TRAGEDRY AT THE MALASIAN MOTO GP.
23/10/2011.

On the second lap of the Malasian Moto GP race a horific accident occured in which Marco Simoncelli was seriously injured ended in the rider seccumbing to his injuries at 4.56 local time. Our symathy to Marco's family and friends.

A DAY OF WINS BY NEW CHAMPIONS.
16/10/2011.

Champions day as Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) won the Moto GP Championship as well as the race at Philip Island. His only rival for the title Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing)did not start after a crash in morning warmup when he last a piece of a finger. Soon after Formula one world Champion Sebastian Vettel ran awa y with the Korean Grand Prix. In the afternoon Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) won the first race in World Superbikes. He could'nt manage the second race which went to former 250 Champion Marco Melandri (yamaha World Superbike Team)

WORLD SUPERSTOCK AT PHILIP ISLAND.

In friday practice for the Superstock race at the Philip Island cicuit in Australia South African Sheridan Morais (Lorenzini By Leoni) was just edged out of provisional pole by Petrucci's Ducati by one tenth of a second. Hopefully he can keep up the momentum to start well up on the grid for the race on sunday morning.

CHECA WINS AGAIN.
2/10/2011.

Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) carried on where he left off after winning his first World Title earlier in the day by working his way up into first place in race two at Magny Cours. Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team)led at the start and for about half the race before Checa came through to take the lead and build a slight gap. Laverty's team-mate Marco Melandri also started slowly and as in the first race he moved forward to take second plcace on the last lap. Leon Haslam (BMW motorrad Motorsport) finnished in fourth after a podium in race one.

ALTHEA RACING HAVE TWO CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ONE WEEKEND.
2/10/2011.

Althea Racing scored their first World Championship this morning when Davide Gugliano cruised to fifth place in the Superstock race to win the title. The race was won by Petrucci with what apeared to be a blown engine.
South African Champion Sheridan Morais finnished first of the Kawasaki's in eighth place.

DAVIES IS ALSO CHAMPION.
2/10/2011.

Chaz Davies (yamaha ParkinGO Team) only needed to beat Fabian Foret (HanSPREE Ten Kate Honda) to win his first World Title. Broc Parkes (kawasaki Motorcard.com)led from the line untill about half distance when Luca Scassa (Yamaha ParkinGO ) took the lead untill the end. Brit Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda) went up and down the field but when it counted he was in second place. Parkes ended in third with Davies in sixth, enough to win the Championship.
South African Ronan Quarmby (Suriano Racing Team) riding an uncompetitive Triumph had a good race to finnish in 10th place.

CHECA IS CHAMPION.
2/10/2011.

Carlos Checa has been crowned the 2011 World Superbike Champion after a faultless ride in race 1 at the Magny Cours circuit in france. He did not get the best of starts but worked his way up to leader Eugene Laverty (Yamaha Superbike Team). He took a couple of laps to pass and then pulled away to win the race and the World Championship. A very popular winner, it is Calos's first ever World Championship in a very long and succesful career. Rival Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike Team) got a bad start and fell to eighth and then worked his way up to second at the finnish, but it was not enough to keep the championship alive. Ceca is a worthy Champion as he has riden well and consistantly all year long and thoroughly deserves the title.

PEDROSA WINS IN JAPAN.
2/10/2011.

Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) was gifted a win in the Japanese Moto GP race at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Japan. Team-mate Casey Stoner had the lead and ran off the track without falling and handed the lead to Pedrosa who held off a challenge from Jorge Lorenzo (yamaha Factory Racing) to win. Stoner made his way back to third at the finnish.
Moto 2 TO IANONE.
Andrea Ianone made his way to the front of the pack in the Moto 2 race in Japan after a hard fight with Marc Marquez (Catalunja Caixa Repsol), and Stefan Bradl (Viessman Keifer) and Simone Corsi(Ioda Racing Project) and Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Padock Moto2).

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT IMOLA IN ITALY.
25/9/2011.

Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati)started on pole with a chance to win the title. Tom Sykes led at the start but lost it to Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda) on lap four. Rea was to hold the lead to the finnish despite a hard challenge from Noriyuki Haga (PATA Racing Team Aprilia) who finnished in second. Checa had a good race with Sykes and beat him right at the end to take third place.
Race two saw Rea take the lead at the start and hold it for most of the race untill he had a problem with the bike and fell out. Sykes chose the wrong tyres and went backwards from a good start. Haga made a terrible start and fell down to about eighth and then worked his way through the field and into second. Checa took Haga for second and then Rea went out and Checa took the lead with Haga back into second.

SUPERBIKES TO IMOLA THIS WEEKEND.
22/9/2011.

The World Superbike Championship will move to Imola In Italy this weekend.Althea Racing Team rider Carlos Checa Goes there with a 74 point lead over Yamaha World Superbike Team rider Marco Melandri. There are 150 points up for grabs for the rest of the season which makes Checa the favorite for the title.
Spaniard Xavi Fores will ride for the BMW Motorrad Italia SBK Team in place of James Toseland who has retired from the sport.
Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO ) has a 59 point lead in the Supersport class with 75 points waiting. He also looks good for the championship.
World Superbikes will be going to Russia in 2012. The Superbikes rights holder Infront Sports announced that Alexander Yakhnich's YMS company will be the organisers of the race at the Moscow Raceway on the outskirts of Moscow.
Yakhnich will also field a Supersport Team with Russian Vladimir Leonov as rider with another to be announced.

MOTO GP AT MOTORLAND ARAGON.
18/9/2011.

Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda)started from pole by a good margin from team-mate Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing). At the front it was Stoner from Pedrosa. Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing)led briefly but was soon overwhelmed by Lorenzo. Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini) went up and down the field due partly to mistakes and the hard riding of Spies and Alvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki Moto gp) Stoner finnished well ahead of Pedrosa who finnished well ahead of Lorenzo.

MOTO 2 AT ARAGON.
18/9/2011.

The Moto 2 race was a complete contrast to the Moto GP. The race started close with Marc Marquez (Team Catalunja Caixa Repsol), Stefan Bradl (Viessman Kiefer Racing) and numerous others at the front. Real racing started on lap 1 and continued until close to the end. Place changes took place twice in one corner on some laps and this was the way it went for most of the race. Half distance saw six bikes in it for the lead and another ten or so following close behind and ready to pounce on any mistake. At the flag it was Marquez fromIAndrea Ianone (Sped Master) and Simone Corsi (ioda Racing Project) Championship leader Stefan Bradl had some problem and could only finnish in eighth place.

125cc Race AT ARAGON>

Nico Terol (Bancaja Aspar Team)led from pole and was never headed. Team-mate Hector Faubel held second for most of the race holding off Johan Zarco (AJO Motorsport). The two battled until the last lap when Faubel fell to let Maverick Vinales (PEV- Blusens-SMX-Pris Hilton) into third.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE TWO AT NURBURGRING. >br> 4/9/2011.

Race two was wet, very wet. Out of the first corner Noriuki Haga ( PATA Racing Team Aprilia) led.Jonathan Rea (Castrol HOnda) held second. Lap 2 saw Tom Sykes (Kawaski Racing Team Superbikes) move into second. Championship leader Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati)went backwards st the start all the way to 14th. Haga pulled away from the field and amazingly there were very few moments early in the race. The rain slackened off and then came down hard but the conditions were never better than terrible. The two Liberty-Effenbert riders Sylvain Guintoli and Jokub Smrz worked their way up the field. Haga with an eight second lead crashed out which left Tom Sykes in the lead from the Liberty riders. With six laps to run the organisers stopped the race when bikes went down in quick succession.
This gave Sykes his first win and Kawasaki their first win since 2006. An incredible race but a huge dissapointment for Haga.

WORLD SUPERSTOCK AT NURBURGRING.
4/9/2011

The Superstock race turned out to be a Ducati benefit for the Althea Racing Team as Guiliano won after passing Barrier on a BMW. He then pulled away to win with his team-mate in third place. South African Sheridan Morais finnished in eigth on a Kawaasaki.

WORLD SUPERSPORT AT THE NURBURGRING.
4/9/2011.

The Supersport race had Gino Rea (Step Racing Team) in the lead at the start followed by James Ellison (Bogdanka PTR Honda). Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGp Team) started in pole and fell back at the start but was soon on the way to the front. He got to the lead before half distance and slowly pulled away.Towards the end it ws a two nike race between Davies and Ellison. It was close but Davies won from Ellison andSam LOwes (Parkalgar Honda).

WORLD SUPERBIKES GO TO THE NURBURGRING.
4/9/2011.

World Superbike race one at the Nurburgring started without Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) as he has a problem with his foot. Carlos checa (Althea Ducati) led from pole with Noriuki Haga (PATA Racing Team Aprilia)in second ahead of the two Yamaha's of Marco Melandri and Eugene Laverty. Both Melandri and Laverty ran wide at the same corner and fell back but Melandri worked his way up to and passed Haga for second. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) also went off and fell to 14th,then started a comeback ride allthe way to fifth at the flag.

MOTO GP AT MISANO & Rivero Di Rimini.
4/9/2011/

The Moto GP race started with Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory RAcing) taking the lead at the first bend and staying there for the race. At first casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) challenged but could not pass. Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) took up the chase and he also could not make inroads to Lorenzo and fell back to about seven seconds at the finnish. Stoner ended in third with agood dice between Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini) and Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda )and Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory RAcing).

The surprize was that Scot Redding ( Marc VDS Racing Team) held the lead for nearly half the race with three very hard chargers behind him. They were Marc Marquez (Team Catalunja Caixo Repsol) and Andrea Ianone (Speed Master) and Stefan Bradl (Viessman Kiefer Racing). Bradley Smith (Tech 3 RaCING ) held onto fourth untill Alex De Angelis went by . Bradl went up and down the lead group but in the end it was between Marquez and Bradl who finnished in that order ahead of ianone and De Angalis.

MOTO GP AT MISANO & Riviero Di Rimini.
4/9/2011.

125cc Race.
The race started with Nico Terol (Bancaja Aspar Team)taking the lead from Dani Kent (Red Bull AJO Motordport). As the race settled down it was between Terol and Johan Zarco AJO Motorsport ) The two pulled away from the rest and went at it hammer and tongs. Zarco led out of the last corner and must have thought he was about to win his first Grand Prix but to no avail. Terol pulled out of the slipstream and won by 23 thousandsof a second.

ZWARTKOPS TO HOST THE HISTORIC TOUR ON 10/9/2011.

Zwartkops will host the Historic Tour on the 10/9/2011 which should keep the old time enthusiasts happy, seening the cars of yesteryear slipping and sliding their way around the tight Zwartkops circuit. Races for the Legends of the nine hours and International sports prototypes to formula ford kent and the lotus challenge will all be there.
The guys that remember the old single cylilnder thumpers the Historic Motorcycle group will be ther to bring back the memories of old time motorcycle racng.

CARLOS CHECA HAS POLE AT NURBURGRING WORLD SUPERBIKES'
3/9/2011.

Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) took pole position at the Nurburgring round of the World Superbike Championship. Joining him on the front row are Eugene Laverty (Yamaha Factory Racing) in second with Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) in third but riding with an injured foot. Marco Melandri (Yamaha Factory Racing) rounds out the front row with Noriyuki Haga (Pata Racing Team Aprilia) heading the fourth row. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team Superbikes took sixth ahead of Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) in seventhplace.

WORLD SUPERBIKES TO THE NURBURGRING.

First day's practice for the WorldSuperbikes has Max Biaggi (Aprila Alitalia) ahead of Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) and Marco Melandri (Yamaha Factory RAcing) Suzuki's Michel FAbrizio was fourth fastest. Fastest Kawasaki was Tom Sykes in 9th place. Leon Haslam (BMW Motorad Motorsport), the quickest of the BMW's in tenth.
In the Superstock class South African Sheridon Morais was the fastest Kawaski in 8th place. The fastest in the class are the Ducati's and BMW's.

LONG TIME MOTO GP RIDER TO RETIRE.
2/9/2011.

Moto GP legend Loris Caporossi has decided to retire at the end of this year's championship season. He has competed for 22 years in the Moto GP series and has achieved three world titles and 99 podiium finishes.

WORLD SUPERBIKES GO TO NURBURGRING THIS WEEKEND.
31/8/2011.

After a month's break the World Superbike Championship goes to the Nurburgring with Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) having a good lead in the points but has never managed a win at the circuit. His main rival Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) has also never won here. Both have come close. BMW Motorad Motorsport riders Leon Haslam and Troy Corser are hoping for a change in fortunes at their home race. Marco Melandri (Yamaha Factory RAcing) will be looking for a good result as he is looking for a ride for next year as the official Yamah team is pulling out of next year's championship.

MOTO GP VISITS INDIANAPOLIS.
28/8/2011.

The Moto GP race at the Indianapolis circuit took on the usual format as Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) lined up on pole for the race. The start was almost predictable with Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) leading into the first turn from the second row of the grid. Stoner got bumped down a further place by Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing). As usual Stoner took his time to warm up his tyres and settle himself in before making his move towards the front. This he did methodically, first taking Lorenzo for second and then hunting down his team-mate Pedrosa and taking the lead He then built up a ever increasing gap and won quite comfortably from Pedrosa. Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing) had a terrible start off the front row and made a determined effort to right things. He moved through the field to challenge his team-mate Lorenzo and a lap or two from the end went passed to fill the final podium spot with third place.

MOTO 2 RACE.

Bradley Smith (tec 3 Racing) was first into turn one from the second row of the grid. He was followed by Marc Marquez (Cata lunyaCaixa Repsol)and Simone Corsi (Ioda RAcing Project) and the field. Championship leader Stefan Bradl.(Viessman Kiefer RAcing) started in 22nd after a crash in practice and he slowly worked his way through the field. By mid race arquez was gone but second ws hotly contested. Pol Espargaro (HP Tuenti Speed UP)and Tito Rabat (Blusens STX) were dicing for second with Bradley Smith and Scot Redding (Marc VDS Racing Team) dicing for fifth. The race finnished that way with Stefan Bradl an amazing sixth place from the Eighth raow of the grid.

125cc RACE.

Nico terol (Bancaja Aspar Team) started from pole and was soon in the lead which he never lost. Behind him the dice for second consisted of three and that became six by midway and then bacame three again. The finnish saw Terol way ahead of the rest with Maverick Vinales (PEV-Blusens-SMX-Paris Hilton) in second from Sandro Cortese (Racing Team Germany) after a lot of overtaking between them.
South African Brad Binder riding as a wild card in place of Luis SAlom started in 26th place on the grid and finnished a very creditable 17th.

MOTO GP IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC.
14/8/2011.

Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) started in pole position for the Cardion AB Grand prix at Brno. He started well and was soon in the lead from his team-mates. It all came to nothing on lap two as he lost the front end and his race was over.Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) took the lead and slowly pulled away from team-mate Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) Marco Simoncelli (san Carlo Honda Gresini)made his way forward and by the end he took his first podium finnish in the premier class.Stoner won easily from Dovizioso and Simoncelli with Lorenzo fourth. Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) had a good race to finnish in sixth place.
The MOTO 2 race was better than most this year as the front five that pulled away had a really good race with lots of overtaking throughout the race.Stefan Bradl (Viessman Kiefer Racing) led most of the first half and then the overtaking really started. The leading group consisted of Bradl Andrea Ianone (Speed Master),Marc Marquez(Team Catalunya Caixo Repsol),Alex De Angelis(JIR Moto2) and Thomas Luthi(Interwetten Padock M2 Racing)At the end Ianone won from Marquez and Bradl with De Angelis in fourth.
The 125cc race was also a good one.Nico Terol(Bancaja Aspar Team) led followed by Johan Zarco(AJO Motorsport)and Sandro Cortese(Racing Team Germany) These three pulled away until Terol went out with mechanical problems and the fight was down to two. They went at it hard. Neither had yet won a Grand Prix so they were trying hard. In the last chicane Zarco in attempting to overtake had a wobble and then it was Cortese's first win. Zarco was second with Alberto Moncayo(Andalucia Cajasol)taking his first podium.

WORLD SUPERBIKES ROUND 9 RACE TWO AT SILVERSTONE.
31/7/2011.

Race two started as race one with Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team)in the lead followed by Leon Camier (Aprilia Alitalia) and Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati). Checa again made his way to the front and stayed there.Behind Laverty in second there was a good battle between Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike Team) and Leon Camier and his team-mate Max Biaggi whose slipping clutch had been fixed. The race ended with Ceca taking the double win from Laverty and Melandri ahead of Biaggi and Camier.

WORLD SUPERBIKES ROUND 9 AT SILVERSTONE.
31/7/2011.

Race one at the recently revised Silverstone circuit in the UK started with Carlos Checa(Althea Ducati) on pole position. Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team) led into the first corner ahead of John Hopkins (Samsung Cresent Suzuki). Checa was down to fourth behind Noriyuki Haga (Pata Racing Team Aprilia). Haga soon crashed and Ceca made his way to thefront never to be headed again during the race.The race ended with Checa in front of Laverty and team-mate Marco Melandri and Leon Haslam(BMW Motorrad Motorsport).

The front row of the grid had Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) and Teom-mate Dani Pedrosa with Jorge Lorenzo(Yamaha Factory Racing) all having a time in the lead. These three pulled away from Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) and Marco Simoncelli(San Carlo Honda Gresini) Towards the end Pedrosa got away from his two rivals who fought it out to the last corner with Lorenzo keeping Stoner in third. Dovizioso and Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory RAcing) both beat Simoncelli to the line.

MOTO 2 AT SACHSENRING.
17/7/2011.

How could the Moto 2 riders do better than the 125cc race. It would be hard but they tried their best. marc Marquez(Team Catalunja caixa Repsol) and Stefan Bradl (Veissman Kiefer Racing) and Alex De Angelis JIR Moto2)spent most of the race at the front, De Angelis just hanging in with the front two. Thomas Luthi(Interwetten Padock M2 Racing) joined the leaders and Randy KRummenacher(GP TeamSwitzerland Kiefer Racing) working his way to the front group and finnishing in fourth place behind De Angelis.

MOTO GP AT THE SACHSENRING IN GERMANY.
17/7/2011.

An absolutely cracking 125cc race at the Sachsenring in Germany where the front group stayed together for almost the entire race with overtaking all the way down the field. The lead changed on most laps but at the last lap it ws between Johann Zarco(AJO Motorsport) and Hector Faubel (Bancaja Aspar Team) in a photo finnish that even he camera could not decide who won. The race was eventually given to Faubel as he had a faster lap. Third went to Maverick Vinales(PEV-Blusens_SMX-Paris Hilton).

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT BRNO. 10/7/2011.

Race 1 started as expected with Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia)taking the lead from the two Yamaha World Supeerbike Team-mate Marco Melandri and Eugene Laverty. Melandri and Biaggi pulled away and Laverty fell back. Caros Checa (Althea Racing) slowly made his way to third. He caught right up to the leaders but did not have the top speed to get passed. The race ended with Melandri winning from Biaggi and Checa.
Race 2 started the same as race 1 and at the front it was the same. This time Biaggi had the upper hand and won from Melandri and Checa who had settled for third as he could make no further impression on the leaders.
World Supersport was a race between Fabian Foret (Castrol Honda) and Gino Rea (Step Racing Team) They changed the lead all race through while Chaz Cavies(Yamaha ParknGO Team) worked his way into third place at the end. Gino Rea took his first Supersport win ahead of Foret and Davies.

MOTO GP AT MUGELLO. 3/7/2011.

The Moto GP race at the Mugello circuit in Italy drew 83000 fans and they were not diappointed. Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) was comfortably on pole position. The start saw him take an immediate lead and pull away from the field. He was chased by Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) made it to third and challenged Lorenzo. Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team)started a lowly 12th and worked his way forward to finnish in sixth place. Towards the end Lorenzo and Dovizioso caught up to Syoner and first Lorenzo and then Dovizioso passe him and there was nothing he could do to fight back and had to setttle for third. Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini) did not crash this time and finnished in fifth having been passed by Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing) on the last lap.
Moto 2 has been improving as the season progresses after a not so good start. Last year's racing would always be hard to repeat but the field is now catching up. Marc Marquez (Team Catalunya Caixo Repsol) took the lead from Bradley Smith (Tech 3 Racing) By lap seven the lead was being fought by Marquez, smith, Stefan Bradl(Viessman Kiefer Racing)and Alex De Angelis(JIR2 Moto2). De Angelis soon faded but Andrea Ianone (Speed Master)caught up from a bad qualifying to join the front runner's but he had done his tyres and he also faded. The race for seventh place consisted of twelve bikes all swapping places. At the end it was Marquez from Bradl and Smith.
The 125cc race was a two bike race between Nico Terol(Bancaja Aspar Team) and Johan Zarco(AJO Motorsport Team) Nobody else got a look in although teen sensation Maverick Vinales(Pev-Blusens-Smx-Paris Hilton) managed to finnish on the podium in third.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE2 AT ARAGON. 19/6/2011.

WORLD SUPERSPORT AT MOTORLAND ARAGON.
19/6/2011.

Australian Broc Parkes (Kawasaki Motorcard.com)started in pole and led from the start followed by the Yamaha Factory Racing riders Caz Davies and Luca Scassa Scassa went backwards and Brit Sam Lowes(Parkalgar Honda) worked his way to third and they pulled away from the rest. Davies hounded Parkes and the pressure paid off as Parkes lost the front with just three laps to go. Davies took the win and the championship lead at the halfway point of the season.

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT MOTORLAND ARAGON. 19/6/2011.

Race 1 and the Spanish crowd and a good size crowd it was did not get what they hoped for. They wanted a win for carlos Checa(Althea Ducati) With a very long Back straight Checa was always going to have a hard time winning. When the race settled down he was in fourth but he was cathing Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) and Marco Melandri (Yamaha Factory Racing) and Leon Camier (Aprilia Alitalia). Then disaster as Checa Fell. The battle for fourth was good and lasted the whole race between Noriuki Haga (Pata Racing Team Aprilia)Tom Sykes (kawasaki Racing Team Superbike) his team-mate Juan Lascorsc and Eugene laverty (Yamaha Factory RAcing) Melandri passed Biaggi when the leader made a small mistake and pulled out a small lead to win from Biaggi and Camier. Laverty made it to fourth with Haga fifth.

LE MANS TO AUDI AGAIN.
12/6/2011.

