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SHOCK news: Guy Martin to race again at treacherous Macau roads circuit just 14 weeks after breaking back
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SHOCK news: Guy Martin to race again at treacherous Macau roads circuit just 14 weeks after breaking back Guy Martin is to make his RETURN to racing 14 weeks after he broke his back in the Ulster GP event. In early August Guy,33, broke his back, smashed his sternum and suffered very serious shoulder injuries…
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Valentino Rossi: My toughest rival is Jorge!
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Valentino Rossi: My toughest rival is Jorge! Yep, it’s true. Valentino Rossi has said that Lorenzo is a tougher rival than Marc Marquez, Casey Stoner or Max Biaggi. Answering an interview question for American publication Cycle World, the nine-times world champion gave the straightest possible answer to a pretty straight question. The interview asked Rossi: Max…
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SCOOP Suter MMX 500 FIRST pictures of the 195bhp two-stroke!
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SCOOP Suter MMX 500 FIRST pictures of the 195bhp two-stroke! This is the Suter MMX 500 – the replica GP500 two-stroke bike that anyone can buy. Suter says that it was spurred on to make the motorcycle for classic racing events after the success of the recent World GP Bike Legends event at Jerez…
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Carole Nash employees change names to ‘Jonathan Rea’ to celebrate WSB title
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Colleagues Eamonn Holt, David Rogers, Keith O’Donoghue, Sean Daly and Luke Nestor at specialist insurance brokers Carole Nash, which have been sponsoring Jonathan Rea for several years, have changed their names by deed poll to celebrate the 28-year-old’s world title, secured with two race weekends remaining of the 2015 season. Eamonn Holt, Team…
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VIDEO Prototype WSB R1 in testing action
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Here’s a nice little video that’s just been put out by Yamaha Racing. It shows the R1 undergoing very early pre-season testing ahead of the World Superbike campaign which starts next year. In 2016 Yamaha makes its return to WSB in the hands of Sylvain Guintoli and Alex Lowes, but Yamaha has now revealed…
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Sam Lowes signs three-year Aprilia MotoGP deal
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Sam Lowes has signed a three-year MotoGP contract with Aprilia Racing, including a one-year Moto2 deal with Team Federal Oil Gresini Moto2. The 24-year-old is will contest the Moto2 World Championship next season, before graduating to the premier class for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Sam said: “I would like to thank Aprilia Racing and Gresini…
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Lowes and Guintoli with Yamaha for WSB return in 2016
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Yamaha has announced that it will return to WSB next year as an official squad being run out of the British Crescent racing base. It has signed battling Brit, 2013 BSB Champion Alex Lowes and 2014 World Superbike champion Sylvain Guintoli to ride the R1 superbike in the championship. Here’s what Yamaha itself said about…
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VIDEO mega onboard in super extreme enduro race
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VIDEO mega onboard in super extreme enduro race! This will melt your motorcycling mind… Onboard with the Xtreme XL de Lagares event in Spain last week, this is what you call Urban Hard Enduro Racing. As if just riding around this sort of stuff isn’t hard enough, the Red Bull boys thought that they’d forget…
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Rea wins World Superbike crown
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The Pirelli Spanish Round has gone down in history as the WorldSBK race meeting at which Jonathan Rea was crowned World Champion of 2015. The British rider, standard bearer of the Kawasaki Racing Team, clinched the ultimate goal in Race 1 courtesy of his fourth position. He has been pursuing the title since his first full…
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Chris Walker gearing up for 300th BSB race
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Chris Walker gearing up for 300th BSB race this weekend at Oulton Park. The 43-year-old rider completed his first motocross race in 1983 and his first road race in 1994. Since then, he’s raced in the British Superbike Championship, World Superbikes and MotoGP and has been part of Team Green in BSB since 2010. Currently 17th…
