It was a campaign of mixed results for Pramac Racing in 2009, with the satellite Ducati team taking a chance by fielding two MotoGP rookies in Mika Kallio and Niccolò Canepa. The Finn secured the Rookie of the Year award whilst Canepa found his first season in the premier class difficult. Aleix Espargaró will line [...]
The RFME and Dorna Sports have announced the calendar for the CEV Buckler 2010 season. The 2010 CEV Buckler Spanish Championship season will consist of seven events, with the incorporation of Motorland Aragón which will host the fifth round on October 3, 2010. The CEV Buckler 2010 calendar: Date – Circuit April 18 – Catalunya [...]
Marc Márquez, who has signed a contract for the 2010 125cc World Championship with Finnish team Ajo Motorsport, got his project underway on Thursday with the first of three days of testing at the Jerez circuit. The Spaniard will use the test to work alongside his new team on the RSA factory bike, as he [...]
A fortnight after he rode the Ducati Desmosedici for the first time at the post-season Valencia test, Héctor Barberá was given the opportunity to take out the 800cc machine he will ride in his debut MotoGP season in 2010. On the first of three scheduled days of testing for the Aspar rider at Jerez, Barberá [...]
Pons Racing rider Axel Pons was submitted to the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus de Barcelona on Wednesday for scheduled surgery to take pins, which were inserted in 2008, out of each leg. Pons, who will ride a Moto2 bike for the Pons Kalex team next season, had three operations in 2008 as a result of [...]
Earlier this week Aprilia announced they would be stopping their Moto2 project for the 2010 season. The news was of great surprise to Team Aspar, who had expected the Italian brand to supply them with bikes for next season. Now, Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’, head of Team Aspar, and Gino Borsoi, Sporting Director, will travel to [...]
The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup looks to its fourth season in 2010 with 15 nations represented in the provisional entry list of 25 riders. The number of races for the coming season has been increased to 10 so the riders get more opportunity to develop their skills and prove themselves in front of the [...]
There was a brilliant end to the CEV Buckler 2009 at the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana, where Alberto Moncayo and Carmelo Morales were crowned Spanish 125GP and Extreme Champions respectively. The victory of the Cadiz rider in the eighth-litre category was filled with tension in a race won by German rider Jonas Folger, who [...]
There were 150 attendees at a gala dinner hosted by Jorge Lorenzo’s official fan club on Friday, as the 2009 MotoGP World Championship runner-up enjoyed an event at which five of his ‘alter egos’ wore designs displayed by the Mallorcan rider at various stages this season. There was also a raffle in which some of [...]