Audi entered three cars at this years 24 hour race at the Le Mans circuit in France.Their main rivals Peugeot entered three cars and a private entry of one of last years cars. They seemed evenly matched and all circulated together until almost the first hour was over when Audi lost their first car due to a horrific accident involving driver Alan McNish. The car was destroyed but McNish walked away, just showing how strong the cars are. The middle of the night brought the end of the second Audi, also due to a crash. That left one Audi against four Peugeot's.
With pit stops taking place every ten or twelve laps the race is now a series of flat out sprints for twenty four hours. The Audi held the lead for most of the race with the Peugeot's never far behind. The Peugeot team could do one lap more before pitting for their 65 litr's of diesel than the Audi's This they hoped would get them into the lead by the end. The end turned out to be tense with the lead Audi clinging to a slender lead over the chasing Peugeot. After twenty four hours the Audi led the Peugeot over the line by thirteen and a half seconds.

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT MISANO.
12/6/2011.

Misano Adriatica circuit hosted the World Superbikes and it was a Ducati benefit. Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) miissed out on pole position to Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team Superbikes) Checa was soon in the lead and was never headed in both races but he had Max Biaggi (APrilia Alitalia) hot on his heels throughout both races. Max tried hard but could not do anything about Checa. Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike Team) made it to third in the first race. The second race was red flagged due to two bikes on the track without riders. At the restart it was the same as before but this time Noriyuki Haga (Pata Racing Team Aprilia) made his way to third in the aggregate times of the race.

MOTO GP MUCH AS EXPECTED.
5/6/2011.

The Moto GP race started with Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) taking the lead at the first corner of the second lap and that's where he stayed. Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) found himself in second and he also stayed there. Team-mate Ben Spies (yamaha Factory Racing)made it to third and he stayed there. Andrea dovizioso (Repsol Honda) had a bit of a dice with Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) which ended with Dovizioso in fourth. Light rain fell in the middle of the race but it was not hard enough for anyone to stop for rain tyres.Not a very exciting race. Stoner is now in second place in the points going to Silverstone next week.

Moto 2 a close one.
5/6/2011.

The Moto 2 race had Stefan Bradl (Viessmann Kiefer Racing) out front followed by Aleix Espargaro (Pons Racing) and Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar team). After half distance the field closed up near the front but then it all fell apart as Supersport World Champ Kenan Soofoglu (Technomag Cip) ran into the back of Julian Simon resulting in a nasty crash, fortunately without serious injuries.World 125cc Champ Marc Marquez (Team Catalunja Caixa Repsol)worked his way to second and stayed thereto follow Bradl home followed by Espargaro.

MOTO GP AT VALENCIA, SPAIN.
5/6/2011.

The 125 cc race at valencia was a three bike race. Starting on a damp track most of the field fitted dry tyres. It was the right choice. The lead being contested by Nico Terol(Bancaja Aspar Team),Johann Zarco (AJO Motorsport) and Maverick Vinales (PEV-Blusens-SMX-Paris Hilton) These three pulled away from the rest of the field with Vinales falling back towards the end. The last lap was close with Terol leading but coming out of the last corner Zarco pushed Terol off the track to take the win.

INDY 500. 29 5 2011.

Dan Weldon won the 2011 Indy 500 at the brickyard on the last corner when rookie Hildebrand who was leading crashed into the wall coming out of turn four on the last lap and was passed as he held the car against the wall. Even with two of his wheels bouncing around he finnished in third.
Tomas Scheckter, son of World Formula one World Champion was running in second place with twenty to go but had to stop for a splash and dash and managed to finnish in sixth place. A change from his being involved in crashes not alway's of his own doing.

MOTO GP AT LE MANS.
15/5/2011.

The Moto GP teams spent the weekend at the Bugatti circuit in france, located at the Le Mans car circuit. Casey Stoner ( repsol Honda) held the pole position after being fastest throughout the weekend. he was followed on the grid by another three Honda's before Yamaha got a look in. Stoner made a bad start but soon passed team-mate Dani Pedrosa to take the lead. In fifth place was Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) Stoner and Pedrosa pulled away but soon Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini) started to close just as Stoner pulled away from Pedrosa. Simoncelli caught Pedrosa and went passed in a controversial move around the outside and cut in front too sharply forcing Pedrosa to sit up . He touched the rear tyre of Simoncelli and crashed breaking his right collar bone for the umpteenth time. This got a ride through for Simoncelli. This left Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) and Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team)fighting for second. Lorenzo had been with them but he ran wide in one corner and fel back. The race ended with Stoner well ahead in first with Dovizioso beating Rossi for the second time in two races in second with Rossi taking his first podium for the Ducati Team. After his ride through Simoncelli made his way back to fifth place ahead of Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing ).
The Moto 2 race was the best so far this year as the front runners stayed fairly well together. Stefan Bradl(Viessmann Kiefer Racing) took the lead from Thomas Luthi(Interwetten Paddock M2 Racing). Championship contender Andrea Iannone (Speed Master) crashed out on the first lap. The lead group consisted of six bikes close together. With eleven laps to go Luthi took the lead and Bradl lost three places in four corners. Marc Marquez (Team Catalunya Caixa Repsol) took the lead with five laps to go and pulled away. He won from Yuki Takahashi(gresini Racing Moto2) and a recovered Stefan Bradl.
The 125cc race started as expected with pole sitter Nico Terol(Bancaja Aspar Team) leading away. Maverick Vinales(pEV-Blusens-SMX-Paris Hilton) forged his way into second and the two leaders pulled far away from the field. There was a good fight for third place between about seven riders. Terol appeared to be playing with the sixteen year old Vinales and they swapped the lead a few times. Terol led at the start of the last lap with Vinales close behind. Into the last double apex corner terol entered first and exited second to finnish second to Vinales. Third place went to Efren Vasquez(AJO Motorsport) a long way back.

WORLD SUPERBIKE's AT MONZA
8/5/2011.

Race 1 started with Troy Corser (BMW Motorad Motorsport) in the lead.It did not last as Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) was soon in the front. As the race settled down Biaggi was dicing with Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team) with Leon Haslam (BMW Motorad Motorsport) in third.Biaggi made a few mistakes and fell into the clutches of Haslam and Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike Team) while Laverty got himself a good lead to win his first World Superbike race. Biaggi recovered to second from Haslam.
The Supersport race had Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO Team) take the lead from pole and stay there pulling away. His team-mate Luca Scassa worked himself into second and it was race over for the rest of the field.
Race 2 of the Superbikes and again Corser (BMW Motorad Motorsport) led and again lost the lead on the first lap. In the first corner of the first lap there was an accident losing Haslam (Bmw Motorad Motorspoprt) Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda) and Jakub SMRZ (Team Effenbert-Liberty Racing). Biaggi pulled a huge gap at the front from his team-mate Leon Camier who soon lost the front and was out. Biaggi made a mistake and missed the first chicane and was given a ride through penalty. This left Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team) to fight with his team-mate Marco Melandri for the lead. Melandri was in front with Laverty trying hard to get by which he did on the last corner when Melandri went a little wide and Laverty was through for a double win. Behind them was a tremendous dice for third between Michel Fabrizio (Alstare Suzuki) and Noriyuki Haga (PATA Racing Team Aprilia). Fabrizio mad it to third. Campionship leader Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) Blew his engine on the second last corner but managed to finnish tenth.

MOTO GP GOES TO ESTORIL IN PORTUGAL. 1/5/2011.

The Moto GP teams headed for the Estoril cicuit on the atlantic coast of Portugal. Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing)started in pole for a race he has won for the last three years. Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini)was second with Dani Pedrosa ( Repsol Honda Team)edging team-mate Casey Stoner off the front row. Lorenzo led from the start followed by Pedrosa. Simoncelli had a huge highside on the first lap which dropped Stoner back. Lorenzo and Pedrosa pulleed away from Stoner with Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) making his way to fourth with Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Team) right behind. Not an exciting race untill Pedrosa sailed past Lorenzo with three laps to go. Despite a sore shoulder Pedrosa pulled away to win quite easily from Lorenzo with Stoner a lonely third. Dovizioso passed Rossi for fourth by 2000th of a second.
The Moto 2 race started with Stefan Bradl(Veissman Kiefer Racing) out front. Andrea Ianone (Speed MAster) dropped down to 17th at the start. and fought his way up to the lead with five laps to go and then promptly fell. The race livened up in the last few laps with Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar Team) held on to second from Yuki Takahashi ( Gresini Team Moto2).
Nico Terol (bAncaja Aspar Team) took off at the start and was never seen again. The race for second place was fairly hotly contested with Sandro Cortese ( Racing Team Germany) holding on to second from Johan Zarco (AJO Motorsport) who passed Maverick Vinales (PEV-Blusens-smx-Paris Hilton) a few milimeters before the line to geet himself on the podium.

WORLD SUPERBIKE RACE 2 AT ASSEN, 17/4/2011.

Noriyuki Haga (Pata Racing Team Aprilia)took the lead at the start of race 2 and was soon swamped by those following with Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) and Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia)leading the pack. Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda) established himself in third and these three pulled away from the rest. Biaggi managed to get in front with two laps remaining after a mistake from Checa. Checa returned the favor just before the start of the last lap. He held on to take his fourth win of the year and a healthy lead in the points.

WORLD SUPERSPORT AT ASSEN A INCIDENT FILLED RACE. 17/4/2011.

The Supersport race started out with Luca Scassa (Yamaha parkinGO Team)out front. After a couple of laps Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda) highsided and hit his head and the race was stopped. No sooner than the restart there was another crash and another red flag. The third start and Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO Team)took the lead with a contiuation of incidents behind. The front runners went down like flies. There was a great dice between Kawasaki's for the final podium place with Broc Parkes ( Kawasaki Motorcard.com) taking the place.

WORLD SUPERBIKE RACE 1 AT ASSEN. 17/4/2011.

Race 1 started with Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) in the lead. A group of six riders contested the front with Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team)got as high as third and set the fastest lap of the race but a soft tyre dropped him down as the race went on. BMW did not have a good race as Haslam fell but managed to keep going. Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport)was in the lead pack but endedat the back of it. Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda) won from Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) and Carlos Checa. Marco Melandri ( Yamaha World Superbike Team) worked his way to fourth.

THE RAIN IN SPAIN FALLS ON JEREZ AND CAUSES MAYHEM. 3/4/2011.

The moto GP race was wet. All the races at Jerez were wet. The Moto GP race started with Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda Team) getting into the first corner in the lead, followed by Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing). Danni Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) fell well bak at the start but worked his way back to the front. Vallentino Rossi had a good start from 12th place and was soon woth the leaders. Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini) got himself into the lead from Lorenzo and Stoner. When Rossi went down the inside of Stoner he got passed and lost the front end right in front od Stoner and took him down. Both riders got up but only Rossi continued. With what looked like a lack of interest from the marshalls Stoner could not restart his bike. The rain caused lots of problems with Ben Spiess Yamaha Factory Racing )getting to second and promptly falling. Colin Edwards was in third on the last lap when he also went off. This let Nicky Hayden (Ducati Team) onto the podium.
The Moto 2 race, also held in the wet had as many fallers as Moto GP Andrea Ianone (Speed Master Suter) worked his way to the front after about ten laps. Thomas lutHI (Interwetten Padock M2 Racing) held on to second for most of the race with Simone Corsi (Ioda Racing Project) in third. Behind them riders went down all through the field. Bradley Smith(Tech 3 Racing)held on to take fourth place at the flag from Stefan Bradl (viessmann Kiefer Racing) who had a big slide shortly before the end. The 125cc race started with Nico Terol (Bancaja Aspar Team) in the lead from Efren Vasquez (AJO Motorsport) Terol's team-mate Hector Faubel caught up and the two of them had a great dice for the lead. Lead changed often at the front but it could not last and Faubel crashed on the last lap to let Jonas Folger (Red BullAJO Motorsport) into second and Johan Zarco (AJO Motorsport onto the podium.

CHECA TAKES RACE TWO AT DONNINGTON. 27/3/2011.

Once again Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) led into the first turn followed by Carlos Checa (Althea RAcing). Checa now with a soft tyre at the rear of the bike soon took the lead and slowly pulled away, Second place was fought out by Haslam and Leon Camier (Aprilia Alitalia) with Marco Melandri (Yamaha Superbike Team). Haslam went off the track and dropped down, then started a great comeback ride. Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) jumped the start, was given a ride through which he ignored and finally was black flagged. Checa;s tyre wore down and Melandri closed but could notquite make it. Haslam caught Juan Lascorz (Kawasaki Racing team) and got by to take another fourth place.

A CLOSE FINNISH IN WORLS sUPERSPORT AT DONNINGTON PARK. 27/3/2011

Luca Scassa( yamaha ParkinGO Team)led into the first corner followed by his team-mate Chaz Davies. They stayed in the front all through the race. Behind them there were dices all down the field that soon spread out with dices in small groups. On the last lap Davies tried hard to get passed his team-mate but just could not manage to get by. Brit Gino Rea (Step Racing Team)held on for third.

WORLD SUPERBIKE ROUND 2 AT DONNINGTON PARK. 27/3/2011.

Round two of the World Superbike Championship at the Donnington Park circuit in the UK was cold. On the pole Position sat Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) Not surprisingly Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) slotted into second with Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) in third. Haslam led into turn one with Checa Nowhere, neither was Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) Noriyuki Haga (Pata Racing Team Aprilia)was in third. After a few laps the lead group was six riders and growing. Jakub Smrz (Team Effenbert-Liberty Racing) took the lead on lap six and pulled away. the following group grew to nine riders with lots of overtaking Checa and Biaggi were battling in the lead group with Checa gaining ground. At the flag Marco Melandri (Yamaha World Superbike Team) made it to the lead with one and a half laps to go. Melandri won with Smrz second and checa on the podium. Haslam hung on in fourth with Haga the first Aprilia in sixth.

STONER HAS THE LAST LAUGH. 15/3/2011.

Casey Stoner on his Repsol Honda gained the phsycological advantage over the rest of the field by finnishing at the top of the time sheets on the final day of testing for the 2011 Moto GP season. He finnished ahead of his team-mate Dani Pedrosa. The only non Honda in the top five was Ben Spies on the Factory Yamaha M1.Marco Simoncelli San Carlo Honda Gresini was fourth with Andrea Dovizioso on another Repsol Honda in fifth. Valentino Rossi Ducati Team came in 13th after a fall. The fastest Ducati rider was Nicky Hayden on the works bike.
Due to the earthquake in Japan the Moto GP race has been moved to October 2nd.

WORLD SUPERBIKE RACE 2 TO DUCATI.
27/2/2011.

The second race of the day at Phillip Island started much the same as the first, with Carlos Checa (Althea Racing)getting into the lead and slowly pulling out a small gap. This time Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) had a bad start and dropped back but worked his way up to second place but had the Yamaha of first Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team)and then team-mate Marco Mellandri staying with him.
Checa never had any problems and ran out the winner from Biaggi and Mellandri making the podium an ex moto GP affair.

CLOSE SUPERSPORT RACE.
27/2/2011.

The two Motorcard.com Kawasaki'sled into the Doohan curve at Phillip Island for the first Supersport race of the year. The lead group soon consisted of seven riders covered by less than one second. Lead changes were aplenty but mostly it was Luca Scassa(Yamaha ParknGO) that held the lead. Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda)forced his way into the lead on the last lap and held it onto the staight for the last time. The run down to the finnish line was a lottery. Scassa pulled out of the slipstream and so did Broc Parkes (Kawasaki Motorcard.com) On the line it was Scassa by nine thousandths of a second from Parkes and Lowes.
South African Ronan Quarmby (Suriano Racing Team) finnished in 11th place.

WORLD SUPERBIKES BEGIN 2011 SEASON.
27/2/2011.

The start of race one of World Superbike season opener had Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) get to the first corner in the lead. Eugene Laverty (Yamaha World Superbike Team) soon took the lead but by lap 3 Carlos Checa (Althea Racing) went into the lead and slowly pulled away from biaggi who made it into second. He could not stay with the Ducati. The real race was for third place. It was a group of up to five bikes swapping places with Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) spending most of the time in third. Behind him included Eugene Laverty, team-mate Marco Melandri, Michel Fabrizio (Alstare Suzuki), Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda) and for a while Noriyki Haga (PATA Racing Team Aprilia). At the flag it was Checa Way out front with Biaggi alone in second. Haslam held off the pack foe third.

MOTO GP TESTING.
24/2/2011.

The Moto GP teams returned to Sepang in Malasia for another three days of testing and it turned out to be a Honda Benefit. New boy in the Works Repsol Honda Team Casey Stoner was fastest on each of the three days followed by his team-mate Dani Pedrosa. Honda machines have edged the Yamaha's out of the top four. Ben Spies now in the factory Yamaha team has generaly been faster than world champion Jorge Lorenzo. Colin Edwards on the Monster Tech3 Yamaha has been putting in good times as well.
Valentino Rossi was ill on the second day and did not ride Desmosedici Ducati. He is still having problems with his shoulder and has not been at the front of the time sheets. All the Ducati's have been having a bad time as far as results go.

MOTO GP TEST AT SEPANG.
1/2/2011.

Moto GP's first day of testing at the SEPANG circuit in Malasia had Casey Stoner(Repsol Honda) at the top of the time sheets. He set a time of 2.01.574 to be the only rider under 2.02. World champion Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) was second followed by Stoner's team-mate Dani Pedrosa in third.
Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team)is still recovering from shoulder surgery and also adapting to the Ducati Desmosedici and was down in twelve position.

QUARMBY TO WORLD SUPERSPORT.
15/1/2011.

Ronan Quarmby, the 2010 South African Supersport Champion will be going back to Europe in 2011 to race in the World Supersport Championship for the Triumph Suriano Team. The Triumph Daytona bikes will be made available to the team by BE1 Racing who have raced Triumph'sfor the last couple of years.

MAX BIAGGI A PROUD FATHER. 16/12/2010.

Superbike world champion Max Biaggi celebrates the birth of his second child in Monaco today. Leon Alexandre Biaggi weighed in at 2.9 Kgs. Congratulations to Max and family.

NEW KAWASAKI ZX10R LAUNCHED.
26/11/2010.

XAUS TO RIDE A HONDA.
11/11/2010.

The very experianced Spanish rider Ruben Xaus has been signed to ride for the Ten Kate Honda team for 2011. He will join Jonathan Rea who has been with the team for a year in World Superbikes.
Chris Vermeulen who will be riding for the official Kawasaki Team in 2011 is still on crutches but is sure that he will be riding in tests in January 2011. The knee damagedhe suffered takes about five months to heal.

VALENCIA MOTO GP RACE.
7/11/2010.

Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) started from pole for the last race of the year and his last race for the Ducati team. He led into the first turn with Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) making a flying start to be up with the leaders. Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati) also made a great start and was third only to lose the front trying to stay with Stoner and his race was over.
Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) tried to pass Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Gresini Honda) and must have expected him to just move out of the way. Simoncelli does not ride that way and closed the door. lorenzo just managed to pick the bike up with his knee to carry on.
The front of the race ended up as a threeway scrap between Stoner, Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) Stoner held off Lorenzo for two thirds of the race but then succombed to the Yamaha. He held on for a while and then fell slowly back. Rossi meanwhile could not stay with Stoner and also fell back. Behind them was an even better race for fourth place between Marco Simoncelli, Dani Pedrosa and Ben Spies (Monster Tech 3 Yamaha)and Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) Pedrosa faded and Spies got through to fourth ahead of Dovizioso and Simoncelli.
Lorenzo finnished the season with nine wins and a record number of points >

VALENCIA MOTO 2 RACE.
7/11/2010.

The Moto 2 race at Valencia as always held the attention. World Champion Tony Elias (Gresini Racing Moto2) appeared on the starting grid on a silver bike and dressed in silver leathers. He madea good start but exited the first few corners in fifth place. Andrea Ianone (Fimmco Speed Up) led and soon had Supersport World Champion Kenan Sofoglu in second place. The race at the front was made up of seven bikes with plenty of overtaking amongst the riders battling for second place. Tony Elias moved up to challlenge and Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar Team) made steady progress to be with the leading bunch.karel Abraham(Cardion AB Motoracing)was in the mix as was Scott Redding (Marc VDS RacingTeam).
On the last lap Tony Elias made a rather deaperate move and went off into the sand trap. He managed to pick it up and finnish, but the race was won by Karel Abraham for his first Moto 2 win fromAndrea Ianone and Julian Simon.

VALENCIA 125cc GRAND PRIX.
7/11/2010.

The last MOTO GP race at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia started with Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team) winning his first race of the year and also his last in the 125cc class.Next year he moves to the Moto 2 class. He led over the line about four seconds from Pol Espargaro (Bainet Derbi)in second and Nico Terol (Bancaja Aspar Team) in third.
Marc Marquez (Red Bull AJO Motorsport) at the age of seventeen won the 125cc World Championship. His first win in the class only came this year.

DRAMA IN 125cc RACE AT ESTORIL.
31/10/2010.

The 125cc race was declared dry before the start. Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team)led away but let his team-mate Nico Terol into the lead. Terol has a chance to win the championship and Smith was going to try and help him. Championship leader Marc Marquez (Red Bull AJO Motorsport) started from the third row and was fifth out of the first corner. He worked his way to second and stayed there until the rain came down and the red flag stopped proceedings.
On the sighting lap for the restart Marquez went down. He rushed back to the pits and frantic work on the bike to get it out again. He started from the back of the grid and made a good start and was in third on the first lap and second on lap two. Smith came back st him and held him up for another lap. On the last of nine laps the lead changed four times as Terol battled to stay ahead of Marquez but to no avail. Marquez won from Terol and Smith in a nine lap dash.

DRY MOTO GP RACE AT ESTORIL.
31/10/2010.

Setup was a lottery for all the riders as no one had any dry practice over the weekend. The race started with Jorge Lorenzo(Fiat Yamaha) taking the lead. Valentino Rossi(Fiat Yamaha) took the lead on lap three with Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) in third and falling two laps later. Lorenzo caught Rossi with twelve laps to go, passed and pulled away to a comfortable win.
The battle for third was intense with Repsol Honda team-mates Andrea Dovizioso and Danny Pedrosa fighting with Marco Simoncelli 9San Carlo Gresini Honda and Nicky Hayden(Marlboro Ducati).At the end of the race it was Dovizioso and Simoncelli for third and they passed and repassed each other throughout the last lap. Dovizioso got a better drive out of the last corner to take third by a couple of hundredths of a second.

