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Dakar Rally: Stage One

08 January 2007 by Sarah Carnell

Dakar Rally: Stage One

Portugal’s Ruben Faria led fellow countryman Helder Rodrigues by just 16 seconds following day one of the 2007 Dakar Rally. The pair, both on Yamaha’s completed the 464km opening stage in 1:22:07 and...

Dakar and KTM

05 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Dakar and KTM

KTM has been the dominant manufacturer in recent times having won each one of the last six Dakar’s and the Austrian manufacturer is by far the strongest in the bike line-up with no less than 128...

Dakar and Honda

05 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Dakar and Honda

The 29th Dakar Rally starts tomorrow (January 6, 2007) when 525 competitors from 42 nationalities leave Lisbon, Portugal to begin a gruelling journey across some of the toughest desert landscapes on...

Dakar and Yamaha

05 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Dakar and Yamaha

Yamaha is the most victorious motorcycle manufacturer in the Dakar Rally with nine overall victories and has been involved in the rally from the very beginning. At the tender age of 21 Cyril Neveu won...

Another 1098 in Superstock

05 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Another 1098 in Superstock

The Buildbase Ducati team of Keiran Clarke and John Laverty won’t be the only ones running 1098s in the National Superstock series this year. Michael Pensavalle, the 27 year-old from Low Moor,...

Gobert's back again

05 January 2007 by MCN

Gobert's back again

Former GP, WSB, and AMA star Anthony Gobert is making another comeback, after signing to ride for a new Kawasaki superbike team in the Australian series. The controversial star, whose career has been...

Dorna take on new man

05 January 2007 by MCN

Dorna take on new man

Dorna UK, the commercial rights holder of the British Superbike Championship, have announced (January 5, 2007) the appointment of Colin Clark to the new position of head of sales and marketing. Colin...

Roberts V4 imminent

05 January 2007 by Matthew Birt

Roberts V4 imminent

Kenny Roberts’ new 800cc MotoGP contender will be flown to Honda’s Japan headquarters next Wednesday before making its track debut in Sepang later this month. Team Roberts are in the final stages of...

Rizla get ’07 bikes

04 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Rizla get ’07 bikes

Chris Walker and Call Crutchlow will have four brand new 2007 GSX-R1000s between them when they resume their pre-season winter testing programme in February. The team took delivery of three 2007...

KTM Target Dakar

04 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

KTM Target Dakar

Austrian firm KTM are making a massive effort to win this year’s Dakar – and the bikes they are sending are works of art. KTM already have an enviable reputation as kings of desert racing having...

Six Brits in ’07 GPs

03 January 2007 by Matthew Birt

Six Brits in ’07 GPs

Six British riders will race in next year’s three GP world championships. The FIM announced the provisional 2007 entry list today, though it doesn’t yet feature Jeremy McWilliams, who will be...

Bayliss heads WSB test

03 January 2007 by Michael Guy

Bayliss heads WSB test

Troy Bayliss topped the time sheets on the opening day of the top team Pirelli test at the Losail circuit in Qatar today. Despite previous heavy rain and winds blowing sand on to the track, grip...

Ilmor signs Jezza and Pitt

03 January 2007 by MCN

Ilmor signs Jezza and Pitt

Jeremy McWilliams got an early Christmas present and a huge lift after his broken leg nightmare, when it was confirmed that he will definitely make a shock return to the MotoGP  championship in...

No testing for Kiyo

03 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Any hopes Ryuichi Kiyonari had about getting a jump on his BSB rivals with some pre-Christmas testing have been blown away in Japan, where Suzuka is being lashed by bad conditions. HM Plant wanted to get Kiyonari out on his 2007 bike, but the weather in Japan is worse than here, and Honda Racing boss Neil Tuxworth said: The temperature was never above nine degrees and it was wet so the test was...

Shakey’s Spanish test

03 January 2007 by Gary Pinchin

Stobart Honda stars Shane Byrne and Tom Sykes have wrapped up a three-day test in Spain, as they get stuck into the task of trying to wrest the British Superbike title from Honda’s official HRC team. With Byrne’s major complaint last year with Rizla Suzuki being the lack of pre-season testing, barely a week after signing with the Stobart team for ’07 he was riding at Cartagena, racking up miles on...

WSB top teams test

03 January 2007 by Michael Guy

World Superbike’s big guns head to Qatar this week for the second official Pirelli top teams test of the year. The Losail circuit in Qatar hosts the first round of the series in just 68 days time – and all the teams know that a strong test will be vital if they want to get their season off to a winning start. At the first test of the year last month in Valencia, new boy Max Biaggi stunned the WSB...

Clerk of Course wins MBE

03 January 2007 by Dermot James

Clerk of Course wins MBE

Mervyn Whyte, Clerk of the Course of the North-West 200 road races in Ireland, has been awarded the MBE in the New Year Honours. Whyte was first involved with the NW200 in 1971as a marshal and has...

