In today’s bwin Grande Premio de Portugal Maquinza SAG Team rider Ricky Cardús crashed out while trying to catch the riders ahead of him. The rider from Barcelona made an excellent start to the day, riding much of the 30 minute warm-up inside the top ten. Ricky was thus feeling very confident for the race, [...]
Pol Espargaró has lost all options in Estoril to become world champion when he took a risk with his tyre choice in difficult conditions and his 10th position in the end was not enough to keep his championship alive until Valencia. Efrén Vázquez, on the other hand, had crashed before the red flag and then [...]
Jorge Lorenzo reasserted his dominance of the 2010 season today with a convincing win from pole position, ahead of Fiat Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi. After two days of torrential rain and high winds, race day provided the first dry running of the weekend after the day’s only rain was a brief downpour in the morning [...]
Toni Elias failed to finish a race for the first time this season in Portugal today, the Spaniard crashing out as he tried to recover positions. It is been a difficult weekend for the Moto2 World Champion, who has struggled since clinching the title he won in Malaysia but he remains hopeful of finishing on [...]
Hector Faubel completed a good day for the Marc VDS Racing Team, picking up championship points for finishing in 11th position. Torrential rain at Estoril overnight meant that, while the Moto2 riders took to a dry track for the first time this weekend, numerous damp patches remained during the early stages of today’s 26-lap Moto2 [...]
Right at the end of its inaugural season, the Moto2 category served up one of its best races of the year in Portugal. One of the showcase events of 2010 for the 600cc prototype class, the Estoril round gave fans the kina of even racing that the introduction of the category had promised. An attempt [...]
At 1pm local time in Portugal, the MotoGP riders took to the grid with not even a minute of dry track time to their name over the course of the weekend. Wind and sun had dried the track for the matinee race, just moments before the lights were set to go out. Playing things by [...]
The 125cc Portuguese Grand Prix began at 3.30pm local time in Estoril, but it wouldn’t be the last time that the lower cylinder category riders took to their grid positions. The rain that had been so prominent in the previous two days of practice made an unwelcome return just as the 125cc contest was kicking [...]
Unlucky race for the Pramac Racing Team riders, who have both completed in advance the Grand Prix of Portugal. In particular, Aleix Espargarò fell during the first lap just a few corners from the start. He had lost his rear tyre during a turn. The young Spaniard has slipped ending a weekend that saw him [...]
