April

Year: 2002

Month: April

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...

Get GP results on your mobile

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...