Roadracers at Shorttrack

03 January 2007 by MCN

Roadracers at Shorttrack

Neil Hodgson wasn’t the only road racer to get among the country’s top shorttrack riders in the American-style dirttrack meeting at Scunthorpe Speedway last Saturday. Former Vivaldi Suzuki rider Ben...

Sheffield Indoor Trial

03 January 2007 by MCN

Sheffield Indoor Trial

Former World Trials champion Dougie Lampkin left the Sheffield International Indoor Trail empty-handed and ‘gutted’ in fourth place overall after leading the event for much of the evening. Lampkin, an...

Shorttrack cracker

03 January 2007 by MCN

Shorttrack cracker

British Shorttrack champion Lee Complin defeated an array of motorcycling greats in the Christmas Cracker Shorttrack meeting at Scunthorpe Speedway last Saturday. He lost just one race all afternoon...

Shorttrack roadracers

03 January 2007 by MCN

Shorttrack roadracers

Neil Hodgson spent two years racing a Ducati in the American Superbike Championship but it took a cold wet winter’s day at Scunthorpe Speedway before he got his first ride in an American-style...

AMA supercross is back

03 January 2007 by MCN

AMA supercross is back

AMA Supercross kicks off this Saturday, Jan. 6, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif and marks a new new era in the series. Five-time and defending series champ Ricky Carmichael will be riding his...

Jones fund hits £70K

03 January 2007 by MCN

Jones fund hits £70K

The memorial fund for British 125 racer Chris Jones who died on Bank Holiday Monday back in August 2005 has hit the £70,000 mark. And the parents of the teenage racer say more fund raising will...

Up the front

02 January 2007 by MCN

Up the front

Looks like Bennetts were struggling for space to fit in this beauty…

GP tests diary dates

02 January 2007 by MCN

GP tests diary dates

A massive seven pre-season tests are planned for the six British riders preparing to campaign the GP world championships in 2007. Here are some of the key winter test dates for your diary. January...

Jezza steps up training

01 January 2007 by Matthew Birt

Jezza steps up training

Jeremy McWilliams is hoping to resume full training again by the middle of January. The British veteran, who is back in MotoGP in 2007 with the new Ilmor squad, reckons he should have recovered from...

Dirt-track this weekend

28 December 2006 by Gary Pinchin

Dirt-track this weekend

Scunthorpe on a December afternoon might not be the warmest place to be in the UK – unless you want to see some hot American-style dirttrack racing! The Christmas Cracker at Scunthorpe Speedway this...

TT Legends

27 December 2006 by MCN

TT Legends

Italian racing superstar  Giacomo Agostini headlines a glittering array of racing legends appearing at next year’s Centenary TT. Many of the greatest names to have graced the Isle of Man TT races will...

Foggy praises Bayliss

27 December 2006 by Michael Guy

Foggy praises Bayliss

Carl Fogarty has revealed how much he thought the established stars of MotoGP were made to look average after Troy Bayliss’ dominant win in the final round of the 2006 season. Bayliss rode as a...

Edwards: No US boost

26 December 2006 by Matthew Birt

Edwards: No US boost

Colin Edwards reckons Nicky Hayden’s stunning 2006 world championship success will have no impact on elevating MotoGP’s status in America. The Texas Tornado said motorcycle racing’s popularity across...

Corser: Superbikes easy

26 December 2006 by Michael Guy

Corser: Superbikes easy

Troy Corser has said he thinks modern racers have never had it so easy – and claimed that sophisticated electronic aids are allowing average riders to run at the pace of the very best. Now we want to...

Motocross goes quiet

23 December 2006 by Gary Pinchin

Motocross goes quiet

Noise limits for four-stroke machines in ACU motocross and supermoto events are to be significantly reduced from January 1, 2008. Next year’s noise limits will remain at 96dba for both two and...

Jentin’s ’07 plan

23 December 2006 by Gary Pinchin

British 125 champion Daniel Cooper will ride for the Jentin team in British Supersport in 2007. The 19-year-old from Stroud will have one new R6 plus the Piranha Yamahas fettled by Race Techniques and raced by Simon Andrews this year. Jentin will also run brand new 2007 R1s in the British Superbike class but have yet to confirm their rider, though team boss Bernie Toleman said: “We’re aiming to...

Klaffi Honda out of WSB

22 December 2006 by Michael Guy

Klaffi Honda out of WSB

The Austrian Klaffi Honda team that ran Alex Barros in 2006 has quit WSB due to a lack of budget. Team Boss Klaus Klaffenbock, a former Sidecar World Champion, has made his mark on the series during...

Harley eye UK Short Track

22 December 2006 by Gary Pinchin

Harley eye UK Short Track

Harley-Davidson could become the third major manufacturer to sign up for the 2007 UK Shorttrack championship. Hot on the heels of the news that American-style half-mile dirt-track racing is coming to...

Bayliss domination

21 December 2006 by Michael Guy

Bayliss domination

Troy Bayliss continued his utter domination of the official Pirelli test in Qatar, posting the best ever Superbike lap in the process with a time of 1m58.1. Bayliss stamped his authority on the test...