MOTO GP AT ESTORIL. 31/10/2010.

The Moto 2 race at the Estoril circuit in Portugal was a strange race to say the least. Qualifying was cancelled for all classes on saturday due to torrential rain. Grid positions were calculated on the average of practice times, all run in the wet.Some of the fast riders were at the front and others were at the back.
The race started in dry but with damp patches on the track. Newly crowned World Supersport Champion Kenan Sofoglu took the lead and after a few place changes he pulled out from the field.Stefan Bradl (Viesmann Kiefer Racing) came from nowhere to start catching the leader with Alex Baldolini (Careta Technology Race Dept.) going with him. They eventually got to the front and pulled away from Sofoglu. Towards the end of the race the fight for third place invovlved nine riders with lots of overtaking going on.
At the flag it was Bradl from baldolini and Alex de Angelis (Scot Racing Team)who made it to third.Scot Redding (Marc VDS Racing Team)came from 25th on the grid to finnish in fourth place.

KAWASAKI TO RUN FIVE RIDERS IN 2011.
28/10/2010.

The Kawasaki works team will again be the Paul Bird Motorsport Team. Tom Sykes who finnished the season well for the team in 2010 will be retained for 2011 alongside Chris Vermeulen and newcomer to World Superbikes Joan Lascorz who rode in World Supersport in 2010.
The Supersport riders for 2011 will be Broc Parkes and David Salom under the Motorcard.com banner.

BMW MOTORRAD ITALIA TO ENTER WORLD SUPERBIKES.
28/10/2010.

The BMW Motorrad Italia Team that won the 2010 world Superstock class with Ayrton Badovini have signed him and former world champion James Toseland to contest the World Superbike championship in 2011.
The team will be supplied engines and electronics by the factory. This move should put BMW in a strong position to fight for the championship overall.

WORLD SUPERBIKES TEST AT MAGNY COURS.
5/10/2010.

Marco Bertuccio CEO of Liberty CZ Group announced the signing of Sylvain Guintoli to partner Jacub Smrz in the new Liberty Racing Team. The team will be using the Ducati 1198 supplied by the racing division of Ducati.
Testing at the Magny Cours circuit started today,Tuesday on a wet track. Leon Haslam tried his new bike for the BMW Motorrad Motorsport Team while Eugene Laverty rode the Sterilgarda Yamaha for the first time.
Aprilia Pata Racing Team let their new signing Noriyki Haga out on a factory Aprilia RSV4 on wet tyres.
Michel Fabrizio who rode for Suzuzki Alstare in Superstock 1000 in 2003 has rejoined the team and he also tried his new bike on wets.
Neither Tom Sykes nor Katsuaki Fujiwara went out on the new for 2011 Kawasaki. There is much hope for the green machine for next year.

RACE 2 AT MAGNY COUURS A CLOSE ONE.
3/10/2010.

Superbikke race two started much the same as race one with Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) leading. Sylvain Guintoli (Alstare Suzuki) and Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) chased hard with Crutchlow battling to pass Guintoli. Behind them the two Xerox Ducati's of Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga had a couple of fairing bashing moments before fabrizio got ahead.
Crutchlow eventually passed Guintoli and caught up to Biaggi but there was no way that Biaggi was going to let him passed so it ended with Biaggi winning by less than a tenth of a second from Cruthlow. Michel Fabrizio also got ahead of Guintoli to finnish his and Xerox Ducati"s last race on the podium.

SUPERSPORT RACE TO LAVERTY.
3/10/2010.

Kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) led from pole and pulled away from Eugene Laverty (Paralgar Honda) in second. The Kawasaki's of Fabian Foret (team Lorenzini by Leoni) and Broc Parkes (Kawasaki Motorcard.com) went out with mechanical problems while dicing for third. Laverty got passed Sofoglu and slowly pulled a smal gap to win the race but not the champioship.
Chaz Davies (Parkingo Triumph BE1) started way down the field and worked his way forward to finnish in third place.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE ONE A HARD FOUGHT RACE.
3/10/2010.

Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) started from pole at the last round of the year at Magny Cour in France but was beaten to the first corner by Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) who led for about half the race when Crutchlow managed to get passed. Biaggi then held the rest of the pack up while the yamaha rider went away.
The battle for second included Biaggi Sylvain Guintoli (Alstare Suzuki) and his team-mate Leon Haslam, and Carlos Checa(Althea Racing Ducati). On the last lap ,on the last chicane only meters from the finnish line Haslam dived inside Biaggi for second and forced him wide over the kerb and this allowed Checa to sneak into third just before the line.

MOTO GP TO STONER.
3/10/2010.

Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro) started the Japanese race from the front row at the Motegi circuit near Tokio and took the lead into the first corner followed by Andrea Dovizioso(Repsol Honda) who chased hard for the whole race. Behind them the Fiat Yamaha team-mates Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo battled race long for third. This race got heated in the last couple of laps with both riders wanting to be on the podium. They swapped places on the final lap and even banged fairings with Rossi finnishing ahead of his team-mate.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE 2.
26/9/2010.

Race two started as the first with Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team)leaving the line as though the debt collecters were after him. Leon Haslam(Alstare Suzuzki) followed him with Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) in third. Carlos Checa(Althea Ducati) again worked his way to the lead and pulled away from the rest.
Half distance and Haslam's engine blew up and it was championship over for him.Noriuki Haga (Ducati Xerox) did better than race 1 and went from 14th on the grid to take second place on the podium. Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) made it to third after some hard racing. Max Biaggi finnished in fifth place with the championship in his pocket.

WORLD SUPERSPORT AT IMOLA TURNS INTO A FARCE.
26/9/2010.

The World Supersport championship has turned out to be a two horse race. It is between kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) and Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda). They changed the lead four times on the first lap and spent the rest of the race sparring with each other. At the end it was Sofoglu in the lead with Laverty having to win to have a chance of the championship. On the last lap into the last chicane Laverty went down the inside and lost the front which means he took out Sofoglu. Both managed to get up and finnish on the podium behind Michele Pirro (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda)

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT IMOLA, RACE 1, STRANGE.

Superpole on saturday was held in the wet and Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) was to start the race in pole position. Kawasaki's first pole in many years.
The start was another surprise. Tom Sykes shot away like a rocket to lead the race from Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) and Jakub Smrz (pata B&G Aprilia) in third. Lorenzo Lanzi (DFX Corse Ducati)appeared in third ahead of Smrz and behind Haslam who went off and dropped a few places, But worked his way back to the front.
It was a race of surprises. Haslam went off and recovered Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) went off in sympathy with Luca Scassa (supersonic Racing Team Ducati). Lorenzo Lanzi led the race for a few laps. Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) was in the lead when on the last lap Haslam dived down the inside and staight into the gravel but recovered to finnish fifth.
The end was Checa from Lanzi and not such a surprise in Noriuki Haga (Ducati Xerox) who started fourteenth on the grid to be on the third step of the podium. Kawasaki's Tom Sykes had a great race to end up in sixth place.

STONER WINS FIRST RACE OF THE YEAR. 19/9/2010.

Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro Team)started in pole and led into the first corner from Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) and Nicky Hayden(Ducati Marlboro). Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) went from fourth at the start to second on the third lap and then he chased Stoner hard. The gap seesawed between them for most of the race. Behind them Hayden and Lorenzo went at it hammer and tongs for third while behind them there was a dice between Ben Spies (Monster Tech 3 Yamaha) and Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) for fifth. With six laps to go Stoner wound himself up and pulled away from Pedrosa who could do nothing about him.
Down the field the racing kept up with Hayden passing Lorenzo on the last lap to take his first podium of the year and a well deserved one at that. Dovizioso crashed on the last lap trying to get by Spies.
Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) suffering from a shoulder injury picked up riding a motorcross bike could only finnish in sixth.

MOTO 2 TO POLEMAN IANONE.
19/9/2010.

Andrea Iannone (SpeedUp) led from pole into the first turn and was never headed. In the middle of the field four riders went down in turn one just missing championship leader Toni Elias (Gresini Racing Moto 2). Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar Team)established himself in second.
Toni Elias was down in fourteenth place after the start but kept putting in fast laps to work his way up through the field. He made steady progress and passed rider after rider to close on Gabor Talmacsi (SpeedUp) who was in third but ran out of time to get on the podium.
The race ran out with Iannone well in the lead followed by Simon and Talmacsi who just held off Elias in fourth.

125cc RACE TO ESPARGERO.
19/9/2010.

MOTO GP TO NEW ARAGON CIRCUIT 19/9/2010.

Moto GP is going to a new circuit this weekend. It is the Motorland Aragon circuit in Spain.
The riders who have riden the circuit on road bikes seem unanimous in feeling that it is a fun circuit with a long straight, blind corners and some elevation changes. Braking distances on some corners will be difficult to sort but riders are looking forward to the experience.

STERILGARDA yAMAHA SIGNS EUGENE LAVERTY.

The Sterilgarda Yamaha Team will start the 2011 season with two new riders. Marco Melandri was signed from Moto GP about two weeks ago. Yamaha have just announced that World Supersport championship contender Eugene Laverty will partner Melandri in the team next year.

CRUTCHLOW TO MOTO GP.
13/9/2010.

Sterilgarda Yamaha world superbike rider Cal Crutchlow is following Ben Spies to Moto GP. He will be taking Spies's ride in the Tech 3 Team. Spies is replacing Valentino Rossi in the Fiat Yamaha Team.
Marco Melandri will be moving to world superbikes and taking over Crutchlow's place in the Sterilgarda Team.

RACE 2 HAGA WINS.
5/9/2010.

race 2 started much as the first race. Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati) led out of turn one with Noriuki Haga (Ducati Xerox)from the second row start right behind. Race one winner Jonathan Rea (HANNspree ten Kate Honda) slipped into third at the end of lap one. On lap three Haga took the lead through the odd shaped turn one and slowly eked out a few tenths on Checa. Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) got to fourth with Cal rutchlow (Sterilgarda yamaha) into fifth. On lap 9 Checa went down to leave Rea in second but he could do nothing about Haga.
Towards the end a good dice went on for third place between Haslam, Crutchlow, Max Biaggi (Alitali Aprilia) and Haslam's team-mate Sylvain Guintoli. Thats how it ended with Haga about four seconds in front of Rea with Haslam filling the podium.

WORLD SUPERSPORT TO LAVERTY.
5/9/2010.

The world Supersport race at the Nurburgring was Eugene Laverty (parkalgar Honda) from start to finnish,dut it was not easy. Gino Rea(Inermoto Czech Honda) put in his best performance of the year to hound Laverty all the way. Former champion Kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) made his way to third but could do no more and fell back a little towards the end of the race.
Going into the last lap Rea tried for the lead in a move that could have spelt disaster for himself and laverty but they both made it through the first turn and Lavertty held on to take a very close race between the two of them.

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT NURBURGRING, RACE 1.
5/9/2010.

At the start Jonathan Rea (HANNspree Ten kate Honda) took the lead in the first corner followed by Carlos Checa (Althea Ducati)and Noriyuki Haga (Ducati Xerox). The race was stopped on the first lap after a crash between Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) and Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport).
At the restart Rea again took the lead at turn 1. Checa took second with Haga again getting to third. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) was having his best ride of the year running as high as fourth. Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) worked his way to third. Haga fell out of second to leave Checa chasing Rea but had to settle for second.Crutchlow filled the podium with Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia)in fourth and Kawasaki's best finnish in fifth.

PEDROSA WINS HIS THIRD OF THE YEAR. 29/8/2010.

For the first time in his Moto GP career Dani Pedrosa(Repsol Honda) has won more than two races in one year.
Ben Spies (monster Yamaha Tech 3) started from pole and took the lead into turn one. He was followed by Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) and Nicky Hayden (Ducati Marlboro). Team-mate Stoner was well down in eighth place. Pedrosa worked his way into third and closed on spies He took the lead with 21 laps to go and slowly pulled away from Spies. From this point the race became spread out as is usual in this class.
Pedrosa was a well deserved winner from Spies who had his best finnish in Moto GP and Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) who had his worst finnish in thied place. Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) made it to fourth ahead of Dovizioso.

ELIAS TAKES MOTO 2 AT INDIANAPOLIS. 29/8/2010.

Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar Team) led into turn one from pole position followed by Anthony West (MZ Racing Team). Turn two had two seperate crashes which brought out the red flag.
At the restart tony Elias (Gresini Racing Moto 2) took the lead. After a couple of laps as the race settled down Elias led from Simon and Scot Redding (Marc VDS Racing Team) These three pulled away from the field with Andrea Ianone (Speed Up) fighting his way from 25th on the grid into fourth place.
Elias was passed by Simon early but stayed behind for most of the race and retook the lead with 6 laps to go while Redding started to loose ground to the leaders.
The race finnished with a fifth win of the year for Tony Elias followed by Julian Simon and Scot Redding who made the podium for the first time.

MOTO GP AT BRNO.

The Moto GP race was a strung out affair after the close racing in the Moto 2 race preceding it. Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) took the lead and stayed there. Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) held second throughout with Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) making one of the few passes to finnish on the podium in third.
Ben Spies (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) started second on the grid and had his best finnish in fourth.

MOTO 2, A GREAT RACE.
15/8/2010.

The Moto 2 race at Brno was the usual close affair. Toni Elias (Gresini Racing Moto 2) led into the first corner but was soon down in fifth place. The lead changed every lap and places changed all down the field all the time. Andrea Ianone (Speed Up ) held the lead for a while with Elias catching up and so was Robie Rolfo(Italtrans STR) Rolfo made it to first place and then suffered a mechanical problem and retired. Elias took the lead and in the last couple of laps pulled away to win from Yuki Takahashi (Tech 3 Racing) who also came from the midfield. Third went to Ianone with a close dice behind.

MOTO GP AT CZECH REBUBLIC. 15/8/2010.

The 125cc race at Brno in the czech Rebublic was declared a wet race as rain fell as the warm up lap was about to start. All the riders started on wet tyres on a track that was dry in some places. Pole man Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team) had a bad start and went backwards, all the way down to tenth place. In the lead was team-mate Nico Terol and he just pulled away from the field.Pol Espargaro (Bainet Derbi)made his way to second and stayed there. His Team-mate Efren Vasquez held third for most of the race but was taken by Esteve Rabat (BQR Racing) with a lap to go.
Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team)made a bit of a come back to get himself to sixth place.

BRITISH RIDERS TAKE CLEAN SWEEP OF RACE TWO At SILVERSTONE.
1/8/2010.

Race two in the world Superbikes at Silverstone started as race one with Jonathan Rea (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda)leading from the start. Behind him again was Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha)who was never more than one tenth of a second back. These two pulled away from Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki). Awhole bunch of riders was quing up behind him. Leon Camier (Aprilia Alitalia) took third and chased the leaders but they were too far ahead.
Three laps from the end and Crutchlow pulled the pin and went ahead to pull away from Rea who could only watch from second place. Leon Camier made it another all british podium with two more brits in fourth and fifth.

WORLD SUPERSPORT RED FLAGGED AFTER FIRST CORNER INCIDENT.
1/8/2010.

South African rider Ronan Quarmby riding for the HANNspree Ten Kate Honda Team crashed in practice and broke his right ankle. He later qualified in 18th place on the grid.
At the start of the race Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motorcard.com) touched the rear wheel of Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) and went down. Tamborini had nowhere to go and rode over Lascorz's bike in what was a terrible crash. This incident brought out the red flag.
The restart was also dramatic when Alex Lowes a british wildcard fell before the first corner. Fortunately no one else was involved and the race continued. Gino Rea (Intermoto Honda)led from the start but Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) went passed and these two pulled away from the rest. Kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Karte Honda)caught the leaders and took the lead. He and Laverty left Rea behind and it built up to a exciting last lap. The last lap certainly turned out to be a thriller. Laverty was inches from Sofoglu untill about midway through when he took the lead. It was close but he held on for the win. South African rider Ronan Quarmby finnished eighteenth.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RETURN TO NEW SILVERSTONE.
1/8/2010.

Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha)started in pole for the first Superbike race at the revivsed Silverstone circuit. At the start he was beaten to the lead by Jonathan Rea (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) who led for almost all the first half of the race. Lap eleven and Crutchlow took the lead for the second time and pulled away slowly. Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) made his way to third and closed on the leaders but fell back towards the end of the race.
The BMW's of Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus qualified well and started well then slowly fell back as usual.
The race came to an end with Cal Crutchlow scoring his first win in World Superbikes and Yamaha's first win of the year. Jonathan Rea came in second with Leon Haslam making an all British podium. The Alitalia Aprilia's of Max Biaggi and Leon Camier were a disappointment down infifth and sixth. Crowd favorite Noriuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) had a bad day to finnish well down the field.

A GREAT RETURN FROM VALENTINO ROSSI.
18/7/2010.

Valentino Rossi returned to Moto GP just six weeks after breaking his leg in a practice crash. He did'nt just come back, he qualified in fifth place on the grid.
Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) lead into the first corner soon to be passed by Jorge Lorenzo(Fiat Yamaha) with Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) in third. Rossi was in fifth and closing on Andrea Dovizioao (Repsol Honda).
Lap 9 and Randy De Puniet (LCR Honda Moto GP) crashed. His bike was hit by those of Alvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki Moto GP)and Aleix Espargaro (Pramac Racing Team) Ducati. The race was red flagged.
The restart,a completely new race of 21 laps and again Pedrosa led. Lorenzo led on lap 2 and Casey Stoner was in third with Rossi getting into fourth by lap six. Pedrosa pushed Lorenzo hard and took the lead on lap nine. Rossi caught up to Stoner and they had a great dice for third. In the end Stoner outwitted Rossi to take third, but it was a really great return for Rossi who had been written off by many critics.

A GREAT RIDE FROM MOTO 2 WINNER ELIAS.
18/7/2010.

The enormous field in the Moto 2 class has to have drama at the start.There was. A crash at the first corner had a number of bikes in the dirt. Championship leader Tony Elias (Gresini Racing Moto 2) got swamped at the start to find himself in 11th place. In the lead was Gabor Talmacsi (Speedup) from team-mate Andrea Iannone. Iannone soon took the lead and way down in 11th Elias started to move forward. He picked the riders in front of him off one by one as he worked his way to the front. After ten laps he passed Talmacsi for second and started to close on the leader.
Six laps to go and Elias took the lead from Iannone who seemed to have front tyre problems. He tried to hang onto Elias but could not. Robbie Rolfo (Itltrans STR) and Fonsi Nieto (G22 Holidaygym) closed on Talmacsi and passed into third and fourth.

125CC RACE AT SACHSENRING TO MARQUEZ.
18/7/2010.

The 125cc race at the sachsenring circuit in Germany was declared a wet race. The track was damp for most of the lap but drying . after the first corner shuffle Jonas Folger(Worldwiderace team) on full wet tyres emerged in the lead. Marcel Schrotter (Interwetten Racing), also on wet tyres was in second from the usual front runners. As the track dried out the rest caught up and restored the proper running ordeer with Marc Marquez (red Bull AJO Racing) derbitaking the lead with Pol Espargaro (bainet Derbi) going with him. These two swapped the lead for the rest of the race until with a lap to go Espargaro lost the front and his challenge was over. That left Marquez with a twenty plus second lead to finnish way ahead of Tomoyoshi Koyama (Racing Team Germany) in second with Sandro Cortese (Red Bull AJO Motorsport ) in third.

BIAGGI WINS HIS TENTH RACE AT BRNO.
11/7/2010.

There were three leaders in four corners in the second race. Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia) led into the first corner with Ruben Xaus (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) led out of the corner and Jonathan Rea (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda)led at turn 4. Biaggi soon took the lead and slowly pulled away from Rea. Xaus held third with the two Xerox Ducati's of Fabrizio and Haga following behind.
The two at the front pulled away from the field but a good dice for third held attention.Xaus lost the front on lap thirteen which left fabrizio on the podium. James Toseland (Sterilgarda Yamaha)caught up to Haga and passed him with two laps to go.
Biaggi now has a huge lead in the championship.

WORLD SUPERSPORT TO SOFOGLU.
11.7.2010.

The world supersport race at Brno started with Kawasaki's in the first two positions on the grid. Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motorcard.com) led from the start. Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) took the lead on lap 2 and pulled away slightly. Gino Rea (Intermoto Czech Honda) and Chas Davies (Parkingo Triumph be1) came from nowhere to join the leading group. Kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) worked his way up from eighth totake the lead after Laverty had mechanical trouble. Lascorz held on to Sofoglu and finnished on his tailpipie. Davies held off a determined challenge from Gino Rea who could not get passed.

RACE ONE WORLD SUPERBIKES AT BRNO.
11/7/2010.

Jonathon Rea (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) took the lead on the last corner of the first lap and was never headed again. When the race settled down after a couple of laps Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) held second with Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia) in third. Noriyuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) started in fifteenth to sixth in one lap.
Ruben Xaus (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) started fourth and manged to finnish in fifth. The race was quite spread out but had some good dices down the field. Just before the end Biaggi passed Crutchlow for second.

CATALUNYA MOTO GP TO LORENZO.
4/7/2010.

jORGE lORENZO (FIAT yAMAHA) took the lead from the start and only lost it when Andrea Dovizioso (repsol Honda) passed for a few seconds. Lorenzo repassed and Dovizioso held onto his tailpipes but could not get passed. Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro Team)was in the lead battle until he outbraked himself and ran wide to drop himself to sixth. He fought his way up to fourth behind Danni Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) which became third when Dovizioso crashed on lap eleven. Stoner tried hard but he could not find a way passed Pedrosa. The race finnished with Lorenzo way out front from Pedrosa and Stoner. Randy De Puniet (LCR Honda Team) was fourth from Alvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki Moto GP) who gave the team their best result in a long time.

MOTO 2 WIN FOR TAKAHASHI. 4/7/2010.

The Moto 2 race started with Thomas Luthi ( Interwetten Moriwaki Racing) taking the lead. There was a big crash just behind the front four riders that saw four bikes down and a few more running off the road to avoid the mess.Andrea Iannone in about fifth place oveTtook under the yellow flag were the crash happened on the first corner and was later given a ride through penalty. By this time he was well in the lead and the ride through dropped him down to seventeenth place. This left Takahashi (Tech 3 Racing) in the lead which he held till the flag. There was a good battle for second between Thomas Luthi and Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar Team) which swayed back and forth with Luthi taking second from Simon. Tony Elias (Gresini Racing Moto2) who still leds the championship finnished in fifth place.

