2002

Rossi takes pole at damp Assen

24 June 2002

Valentino Rossi splashed to his sixth pole of the season at Assen today, ahead of Saturday’s MotoGP round. The Honda rider made the most of the two combined sessions as bad weather disrupted normal...

Garry McCoy "I’ll ride at Donington"

24 June 2002

Garry McCoy has declared himself full fit and has promised he’ll ride at the British GP at MCN Donington Park on July 14. The Australian star badly broke his right leg during pre-season testing. He...

Rossi edges Biaggi for provisional Assen pole

24 June 2002

Valentino Rossi has snatched provisional MotoGP pole in Assen today with a last gasp effort lap of 2:01.691. Max Biaggi had looked on for a double celebration this afternoon, the Italian was 31...

Rossi makes it six wins in Assen

24 June 2002

Valentino Rossi continued his winning ways with another dominant performance at the Dutch GP on Saturday, taking his tally of wins this season to six out of seven so far. But it was the old school...

Biaggi beats Rossi’s record

17 June 2002

Marlboro Yamaha rider Max Biaggi went under Valentino Rossi’s lap record, set only a couple of days earlier, while testing development Michelin tyres at Catalunya. The Yamaha team were joined by the...

Italian motorcycle legend dies

17 June 2002

Italy lost one of its most famous motorcycling heroes yesterday when 250 GP legend Walter Villa passed away at his Modena home. The 58-year-old died of a heart attack. Villa dominated the quarter-litre class in the mid seventies, taking three consecutive 250 GP crowns in 1974, ’75 and ’76, all on Harley-Davidsons. He also managed to take the 350cc GP world title in 1976, making him one of the last...

Rossi claims fifth win in Catalunya

17 June 2002

Valentino Rossi took another step to retaining his world crown with his fifth win of the 2002 MotoGP season in Catalunya on Sunday. The Honda rider let Yamaha’s Carlos Checa make the early running and...

Capirossi quickest in Catalunya qualifying

10 June 2002

Loris Capirossi gave some heart to die-hard two-stroke fans today when he set the fastest time in first qualifying in Catalunya ahead of Sunday’s MotoGP race. The West Honda rider went 1.2 seconds...

Eddie Lawson enters Hall of Fame

10 June 2002

Four-time 500cc world champion and GP legend Eddie Lawson has been inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Detroit. Lawson won 31 500cc GPs in a riding career spanning three...

Meet the MotoGP stars this July

03 June 2002

Ahead of the MCN Donington Park British Grand Prix there’s the traditional Riders for Health Day of Champions. You can shake hands with all the top Grand Prix stars, bid for loads of one-off items in...

Rossi digs deep for Mugello win

01 June 2002

Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP victory in Mugello won’t be remembered so much for the way in which the defending champion scorched to another victory, so much as the race when Yamaha’s four-stroke challenge...

Ryo handed European GP rides

27 May 2002

Akira Ryo, the Japanese rider who took Suzuki’s GSR-V four-stroke GP bike to a debut podium in Suzuka this year, will return for the factory for a handful of European rounds – starting with the...

Ducati unveils its new GP bike

27 May 2002

Ducati has just lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding its new four-stroke Grand Prix bike. For a full report on the new Ducati GP machine, don’t miss the June 5 issue of MCN. Until today Ducati had...

Yamaha first and second in qualifying at Mugello

27 May 2002

Carlos Checa squeezed out his Marlboro Yamaha teammate Max Biaggi by just one tenth of a second to claim provisional pole at Mugello, Italy today, ahead of Sunday’s MotoGP race. The Spaniard, whose...

Checa edges provisional Le Mans pole

13 May 2002

Carlos Checa made a mockery of Yamaha’s four-stroke troubles when he grabbed a shock MotoGP provisional pole position in Le Mans today. The Spaniard took his YZR-M1 to the top of the leaderboard in...

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13 May 2002

This weekend it’s the turn of Le Mans in France to host the MotoGP circus. Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia have been working overtime, trying to get their four-strokes to match the pace of Honda’s dynamic...

Victory in France for Rossi

13 May 2002

Valentino Rossi won a rain-hit French GP at Le Mans to maintain the Honda RCV’s perfect start to the 2002 season. Crucially, the Italian had taken the lead on lap 21 when he passed team-mate Tohru...

Criville announces his retirement from racing

01 May 2002

Alex Criville has announced his temporary withdrawal from Grand Prix racing is now a permanent retirement. The Spaniard, who won the 500cc world championship in 1999, hasn’t recovered from mystery...

Rossi claims provisional pole in Jerez

01 May 2002

Valentino Rossi has claimed another provisional pole today in Jerez, Spain ahead of Sunday’s MotoGP race. But Daijiro Katoh proved that the new four-strokes won’t have it their own way as he led a...

