The Czech Republic Grand Prix restarted the season following a short summer break after the United States Grand Prix, and 238,000 spectators turned out to witness the action at the Brno circuit over the three days. Apart from a wet morning practice on Saturday, the rest of the MotoGP track-time was dry and the temperature [...]
Yamaha Factory Racing riders Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies completed a successful test today at the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic. The riders spent some time testing updates to the 2011 YZR-M1, including engine and electronics upgrades and different chassis and fairing parts. Having completed this they were then both given the opportunity to [...]
Following on from the action of yesterday’s Brno GP, some of the premier class riders and teams spent one more day at the Czech circuit for one day of testing. The testing session has started at 10 am proceeding until 6 pm under sunny skies and yesterday’s GP winner Stoner topped the timesheets with a [...]
After celebrating the all-Honda podium yesterday at Brno, the Repsol Honda Team returned back on track this morning for a one day test dedicated to the development of the Honda prototype for the 2012 MotoGP Championship. It was a positive day of testing with both riders giving valuable feedback, which will allow the HRC engineers [...]
Rizla Suzuki’s Álvaro Bautista looked set for the best MotoGP finish of his career so far at Brno until he crashed with only six laps remaining. Bautista began the race from 14th on the grid and rode a superb first lap to put him up to 10th. On the fourth lap he moved in to [...]
MotoGP Casey Stoner captured his sixth win of the season in front of 155,400 fans at Brno for Sunday’s Cardion ab Grand Prix České republiky, stretching his Championship lead to 32 points over Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing). Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) got the hole shot from his first pole position of the season, with [...]
Yet another incredibly dramatic Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup race, this time won by French 16 year old Alan Techer. Winning the Czech GP round at Brno he was chased across the line by 18 year old Czech Tomas Vavrous and 15 year old Dutchman Scott Deroue. Cup points leader Arthur Sissis was headed for [...]
The MotoGP race at Brno looked to have a similar script to practice in the Czech Republic. Pedrosa was fastest for the entire weekend, and wanted to convert that into an early escape from Lorenzo in the opening stages of the race. The story was turned on its head, however, when Pedrosa crashed out, two [...]
Qualifying times had shown that the Moto2 race was going to be a fast one, and the riders didn’t disappoint at Brno. Márquez, Bradl, De Angelis, Luthi and Iannone were yesterday’s fastest five, and escaped out in front on raceday. Bradl leading, followed by Márquez and with De Angelis lurking behind was a familiar story [...]