CIRCUIT DE CATALUNYA MOTO GP. 4/7/2010.

The 125cc race at the Catalunya circuit in Barcelona was a benefit to Marc Marquez (Red Bull AJO Motorsport). He started on pole and led from the start to win by a large margin. The race for second was quite hectic with team-mates Bradley Smith and Nicolas Terol (Bancaja Aspar Team) dicing with Pol Espargaroo(Bainet Derbi) The rest of the field was left behind. 125cc racing is not what it used to be. The close racing seems to have gone.
The second place dice carried on to the last lap when Terol lost the front and went down to leave Smith in second and Espargaro to fill the podium. Sandro Cortese was a distant fourth on his red Bull AJO Motorsport Derbi.

BIAGGI TAKES ANOTHER DOUBLE. 27/6/2010.

After a bit of scuffling in the first few corners the race settled down to a six bike tussle for the lead. Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia) worked his way to the front and just pulled away from the field.
At half distance Biaggi led from Fabrizio (Xerox Daucti), Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki), Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) and Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport). The last two laps became a bit frantic with Biaggi winning another bouble from Haslam and Fabrizio. Corser went backwards to tenth behind Haga (Xerox Ducati).

MISANO SUPERSPORT TO HONDA.
27/6/2010.

The Supersport race at Misano was a Honda benefit. It was not the Ten Kate Honda team that was victorius but the Parkalgar team with Eugene Laverty that brought home the win. He took the lead soon after the start and diced with Joan Lascorz (Motorcard.com Kawasaki) and Kenan Sofoglu (Ten Kate Honda) who were in a race of their own. Soon after half distance Laverty pulled away and Lascorz could do nothing about it.
Kenan Sofoglu tried three times to get into second place but each time he ran wide and stayed in third.

APRILIA TAKES RACE 1 AT MISANO.
27/6/2010.

Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia) won the race but he had to work hard for it. Troy Corser (BMW Mottorad Motorsport ) took the lead in the first corner and ran in the lead till there was eight laps to go when Biaggi took the lead. A lap later Carlos Checa (Althea RAcing Ducati) slipped into second and tried to catch Biaggi. He tried but to no avail and had to finnish second with Corser in third for his second podium of the year. Xerox Ducati rider Michel Fabrizio held onto fourth.

LORENZO MAKES HAY WHILE ROSSI IS AWAY. 20/6/2010.

With Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha)out for some time with a broken leg his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo took pole position and is determined to take his first Moto GP title. He led into the first corner and slowly pulled away at about a second a lap to win by nearly ten seconds.
The fight for second kept changing with Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) slowly falling back. Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) was last into the first turn and had a long fight to get anywhere near the front. Andea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) held onto second most of the time with Randy De Puniet (LCR Honda) and Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati) right on his tail.
Stoner was making steady progress towards the front but almost unnoticed was Ben Spies (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) got himself into third in the last couple of laps to have his first podium in Moto GP.
Lorenzo now has a healthy lead in the points and hopes to keep it that way. Stoner almost passed his team-mate Hayden for fourth.

MOTO 2 HAS A NEW WINNER.
20/6/2010.

Moto 2 was the usual crowd into the first corner of the now 5.902 Km. Silverstone circuit. On the first lap Stefan Bradl (Veissman Keifer Racing) cut the kerb and took Corsi down with him.There were some new names at the front with championship leader Tony Elias (Gresini Moto 2) way down in 17th place. Jules Clusel (Forward RAcing) was again at the front and managed to stay upright for the whole race to eventually take the win which he has threatened to do for the last few races. Behind him in second was Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Moriwaki Racing)followed in third by Julian Simon. (Mapfre Aspar Team)
British rider Scot Redding (Marc VDS RAcing Team) had a good ride from the back of the field to take a well deserved fourth at the finnish. Elias made his way slowly forward and on the last lap he made up five places to take tenth place.

MOTO GP AT THE REVISED SILVERSTONE CIRCUIT. 20/6/2010.

The 125cc race at the revised Silverstone had a dramatic finnish with the lead changing at least seven times on the last lap. The race started with a large group at the front which slowly settled into a bunch of five riders.Marc Marquez (Red Bull AJO Motorsport) led for most of the way. He and Pol Espargaro (Bainet Derbi) pulled away from the rest and battled it out between themselves with an exciting last lap untill Espargaro had a moment in the last part of the lap to let Marquez take the flag. In third place after a race long fight with his team-mate Brit Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar team) filled the podium.

LE MANS A WHITEWASH FOR AUDI.
13/6/2010.

At the start of practice on wednesday the Peugeot diesel cars were way faster than the Audi R15 plus. The plus being a significantly reworked car.
At The start of the race the Peugeot's ran away from the Audi's. The first safety car came out on lap 4 when Nigel Mansel had a tyre blow and got pitched into the barrier on both sides of the track. The Peugeot's kept going away until a suspension mounting pulled out of the body to cause the first retirement for the french team. The Audi's kept up the pressure with the only mishap being when a BMW pushed Tom Kristensen of the track. ON sunday morning came an engine failure to the leading Peugeot. A little after lunch came the second engine blow up. Exit the works Peugeot's. All hope was placed on the Oreca Team's privately run Peugeot which put the pressure onto Audi.
Then came the third engine to let go. Audi now led with a one, two ,three, which they easily held till the end.
An interesting race with a high atrician rate with only 28 cars finnishing.

PEDROSA WINS FROM POLE. 6/6/2010.

With Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) out after a huge highside in practice on saturday Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) was on pole and led from the start. Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) and Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) were next with Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda ) catching up. Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati) joined the fray but lost the front and his race was over. Randy De Puniet (LCR Honda MotoGP) joined the battle and the four went at it hammer and tongs.
When the flag came out Pedrosa was way out front to win with Lorenzo in second and Dovizioso in third. Stoner was relegated to fourth.

ANDREA IONNONE CLEANS UP THE MOTO 2 RACE.
6/6/2010

Andrea Ianone built up a lead from the start of the Moto 2 race and left the opposition way behind. Meanwhile the battle for second place had all the makings of a great race, which it turned out to be. Championship leader Tony Elias (Gresini Racing Moto2) was involved in the scrap for second place and with Mugelo being a track where a rider can go forward or backward by four places in one trip down the staight place changes are the order of the day.
With Ianone long gone to win by a huge margin Second went to Sergio Gadea(Pons Racing) from Claudio Corti(Forward Racing)

MUGELLO 125CC TO ESPARGARO.
6/6/2010.

Nicolas Terol (Bancaja Aspar Team)led into the first corner with Pol Espargaro (bainet Derbi) in tow. The battle for third place was quite intense with five riders involved. Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team) and Marc Marquez (Red Bull AJO Motorsport ) made their way up to the two leaders to make it a four way race for the lead. Lead changed anywhere on the track but in the end it was Espargaro from Terol and Marquez.

BIAGGI HAS DOUBLE AT MILLER MOTORSPORT PARK.
31/5/2010.

Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia0 was gifted another win in race 2 at Miller Motorsport Park in the USA when Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) had a repeat of the electrical problem that put him out of race 1. He was leading again by a couple of seconds from Biaggi.
At the start the BMW's of troy Corser and Ruben Xaus made great starts and were in third and fifth places. The battle for fifth was a large one with eight bikes contesting the place and more catching up. Leon Haslam was making good headway after a bad start until he had a highside and ended his race in the gravel. Cal Crutchlow made his way to third while team-mate James Toseland fell and was out. Noriyuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) worked his way forward until he got to fourth place. Corser managed to salvage fifth after another great ride. The BMW's must get their first win soon.

SUPERSPORT TO SOFOGLU AT MILLER MOTORSPORT PARK.
31/5/2010.

The start was as usual with the regular contenders at the front going at it hammer and tongs. When things settled down it was Kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) from Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) and Joan Lascorz (Motorcard,com Kawasaki) with Chaz Davies (Parkingo Triumph)leading five riders in a furocious battle for fourth place.
At the end it was Sofoglu from Laverty and Lascorz a good way ahead of Davies.

APRILIA TAKES RACE 1 AT MILLER MOTORSPORT PARK.
31/5/2010.

Both the Aprilia's led into the first corner at Miller Motorsport Park but Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) put a spanner in the works by going round the outside on lap 1 to take the lead. Max Biaggi (Alitala Aprilia) chased hard and held on until the last few laps when he slowly fell back to over three seconds. With two laps to go Ceca Slowed with either a machanical problem or lack of fuel saw him pull off to hand Biaggi the lead. Leon Camier (Alitalia Aprilia) held third place untill Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) and Noriyuki Haga (Zerox Ducati) moved forward and overcame Camier.to stand on the podium.
Both the BMW's finnished in the top ten with Troy Corser in 4th and Ruben Xaus in 9th. MOTO GP TO YAMAHA.
23/5/2010.

Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) led at the start and led for most of the race. Team-mate Jorge Lorenzo made his way to second and hounded Rossi. Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) held on in third while Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) held fourth until he had another fall to end his second race of the year far too early. Andre Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) passed Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati) and cought team-mate Pedrosa.
Towardds the end of the race Hayden was catching Dovizioso who was catching Pedrosa. These three were close for the last four laps and in the end it was Dovizioso third from Hayden and Pedrosa. At the front Lorenzo passed Rossi and pulled away by over five seconds by the flag. Today Rossi had no answer to his team-mate.

MOTO 2 GOES TO ELIAS AGAIN.
23/5/2010.

Alex Debon (Red Bul AJO Motorsport) got the jump on the field but he had jumped the start and got a ride through penalty which left Tony Elias (Gresini Racing Moto2). Elias rode brilliantly to hold the lead all the way to the end,but he was pushed hard all the way by Julian Simon (Mapfre Aspar Team) These two pulled away as riders lost the front and went down at almost every corner. The most bizarre was Alex de Angelis (Scott Racing Team) who was taken out by a riderless bike after the rider went down but the bike stayed up and turned into De Angelis.
After lots of sideways riding from Simon he could not get passed Elias and ended in second. Claudio Corti (Forward racing) finnished in third.

MOTO GP AT LE MANS. 125cc A TWO HORSE RACE.
23/5/2010.

Nico Terol (Bancaja Aspar Team) led from the stART followed by Pol Espargaro (Bainet Derbi). These two pulled away from the rest right from the beginning. Terol's team-mate Bradley Smith got himself into 3rd. followed closely by six riders which included Efren Vazquez and others.
The two at the front were in a league of their own with a seven second lead from Bradley Smith and Marc Marquez(red Bull AJO Motorsport) With 4 laps to go Espargaro passed Terol and pulled away slightly. Behind the leaders Smith managed a small gap from the dicing bunch behind him.
Espargaro won from terol. Third went to Marquez after Smith had a moment on the last lap and lost two places to finnish 5th.

SECOND SUPERBIKE RACE A CRACKER.
16/5/2010.

Race two was a totaly different afair from race 1 . Jonahtan Rea (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) led the way from 4 others right on his tail. These included Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia) Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) and the Sterilgarda Yamaha's of Cal Crutchlow and James Toseland. This was close racing with positions changing all the time. Rea led most laps with Biaggi getting by once or twice. Haslam also put his nose in front but it was mostly Rea up front. Just one lap to go and Haslam made his move. He forced his way into the lead and put everything into the last lap. He beat Rea by half a second with Biaggi holding onto third.
Seridan Morais fell on lap 12 after another good showing.

WORLD SUPERSPORT TO THE IRISH.
16/5/2010.

The supersport race for 600cc bikes had two local riders in Lance Isaacs and Jaques Peskens (Bikefin Safesky Honda's) The race got under way with Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda)getting away at the front followed by Kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda). Try as he might Sofoglu could not make any impression on Laverty throughout the race. Mid race was livened up by a terrific scrap for 4th place between the Motocard.com Kawasaki's of Joan Lascorz,Katsuaki Fujiwara And the Triumphs of the ParkinGO teams.Lance Isaacs held on to this battle and made up a place right at the end. Third place went to the Triumph of Chaz Davies.

KYALAMI WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE 1.
16/5/2010.

The sounds of world Superbikes were heard for possibly the last time on sunday when round6 of the championship was held at kyalami. Race 1 started with Michel Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) taking the lead from Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati). Fabrizio pulled away slightly and was never in danger of being caught. Checa had a similar gap over third place. Max Biaggi(Alitalia Aprilia) had a poor start but managed to work his way towards the front though he got no further than 4th at the end. There was some good dicing behind the leaders between James Toseland (Sterilgarda Yamaha) and team-mate Cal Crutchlow. Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) finnished in third .
Local rider Sheridan Morais (Emtek Aprilia) rode a good race to finnish in 13th place.

BIAGGI HAS A DOUBLE AT MONZA.
9/5/2010.

Race 2 saw Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia)head off into the lead while there was chaos behind in the first chicane when James Toseland (Sterilgarda Yamaha) went down in the middle of the pack, taking Ruben Xaus (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) with him. The race settled down with Biaggi, Leon Haslam (ALstare Suzuki) Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) and troy Corser (BMW motorrad Motorsport )in 4th.
It stayed much the same until Haslam very nearly highsidied out of the chicane but held it and dropped into Corser's clutches. A couple of laps from the end Crutchlow's engine blew at the end of the staight,spilled oil on his tyre into the chicane and he was down and out.
Biaggi won from Haslam with Corser giving the BMW it's first podium in world Superbikes. Ducati had a bad day with Haga (Xerox Ducati) the best finnisher in 6th place.

WORLD SUPERSPORT CLEANED UP BY LAVERTY.
9/5/2010.

Eugene Laverty (Parkagar Honda) got the best start and was never headed again. He pulled away and just kept going. Behind Kenean Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) got into second with Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motorcard.com) holding third. These three spread out to about two seconds between them and that's how it stayed until the penultimate lap when Sofoglu went very wide in a corner and let Lascorz have a chance to attack. He took the bit between his teeth, but missed a chicane on the last lap but was right on the rear wheel into the last corner but try as he might he could not get past.
They ended with laverty winning easily from Sofoglu and Lascorz. The Triumph's were expected to do well but did not deliver.

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT MONZA. RACE 1.
9/5/2010.

WORLD SUPERBIKE RACE 2. BRILLIANT.
25/4/2010.

Race two started the same as race 1. Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) led into the first corner. From then on it just got better and better. The leading group consisted of about ten riders. Places changed many times on each lap.
Corser led Jonathan Rea (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda) led so did Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki).The top seven places kept changing. There was no end to the overtaking. There was even some contact between the riders. It kept spectators on the edge of their seats throughout. At half distance there was no let up, with the lead group hard at it.>BR> Only with four laps to go did Rea manage to get a small gap. Haslam tried to follow and got away from the pack, but could not catch Rea who had a double win at the "cathederal of speed". The best race for along time which bodes well for Monza on 9/5/2010.

WORLD SUPERSPORT RACE TO HONDA.
25/4/2010.

The start went as expected with Kenan Sofoglu (HANNspree Ten kate Honda)into the lead from Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motocard.COM) and Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) These three pulled away from the rest of the field with Fabian Foret(Team Lorenzini byLeoni)catching up to fourth.
Laverty made it to the lead and soon Lascorz followed him to second past Sofoglu. Foret in fourth was looking for a way past but lost fluid and crashed. Soon after Lascorz had a moment and ran off the track and down to third. He fought back to retake second place on the last lap but Laverty was then too far ahead in the lead.
Laverty won from Lascorz and Sofoglu.
The rest of the field was way behind the front three.

TEN KATE WIN AT HOME.
25/4/2010.

Race 1 in World SBK at Assen in Holland had Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) into an immediate lead,followed by Leon Camier (Alitalia Aprilia). He held the lead for nearly half the race. Jonathan Rea (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda)made his way towards the front and took the lead. Another rider to make progress was James Toseland (Sterilgarda Yamaha)who worked his way to second beating Leon Camier into third place. The BMW of Corser stayed with the front bunch and ended up in fifth place ahead of Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia). The Best Ducati was Carlos Checa(Althea Racing).

MORAIS OFFERED A RIDE IN WORLD SUPRBIKES.

LoLocal superbike champion Sheridan Morais has been offered a works ride with the Alitalia Aprilia team for the Kyalami round of world sbk. He will have to raise a good deal of money to get the ride which is always a problem for local riders.
Ronan Quarmby and Lance Isaacs have been accepted as wild card riders in the world Supersport class at Kyalami. Tickets are on sale at computicket.

JAPANESE MOTO GP POSTPONED.
19/4/2010'

The volcanic eruption in Iceland last week has caused a case of Force Majeure for Moto GP. In a decision taken by the Grand Prix Permanent Bereau, the FIM and Dorna Sport it was decided that the Japanese Moto GP would be postponed until October 3 2010.

CASEY STONER ON POLE FOR FIRST MOTOGP OF THE YEAR.
11.4.2010.

Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) started in pole position for the first Moto GP race of the year under lights at the Doha Circuit in Qatar. Loris Caparossi (Rizla Suzuki) maKeS his 300TH grand Prix start, having won in the 125cc, 250cc, 500cc and MotoGP
Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) was first into the turn 1 from the third row. He was soon passed by Stoner who immediately started to pull away. Rossi ( Fiat Yamaha) got into 2nd and was gifted the lead when Stoner lost the front end and went down and out.
Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati) going as well as he has when he won the title was running in third place behind Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) Rossi could not get away from Dovizioso and Hayden with 9 laps to go. Pedrosa was going backwards as the race progressed. Rossi's team-mate Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) was holding 4th a few seconds off the leaders.
With 4laps to go Rossi got away from the chasing Dovizioso and Hayden, while Lorenzo caught and passed Hayden and Dovizioso to take second and hold the place to the finnish. Hayden passed Dovizioso on the last lap but was retaken almost immediately.
Rossi won from team-mate Lorenzo with Dovizioso third and Hayden 4th. Ben Spies (Monster Tech 3 Yamaha ) finnished 5th on his Moto GP debut.

FIRST MOTO 2 RACE A SUCCESS.
11.4.2010.

Tony Elias (Gresini Racing Moto 2) riding injured and with pain killing injections put himself on pole position for the first Moto 2 Race. The field is made up of riders from Moto GP ,250cc and 125cc classes. With 41 bikes on the grid there would have to be lots of dices all down the field.
At the start Elias was first into turn 1 and thereafter it could have been a 125cc race. When the race settled down the leading group consisted of between 5 and 7 riders.
About half way the 19 year old Shoya Tomizawa (Technomag-CIP Suter)broke away from the rest and built up a good lead to the fight for second place The rest broke up into individual dices.
The race ran out with Tomizawa winning from Alex Debon (Red Bull AJO Motorsport FTR) in second and Jules Clusel (Forward Racing Suter)
If Moto 2 carries on like the first race and it can only improve, the change from 250cc 2 strokes will be fully justified. A great race with lots of overtaking and close racing.

MOTO GP GETS UNDER WAY WITH THE 125CC RACE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHTS.
11.4.2010.

Marc Marquez (Red Bul AJO Motorsport Derbi) qualified half a second faster than the field but that meant nothing when the flag dropped .
From the start there were seven riders in the front bunch. Places changed several times every lap with no holds barred.
With three laps to go Nico Terol(Bancaja Aspar Ream)put his head down and pulled away to take a well deserved win from Efren Vazquez (bainet Derbi) and Marc Marquez.
A great start to the Moto GP seaon. Hopefully it will only get better.

RACE 2 AT VALENCIA A NAILBITER.
11/4/2010.

Race two started well for Carlos Checa (Athea Racing) when the race was stopped on lap 3 after a huge crash for Simon Andrews (Kawasaki Racing Team).
At the restart the Aprilia's of Biaggi and Leon Camier went ahead with Camier taking the lead and pulled a slight gap to Biaggi ehen he lost the front and his race was over. This left Biaggi ahead of Checa on the road but behind on aggregate. Haga (Xerox Ducati) caught up to the two at the front and got passed both and by the flag he won by .025 sec. from Ceca and Biaggi third.

SPANISH RIDER LASCORZ WINS IN SPAIN.
11/4/2010.

Joan Lascorz(kawasaki Motorcard.com) led into turn 1 only to be passed by poleman Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) on lap 1. The race seemed to be about the four front runners, who pulled away from the field. Lascorz took the lead as the leadrs started to spread out. As Laverty went backwards Chas Davies (Parkingo Triumph) was giving the British manufacturer its best race for a long time.
David Salom (Parkingo Triumph) broke away from the rest and made up ground to Laverty. He caught up and passed with about a lap to go. Joan Lascorz won from Sofoglu (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) and Davies. Triumph had a great race with 3rd and 4th places.

HASLAM TAKES RACE 1 AT VALENCIA SBK.
11.4.2010.

Starting from the second row of the grid Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) led into the first corner and held first for a few laps before losing out to Carlos Checa(Althea Racing) Ducati. Checa soon lost the front but held it on his knee but ran out of road and went off. Leon Haslam(Alstare Suzuki)worked his way to the front and started to pull away slowly.
When the race settled down Max Biaggi(Alitalia Aprilia) and James Toseland (Sterilgarda Yamaha) with Corser hanging on in 4th place. Noriyuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) worked up from 10th place start to challenge Corser for 4th. He made it through but was retaken almost immediately.
The race finnished with Haslam well ahead of Biaggi and Toseland with Corser 4th and Haga 5th.

CRUTCHLOW TAKES SECOND POLE IN VALENCIA.
10/4/2010.

Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) took his second pole position in two races in World Superbikes. The front row is filled out by Carlos Checa(Althea Racing) Max Biaggi(Alitalia Aprilia) and Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki)
Troy Corser(BMW Motorrad Motorsport) gave BMW their best grid position yet with a 5th place. The Xerox Ducati's of Haga and Fabrizio only managed 10th and 11th.
South African Sheridan Morais qualified in 20th place on a Honda.
Eugene Laverty (Paralgar Honda) set pole in the Supersport class.

WORLD SUPERBIKES AT VALENCIA 11/4/2010.

Round 3 of World Superbikes will be at the Valencia circuit in Spain this Sunday. The leading contenders appear to be Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia) and Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki). The Xerox Ducati's of Noriuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio need to start showing what they can do before the championship leaves them behind. Unfotunately the Moto GP races are being held on the same day. Pity that the Rights owners of the two reaies cannot arrange to have there races on different weekends.