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01 May 2002

It’s going to be the most breath-taking, wheel-spinning, mad-overtaking, superstar-creating GP season since Noah was a lad. Make sure you’re bang up to date with every qualifying session and race...

Capirossi’s RCV ultimatum

01 May 2002

MotoGP star Loris Capirossi is warning Honda he’ll leave next year if he doesn’t get the same machinery as Valentino Rossi. Fo the full story on Capirossi’s demands,don’t miss the new issue of MCN,...

Rossi reigns (again) in Spain

01 May 2002

Valentino Rossi swept to a well-deserved victory in Jerez, Spain, today. Fighting back after an early clash with Suzuki’s KennyRobererts he closed back up to the front and a dice with his Repsol Honda...

Suzuki tired with Dunlop

29 April 2002

Suzuki’s four-stroke GP team will run Michelin tyres at this weekend’s Spanish GP in Jerez having ended a short but disastrous spell with Dunlop. An official announcement is not expected for another...

Jeremy McWilliams: In his own words

22 April 2002

Sweetandsour: What are you going to do about bikes for Jerez?… I’ve heard they’ve gone walkies…? JeremyMcWilliams: Well it’ll be an easy weekend then if that’s right! At least mine haven’t been crashed, so when they do arrive we’ll be able to go straight out, and we’ve got our Jerez set-up so we’ll be able to go straight out. But I’d rather be putting my feet up somewhere like Malaga if they...

Ukawa pips Rossi in South Africa

22 April 2002

Tohru Ukawa held off Repsol Honda team-mate Valentino Rossi to take the MotoGP win in Welkom, South Africa today. The pair again proved the RCV four-stroke’s dominance finishing over twenty seonds...

Take a bite at our caption competition

22 April 2002

Oh look, Rossi’s going bananas… wonder if anyone’s going to ape him, there’s certainly something a-peeling about a pre-race snack etc etc (fnarr, fnarr). Good, that’s most of the bad puns out of the...

Jeremy McWilliams: I wish I was on a four stroke

22 April 2002

British MotoGP star Jeremy McWilliams chatted live with motorcyclenews.com users today, Thursday April 25. He answered a very wide range of questions, including whether he would rather be on Max...

First glimpse of MZ GP motor

15 April 2002

This is the engine MZ will take into the MotoGP series and which will power the firm’s first superbike. The 90° V4 is already running on the test bench, though so far the firm has only revealed this...

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15 April 2002

Welkom, South Africa is over 5500 miles away, but you can keep bang-up-to-date with this weekend’s GP qualifying news and race results simply by signing up for the latest text messaging service from...

Capirossi leads qualifying in South Africa

15 April 2002

Loris Capirossi again blew away the myth that the new generation four-strokes would cruise to this year’s new MotoGP world championship after he comfortably stuck his two-stroke Honda NSR500 on...

Rossi on pole in South Africa

15 April 2002

Valentino Rossi starts as a red-hot favourite for tomorrow’s South African GP at Welkom after a commanding display saw him grab pole position this afternoon. The 23-year-old Italian wasn’t bettered after he’d beaten Loris Capirossi’s provisional pole time from yesterday within seven minutes of today’s final qualifying getting underway. He would improve his time on a further five occasions to show...

Rossi takes pole at damp Assen

Garry McCoy "I’ll ride at Donington"

Rossi edges Biaggi for provisional Assen pole

Rossi makes it six wins in Assen

Biaggi beats Rossi’s record

Italian motorcycle legend dies

Rossi claims fifth win in Catalunya

Capirossi quickest in Catalunya qualifying

Eddie Lawson enters Hall of Fame

Meet the MotoGP stars this July

Rossi digs deep for Mugello win

Ryo handed European GP rides

Ducati unveils its new GP bike

Yamaha first and second in qualifying at Mugello

Checa edges provisional Le Mans pole

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Victory in France for Rossi

Criville announces his retirement from racing

Rossi claims provisional pole in Jerez

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Capirossi’s RCV ultimatum

Rossi reigns (again) in Spain

Suzuki tired with Dunlop

Jeremy McWilliams: In his own words

Ukawa pips Rossi in South Africa

Take a bite at our caption competition

Jeremy McWilliams: I wish I was on a four stroke

First glimpse of MZ GP motor

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Capirossi leads qualifying in South Africa

Rossi on pole in South Africa

World Ducati Weekend debut for GP bike.

Poggiali snares provisional Suzuka pole

Capirossi blasts to Suzuka provisional pole

Rossi gives Honda RCV pole on Suzuka debut

Battaini surprise fastest in 250s