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  • WSB: WorldSBK race two cancelled in Qatar

    WSB: WorldSBK race two cancelled in Qatar

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    Track conditions curtail competition in final round of the season. Following a severe rain and sand storm on Saturday morning in Qatar, it has been announced that WorldSBK race two has been cancelled at Losail International Circuit. With the storm hitting the Losail track in the morning, conditions deteriorated and therefore a difficult decision was…

  • MotoGP: Viñales ends Yamaha drought with spectacular Island win

    MotoGP: Viñales ends Yamaha drought with spectacular Island win

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    Spaniard claims his first win since Le Mans in 2017 as Iannone and Dovi make it three manufacturers in the top three Maverick Viñales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) ends Yamaha’s 25-race victory drought after storming to a spectacular win at the Michelin® Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, the Spaniard imperious in the second half of the race…

  • LAUNCH RIDE: Ducati Scrambler Icon (2019)

    LAUNCH RIDE: Ducati Scrambler Icon (2019)

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    WORDS: Carl Stevens // IMAGES: Ducati Europe With over 55,000 units flying out of Bologna and into the hands of riders around the World, Ducati really have nailed the whole Scrambler thing. So, with new Icon for 2019, we just had to and have a play… So, what’s new? Well for starters, aesthetically there are…

  • MotoGP: Marquez marks Island territory, Yamahas & Iannone in pursuit

    MotoGP: Marquez marks Island territory, Yamahas & Iannone in pursuit

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    The weather played its part in a fascinating Q2 which saw the Champion take pole, Viñales and Zarco complete the front row with Iannone P4 Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) bounced back from a difficult Free Practice to mark his territory at Phillip Island once more, taking a fifth successive pole position at the venue…

  • WSB:  Jonathan Rea inches closer to points record with fantastic Race 1 win

    WSB: Jonathan Rea inches closer to points record with fantastic Race 1 win

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    2018 champion triumphs over teammate Tom Sykes in penultimate race of 2018 Seventeen down, one to go. Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) has won the first race of the Pirelli Qatar Round and matched Doug Polen’s record for the most race victories in a single season, with 17 additional laps still to go tomorrow…

  • WSB :Sykes claims his final Tissot Superpole with Kawasaki

    WSB :Sykes claims his final Tissot Superpole with Kawasaki

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    KRT one-two in qualifying with Lowes completing the front row for Race 1 Nine years after claiming his first pole position for Kawasaki, ‘Superpoleman’ Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) has topped qualifying one last time for the green machines, smashing the lap record of Losail International Circuit along the way. The English rider bested…

  • MotoGP: Iannone fastest as four factories complete top five on Day 1

    MotoGP: Iannone fastest as four factories complete top five on Day 1

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    Italian left it late to go to P1 in FP2 as he heads Petrucci and Viñales, with leading Honda rider Crutchlow suffering a big Turn 1 crash Andrea Iannone (Team Suzuki Ecstar) left it late to leap to the top of the combined timesheets in FP2 at the Michelin Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, setting a…

  • MotoGP: FP1: Viñales ahead of Alma Pramac duo as Marquez crashes

    MotoGP: FP1: Viñales ahead of Alma Pramac duo as Marquez crashes

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    Spaniard leads home hero Miller and Petrucci in opening session but it wasn’t the start Repsol Honda were looking for in Australia… The rain stayed away as the premier class riders headed out for their first session of the weekend at the Michelin Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and it was Movistar Yamaha MotoGP’s Maverick Viñales…

  • VIDEO: Jonathan REA rides the NEW Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R

    VIDEO: Jonathan REA rides the NEW Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R

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    Following its big reveal a couple of weeks ago, Kawasaki has just released a short video showing its all-new Ninja ZX-6R for 2019 being put through its paces on track by none other than World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea. Here’s a story we ran a couple of weeks ago with the new bikes latest technical…

  • CONFIRMED: There’s FOUR new Kawasakis coming for EICMA. And here’s what the Japanese experts reckon is on the way.

    CONFIRMED: There’s FOUR new Kawasakis coming for EICMA. And here’s what the Japanese experts reckon is on the way.

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    So we know that there are FOUR new bikes coming from Kawasaki and that these 2019 models will be unveiled at the upcoming EICMA motorcycle show in Milan on November 5/6. What we don’t know for sure is exactly what these new bikes will be. But our friends at top Japanese motorcycle magazine Young Machine…


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