MOTO 2 READY TO BE BORN.
6/4/2010.

Moto 2. The new class to replace the 250cc world Championship is ready to be born on sunday 11/4/2010.The bikes will be a prototype chassis with a 600cc Honda engine and Dunlop tyres. The venue is the Losail circuit in Qatar. Added to the new class the race will be run under lights as has been the case recently.
The field will be made up of 39 riders most of whom have Moto GP experience in either Moto GP or the 250cc and 125cc classes. Names such as Tony Elias for Gresini Racing, Yuki Takahashi for Tech 3, Alex De Angelis and Roberto Rolfo along with 125cc World Champ. Julian Simon.are all ready to go.
The pre season testing is now over and the first race will show who's who in the races.
Sunday is "D" day for Moto GP.

BIAGGI SCORES A DOUBLE AT PORTIMAO.
28/3/2010.

Race two started the same as race one as Max Biaggi (Alitalia Aprilia) went staight into the lead, again followed by Leon Haslam (Alstare Suzuki) This time Cal Crutchlow (Sterilgarda Yamaha) and Jonathon Rea (Hanspree Ten Kate Honda) went along with them. Carlos Checa (Althea RAcing Ducati) worked his way up to the leaders. Rea's Honda blew up on lap 7 and he was out.
The lead changed between Biaggi and Haslam with Crutchlow and Checa hanging in behind but unable to do anything about the two in front. Biaggi won an exciting race to take Aprilia's first double win in World Super Bike racing.

BMW HAS FIRST RACE WIN IN PORTIMAO.
28/3/2010.

BMW won the Superstock race in Portimao on their first outing in the class. Badovini won the race from Maxinne Berger on a Honda. The BMW acheived a top speed of 295 kph on the staight.
South African Chris Leeson riding a Honda finnished in 26th place.

PORTIMAO SUPERSPORT RACE TO SOFOGLU.
28/3.2010.

The supersport race at the Portimao circuit was led from the start by Eugene Laverty(Parkalgar Honda) who held off Juan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motorcard.com) and Michele Pirro (Hanspree Ten Kate Honda). Kenan Sofoglu(Hanspree Ten Kate Honda) caught up to the leaders and workrd his way to the front. With 4 laps to go Laverty lost the front and went down , to pick it up and finish 11th. At the end it was Sofoglu from a hard trying Juan Lascoez and Michele Pirro.

WORLD SBK RACE 1 TO APRILIA.
28/3/2010.

Max Biagggi (Alitalia Aprilia) led at the start and pulled away with Leon Haslam(Alstare Suzuki) cose behind. These two pulled away from the rest of the field. Noriyuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) started a long way down then grid and made it up to 8th at the end. Biaggi and Haslam changed the lead with Biaggi holding on to take the win just ahead of Haslam and Jonathan Rea (Hanspree Honda) ended 3rd after pressuring Cal Crutchlow(Sterilgarda Yamaha) into losing the front end.

MIDVAAL HAS SUCCESSFUL START TO THE YEAR.
6/3/2010.

Midvaal Raceway, Under new ownership had the largest crowd since National Championship races were held there almost a decade ago. Although the track has been neglegted for years. New owner Nino Venturi has plans to bring the circuit back to it's former glory and even better.
Today's meeting can only be rated a great success. There was a display of weird and wonderfull machinery outside the restuarant which had some people drooling over what they saw. The racing itself was pretty good for almost all the races with lots of good dices all throughout the fields.
With the new hand on the wheel at Midvaal it will get be an even better place to see motor racing.

MIDVAAL TO HOST HISTORIC RACE MEETING.

The Midvaal race circuit outside Meyerton will be hosting a full programme of historic races on sat.6th March. Races will include the Lotus Challenge, Historic saloons, Sports and GT cars, Marque cars and more.
The circuit has recently been bought by Nino Venturi and improvements are sure to coming soon as the circuit has been neglected for a long time.

SURPRISE WINNER IN RACE 2 SUPERBIKES.
28/2/2010.

Race 2 started much the same as race 1 with Haslam taking the lead into turn 1. The works Ducati's went with him but were soon joined by Haslam's team mate Sylvain Guintoly. There was much lead changing with all four riders leading at some point. Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) joined the fight and took the lead on the last lap to win a close race from Haslam and Fabrizio.

HASLAM WINS CLOSEST EVER SUPERBIKE RACE.
28/2/2010.

Leon Haslam (Suzuki Alstarre)led from start to finnish in the opening superbike race of the year. He was chased race long by the two Zerox Ducati's of michel Fabrzio and Noriuki Haga. At the flag Haslam was only 4/1000th oh a second ahead oh Fabrizio with haga falling slightly behind.

HASLAM SCORES FIRST SUPERPOLE WIN.
27/2/2010.

LEON HASLAM ON HIS FIRST RIDE WITH THE ALSTARE SUZUKI TEAM SET HIS FIRST SUPERPOLE WIN THIS AFTERNOON. RIGHT ON HIS REAR TYRE WAS MICHEL FABRIZIO(DUCATI XEROX) FOLLOWED IN THIRD BY CAL CRUTCHLOW ON HIS STERILGARDA YAMAHA. NORIYUKI HAGA (DUCATI XEROX) COULD ONLY MANAGE 10TH WITH MAX BIAGGI (ALITALIA APRILIA) IN 11TH. TOM SYKES WAS THE FASTEST KAWASAKI IN 12TH AHEAD OF TROY CORSER ON THE QUICKEST BMW.

DAVID PIPER INT. LEGENDS OF THE 9HOUR.
12/1/2010.

Some interesting cars will be making the annual pilgramige to South Africa at the end of January for the David Piper Legends of the 9 Hour meeting Jan 29/30 at Zwartkops Raceway in Pretoria.
Heading the list are the Ferrari 312 PB and an Aston Martin DBR1 of Irvine Laidlaw of Rothiemay. Both the Ferrari and the Aston were winning cars in their era and stunning looking cars.
Cars and drivers returning are Alan Bailie,Lotus 23B, Barry Shepard, Nomad Coupe, Eddie Peak Lenham spyder,Alan Minshaw Chevron B8 (frequent visitor)Becker Porsche 910 and the Grand Sport Corvette of Campagne.
Something to shake up the local Touring cars will be an ex Works Triumph Dolomite Sprint, an indecently quick car that should put the cat among the pigeons.
A Lola T292/4 will be coming to take on the Ferrari and local 917's GT40's,Lola T70's and Chevrons.
In the single seaters a Heron Alfa will be back after decades overseas. It is the car that won the first race at Kyalami in 1961. Joining it will be 2.5Litre Brabham and Lotus 18, Caravelle, Lotus 22 and various Cooper's. Joined of course by local historic single seaters.
Another car new to the scene is a Nemisis. This car was driven by Dick Sorenson to win the Australian sports car Championship in the early 60's. He bought it back a few years ago, brought it to South Africa and has spent the time since in restoring the car.

A NEW BMW TEAM IN WORLD SUPERBIKES?
16/12/2009

It appears that there willl be a second BMW team in world Superbikes in 2010. The team Reitwagen Motorsport will have former Supersport champion and Superbike winner Andrew Pitt and Roland Resch as riders.
Johan Stigefelt who was team owner of Stiggy Racing and ran Leon Haslam in Superbikes this year will join the team in a technical capacity and former racer Peter Goddard will be Chasis consultant. Other members of Stiggy Racing will also be joining Reitwagen Motorsport.

PEDROSA TAKES FINAL MOTO GP RACE.

Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) fell on the warm up lap and did not start the race. At the start it was Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) who led ino the first corner and just stayed there. When the race settled down Lorenzo (Fiat yamaha) held second until he had a huge moment and let Rossi(Fiat Yamaha) through into second. It stayed that way at the front. Pedrosa streched his lead slowly to over 4 secs. Ben Spies ,the new World Superbike Champion (Sterilgarda Yamaha) rode as a wild card and finnished a good seventh to help Team-mate Colin Edwards(Monster Tech 3 Yamaha) to get to 5th in the championship.

250cc TITLE SETTLED AT THE LAST RACE OF THE CLASS.
8/11/2009.

Hiroshi Aoyama (Scot Racing Team 250cc) only had to finnish the race in elenth place to win the title. It did not matter where contender Marco Simoncelli (Metis Gilera) finnished as long as Aoyama finnished eleventh or better. Aoyama obviosly wanted to win the title with a win in the race and set off at the front. Simoncelli was down in 8th place at the start and waqs pushing forward. Hector Barbera (Pepe World Team) also wanted to end the 250cc era with a win and rode hard ,very hard. Aoyama had a near miss when he nearly ran into the back of another rider. He squeesed round the outside of turn one and into the gravel trap but held it all together and rejoined in 11th place. He then worked hisway up a few places. Five laps from the end Simoncelli still pushing hard lost the front and that was championship over. From then Aoyama did not even have to finnish.
The last ever 250cc moto gp race was won at the last race in faviour of Hiroshi Aoyama riding a Honda. NEW WORLD CHAMPION WINS LAST 125cc RACE.
8/11/2009.

Julian Simon (Bancaja Aspar 125 Team) the new world 125cc champion finnished his season with a hard fought win from his team-mate Bradley Smith. Smith led from the start and pulled a small gap ahead of Simon. Five laps from the finnish he had a moment and fell behind and rode hard to catch up. The last lap there were three changes to the lead but in the end Simon just held on to take the win. YAMAHA MAKES HISTORY.
25/10/2009.

Yamaha has made history by winning three World Championships in one day. This morning Valentino Rossi won the Moto GP title in Malasia, and earlier this afternoon Cal Crutchlow won the World Supersport Championship. In the final race of the year Ben Spies won the World Superbike Championship.

SPIES WINS SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP.
25/10/2009.

Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) has won the Superbike World Championship in his first year by finnishing in 5th place . He scored enough points to beat rival Noriuki Haga (Xerox Ducati into second. Haga rode a great race to end second behind team-mate Michel Fabrizio. Jonathan Rea who led a large part of the race came in third.

CRUTCHLOW AND YAMAHA TAKE WORLD SUPERSPORT TITLE.
25/10/2009.

Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha World Supersport Team) cruised to a 4th place finnish at Portimao to clinch the world championship at the last race of the season. Eugene Laverty (Paralgar Honda) did everything he could which was to win the race. He could do no more and it was up to Crutchlow to loose. Cal rode with the title in mind and has won Yamaha's second world title of the day. Next year he moves up to World Superbikes still in the Yamaha Team. Gary McCoy (Parkingo Triumph) made the podium in 3rd behind Kenan Sofoglu (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) who ended second.

SPIES WINS WORLD SUPERBIKE RACE 1.
25/10/2009.

Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) led from start to finnish in race 1 at the Portamiao circuit in portugal. Starting from pole 10 points behind Noriuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) he led all the way to the flag. Haga starting in 10th on the grid started well and made up places until lap 7 when he last the front end and it was race over. Max Biaggi (Aprilia) held second for most of the race but came under pressure from Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) and Shane Byrne (Sterilgarda Ducati). Biaggi and Rea swopped places a number of times with Rea in second place at the flag. Biaggi was third and Byrne close in fourth. Spies goes into race 2 with a 15 point lead over haga.

ROSSI IS 2009 WORLD CHAMPION.
25/10/2009.

Valentino Rossi(Fiat Yamaha) finnished in 3rd place in the Malaysian Moto GP to take the world title for 2009 with one race to go..
Rossi started from pole in a rain delayed race, ran wide in the first corner and dropped to 10th.Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro)took the lead on the first lap and simply disappeared into the distance. The track was very wet at the start and never dried out completely. At the finnish it was Stoner from Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) and Rossi who cannot be beaten to the title.

AOYAMA CLOSER TO THE TITLE.
25/10/2009

Hiroshi Aoyama (Scot Honda) battled with Marco Simoncelli (Metis Gilera) and Hector Barbera (Pepe World Team) About mid race Aoyama made the front and pulled away to win by 6 seconds. Second place was a photo finnish and Barbera was declared second after having done the faster lap of the two in the race.
The title now goes down to the last race in Valencia.

ALTHEA RACING TEAM WILL USE DUCATI IN 2010.
18/10/2009
The Altea racing Team has secured 2010 model Ducati's for next years Worl Superbike Championship. The Team has also secured the sevices of none other than Carlos Checa as their first rider. The team is still deciding about a second rider.

BUTTON IS CHAMPION.
18/10/2009.

Jenson Button was crowned World Champion in Brazil at the Interlagos track after his team-mate Rubens Barrichelo was given a puncture by Lewis Hamiton shortly before the end of the race. Button now has enough points ahead of his team-mate that he cannot be beaten to the title.
The race was marred by a number of unnecesary crashes on the first lap. Button made a number of brave passes in the early stages to do enough to win the title with one race left in the championship.

ROSSI ALMOST ASSURED OF TITLE.
18/10.2009.

Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) is almost certainly going to be the 2009 MotoGP world champion as his main rival team-mate Jorge Lorenzo crashed at the first corner after hitting Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati). Lorenzo went into the Doohan curve (turn 1) too fast and lost the front end and went down. Hayden managed to make it across the gravel trap to continue at the back.
The race was about Rossi and Casey Stoner(Marlboro Ducati) Stoner led from the second corner and held off Rossi for the whole race except for two corners. Rossi tried hard but had no answer to Stoner. The two of them were more than 20 secs. ahead of the rest.

JULIAN SIMON IS 125ccWORLD CHAMPION
18/10/2009.

Julian Simon (Bancaja Aspar Team 125) followed his team-mate Bradley Smith for most of the race at Philip Island in Australia and pushed passed on the last lap to win the race and the 125CC world title for 2009.

THRILLING SUPERBIKE RACES AT MAGNY COURS.
4/10/2009.

Noriuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) started race one with a three point lead over Ben Spies(Sterilgarda Yamaha)in the championship. Spies started from pole and Haga from 5th on the second row. At the start Spies got into the front with Haga behind Max Biaggi(Aprilia). Try as he might Haga could not find a way past. Jonathan Rea (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) was in the front bunch until he made a mistake and fell back. Eventually after many attempts Haga got past Biaggi and immediately started to close on Spies. He caught right up to him on the last lap but could not get past.
Race two started with Haga determined to get in front of Biaggi as soon as possible. This he did in the second corner and made it into the lead with Spies down in fifth. Spies made it to fourth and the lead was hotly contested by Haga,Rea,Biaggi and Spies. It was close at the front and it was fierce but Haga just had enough to hold them off. Towards the end Spies had a problem and fell right back in fourth. With five laps to go Rea also started to lose ground and fell away from Biaggi who never stopped trying to get by Haga. The race finnished with Haga winning from Biaggi and Rea. Haga now leads Spies by 10 points with one round to go in Portomiao.

MOTO GP TO LORENZO. 4/10/2009.

The Moto GP race at Estoril in Portugal saw the return of Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati). He qualified in second on the grid ahead of Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha)and behind Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha).
The race started with Lorenzo getting into the lead on the first lap and the four at the front immediately started to pull away from the rest as usual.Even at the front it spread out with a rather boring race to end with Lorenzo winning from Stoner and Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) and Rossi.

TOSELAND BACK TO WORLD SUPERBIKES.
1/10/2009

James Toseland ,former world superbike world champion will be leaving Moto GP in 2010 and going back to superbikes. He will be staying with Yamaha in the Sterilgarda world Superbike Team. His team-mate will be Cal Crutchlow who is currently leading the Supersport championship for the same team. Ben Spies will be moving to Toselands place in the Tech 3 Yamaha Moto GP Team.

GOODWOOD REVIVAL BETTER THAN EVER.
28/9/2009

The Goodwood Revival race meeting was held on th 18th to 20th of September 2009. As usual the "Magical Step back In Time"was just that . No vehicles manufactured after 1966 are allowed into the circuit gates, and spectators are encouraged to dress in period clothes of the years between 1948 when the circuit was opened for racing by the current Lord March's grandfather and 1966 when the circuit was closed to racing.
The circuit itself is the perimeter road of a world war two airfield and the airfield is still there and operating. The facilities are as they were in those days. For example the paddock has not changed a bit and spectators can view the cars from a meter or so away. The track is quite fast and the old cars get into some hairy looking slides through the corners. They are also driven in many cases by drivers who raced at goodwood in it's heydays. Stirling Moss was a regular winner and Mike Hawthorne made his name there. The main race of the weekend is the TT Celebration race for closed cockpit GT cars and the field is filled with AC Cobra's, Aston Martin's, Ferarri's including the one off 250 GT Breadvan.
The main saloon car race, a two part event with two drivers celebrated the mini which is 50 years old. Here the field was made up of 29 identical mini cooper S models and one Wolseley Hornet. These were driven by some of the drivers who raced them in the early 60's As expected there turned out to be a number of dices up and down the field with no body giving any quarter to anyone.
There are races for all types of cars that raced then including single seaters both front and rear engined, production sports cars, sports racing cars, motorcycles and the big banger sports racers like the Ford GT 40 and Lola t 70 spyder. The motorcycles are mainly Manx Nortons and Matchless G50'S with acouple of MV Agusta'S thrown in.
As befitting its world war two heritage there are Spitfire's and Mustang P51's at the airfield and they get to fly a few times each day of the meeting. A Lancaster bomber put in an apearance this year as did a Vulkan bomber on saturday and sunday.
All around the paddock the organisers have set up the Cafe's and resturants, shops and showrooms in period fashion and even recreated a small version of the Earls Court Motor Show with some amazing cars of the period.
Stirling Moss celebrated his 80th birthday the thursday before the event started and there were parades in his honour each day. The parades had nearly 80 of the cars that he raced in his career.Some of them were the actual cars he drove and others the same type.
A great event which seems to get better every year and one that lovers of old cars really should see at least once in their lives.

DUCATI TAKE BOTH WORLD SUPERBIKE RACES AT HOME.
27/9/2009

The world superbike race 1 at Imola got under way with five bikes in the lead bunch. As to be expected both Ducati Zerox bikes were in the mix. Aprilia was also there as was Ten Kate Honda And Sterilgarda Yamaha.Jonathan Rea went into the gravel and fell back,while Ben Spies on the Yamaha could not get to terms with the Aprilia and the two Ducati'S. Max Biaggi had a new team-mate for this race in the form of 250cc world champion Marco Simoncelli who was doing a sterling job by getting into 5th place before losing the front and going out of the race. Haga pulled away at the front to win from Biaggi who passed Fabrizio on the last chicane to take 2nd.
Race two started much the same as race one with Haga in the lead from Fabrizio and Biaggi. Spies appeared to be struggling as in race one in 6th place. Marco Simoncelli was making ground on those in front and was soon in 4th behind Biaggi. He made a daring move into the last chicane coming from way behind to pass Biaggi and push him wide. Biaggi in turn pushed Spies off the track into the gravel trap which lost him some time. Fabrizio passed Haga and pulled away to finnish about three sec's ahead with Simoncelli having a great ride to his first podium in his first race weekend. Spies ended the day with a 4th and a 5th place. Haga now leads the championship by 3 points from Spies with Fabrizio in third.

BIG SHAKE UP IN WORLD SUPERBIKES.
6/9/20009

Race one was stopped on the first lap as three bikes went down on the 3rd corner. At the restart Haga (Ducati Xerox) led from the line and led till half distance. Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) then took the lead and had to fend off Haga untill the last lap when he pulled away by about half a second.Carlos Checa (HANNSpree Ten Kate Honda ) was 3rd.
Race two saw another great start from Haga with Spies not getting away well and down in 7th place. Jonathan Rea (HANNSpree TenKate Honda) and Checa raced Haga for the lead. Rea led heading to the first corner with Haga slipping down the inside to lead into the corner with Rea trying to cut back on the inside and runnuing into Haga and knocking him down. That was the end of the race for Haga. Towards the end it was between Rea and Spies out front with Rea holding off a determined attack from Spies to such an extent that he set a lap record on the last lap.
Spies now leads the championship from Haga.

SUPERSPORT TO CRUTCHLOW.
Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha World Supersport Team) dominated the Supersport race from the flag. He outdistanced the field leaving the fight for the remaining podium places to Eugene Laverty( Parkalgar Honda) and Joan Lascorz.(Kawasaki Motorcard.com)

MOTO GP TO ROSSI.
6/9/2009

Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) led for most of the race ahead of his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda). These three were the only riders really in the race as the rest were a long way behind. The race soon spread out with most riders ciculating on their own. Rossi now leads Lorenzo by 30 points in the championship.
The 250cc race was won by Hector Barbera (Pepe World Team) from Mattia Pasini (Team Toth Aprilia) and Alvaro Bautista (Mapfre Aspar Team).

Moto GP race to LORENZO.
30/8/2009

Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) made a lightning start from pole position to lead from Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) and teammate Jorge Lorenzo. Pedrosa went down when he lost the front but managed to pick the bike up and continue. This left Rossi in the lead from Lorenzo. Lorenzo passed Rossi and soon after Rossi also lost the front and was down.He to picked the bike up and continued but retired a few laps later. This left a surprised Alex De Angelis (San Carlo Gresini Honda) in second place which he held to the finnish despite the efforts of Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati) who held off a determined Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) for to take 3rd place and the final podium. Rossi's lead in the championship has been cut to half by his retirement and Lorenzo's win . There is now 25 pionts between the teammates. Lorenzo has signed a one year's extention to his contract with Yamaha.

250cc RACE AT INDIANAPOLIS A TWO HORSE RACE.
30/8/2009

The 250cc race at the Indy circuit turned into a two horse race with world champion Marco Simoncelli (Metis Gilera) and Hiroshi Aoyama (Scot Racing Team) going at it hammer and tongs. Towards the end Simoncelli pulled away to a 2 sec. gap to win the first Indianapolis 250cc GP ( last year was cancelled due to rain) Aoyama finnished second with Alvaro Bautista (Mapfre Aspar Team) working his way up to finnish on the podium. Veteran Roberto Locatelli (Metis Gilera) had a good race to finnish in 5th place.

