This year’s Grand Prix will be the 12th GP event to be held at the Motegi circuit. The circuit has been used for Grand Prix racing every year since the first visit in 1999. Here – courtesy of motogp.com – is a brief history of the Grand Prix events that have taken place at the [...]
The new provisional 2011 MotoGP calendar has been announced by the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme). The 2011 Grand Prix schedule includes a new permanent venue, with Aragon – so far only a reserve circuit – added to the calendar in its own right following the successful staging of a MotoGP event there this year. [...]
The Fiat Yamaha Team heads to Yamaha’s homeland of Japan this week for the first in a punishing triple-header of ‘flyaway’ races in Japan, Malaysia and Australia. There are just five more races still left to go and championship-leader Jorge Lorenzo and his team-mate Valentino Rossi are determined to record a few more top results [...]
Toni Elias heads to the home of Moriwaki leading the Moto2 World Championship and desperate to give the chassis manufacturer something to celebrate this weekend. The Grand Prix of Japan is an opportunity for the Spaniard to repay the excellent job done by Moriwaki this season although his principal objective is to keep his championship [...]
The Grand Prix of Japan returns to its traditional autumn slot this weekend following its postponement due to volcanic ash earlier in the year, tagging on to a Malaysia-Australia double header to make for three races in a row across different continents. The 125cc riders will travel all the way around the world and back [...]
The European summer is over for the MotoGP World Championship paddock, which lands in Japan this weekend for the first of three intercontinental adventures that also take in Malaysia and Australia. The thirteenth round of the inaugural Moto2 season takes place at Motegi, the antidote to the long straights and fast corners of Motorland Aragon. [...]
Dani Pedrosa is now in Japan for the fourteenth Grand Prix of the season, to be held this weekend at Motegi, Honda’s own circuit. And it will be here, in Japan, where Dani will celebrate his 25th birthday. Born on the 29th September 1985, the Repsol rider is one of the leading figures in the [...]
The Motegi circuit is preparing to host the Grand Prix of Japan this weekend as the MotoGP teams and riders arrive for the fourteenth round of the season. Long haul flights, jet lag and sleepless nights await the paddock over the next three weeks as the championship enters its most demanding phase, with Motegi, Sepang [...]
The 125cc World Championship remains a closely-fought one as the final five rounds of the campaign are served up in quick succession, and the Grand Prix of Japan marks the start of that sequence in which frontrunners Nico Terol (Bancaja Aspar), Pol Espargaró (Tuenti Racing) and Marc Márquez (Red Bull Ajo Motorsport) will all be [...]
