Is Spanish domination Good For Grand Prix racing?

Submitted by Venancio Luis Nieto on

Coming into the last lap of 2012 Czech Republic Grand Prix many fans fell back in love with MotoGP series. It does not happen very often, but victory at Brno was still to be decided with just a single lap to go. Spaniards Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo were pushing each other using not just every MotoGP riding trick they had, but also everything they learnt since the pair were still young and wild 125 class riders.

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Ducati Confirms Ben Spies And Andrea Iannone In Ducati Junior Team

Submitted by David Emmett on

Ducati Corse today confirmed that for the 2013 MotoGP season, Ben Spies and Andrea Iannone will ride for the Ducati junior team to be run by Pramac. Both Spies and Iannone will have factory Desmosedicis at their disposal, and the team will be kept very close to the factory team. The Pramac structure will be put in place to run the team, being promoted from satellite team to a junior factory team, with ties much closer than in the current situation.

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Dorna Statement On CotA vs Schwantz: Austin MotoGP Contract Currently Held By The Circuit

Submitted by David Emmett on

After news emerged at the end of last week that Kevin Schwantz is suing the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), the track in Austin, Texas where the third US GP is to be held in 2013, attention turned to the details of just who held the contract to organize the event. In their lawsuit, Schwantz' company 3FourTexasMGP alleged that the COTA had attempted to defraud him out of the rights to organize the race, something which the circuit denied in a press statement, with COTA claiming that Schwantz had never held a contract to organize the event.

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Gino Borsoi On CRT Engines: "An Extra Engine Would Be Better"

Submitted by David Emmett on

With the engine allocation rules now in their third season, the factories have the system down to a tee. So much so that even though Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies have both lost an engine due to a blow up, both men should make it easily to the end of the season, needing only to shuffle their engines slightly more often than normal. The fact that Casey Stoner made it to the end of the 2011 season having used just 5 of the 6 engines allowed show just how well the current factories have the situation in hand.

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Guest Blog: Mat Oxley: Who’s it going to be: Jorge or Dani?

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MotoMatters.com is delighted to feature the work of iconic MotoGP writer Mat Oxley. Oxley is a former racer, TT winner and highly respected author of biographies of world champions Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi, and currently writes for Motor Sport Magazine, where he is MotoGP correspondent. We will be featuring sections of Oxley's blogs, posted in full on the Motor Sport Magazine website, over the coming months.

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Ben Spies On Doping In Motorcycle Racing: "I Believe In Testing, But They're Going About It Wrong"

Submitted by David Emmett on

The use of performance-enhancing (or in the case of Anthony Gobert, performance-reducing) drugs in motorcycle racing is an interesting subject. There have been very few racers who have been caught for using doping of one kind of another - Noriyuki Haga being the most high-profile example, banned for the use of ephedrine - but the FIM continue to police the issue very strictly, even organizing a special educational briefing session for all of the riders in the MotoGP paddock in 2011.

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2012 Nurburgring World Superbike And World Supersport Sunday Post-Race Press Releases

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Press releases from the WSBK and WSS teams, as well as the organizers, after the German round of WSBK at the Nurburgring:

Cluzel takes superb second in Germany

ON his first visit to the Nurburgring in Germany for the 11th round of the World Supersport Championship, PTR Honda's Jules Cluzel took a hard-fought second place after being in contention for the win from start to finish.

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WSBK News: Chaz Davies Signs With BMW For 2013

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Chaz Davies, who is currently mining a rich seam of World Superbike form on his ParkInGo Aprilia, has just been confirmed as Marco Melandri's team mate in the 2013 season. The second BMW Motorrad Italia seat was originally rumoured to have been going to Ben Spies, who allegedly went as far as signing a letter of intent, and then to current BMW rider Leon Haslam. With BMW announcing Chaz Davies, those rumours can be put to rest.

BMW Motorrad confirms Chaz Davies for the 2013 season.

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2012 Nürburgring WSBK Race One: Front End Crashes Aplenty In The Dry

Submitted by Jared Earle on

Race one was held on a dry, warm and windy track with quite a few DNFs due to front end crashes.

The race was won by Max Biaggi ahead of the Aprilias of Eugene Laverty and Chaz Davies. Tom Sykes, who led at a blistering pace for most of the race, had what looked like it could have been an electronics issue, finished in fourth place after slowing a second a lap. Leon Camier in fifth started from the back of the grid, due to an issue that made him enter the warm-up lap from the pits.

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2012 Nürburgring WSBK: Saturday Qualifying Round Up

Submitted by Jared Earle on

The Nürburgring in Germany is an iconic location. The famous 13-mile Nordschleife attached to the GP track is a mecca for motorsports fanatics wanting to test their bravery and car factories wanting to test their latest models. The GP-Strecke is the GP track that the Superbikes race at. It was completed in 1984 and is used for Formula 1, DTM, World Superbikes and others. It was built on the site of the old Sudschleife, the south ring to the Nordschleife's north ring, and connects to the larger track at the tight Coca Cola curve that leads on to the start/finish straight.

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2012 Nurburgring World Superbike And World Supersport Saturday Post-Qualifying Press Releases

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Press releases from the World Superbike and World Supersport teams after Saturday's qualifying sessions at the Nurburgring in Germany:

Rea happy with fifth in Germany

Jonathan Rea will start tomorrow’s two 12th round World Superbike championship races from the second row of the grid after setting the fifth fastest time in the Superpole qualifying session this afternoon at the Nurburgring in Germany.

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