GREAT 125cc RACE AT INDIANAPOLIS.
30/8/2009

The Indianapolis circuit hosted Moto GP on a purpose built circuit designed for motorcycles. The 125cc race was close at the front between 5 riders. It was close racing with lots of position changes. Nico Terol (Jack & Jones Team) led most of the race but lost the lead a few laps from the end when Pol Espargaro (Derbi Racing Team) went ahead. British teenager Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team) who seesawed between 2nd and 5th made a brilliant pass around the outside to finnish 2nd with Simone Corsi (Jack & Jones Team) in third.

SIR STIRLING MOSS TURNS 80.
21/8/2009

SIR STIRLING MOSS, the greatest driver never to have won the world championship will turn 80 on the 17th September, the day before the start of the Goodwood Revival. 80 of the 96 cars known to have been raced by Stirling Moss will be doing parades of the circuit on each day of the Revival.
Goodwood was the venue for his first race and also his last where he had a still unexplained accident that put an end to his career.

A1 GP HEADING FOR SEASON 5.
21/8/2009

AI GP will soon start season 5 with the first race at the Surfers Paradise street circuit in Australia. As with most street circuits it is built especially for the event and dismantled afterwards. Surfers Paradise is concidered one of the top three street circuits in the world. Work has already begun for the race weekend 22 to 25 October 2009. More information and tickets are available from www.SuperGP.com.

GOODWOOD CELEBRATES THE MINI.
17/8/2009

The goodwood revival race meeting to be held next month will be celebrating two forms of the famous Mini.The popular St. Mary's Trophy race will be 30 Mini's strong. Mini drivers of the 60's such as Rauno Aaltonen, Alec Poole, John Fitzpatrick will be taking on other famous drivers of that era such as Derek Bell,Jackie Oliver and Brian Redman.
Each of the three days of the revival will hold parades of various forms that the Mini took in the 60's with the likes of ice cream vans and otherr such oddities.
The other very important form of the Mini which will also be represented is the Mary Quant designed Mini Skirt. Spectators will be encouraged to dig out their mini's and take a stroll down the recreation of Carnaby Street. /P.

EARLS COURT MOTOR SHOW RECREATED.

the BGC Earls Court Motor Show takes its inspiration from the London Motor Shows of the 50's and 60's showing the public what the manufactures predicted for the then future of motoring as they saw it.There wil be exhibitions from Ford, Nissan, Rolls Royce and others in authentic exhibits from a bygone era predicting the future of motoring.
The London's Earls Court Exhibition site was built on land owned by the Duke of Richmond. The EARL in the name reers to the Earl of March from whom the present 10th Duke of Richmond and his son Lord March are directly descended.

ROSSI WINS MOTO GP AT BRNO.
16/8/2009

Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) scored his 102nd GP win when he finnished 15 secs. ahead of Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) at the Brno circuit in the Czechs Republic. He led for most of the way while dicing with his teammate Jorge Lorenzo. The lead changed a couple of times and a few laps from the end Rossi made a move down the inside and Lorenzo lost the front end and his race was over. This elevated Toni Elias (San Carlo Gresini Honda) on to the podium chased hard by Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda).
The 250cc race had a surprise leader at the start in Roberto Locatelli (Metis Gilera) He stayed there for two laps before being swallowed up by the chasing pack. By haf distance the lead was being fought by Marco Simoncelli (Metis Gilera) and Mattia Pasini (Team Toth Aprilia) They had a marvelous battle which lasted till the last lap when Simoncelli pulled away just enough to have a safe win. Third went to Alvaro Bautista ( Mapfre Aspar Team)
The 125cc was also a two horse race from half distance. At the start Nico Terol ( jack And JOnes Team),Julian Simon (Bancaja Aspar Team) and Andrea Ionnone (Ongetti Team I.S.P.A.) raced hard for the lead as the race progressed Terol and Simon pulled away and went at it by themselves.Terol finnished 1st ahead of Simon and Iannone.

GOODWOOD REVIVAL IS ONLY 6 WEEKS AWAY.
13/8/2009

The Goodwood Revival race meeting is just around the corner. It happens on 18th to 20th Sept.Billed as "A Magical step back in time" it is exactly that. Spectators are encouraged to dress in period clothing from the 1950's and 1960's.This coupled with no modern cars allowed into the circuit area makes for an authentic atmosphere of the times when the Goodwood circuit was in full swing between 1948 and 1966.
The format every year is similar but not the same as the previous year.
It is 50 years since aSTON mARTIN won the world Sport Car Championship and the Lavant Cup race willbe a 1 hr. two driver race celebrating Aston Martin's winning the championship. Aston had eventually won Le mans after years of trying and found themselves leading the championship. The last race was at Goodwood and they had often won there. Stirling Moss and Roy Salvadori were leading when during a pitstop the car caught fire and was destroyed. Moss took over the other car and drove an inspired race to win both the race and the championship.
The RAC Tuorist trophy is also a 1hr. two driver race and is the highlight of the weekend. This race brings out the closed cockpit GT cars between 1960 and 1964. These cars include Ferrari 250 GT and 250 GTO, 330 LMB's up against Shelby Cobra's and Shelby Daytona Coupe's lightweight E type Jaguars Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato's Corvettes and more. Driver's include Derek Bell, Richard Atwood, Jackie Oliver, Stirling Moss and many more from the magical years.
The Fordwater Trophy is for production based sports and GT crs in the spirit of the Members meetings held post war.Here almost forgotten cars auch as Lotus Elite, Alfa Giulia SZ, Elva, Ginneta and TVR's will be found.
The Freddie march Trophy is for cars raced in the 9hr. races between 1952 and 1955. Cars include Jag C type's Aston Martin DB3/S Ferrari 750 Allard and HWM.
The Witsun Trophy for Sports racing cars between 1963 and 1966 brings out the hairy chested big bangers like half a dozen Ford GT40's Lola T70 Spyder's Ferrari P2/3,McClaren M1C's and some more rare machines.It's a wonderfull sight and sound.
Well catered for are grand Prix cars with races including cars from 1930 to 1950. Out come the ERA's Bugatti's Alfa's and Maserati's. Also cars from 1950 to 1960. Think of Maserati 250F, Vanwall, Aston Martin, BRM, Coopers and a unique Ferguson 4 wheel drive.
There will be a race for front engined Formula Junior cars rounding out the weekend.
How can you miss all that.

SPIES WINS SUPERBIKE RACE2.
26/7/2009

Race two started the same as race one with Troy Corser (BMW Motorrad) leading into the first corner. This time his lead only lasted a couple of corners until Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) went ahead.Corser went backwards and the fight was taken up by Michel Fabrizio (Ducati Xerox) and Max Biaggi (Aprilia). Noriyuki Haga (Ducati Xerox), still injured from his Donnington crash and starting from 13th was up to 8th and pushing. At half distance Biaggi and Fabrizio kept swopping the lead untill Biaggi made it stick with 6 laps to go. He then set about catching Spies and was soon right behind him. He tried everything he could but did not have enough time to find a way past. Haga madde it into 6th by the end. Spies won from Biaggi and fabrizio.

MOTO GP GETS SHAKE UP
26/7/2009

It was declared a wet race and Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) took a big gamble by starting on wet tyres. It did not work. Tony Elias (San Carlo Honda Gresini)led at the start and the lead changed every lap until Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) pullued away at the front. A little rain started falling on the second lap but not enough to warrant a tyre change. Elias fell when he put a wheel on the white line, then others followed him down. Lorenzo fell when leading, Rossi (Fiat yamaha) fell when leading. With 8laps to go some riders changed bikes for wet tyres and Colin Edwards (Monster Yamaha) started a charge which took him to second place on the last corner.
The race ended with Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) won from Edwards and Randy De Puniet (LCR Honda) Rossi Picked his bike up to finnish in 5th place.

250cc RACE TO AOYAMA.
26/7/2009

The 250cc race started on a wet track with the whole field on wet weather tyres.Hiroshi Aoyama (Scot Honda) took the lead early on and stayed there and kept out of trouble to win his 3rd race of the year. As the track dried some of the riders changed to dry tyres. The race ended with Alvaro Bautista ( Mapfre Aspar Aprilia) in second and Mattia Pasini (Team Toth Aprilia) in 3rd. The wet tyres were totaly destroyed by the finnish of the race.

BRITISH 125cc RACE ENDS IN THE WET.
26/7/2009

The british Moto gp in the 125cc class was stopped with 5 laps to go making it a 5 lap dash in the wet. Julian Simon (Bancaja Aspar 125 Team Aprilia) finnished the dash infirst place ahead of Simone Corsi (jack & Jones Team Aprilia) was second with Brit Scot Redding (Blusens Aprilia) came in third.

SHERIDAN MORAIS HAS GREAT SUPERSPORT RACE.
26/7/2009

The Supersport race was a turn up for the books as the usual suspects did not deliver as expected. Run away leader Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha World Supersport Team) had a mechanical problem and retired with a few laps to go. Teammate Fabian Foret crossed the line in the lead at the end with Anthony West (Stiggy Honda) coming through to 2nd on the last lap.Joan Lascorz Kawaasaki Motorcard.com was 3rd.
South African Sheridan Morais riding a Yamaha as a wild card started in 13th on the grid and worked his way up the leaderboard and on the last lap he passed two riders to finnish in 6th place.

APRILIA WINS FIRST SUPERBIKE RACE.
6/7/2009

the BMW (BMW Motorrad) of Troy Corser appeared in the lead out of the first corner at the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic. The BMW held the lead for 2 laps before being passed by Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha). Ruben Xaus on the other BMW had a huge crash on the first lap. Michel Fabrizio (Ducati Xerox) tried to take the lead down the inside of Spies and lost the front end taking Spies out with him. He was quick to apologise but Spies was understandably annoyed.
This left Max Biaggi (Aprilia) in the lead which he held to the end ,even pulling away from Corlos Checa (Ten Kate Honda) and teammate Jonathan Rea. Shane Byrne (Sterilgarda Ducati) worked his way up to 4th ahead of Corser who gave BMW their best finnish so far this year.

ROSSI WINS FROM POLE.
19/7/2009

Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) led from the start accompanied by teammate Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner(Marlboro Ducati) and Dani Pedrosa(Repsol Honda). Th ese four were the race with the rest falling back. Stoner had a short time in the lead but it was Rossi who led most of the way. He was passed by Lorenzo for a few laps but 2 laps to go Rossi retook the lead and that was that. Stoner fell back in the last few laps to finnish 4th.
Teammates Alex De Angelis and Toni Elias (San Carlo Gresini Honda) both riding for their jobs next year rode their best races of the year to finnish 5th and 6th.

SHORTENED 250ccRACE WIN TO SIMONCELLI.
19/7/1009

The 250cc grand prix started with 3 riders going down on the first corner and the race stopped on the 2nd lap due to rain.
The restart was down to 19 laps from the original 29 Alex Debon (Aeropuerto-castello-blusens)led from Marco Simoncelli (Metis Gilera). They pulled out a 4sec. gap to 3rd where there was a good race going on. Towards the end the 3rd place battle closed to within 1sec. of the leading dice but could not do anything more than that.
The race ended with Simoncelli winning from Debon with Alvaro Bautista (mapfre Aspar Team) filling the podium. SIMON WINS 125CC GP AT SACHSENRING.
19/7/2009

The 125cc race at the Sachsenring in Germany turned out to be a bit of a boring procession as Julian Simon (bancaja ASpar Aprilia) led from pole into the first corner and was never in danger of losing the lead.Teammate Sergio Gadea held second for most of the race to finnish 10 seconds behind.
The last few laps were a good dice for 3rd place between Marc Marquez (Red Bull KTM), Joan Olive(Derbi Racing) and Nicolas Terol (Jack&Jones Team) untill Marquez crashed two laps from the end to let Olive into 3rd and Terol 4th.

SHORTENED 250cc RACE TO SIMONCELLI.
19/7/2009.

IMOLA SUPERBIKE TESTING GOES TO REA.
16/7/2009

At the end of two days of official testing at the Imola circuit in Italy Jonathan Rea (TenKate Honda) edged Michel Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) off the top spot in the dying minutes of the test. Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) could not improve on thursdays time and finnished third fastest.
Ruben Xaus (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) ended up in 7thafter improving over the two days.
South African Shridan Morais who tested the Triumph supersport bike of the parkalgar team ended in 15th place while regular riders Gary McCoy was 5th and teammate Gianluca Nannelli finnished 7th.

MORAIS GETS ANOTHER WORLD SUPERBIKE RIDE.
15/7/2009

South African superbike champ. Sheridan Morais will be racing at the Brno circuit in the Czech republic at the end of the month. He will be standing in for the injured Doni Tata Pradita.
The 24 year old finnished 11th and 13th in the Kyalami round of the world superbike series in May beating his teammate Broc Parkes in both races.
Morais will also be testing the Parkingo Triumph BE1 racing Daytona in the Supersport class at Imola.

GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED. 3>5 JULY 2009
15/7/2009

The Goodwood Festival of speed, that annual party in front of Lord March's house attracted over a 152000 fans over the three days of the festival. They watched more than a 120 star drivers and riders going up the hill.
AUDI had the pride of place in front of the Goodwood House celebrating their 100 years. Also honoured were 75 years of the Siver Arrows with 14 examples of Mercedes and Auto Union examples of these great cars. The Mini too celebrated 50 years with a host of the little gems created by Sir Alec Issigonnis.
The Formula 1 teams were as always out showing their skills and doing donuts to entertain the crowds. Championship leader Jenson Button drove a Mercedes W25 GP car from the early 1930's up the hill.
At the top of the hill hidden in a small forest is a feature of the festival not to be missed . It is the forest rally stage where there are rally cars of all shapes, sizes and types of cars rallied over the years. Five times World Rally champion Sebstien Loeb paid his first visit to the festival and set a time not matched all weekend in his Citoen C4 car.
American talk show host and car nut Jay Leno was on hand with actor Peter Fonda who rode the chopper that he used in his film EASY RIDER Another cult hero in america is tv presenter Jesse James who performed to the delight of the crowd in his 950 HP Baja style Trophy Truck.
The weekend was finnished off with a shootout for the fastest time up the hill. This was won by Justin Law driving A jAGUAR xj12 sports car with a time of 44.40 sec's up the 1,16 mile course.
The next big event is the Goodwood Revival Race Meeting which will be held on 18>20 Sept.
For tickets to the Revival contact Tel 0044 (0) 1243 755055 or on line at www goodwood.co.uk

SPIES DOES THE DOUBLE AT DONNINGTON.

Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamah) led from the second corner and just pulled away to an eight second lead at the flag. A number of riders held second in the early laps including Biaggi (Aprilia) Haga (Xerox Ducati) teammate Fabrizio and Leon Haslam (Stiggy Honda) The crashes started on lap 2 when Nakano (Aprilia) went down at the Old Hairpin. Biaggi went down at the Melbourne hairpin. He pickd the bike up and promptly ran into Lagrive as he returned to the track. Haga had a big crash at the fast Coppice corner. Haslam made it to 3rd on lap 9 and soon made that 2nd and held it to the end, but he was chased all the way by Fabrizio and Byrne (Sterilgarda Ducati) who finnished in that order. Ruben Xaus (BMW Motorrad) had a good day with a 9th place finnish

TRIUMPH TRIUMPHS IN SUPRSPORT AT DONNINGTON PARK.

Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha World Supersport Team) started on pole and was second into first corner. He followed Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motocard.com) with Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda)in third. They pulled away from the field with Laverty falling at the hairpin on lap 2. He got up and continued in 18th place. He then started a fightback to work his way up the field to finnish in 5th.
Crutchlow took the lead on lap 3 but Lascorz hounded him all the way to the end. Gary McCoy (Parkingo Triumph) made his way to 3rd but could not catch the two at the front and took Triumph's first podium in a very long time.
South African Hudson Kennaugh (LinxCell Yamaha) was a wild card for this race on a british spec bike started in 16th and managed to get up to 14th on an inferior bike.

BEN SPIES TAKES WORLD SUPERBIKE RACE 1 AT DONNINGTON.
28/6/2009

Ben Spies started on pole for the SBK round at Donnington. On the front row for the first time were two Aprilia's. Spies (Strilgarda Yamaha) led into the first turn followed by Max Biaggi (Aprilia) and Haga (xerox Ducati) in third from the second row of the grid.The first three pulled away from the rest and by lap 3 Haga started to fall back.
Biaggi held on to Spies who looked a bit ragged through the corners. With 7 laps to go Brit Leon Haslam (Stiggy Honda) passsed Shane Byrne(Sterilgarda Ducati) for 3rd.
Biaggi had a big scare two corners from the end when the bike cut out for lack of petrol but he managed to get it going again to hold on to second at the flag.Haga finnished 3rd with Haslam 4th.

DORNA SPORTS CHOOSES TYRE FOR MOTO2.
26/6/2009

Dorna Sports the rights holders of Moto GP have chosen Dunlop to be the control tyre for the next three years for the new class to be introduced in 2010.
The Assen TT will be held on Saturday 27/6/2009. It is the only circuit still used for Moto GP that was on the calender when the first world championship series was held in 1949.
Valentino Rossi will start on pole hoping to win his 100th Grand Prix.

RACE 2 OF SUPERBIKES A CLIFFHANGER.
21/6/2009

Race 2 was dry all the way through. Haga (Xerox Ducati) took the lead at the first corner followed by Jonathan Rea(Ten Kate Honda) Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) had a problem and fell right down the field to 17th place. When things got sorted out after a few laps the race was really between Rea, Haga and teammate Fabrizio.
These three went at it with a will and no holds barred. Both Haga and Fabrizio tried everything they could to get passed Rea and managed to get passed only to be repassed. The racing was very close and Fabrizio got into the lead but Rea retook the lead into the first corner of the last lap and just held on untill the finnish line. Fabrizio was second from Haga. Ben Sies clawed his way back up to 8th at the end.

SAN MARINO WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE 1
21/6/2009

The first race at the Misano Adriatico circuit for the Superbike's 8th round, was started in wet conditions and all the riders were on wet weather tyres. Shane Byrne (Sterilgarda Ducati) started on the 2nd row and took the lead in the first corner and proceeded to pull into what looked like an unasailable lead. Jacub Smrz (Guandilini Ducati) was second after starting from pole. Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) was 4th with Haga(Xerox Ducati) further back.
Lap 3 and Byrne had a 4.8 sec. lead with a dry line beginning to appear. A new rule brought in only this morning alows the riders to change bikes if the conditions change (A La Motogp). Nakano (Aprilia) was first to change onto a bike with dry tyres. That made him a well warched rider to see what he could do as far as lap times were concerned. He soon made it clear it was time to change.
At half distance Byrne had a 16 second lead ,still on wet tyres. There was a rush for the pits from half distance to change to dry tyres. Positions changed all the time and ride through penalties were in fashion with a number of riders speeding in the pit lane.
By lap 18 the lead was taken over by Ruben Xaus(BMW Motorrad) but still had to stop and change bikes. Spies took the lead on the next lap and held it to the end ahead of Byrne and Fabrizio. Haga could not do better than 5th.

MOTO 2 TEAMS SELECTED.
15/6/2009

With a huge number of entries in the new MOTO2 class in Moto GP 27 teams have been selected (41riders)10 teams have been made reserve entries and a further 10 teams have been rejected. The class will be a one make engine class with a variety of chasis.The selected teams will now have to submit their chasis and contracted riders to Dorna Sports who are the licence holders of Moto GP.

LE MANS! THE FRENCH WIN THEIR OWN RACE. (at last)
14/6/2009

The 24 hours of Le Mans ended with a home win for the Peugeot team. Their Deisel powered 908 HDI cars coming home in first and second ahead of the new Audi R 15 TDI. 36 cars were running at the finnish of what is no longer an endurance race. It now amounts to about 24 one hour sprint races without a stop to rest the cars.
As expected deisel power was too strong with no petrol powered car having a realistic chance of a win.Lola Aston MArtin were the best of the rest and came home in 4th. The Pescarolo run Peugeot had a big crash as did one of the Audi's.
In LMP2 it was a porsche benefit. The two RS Spyders pulled away from the rest with ease. The japanese run porsche running in second had a huge crash half an hour from the finnish when approaching the first chicane on the staight It turned left into the barrier and then nearly demolished the tyre chicane. Fortunately the driver was unhurt.
Corvette racing from the USA won the GT 1 class with little oposition. GT2 was a race long battle between the Ferrari 430's and the Porshe GT3's. Ferrari won out in the end.

CATALUNYA MOTO GP A THRILLER.
14/6/2009

The Moto GP race at the Catalunya circuit in Spain held in very hot conditions really went down to the wire. At the start Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) teammate Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) got away from the rest of the field. A battle for fourth place was between the injured Dani Pedrosa(Repsol Honda ) teammate Andea Dovizioso, Loris Caparossi(Rizla Susuki) and Randy De Puniet(LCR Honda).Pedrosa fell back and so did De Puniet. Dovizioso chased Stoner who was feeling ill and also fell back from the two at the front. He only just managed to stay ahead of Dovizioso to take 3rd at the finnish.
At the front the two teammates went at it hammer and tongs, passing each other and setting up an exciting finnish. And what a finnish it turned out to be. The last 2 laps were close ,so close that lorenzo came within millimeters of hitting Rossi 's rear tyre. There was overtaking aplenty and Rossi let off the brakes into the last corner to beat Lorenzo by a fraction of a second. Stoner was a distant third and could barely get off of his bike.

"GRAN PRIMI CIZANO deCATALUNYA SUNDAY 14/6/2009

Casey stoner (marlboro Ducati) goes to Catalunya as the points leader in the Moto GP class. Second in the points is home rider Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) and a home win over Stoner will put him in the lead of the championship.Do not count out Valentino Rossi(Fiat Yamaha) who has an impressive record in the premier class at Catalunya. He has 5 wins, 3 second places and 1 3rd place to his credit. Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) has won in all three classes at Grand Prix Catalunya and will be hoping for more.
In the 250cc class battle will be resumed with Alvaro Bautista (Mapfre Aspar Team) and Marco Simoncelli(Metis Gilera) taking up where they left off.
In the 125cc class Brit Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team 125cc) is leading his teammate Julian Simon in the points.

REGIS LACONI RECOVERING AT HOME.

Regis laconi's condition after suffering a huge crash at the Kyalami round of the World Superbike Championship is improving and he is now at home and has started to train on a training bike and in the swimming pool. His speech and sense of humour are back to normal but he will need a long convalesence to make sure that the Hematoma suffered in the crash has completely disappeared. He has already expressed a desire to return to the track.

