— MotoGP and Racing —
After for the first time this year two Yamaha riders started from first two places Valentino Rossi was looking good in first place with Colin Edwards guarding his back from the HRC riders Dani Pedrosa and Nicky Hayden.
Some nasty accidents took place in the middle of the race Shinya Nakano felt off pretty nasty, Sete [...]
Shinya Nakano will leave from Kawasaki to replace Makoto Tamada at Konika Minolta. This was confirmed by the MotoGP Kawasaki Racing team manager Harald Eckl to motogp.com:
“Shinya has decided not to continue with Kawasaki next year, so we are looking at another rider to join our team (alongside Randy de Puniet)” also Eckl has [...]
Federico Minoli was written in his Desmoblog an very short but excellent thankful post for Troy Bayliss, Ducati Corse team and everybody involved in winning the Superbike World Championship:
Thanks Troy, thanks Ducati Corse, Davide, Ernesto, Paolo, the mechanics, the hospitality, the Ducati Clubs and all the fans.
An unforgettable day.
Here are the results for all 4 [...]
On Motegi Honda Racing HRC tested their new 800cc motorcycle for MotoGP 2007 season. Currently RC211V Honda uses a V5 engine with 990cc capacity but for next year it will match the competition moving to 4 cylinders. Ducati and Suzuki already use a V4 and Yamaha and Kawasaki are using an inline-4 cylinders.
MotoGP rules are [...]
The real typhoon which was threatening the Japan on Friday went away, but another typhoon raised on the track, his name was: Loris Capirossi. The combination of the 3 factors: Capirossi, Ducati, Bridgestone proved to be deadly on Motegi circuit they succeed, like they did last year, the “clean sweep”: race win, pole and lap [...]
On Philip Island circuit took place the 14th race of 2006 MotoGP some interesting events happened.
On 125cc Alvaro Bautista became world champion even there are still 3 more races until the finish of this season, he won in front of forever runner up Mika Kallio and Thomas Luthi.
On 250cc Jorge Lorenzo came on first place [...]
