The 2012 World Championship will commence on April 8th, and this day also marks the debut of CRT prototypes in MotoGP. Among the 21 bikes lining up on the grid will be the familiar names of Randy de Puniet and Aleix Espargaró, the men set to ride the CRT motorcycles on the Aspar Team. Sporting [...]
Avintia Racing, which makes a debut this year in the premier class running CRT bikes, will start the 2012 preseason with Venezuelan rider Roberto Pietri and Spaniard Jordi Torres as test riders to assist in the development of its CRT prototype. The two racers both have previous experience in the World Championship Moto2 class and [...]
Current CEV (Spanish National Championship) 125GP titlist, Alex Rins, has today undergone a successful operation to treat a dislocated fracture of his left shoulder. The procedure was performed by the Chief of the Hand and Upper Extremities Surgical Unit, Dr. Xavier Mir, and Dr. Victor Marlet — Chief of the Back and Arthroscopy Unit — [...]
The Gran Premio d’Italia TIM has been announced as the winner of the 2011 IRTA “Best Grand Prix” award, thus securing its fifth title from the Teams’ Association since hosting a Grand Prix for the first time in 1976. Almost 85,000 MotoGP, fans were gathered at the Mugello Circuit on the 3rd of July last [...]
Marc Márquez underwent successful surgery today to treat the vision problem present in his right eye. The 2011 Rookie of the Year in the Moto2 class was operated on first thing Monday morning at the Outpatients Eye Surgery Unit of Barcelona’s Hospital Clinico, in a procedure performed by Doctor Bernardo Sánchez Dalmau. The surgeon treated [...]
Before the 2012 season starts in earnest with the first official test of the year in Sepang at the end of January, Solo Moto journalist Borja González sat down with new Honda rider Álvaro Bautista and asked him many, many questions about working with Suzuki, almost wandering off to Superbikes, joining Gresini after tragedy hit [...]
Yamaha Factory Racing riders Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies kicked off their one day visit to Jakarta this morning with a special visit to meet potential racing stars of the future. They shared some of their valuable knowledge with up and coming racers in the Indonesian Yamaha R Series Cup as part of a unique [...]
CEO of Dorna Sports S.L, Carmelo Ezpeleta, was present at Wrooom 2012 this week in Madonna de Campiglio where he spoke about future MotoGP™ class regulations. The MotoGP grid has an enrollment of 21 bikes for 2012, including twelve factory bikes and nine members of the new CRT category. Regarding this mix, Ezpelata stated: “We [...]
After Hector Barbera was caught driving under the influence earlier this month, a local court decided to fine him 1200 Euros for the incident and take away his license for 10 months. Barbera had issued a statement about the details of the incident shortly after several newspapers reported he was caught with 0.6 per mille, [...]
