from pole if race goes ahead

08 September 2007 by Michael Guy

Lausitzring World Supersport: Sebastien Charpentier starts from pole if race goes ahead

More rain in Germany prevented any of the 29 riders improving on their Friday qualifying times leaving the Hannspree Ten Kate Hnda pairing of Sebastien Charpentier and Kenan Sofuoglu first and second...

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Races under threat due to rain

08 September 2007 by Michael Guy

Lausitzring World Superbikes: Races under threat due to rain

Tomorrow’s two World Superbike races could be in jeopardy due to poor track conditions caused by consistent rain at the Lausitzring in Germany.   After a crash strewn Superstock and World Supersport...