SPIES TAKES EASY SUPERBIKE DOUBLE.
31/5/2009.

Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) led from the flag and stayed in front. Michel Fabrizio (Zerox Ducati)chased hard and held Spies to about 1 5sec's for most of the race.Carlos Checa(Ten Kate Honda) held 3rd for 4 laps untill he went down. At almost the same time Jamie Hacking (Kawasaki World Superbike Team) standing in for Makoto Tamada as did Sheridan Morais in SA rubbed wheels with fellow Kawasaki rider Luca Scassa (Team Pedercini). Scassa fell hard while Hacking went grass tracking before contiuing. After Checa went down the battle for 3rd had 5 riders chasing the last podium spot. Noriuki Haga (Zerox Ducati) battled along with a injured back and slowly went backwards through the fight for 3rd. On the last lap Leon Haslam (Stiggy Honda) fell while trying to pass Jonathan Rea (Ten kate Honda) for 3rd place. In the last few laps Spies pulled away from Fabrizio to finnish well ahead and take a well deserved double.
Max Biaggi (Aprilia) was 4th in front of Ryuichi Kiyonari (Ten kate Honda) and jakub Smrz (Guandalini Ducati).

SUPERSPORT RACE A CLOSE ONE.

Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) led into turn 1, followed by Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha World Supersport Team) and Joan Lascorz (kawasaki Morotorcard.com) These three held the front for most of the race. The Italian Triumph Team had one of their best showings so far this year getting up to 4th place in the early stages of the race (Gary McCoy). Teammate Gianluca Nannelli (Parkingo Triumph BE1) passed McCoy and later crashed out. Sofoglu ( Ten Kate Honda) caught up to 4th and closed in on the front three.
On the last lap Sofoglu pushed and shoved his way to the front of the field to win a close race.

SPIES TAKES RACE 1 WORLD SUPERBIKES @ MILLER MOTORSPORT PARK. USA.
31/5/2009

Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha).started from pole for the 7th time in his rookie year in world superbike racing. From pole he streaked into a huge lead on the first lap. Lap 2 he set a new record. He was 4 sec's ahead when Karl Muggeridge ( Celani Race Suzuki) had a big crash and the race was red flagged. At the restart he continued where he left off. Soon after the restart Ten Kate Honda's were in 2nd ,3rd, and 4th places. The Kawasaki's of Broc Parkes and stand in Jamie Hacking were having their best showing of the year in 6th and 7th places. The aggregate race was confusing to the spectators but in the end it was Ben Spies from Carlos Checa (Ten Kate Honda)and Michel Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) in 3rd.

MOTO GP STARTS ON DAMP TRACK.

All the field in the Moto GP class started on wet weather tyres and all the riders knew they were going to have to change to dry tyres at some stage of the race.Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda)led out of the first corner with Chris Vermeulen (Rizla Suzuki) coming from nowhere in second. Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) went into the lead on lap 2. Stoner, Davizioso (Repsol Honda) and Vermeulen were at the front with Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) in 4th and closing.James Toseland (Monster Tech 3 Yamaha)was the first to change bikes and on to slick tyres. He was soon putting up faster times than the rest on wets and after a few more laps the rush for the pits began. The leaders all came in together. With the riders taking it easy on their first laps on dry tyres there were more lead changes than seen for many races in the premier class.
Rossi led, Melandri (Hayate Kawasaki) led Vermeulen led, Loris Caparossi (Rizla Suzuki) led, Pedrosa lost the front end and went down. Toselands great ride saw him in 6th 8 laps from the end. Stoner took the lead with 6 laps to go and the top 5 bikes were all within 2,5 sec's of each other. Stoner ran out the winner from Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) and Rossi. Colin Edwards(Monster Tech 3 Yamaha) just beat teammate Toseland for 6th on the last lap.
It is the first time that Rossi has been beaten at Mugelo since 2002.

MUGELO 250cc A WET RACE.

The 250cc race was declared a wet race before the start. It was damp but the rain came down as the riders started their warm up lap. The start was dominated by Marco Simoncelli ( Metis Galera) who led at the first corner and surprisingly pulled away to a 7sec. lead. When the rest of the field sorted themselves out Mattia Pasini (Toth Aprilia) and Alvaro bautista (Mapfre Aspar Aprilia) went after Simoncelli and closed him down. Bautista got into the lead at half distance and Simoncelli fought back. Diving down the inside of Bautista they bumped fairings and both went off into the gravel trap. Amazing that they both stayed on and rejoined in 2nd and 3rd. Pasini had a lead of 5secs from Simoncelli who slowly caught up. Bautista caught Simoncelli and the fight contiued untill Bautista had a huge moment all by himself and with encouragement from the pit wall he settled for 3rd place. Simoncelli made up the difference to Pasini on the last lap and the lead changed 8 times. Pasini won a weel earned race from Simoncelli and Bautista. Yhomas Luthi (Emmi Cafe LatteAprilia) finished in 4th along way behind.

125cc GP TO BRADLEY SMITH.
31/5/2009.

Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Aprilia) started on pole for the 125cc race at Mugelo in Italy and promptly went backwards to 5th in the 1st corner. With Mugelo's two long straights there just has to be a lot of slipstreaming and there was. positions changed at every corner all down the field. Smith fought his way up to 2nd and took the lead on lap 5 from teammate Julian Simon and Nicolas Terol (Jack and Jones Aprilia) These three pulled away from the rest with 12 laps to go and had their own race. Fourth place was contested by 5 riders who changed positions all the time. Julian Simon fell back in 3rd with a few laps to the end and Bradley Smith held on to take his second win of the year to lead the championship points.

MOTORCYCLES AT GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED.
25/5/2009

With Hollywood star Peter Fonda riding the Harley Davidson that he rode in the movie "EASY RIDERS" up the 1.16 mile hillclimb at the Goodwood Festival in July the organisers plan to have a vast array of motorcycles with a celebration of 60 years of Motorcycle Grands Prix and a focus on contempary World Superbikes.
Expect to see the AJS Porcupine that won the first 500cc World Championship in 1949 and others such as the ex Geoff Duke Gilera, and ex Phil Read MV Agusta with later models from Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Ducati.
A number of current World Superbike Teams and riders will be at the Festival to keep motorcycle fans happy.

REGIS LACONI IMPROVING.
25/5/2009.

Regis Laconi is showing signs of improvement un his condition after his horrific crash at Kyalami. He is being gradually brought out of a pharmacological coma. He has spoken to hospital staff and has moved both upper and lower limbswithout assistance.
If all goes well he should return to France at the end of next week.
The Ducati DFX Corse Team has announced that Lorenzo Lanzi will replace Laconi as from the next round at Miller Motorsport Park in the USA until Laconi's future is known.

UPDATE ON REGIS LACONI.
19/5/2009

Regis Laconi who suffered a huge crash on friday morning's first free practice was operated on this morning by Dr. Maurizio Zorio and his team. The operation was declared a success.
A metal plate was fitted to stabalise the two cervical vertebrae fractured in the crash and a piece of bone that was lodged near the spinal cord was removed. The situation is positive and barring complications there should be no physical consequences to Regis.

BEN SPIES HALTED BY A GEAR LINKAGE FAILURE.

Ben Spies ( Sterilgarda Yamaha) who was leading race 2 at Kyalami on sunday retired because of a failure to the gear linkage. Spies had a good first race finnishing 3rd behind the two Zerox Ducati's of Nori Haga and Michel Fabrizio.

WORLD SUPERBIKE DOUBLE TO HAGA.
17/5/2009.

Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) stated in pole again but was beaten off the line by championship leader Haga (Xerox Ducati). Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) took the lead from Haga and held it until lap 12 when haga retook 1st place. Behind these three came Jonathan Rea and Carlos Checa (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda). Max Biaggi (Aprilia) held 6th from teamate Nakano. Biaggi passed Checa for 5th on lap 10 and held it till the end. On lap 12 Haga went to the front and pulled away by a tenth or two per lap. Spies made it to 2nd on lap 17 and lost the place 3 laps later. The last few laps had Spies and Fabrizio wheel to wheel right down to the flag. South African Sheridan Morais (Kawasaki World Superbike Team) replacing Makoto Tamada was the quickest of all the Kawasaki's worked his way up to 8th place before falling back to finnish in 13th place.

Race 2 and Haga again went into the lead at the start followed by Spies and Rea. Lap 2 and Spies went to the front and dissapeared on lap3. Fabrizio got 2nd on lap 4. Haga led all the way to the finnish but for one corner where Fabrizio outbraked him into the turn and was retaken on the way out. Haga led home a Zerox Ducati one two in both races to extend his lead in the championship over Spies. Morais again rode well getting up to 10th before again falling back to 11th at the end. Shaun Whyte rode a real dog of a Yamaha that had no traction control and not much of an electronics package. He rode as hard as he could and made no mistakes but the result certainly did not show his considerable talent.

WORLD SUPERSPORT TO THE IRISH.

Kenan Sofoglu (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) led at the end of lap 1 from Eugene Laverty (Parkalgar Honda) and teamate Andrew Pitt. The end of lap 2 saw laverty in front and thats where he stayed to the flag. Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha World Supersport Team) did'nt get a good start and was down in 6th place. Lap 5 and he was 5th and on the next lap he found himself in 2nd and chasing Laverty. He tried,he really tried but could not bring the gap below 2,5 sec's. Crutchlows teamate Fabian Foret made his way to 3rd by lap 8 and could not make any impression on the two leaders. Lap 19 and Foret was in the dirt and out . 3rd to 6th places were in a close battle some 14 sec's behind the leaders with a large gap to the rest. Mark Aichison (Honda Althea Racing) finnished on the bottom step of the podium.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE 2 TO BEN SPIES.
10/5/2009

Noriuki Haga (Zerox Ducati) led into the first chicane and then disappeared. Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha) took the lead and stayed there for the duration, pulling away from the dice for 2nd.Kagayama (Alstare Suzuki) went ahead of Fabrizio but then went wide and fell to 4th. When the race settled it was Spies from Fabrizio followed by Kiyonari and Rea (TenKate Honda's).Haga had a huge crash at one of the fast corners with the bike flying onto the tyre barrier. By half distance Ruben Xaus (BMW Motorrad) held 9th place. Towards the end Xaus had a great battle with Carlos Checa (Ten Kate Honda) Jakub Smrz (Guandalini Racing Ducati) and Regis Laconi(DFX Corse Ducati)
Fabrizio set the fastest lap of the race on the penultimate lap to close to just under 4sec's and finnished second fromKiyonari and Rea.

SUPERSPORT WIN NO.2 FOR CRUTCHLOW.
10/5/2009

Eugene Laverty(Parkalgar Honda) led into the first chicane ahead of the pack. When things settled down at the end of lap 1 Sofoglu (Ten KaTE hONDA) led from Laverty and Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha World Supersport Team). Sofoglu went from the lead to 8th in 3 laps. Teamate Andrew Pitt also fell back. The race at the front was close and ever changing with Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki Motocard.com) making ground to 4th by lap 4. Lap 6 and the lead changed between Laverty, Crutchlow and teamate Fabian Foret. Crutchlow pulled a small gap and left the 2nd place dice to Foret, Laverty and Lascorz. At the flag it was Crutchlow from Lascorz and Foret and Laverty.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RACE 1 AT MONZA A NAILBITER.
10/5/2009

The start of race 1 at Monza had a huge crash at the first corner which caused the race to be stopped on the first lap. Four riders involved included Corser(BMW motorrad) Tomy Hill(Honda Althea Racing),Max Neukirchner(Alstare Suzuki) and Brendon Roberts (Guandalini Racing).
The restart was clean and at the middle of the first lap it was Fabrizio(Xerox Ducati) from teamate Haga and Ben Spies (Sterilgarda Yamaha). Biaggi (Aprilia Racing) was up to 5th on lap 1. Corser crashed on lap 1 to end a terrible race. On the track the action was thick and fast with Spies, Fabrizio,Haga, Biaggi and Kagayama (Alstare Suzuki) in the lead bunch. The real race was between the two Ducati's and the Yamaha. Fabrizio was amazing on the brakes and not even Haga could outbrake him. Tom Sykes (Sterilgarda Yamaha) running in 6th and being caught by Joanathan Rea (Ten KAte Honda) and teamate Kyonari.

With 3 laps to go the race at the front got even more heated as Fabrizio retook the lead. At this point the top speed of the lead bikes was 323 kph. Spies led into the last corner and came out of it nowhere The bike running out of petrol So Fabrizio took an overdue first win in World Superbike Race with Haga 2nd and Kyonari in 3rd.

MONZA HOSTS SUPERBIKES FOR THE 18TH TIME.
7/5/2009

Monza has held World Superbike Championship races since 1990 and this weekends race will be the 18th time the Superbikes will race there. The lap is long and more than 50% of the lap is at full throttle.The races are almost always close affairs with lots of slipstreaming to keep the field bunched up. Ducati have so far won 17races followed by Yamaha with 7 wins, Honda has 6,Suzuki with 3 and Kawasaki on 1.

Italian food Company STERILGARDA has announced that they will sponsor the Yamaha World Team at selected races this year, starting with Monza this weekend.

ROSSI TAKES FIRST WIN OF THE YEAR AT JEREZ
3/5/2009.

Danny Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) was first into turn 1 from 2nd on the grid, followed by Stoner (Marlboro Ducati)and Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) passed teamate Lorenzo for 3rd on lap 2. He passed Stoner for 2nd on lap 6 and started to close on Pedosa. Stoner lost ground to Rossi and Lorenzo lost ground to Stoner.Rossi crept up to Pedrosa and was on his tail with 11 laps to go. He made the pass with 10 laps to go and slowly pulled away to win by a couple of seconds from Pedrosa. Loerenzo made a big effort to catch Stoner but lost the front with 4 laps to go. Stoner achieved his first podium on his 8th visit to Jerez, a circuit he does not like. Randy de puniet (Playboy Honda) finished in 4th.

AOYAMA TAKES THE 250CC RACE.

Alex Debon (Aeropuerto-Castello-Blusens Aprilia) led into the first corner from pole position. He was followed by Hector barbera (Pepe World team) and Marco Simoncelli (Metis gilera). The lead kept changing as did the lower places, with Hiroshi Aoyama (Scot Racing Team) catching up to the leaders.He made his way to the front 3 and worked his way to the lead on lap 9. From then on the lead changed all the time and this kept up untill the end of the race. At the flag it was Aoyama by a whisker from Alvaro Bautista (Mapfre Aspar Team). Simoncelli had fallen behind Barbera but managed to get past on the last lap to be 3rd on the podium.

BRADLEY sMITH WINS HIS FIRST GRAND PRIX.

Eighteen year old Bradley Smith (Bancaja Aspar Team 125cc) led the 35 bike field into the first turn and was never headed again. He pulled steadily away from the rest to win by about 14 seconds. Unusual for the 125cc class. Teamate Julian Simon worked his way to second and tried so hard to catch his teamate that he highsided with 18 laps to go, his race over. With 5 laps left the 4 bike dice became a 7 bike afair. Places kept changing for seond and at the flag it was Smith's other teamate Sergio Gadea who ended 2nd.with Marc marquez (Red Bull KTM Motorsport) who filled out the podium.

GOODWOOD TO HONOUR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MINI.
2/5/2009

The Mini celebrates it's 50th anniversary this year and Goodwood in the Uk will be honouring the British icon. At both the Festival of speed 3-5 July and the Revival 18-20 September there will be Mini's and more Mini's. John Rhodes and Richard Longman will take on the Goodwood hillclimb in ex works Mini's that they raced in period.

Ex Works BMC rally mini's will be used to attack the forest rally stage at the top of the hill by legends Paddy Hopkirk and Rauno Aaltonen.

On show at the festival in a dedicated class there will be will be a number of uncommon Mini based sports cars as part of the CARTIER "STYLE ET LUXE" car design competition such as the DART, Unipower GT and the Broadspeed GT coupe.

At the revival meeting 18-20th September the popular St.Mary'S Trophy, a two part race will be dedicated to Group 2 mini's that raced prior to 1966. In those days Goodwood hosted a number of Mini only races and this years race will have a field of 30 1275cc Mini Coopers. Mini racers of the sixties such as John Rhodes, Rauno Aaltonen, Sir John Witmore, Alec Poole, John Fitspatrick, and Richard Longman will take on the likes of Derek Bell,Jackie Oliver and Brian Redman. Rhodesian John Love won the British saloon car Championship in 1962 beating teamate Sir John Whitmore.

Each day of the revival there will be a parade of 50 Mini based cars of all kinds.

AI GP MEXICO CANCELLED.

The AI GP race to be held in Mexico has been cancelled due to the Swine flu epidemic. This makes the British round of the series the last race of season 4. Alan van der Merwe will be driving the South African car at Brands Hatch on sunday 3rd May.Brans Hatch is a technical circuit and should produce close racing.

HAGA TAKES EASY WIN IN RACE TWO AT ASSEN
26/4/2009

The start had three leaders in as many corners.At the end of lap 1 Spies (Yamaha World Team)led from Haga (Xerox Ducati) with Haslam (Stiggy Honda) in third. Lap 2 turn 1 and the end of the race for Spies who lost the front end and went down. That left Haga in the lead which he built up to over 4 secs at the end.Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) took second from Haslam and Smrz (Guandalini Ducati) and held them up.

Haslam eventually got past Fabrizio and chased Haga but there was not enough time to catch him.Smrz tried hard to get in front of Fabrizio and made it on the last lap to score his first ever podium in Superbikes. Corser (BMW Motorrad) and teamate Ruben Xaus had good races and finished in 10th and 11th places. The Aprilia of Max Biaggi wwent out with a technical problem on lap 1.

Haga now leads the championship by 60 points from Spies with Haslam in third. Monza is the next race on may 8th to 10th.

ASSEN SUPRSPORT AS ALWAYS A CLOSE RACE.
26/4/2009.

Lap 1 of any supersport race is all about place changes. At the end of lap 2 Sofoglu (Ten Kate Honda led from teamate Pitt and Lascorsc (Parkalgar Kawasaki) Gary McCoy (Triumph) was in sixth when he was given a ride through penalty for a jumped start. Sofoglu slid slowly backwards and Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha) who dropped to 9th at the start came forward to catch the lead group.

Lap 10 and Laverty (Honda ) led a tight bunch of 5. With 6 laps to go Pitt lost the front and went down.While trying to avoid him Crutchlow ran over pitt's hand as pitt slid along the ground. Laverty and Lascorc had a gap to the rest after pitt fell. Crutchlow in 3rd was catching and got in with the two leaders. The last two laps was really cut and thrust between the front three with the lead changing at almost every corner. Acros rhe finish line it was Laverty from Crutchlow and Lascorc.

SUPERBiKE RACE 1 FROM ASSEN A CLOSE ONE AT THE FRONT.
26/4/2009

The Hannspree world superbike race 1 at Assen had a couple of good dices for the whole race. Pole man Ben Spies (Yamaha World Team) got a flyer of a start and led into the first corner.Max Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki) settled into second and stayed with Spies. Nori Haga (Zerox Ducati) started badly but made it to third at the end of lap 1.Leon Haslam (Stiggy Honda) held 4th.On lap 5 Neukirchner lost the front into the last chicane but the bike picked up and dragged him into the middle of the track and left him there. He regained the bike and made it to the finish.

That incident put Haga second and Haslam third. They closed up on Spies and it was close till the end. There was another good battle for fifth place between Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) Maz Biaggi(Aprilia),Johnny Rea (Ten Kate Honda) and Jacob Smrz (Ducati) Haga took the lead on lap 12 when spies had a wobble. Haslam followed into second and the dice continued.Spies went side by side with Haslam round three corners before taking second on lap 19. He clsed up on Haga and forced his way into first three corners from the finnish to win an exciting race.

LORENZO TAKES SECOND MOTO GP WIN IN JAPAN.
26/4/2009

The Moto GP race at the twin ring Motegi circuit in Japan was tight at the front. Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) took the lead at the first corner and stretched out a 1 1/2 second lead. Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) had a bad start and was in 6th at the end of the first lap. Yuki Takahashi (Scot Honda) rammed Nicky Hayden (Marlboro Ducati) in the back and put them both out of the race.Dany Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) got into third on lap 5

Stoner took 7 laps to get up to the speed of Rossi and teamate Lorenzo. Lorenzo took the lead from Rossi on lap 9 and slowly pulled away. Stoner closed up on Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) and took 4th place and that was were he stayed till the end. Pedrosa took three tries to get past Rossi and made it with seven laps to go. It only lasted a lap as Rossi retook the place. At the end it was Lorenzo from Rossi, Pedrosa Stoner and Dovizioso.

WORLD SBK RETURNS TO ASSEN.
22/4/2009.

World Superbikes return to Assen for round 4 of the campionship. Noriuki Haga (Xerox Ducati) heads to Assen with a 40 point lead over Ben Spies (Yamaha world team) at a track that has always favoured the Ducati.Ducati has won 22 out of the 34 races held at the circuit for SBK since 1992. Ten kate Honda are hoping for improved fortunes at their home race.

The Supersport class has the top 5 riders within 11 points of each other. So far this year the championship has not been a Honda walkover. Yamaha is getting in on the wins as well.

MOTO GP HEADS FOR JAPAN.
22/4/2009

The Motegi circuit in Japan was built by Honda as a test circuit, therefore Honda will be hoping for a win at home. Marlboro Ducati's Casey Stoner's best result at Motegi was a second in 2007. Last years winner Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) will be hoping for a repeat win to help catch Stoner in the points. Rizzla Suzuki rider Loris Caparossi is looking for a win on the much improved Suzuki at the track were he won in 2005/6/7.

MOTO GP QATAR IS HAT TRICK FOR STONER.
13/4/2009

Casey Stoner (Marlboro Ducati) took the lead in turn one in the delayed Moto gp race and was never headed again. Loris caparossi ( Rizzla Suzuki) started in second at the start and held on to the place for three laps. At the front it soon stretched out Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) in second tried hard to close the gap to Stoner but could not get closer than 1.9secs. Towards the end Stoner was about half a sec. quicker than Rossi every lap.

