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2010 Indianapolis MotoGP Race Result - Dominant Display Secures Comfortable Win

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 21:51.

Results and summary of the MotoGP race at Indianapolis:

2010 Moto2 Championship Standings After Round 11, Indianapolis, Indianapolis

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 21:00.
Championship standings for round 11, 2010

2010 Indianapolis Moto2 Race Result - Perfect Pass Wins Incident-Ridden Race

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 20:33.

Results and summary of the Moto2 race at Indianapolis:

2010 125cc Championship Standings After Round 11, Indianapolis, Indianapolis

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 19:37.
Championship standings for round 11, 2010

2010 Indianapolis 125cc Race Result - Crashes Shake Up Championship

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 18:48.

Results and summary of the 125cc race at Indianapolis:

2010 Indianapolis MotoGP Warm Up Result - Lorenzo Flies While Rossi Crashes Again

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 16:03.

Jorge Lorenzo reclaimed the top spot in Sunday morning's warm up session, the Fiat Yamaha rider putting in another unstoppable lap at the end. The session turned into something more resembling qualifying than just a warm up, the lead changing constantly in the last minutes of the session. Valentino Rossi, Ben Spies and Dani Pedrosa all held the lead, but Lorenzo came out on top in the end.

Valentino Rossi extended his run of crashes into the morning warm up, the Italian losing the front at Turn 10 and going down. Rossi came away from the crash relatively unhurt, but the incident cannot have helped his already dented confidence. The man set to replace him in the factory Yamaha team, Ben Spies, will have gained confidence, Spies setting the 3rd fastest time of the session, just behind Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa and ahead of Marlboro Ducati's Casey Stoner.

Results: 

2010 Indianapolis Moto2 Warm Up Result - Iannone Back On Top

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 15:37.

Results:

2010 Indianapolis 125cc Warm Up Result - Marquez Storms It Again

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 15:05.

Results: 

The Heart Of Racing: The 2010 Indy Mile

Submitted by Scott Jones on Sun, 2010-08-29 12:23.

There is something beautiful to be found in a form of racing that's less about technology and TV rights than it is about simply trying to beat the other fellah with whatever you can afford to bring to the track. Sometimes the other fellah isn't a fellah at all, and sometimes he or she has better gear than you. But you do the best you can with what you brought and even if it takes a quick wrap of duct tape or a tie of bailing wire, you do your damnedest to make it to the next heat.

You don't lounge in a fancy RV between races, and your bike doesn't arrive in a shiny tractor-trailer and it doesn't plug into a computer. You drive yourself, or your dad or your cousin takes a turn, with your bike in the back of the van or on a flat bed trailer, and you sleep in a well-used sleeping bag that smells of solvent and dust.

Nicky Hayden Signs Two-Year Extension With Ducati

Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2010-08-29 01:41.

As widely expected, and anticipated here just a couple of days' ago, Nicky Hayden announced an extension of his contract with Ducati at the Indy Mile flat track race on Saturday night. The good news for Hayden is that the deal is for two years, with Hayden signed up for 2011 and 2012. Hayden told the crowd at the Indy Mile "Next year I'll be teamed with some guy named Rossi, who knows a little something about bikes."

With both Hayden and Valentino Rossi signed up for two years, Ducati is clearly playing it safe over the formula switch back to 1000cc, due to take place at the end of the 2011 season. This allows both Hayden and Rossi to test and develop Ducati's MotoGP bike for the new formula, maximizing testing without running the risk of losing knowledge should one of their riders want to leave at the end of the 2011 season. But with Hayden having made a huge leap forward this year, and his public profile in the US helping to sell Ducatis in large quantities both at home and abroad, Ducati also felt that signing Hayden was a safe bet.

Below is the text of the official press statement:

DUCATI ANNOUNCE A TWO-YEAR DEAL WITH NICKY HAYDEN

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