At about half distance the battle for 6th place between Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) Vermeulen (Rizzla Suzuki) and Alex De Angelis (San Carlo Honda) got a bit Dangerous when Vermeulen went under Pedrosa and pushed him a little wide. De Angelis also dived down the inside of Pedrosa and knocked him even wider. It was real luck that Pedrosa managed to hold on to the bike. From then on Pedrosa fell back. Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) ended in third but a long way off Rossi. Fourth went to Edwards (Monster Tech 3 Yamaha). Davizioso (Repsol Honda) went forward and backward eventually finnishing in fifth place. DeAngelis finished in sixth place ahead of the sole upright Suzuki of Chris Vermeulen after Loris Caparossi lost the front end shortly before half distance. Sete Gibernau (Guinea Equatorial Ducati) finished in thirteenth place on his return to Moto GP. Rookie Mika Kalio (Pramac Ducati) finished his debut race in a creditable 8th place.

MOTO GP POSTPONED FOR TONIGHT.

The Moto GP race has been postponed due to rain that started as the warm up lap was about to start.After half an hour's wait the race was postponed and the organisers are concidering holding the race on monday. It would have been very dificult to race under the prevailing condtions in daylight but at night with the floodlights it would be absolutely impossible to race.

HECTOR BARBERA WINS 250CC RACE ON RETURN FROM INJURY.

Hector Barbera (Pepe World Team Aprilia) won the shortened 250cc race on his return from breaking his back in Japan last year. There were a couple of crashes on the first lap.JUles Cluzel (Matteoni Racing Aprilia) took a surprizing second place.after leadring most of the 13 lap race. 125cc world champion Mike De Meglio finished his first 250cc race on the podium.

World Champion Marco Simoncelli (Metis Galera) did not race due to a broken scafoid. his main rival Alvaro Bautista (Mapfre Aspar Team Aprilia) had a bad race and ended up in seventh place.

MOTO GP SEASON STARTS AND STOPS AFTER 4 LAPS.
12/4/2009.

The 125cc race at the seaon opener at the Losail circuit in Qatar was a case of "rain stopped play" after only 4laps. The rain came down and turned the track surface into a mirror. The floodlights reflected off the road which made visibility totaly unsafe to continue. Half points will be awarded.

MOTO GP SEASON STARTS APRIL 12.
8/4/2009

The Commercial Bank Grand Prix Of QATAR ends a five month drought of Moto GP racing this weekend.It is the only race in the series that is run under floodlights. last year,the first under lights was won by Ducati Marlboro's Casey Stoner. This is the circuit that saw Stoner win his first pole position and also his first race.

Moto GP is this year following World Superbikes and Formula 1 by having a single make of tyre. The tyre of choice is Bridgestone. Sete Gibernau is making a comeback to Moto GP with the Guinea Equatorial Team riding a Ducati. Pramac Ducati will have two rookies in their lineup with Niccola Canepa and Mika Kalio (up from 250's) The other rookie is Scot Racing's Yuki Takahashi.

The 250cc class reigning champ Marco Simoncelli (Metis Galera) is battling to get fit as he fractured a scaphoid in a MX test session. His main rival from 2008 Alvaro Bautista (Mapfre Aspar Team Aprilia) is recovering from a broken collarbone. Mike De Meglio (Mapfre Aspar Aprilia) and Gabor Talmacsi (Balaton Racing Team Aprilia) are making their debut in the class ,up from the 125cc class.

Pre season favourites and 125cc teammates in the Bancaja Aspar Aprilia team have headed the test times. Julian Simon ousting Brit teenager Bradley Smith at the penultimate test in Jerez Spain.

HAGA MAKES IT A DOUBLE. 5/4/2009.

Race two got under way with laconi (Ducati) taking the holeshot.Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki) went into the lead at the second corner.Haga (Xerox Ducati) led on lap 4 and Spies (Yamaha) was second on lap 5 and Neukirchner started falling back. At half distance Haga led by 2.8 secs and slowly increased the gap to over 5 secs at the end.Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) and Laconi had a race long dice for the podium which went Fabrizio's way.

CLOSE FINISH IN SUPERSPORT RACE. 5/4/2009

The race started as usual with the field tightly bunched.At the front Cal Crytchlow (Yamaha) Anthony West (Stiggy Honda) and Kenan Sofoglu (TenKate Honda) started to pull away from the rest at about half distance. Sofoglu fell behind and the race was between West and Crutchlow. West seemed to have the upperhand but in turn 1 on the last lap Crutchlow took the lead and held on to it despite going wide on the last corner to take his first win in the class. West finished second with Sofoglu in third. >/P>

HAGA TAKES RACE 1 AT VALENCIA. 5/4/2009.

Nori Haga (Xerox Ducati) took the lead early in race 1 and slowly built up a good lead over the field to win the race. Ben Spies who made his way to third place and then lost the front end while challenging for second. In the end it was Michel Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) worked his way up to second and held it to the end. Max Neukirchner (Alstare Suzuki.) finished in third. Troy Corser (BMW) started well but fell soon after the start. Maz Biaggi (Aprilia) finished in 8th place. The other BMW in the hands of Ruben Xauss only managed 13th.

NATIONAL KARTS AT PE. 1/4/2009.

Round 1 of the Engen National Kart Championships will be held at the Celso Scribante Circuit in PE this weekend. The expensive KF2class has been dropped and the Super Rok class will be the top of the billing. The action should be fast and hghly competitive.

WORLD SUPERBIKES RETURN TO EUROPE. 1/4/2009

Round three of the world superbike series returns to Europe this weekend to Valecia's Ricardo Tormo circuit.The track is tricky and technical and therefore setup is all important.

Nori Haga (Xerox Ducati) leads on points but the Big Bang Yamaha of Ben Spies may have the edge. John Hopkins joins SBK after a number of years in Moto GP.He will be riding for the Stiggy Honda team.

In Supersport Honda have the upper hand at the moment but Yamaha are threatening.Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha) has had his first podium in the class. The 675cc Triumph's are getting better every outing with Gary McCoy and Gianluca Nannelli the riders.

STONER GETS THE BMW. 30/3/2009

In the final ten minutes of the two day test at Jerez in Spain it was the Ducati Marlboro rider Casey Stoner that set the fastest lap of 1-38.646 to win the annual prize from BMW. This year Stoner takes home a BMW135i. Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) was next up .719 sec slower than Stoner.

MOTO GP TESTS IN JEREZ SPAIN

The 125 and 250cc classes held 3 days of tests at the Jerez track in Spain ending on friday. The 250cc class was headed by 2008 world champion Marco Simoncelli (Metis Gilera) and 2008 runnerup Alvaro Bautista (Mapfre Aspar Aprilia) got down to 1 42sec bracket.

Simoncelli achieved a time of 1-42-477 which was two tenths quicker than Bautista.

In the 125cc class Julian Simon ended the tests with a time of1-47.318 ahead of teammate in the Banjaca Aspar Aprilia team British teenager Bradley Smith.

AUDI TO BE THE FEATURED MARQUE AT 2009 GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED.

The Goodwood Festival of Speed to be held on 3-5 July 2009 will honour AUDI as the main featured Marque. This was announced by the Earl of MArch at the official unveiling of the 2009 Goodwood motor sport season.

In attendance at the launch were a number of racing and rally legends.such as Damon Hill,Jacky Ickx, Rauno Aaltonen and Richard Attwood who won a number of Kyalami 9hour races with David Piper.

The theme of the festival will be "TRUE GRIT-EPIC FEATS OF ENDURANCE." like Jackie Stewarts win in the 1968 German Grand Prix with a broken wrist and Mick Doohans return to 500cc GP racingin 1992 (in South Africa) without the full use of his right leg.

To quote Lord March "It will be just fantastic to have so many great cars and drivers here at Goodwood to celebrate our events for 2009. I look forward with much anticipation to seeing some of the great drivers and machines in action."

Lord March is always able toget an amazing diversity of cars from all over the world to be the stars along with a wide variety of drivers both young and not so young for both the Festival of Speed 3-5 july and the Revival 18-20 September.

Both these events are in the category of "MUST DO" for anyone with even a drop of petrol in their veins.

WESBANK SUPER SERIES HEADS FOR KYALAMI ON MARCH 28

THE BRIDGESTONE PRODUCTION CARS ARE IN FOR SOME REAL CLOSE RACING WHEN THEY LINE UP ON THE KYALAMI GRID ON MARCH 28TH. The AFROX BMW team are fielding an as yet to be named stand in for Robert Wolk who is suspended for a too aggressive overtaking attempt in P E. There are three Audi drivers in the top 4 points places in class A. Anthony Taylor will be aiming to stay at the top of the class in his BMW (Afrox). A spoke in the wheels of the BMW and Audi teams could well be the Sasol Subaru of Dawie Olivier. The turbo Subaru will loose less power at the high Kyalami altitude and may be at the front when the flag falls. The two Sam Racing Nissans of Leeroy Poulter and Marco De Cunha will be hoping for better results in this race.

In class T for the forced induction cars Gary Formato (Nandos Ford) will be giving his all to finnish ahead of Graeme Nathans Golf gti (Indy Oils) The rest of the field will not be far behind them and could upset the proceedings. Shaun Duminy in the other Ford put in some good drives in 2008 and could do it again.

Class B should have Kosie Swanepoel at the front with two more Toyota's and an Alfa Romeo in hot persuit.

HONDA TAKES CAR OF THE YEAR.

The Honda Accord 2.4 executive has been announced as the Wesbank /South Africa Guild of Motoring Journalists winner for 2009 in the Annual industry leading competition. The Honda Beat off a highly competitive field of entrants to win. The SAGMJ has been holding the Car Of the year for 24 years.Wesbank has been the sponsor since the inception of the competition in 1986.

SPIES CLINCHES HIS FIRST DOUBLE IN WORLD SUPERBIKES.

Ben Spies (Yamaha) managed a better start in race 2 in Qatar to be up with the front runners on the first lap. Haga (Ducati) led on lap one and tried to get a lead on Biaggi (Aprilia) but could not do it. Corser (BMW) got a brilliant start to be in fourth on lap 3, then slowly drift back. Spies made the front on lap 5 and pulled away to win by about 4 secs. from haga who fought with Biaggi right to the line. Kiyanari (Honda) made his waY UP TO 4TH behind Biaggi and looked like he was going to threaten for the podium but that was as far as he got.

Corser, Xaus(BMW) and Haslam (Honda) crossed the line as one for 9th,10th and 11th. The BMWs are improving and will soon be near the front. With Yamaha going so well so early the rest of the field have some catching up to do.

Valencia in Spain is the next round on the 5th April.

SPIES WINS RACE ONE.

Max Biaggi (Aprilia) got the hole shot in race one and led for twelve laps. It was not easy with Nori Haga (Ducati) hounding him all the way. Pole man Ben Spies (Yamaha) lost a few places at the start and had to work his way up to the front. He got to 3rd on lap 4 and stayed there for the next 8laps. The three leaders pulled away from the rest of the field headed by Nakano (Aprilia). Spies took the lead with 6 laps remaining and slowly pulled ahead to win by about 2 secs. from Haga who just managed to get the better of Biaggi. Nakano finished a distant 4TH.

YAMAHA BEATS HONDA TO POLE IN SUPERSPORT.

Cal Crutchlow may have had pole and led into the first corner But Laverty (Honda) took the lead within 2 corners. Andrew Pitt (Honda) was soon into 3rd. Suprisingly Pitts Honda was slower than Lavertys bike on the straight. At half distance there were seven bikes in the lead group and it stayed that way untill the last few laps. About half distance Sofoglu (Honda) hit the rear wheel of Crutchlow and the front of his bike lifted into the air. The last lap had three or four lead changes. Inthe final seconds Laverty slipsteamed past Pitt to win. Crutchlow spoiled a honda 1,2,3 by taking a well deserved 3rd place by passing Sofoglu on the last corner whilke almost falling himself.

BEN SPIES ON POLE FOR QATAR.

Ben Spies the american newcomer to world superbikes is once again on pole for tomorows races at the losail circuit in Qatar. The Yamaha rider was the man to beat all through qualifying. The top six for saturdays races are:Ben Spies Yamaha 1.57.280 2nd. Jacob Smrz Ducati 1.57.384 3rd. Max Biaggi Aprilia 1.57.694 4th. Noriyuki Haga Ducati 1.57.850 5th. Sinya Nakano aprilia 1.58.755 The BMWs of Ruben Xaus and Troy Corser are down in 15th and 16th positions. The first race starts at 10.30 am saturday morning (14/3/2009. It should be a great two races.

STONER FASTEST. 4/3/2009

Casey Stoner(Marlboro Ducati) ended the three night test at the Losail circuit in Qatar with the fastest time of 1min55.744 for the 5.38 km circuit. Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) was second .989secs slower than Stoner. Teammate Valentino Rossi ended third and the only other rider to get below 1min 57 Top 5 was rounded out by Chris Vermeulen (Rizla Suzuki) and Stoners teammate Nicky Hayden.

Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) crashed heavily. He was due to have an operation today to insert a supportive screw into his fractured left arm. His left knee is severely cut and will need a skin graft.

Next test for the MOto GP is at Jerez in Spain on 28&29 March. First race is at Losail on 10to 12 April

TWO GREAT SUPERBIKE RACES FROM PHILLIP ISLAND.

The opening round of the World Superbike series was held at Phillip Island today (1/3.2009) American Ben Spies started from pole but was swamped at the start and was runn off the track on the first lap never to get back in contention. Nori Haga on the other hand started from the 4th row and reached 2nd. on the first lap. He soon made it to 1st and chased hard by Laconi(Ducati) Neukirchner(Suzuki) and Rea (Honda).Towards the end Neukirchner was left to fight with Haga and a good fight it was . Neukirchner got to the lead with a couple of laps to go but made a mistake on the last lap to let Haga back in front and he won by 3/100ths of a second.

Results of race 1 were Haga (Ducati) Neukirchner (Suzuki) Kagayama (Suzuki) Fabrizio (Ducati) BMW finished their first Superbike race with Corser in 8th and teammate Xaus in 19th. Aprillia finished their first race in seven years with Biaggi in 11th and Nakano in 15th.

Race two started with Biaggi getting the hole shot but was passed on the first lap by Ben Spies (Yamaha) Haga (Ducati) starting from the 4th row again made a demon start and was in second and on the tail of Spies at the start of the 4th lap. These two swapped the lead untill Hagas tyres went of a few laps from the end and Spies retook the lead which he held to the end.

Biaggi held on to 3rd untill 6 laps from home. He was passed by Fabrizio (Ducati) with Haslam (Honda)in close attendance. Haslam made it to the final podium spot by the end. Laconi(Ducati)who was 11th on lap 3 challenged for 3rd at the end.

Results of race two was Spies winning his second World Superbike race from Haga and Haslam. 4th was Laconi with Fabrizio in 5th.

SUPERSPORT A REAL HUMDINGER.

Former champ Kenan Sofoglu had pole but it was Lascorz who led into turn 1.From then on positions changed at every corner throughout the field. The lead changed several times each lap and many riders led at some stage of the race. At half distance 14 bikes were still within a couple of seconds of the leader. It was only with 4 laps to go that the first three managed to get a very small gap on the rest and it was Sofoglu,Pitt and West who battled it out. At the line it was Sofoglu from Pitt and West.

MOTO GP HEADS FOR NIGHT TEST.

Moto gp will conduct a three evening test at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar 1st to 3rd March. The Losail race will again be held under floodlights. The race is scheduled for the 12th April.

Both Casey Stoner and Danny Pedrosa wil be hoping their recent injuries will prove to be a thing of the past.

BRIDGESTONE/SA GUILD OF MOTORING JOURNALISTS AWARDS.

The Bridgestone/SA Guild of motoring journalists anounced their Motor sportsman of the year awards at a function last night. Tyla Rattray won the Motorsportsman of the year award for his win in the MX2world motorcross championship. He is only the third South African to win a world MX championship.

The Colin Watling Award for contribution to motorsport by someone not a competitor was awarded to Roger McCleery. Roger has been involved in motorsport for a number of decades and fully deserves the award.

VERY LAST DAY OF TESTING AT PHILLIP ISLAND.

On the last day of testing Michel Fabrizio (Xerox Ducati) set the fastest time of 1'32.19. Noriyuki Haga (also Xerox Ducati)was next with 1'32.3. He then fell at turn 2 where he fell the previous day. The Yamaha of Ben Spies (USA) set a time of 1'32.36 on his first visit to the circuit. Troy Corser (BMW) did 1'32.93 before hurting his arm in a coming together with a seagull. This put him out for the rest of the day.

In Supersport former Champ Kenan Sofoglu was quickest at 1'34.7 Gary McCoy of Australia ended second with 1'34.8 on the triumph 675 triple. Current Champ Andrew Pitt (AUS) was third with1'32.8

IMOLA RETURNS TO WORLD SUPERBIKES IN 2009.

The Imola circuit returns to SBK in September 2009, and is amongst the five fastest circuits in the series. Here are the five fastest and their average lap speeds. 1. Monza. 198.750 Kph. 2. Phillip Island. 174.900 Kph. 3. Assen. 166.720 Kph. 4. Brno. 164.360 Kph. 5. Imola. 164.080 Kph. Kyalami's average lap speed as of 2002 stands at 151.470 Kph. The low speed is attributed to lots of short staights and the high altitude where the bikes loose up to 17% of their power. The lap speed is certainly going to be significantly higher after the race in May.

LAST TESTS AT PHILLIP ISLAND.

The last tests have taken place at Phillip Island before the start of the 2009 season. Two test sessions were held and in the first Max Biaggi was fastest on the Aprillia with a time of 1'32.59 which is 8/100ths sec slower than Troy Bayliss fastest lap in the 2008 race.

In the second session fastest was Max Neukirchner on the Alstare Susuki with atime of 1'32 5. Team mate Yukio Kagayama was next with 1'32.7. Fabizio and Haga (Ducati) both csashed as did Troy Corser (BMW) all without serious consequences. Ten Kate Honda rider Carlos Checa crashed at the hairpin bumping his head. He was taken to hospital as he could not rememberr the incident.

In Supersport Gary McCoy riding a Triumph 675 set the quickest time of 1'35.6.

RULE CHANGES TO MOTO GP

Some of the rule changes to the Moto GP paddock include that afterr the Czech GP only 5 engines may be used in 8 races. No Ceramic composite materials will be allowed for brake discs or brake pads. No launch control will be alowed. No electronically controlled suspension will be allowed.

CHILI HAS NEW ROLE AS TEAM MANAGER.

Franci Chili has a new job in world superbikes as manager of the "GUANDALINI DUCATI Team." He will manage riders Jacub Smrz and Brendon Roberts. The team will be running privateer ducatis

YAMAHA UNVEIL 2009 SUPERBIKES.

Yamaha have unveiled their new bikes for the 2009 superbike championship. Now fully belonging to the YAMAHA MOTOR EUROPE operation the team has been renamed "YAMAHA WORLD SUPERBIKE TEAM."

The bikes will be painted in YAMAHAs official Blue colour, with riders three time AMA champ. Ben Spies and Brit Tom Sykes.

New sponsors BM Group, YAMALUBE, PARTS EUROPE, AND NOVATION will join existing sponsors.

WORLD SUPERBIKES GET UNDERWAY AT PHILLIP ISLAND.

The world superbike championship will have their first race at Phillip aisland in Australia. The teams recently held a three day test at the new Potimao circuit in Portugal.Fastest in the rain interupted test was twice british superbike champ Shayne "Shakey" Byrne riding a Sterilgarda Ducati. Some of the teams will have private tests at the Island before the racing starts on March 1.

FORMULA VW CHAMP 2009 WILL BE S A NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPION.

The winner of the 2009 Formula VW Championship will carry the title of "south African National Drivers Title"

The winner will also get a test drive in the S A A1 gp car but more importantly career wise he will get a test in a Formula 3 Euro Series car arranged by VW Motorsport boss Kris Nissan. The F3 Euro series is a feeder to GP2 and F1.

BMW PRODUCTION CAR TEAM GET A NEW DRIVER.

The class A BMW production car team will have Robert Wolk as their new driver next to Anthony Taylor. The all important sponsors in AFROX and CASTROL will continue to support the team.

GOODWOOD ANNOUNCES FESTIVAL OF SPEED AND REVIVAL 2009 DATES.

The dates for the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival Race Meeting 2009 have been announced by Lord March.

The Festival of Speed with the theme "True Grit-Epic Feats of Endurance"will be held on the 3-5 July 2009. Almost everybody who is or was anybody in motorsport over the last three or four decades will most likely be seen at the Festival. All the cars and bikes are as famous as the drivers and riders.

The Goodwood Revival Race Meeting will be held on the 18-20 September 2009. The meeting recreates the atmosphere of what going to a race meeting in the 1950s and the 1960s was all about. The mechanics and officials all dress in period clothing and the spectators are encouraged to do the same . It all adds to the atmosphere that makes it so wonderfull. The cars are all originals and are driven by many of the great drivers past and present. Most important of all is that the cars are really raced, they are not paraded around the circuit.

The events are by pre-booking only and they are both must see events. For tickets and information contact bookings@goodwood.co.uk.

DE VILLIERS LEADS THE DAKAR

Geniel de villiers is the new leader 2.35 mins. ahead of team mate Miller who is navigated by South African Ralph Pitchford.

Carlos Sainz crashed out of the rally after he drove over a 4 metre embankment and landed upside down in a dry river bed. Sainz was unhurt but his co-driver Michel Perin suffered a broken shoulder. Alfie Cox finished the stage made very difficult by soft sand. Robby Gordon in a hummer finished the stage in 1st. gear due to clutch problems caused by the soft sand.

Motogp announces new venue.

Silverstone circuits have signed a five year agreement with Dorna Sports, the rights and television holders of Motogp to host the British Grand Prix as feom 2010. Silverstone hosted the grand prix between 1977 and 1986. (They also host a round of World Superbikes.)

Silverstone is a combination of fast straights and very technical corners which make it a challenge for the riders.

Sainz wins stage 10 of the Dakar.

Stage 10 was shortened by 200 Kms due to fog. The stage was won by Carlos Sainz driving a VW. He had a duell with the Hummer of american Robby Gordon.Third in the stage was Miller (USA) co driven by South African Ralph Pitchford.

Geniel De Villiers (VW) lost 20 minutes when his car got stuck in a hole on the downslope of a dune. Alfie Cox is now in 27th place overall in an SMG Buggy. Stage 11 has been cancelled due to heavy fog.