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MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo pulls the trigger for pole
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The Spaniard grabbed his first Ducati pole to fend off Marquez in a frantic qualifying session Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) secured a tantalising first pole position since Valencia 2016 at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya in a spectacular Q2 session, with Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) within a whisker of the fellow Spaniard…
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MotoGP: Marc Marquez and Takaaki Nakagami make it into Q2 battle
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The Championship leader topped Q1, with Takaaki Nakagami joining him in Q2. Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) was the fastest man in the first qualifying session at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya, setting a quickest time of 1:39.217 to finish ahead of fellow Honda rider Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu) – the Japanese…
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MotoGP: Ducatis 1-2 in FP3, Marc Marquez out of top 10
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Dovizioso leads Lorenzo ahead of qualifying, as Marquez crashes and misses out on automatic Q2 place. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) left it late to set the fastest time of the weekend at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya, his 1:38.923 was 0.007 seconds faster than teammate Jorge Lorenzo’s time from FP2 – the two…
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BSB: Leon Haslam holds off Josh Brookes at Snetterton with the top eleven covered by less than a second!
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Leon Haslam held off a hard-charging Josh Brookes to top the opening day at Snetterton as the Bennetts British Superbike Championship returned to the track with an incredibly close second free practice session as the top 11 riders were covered by just 0.993s! The session got underway in warmer conditions than earlier in the day…
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WSBK: Phenomenal Lowes leads Yamaha one-two at Brno
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Maiden WorldSBK win for the British rider in crazy Czech Race 2 Alex Lowes (Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team) took his first-ever MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship race win at the Acerbis Czech Round, in an astonishing Race 2 which saw championship leader Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) crash out early on. The thousands…
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WSBK: Unstoppable Rea grabs sweet sixtieth win at Brno
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Reigning champion triumphs in Czech return and opens 81-point gap in title battle When the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship last graced the flowing hills of the Automotodrom Brno, Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) was a promising 25-year-old with 10 race wins to his name, no world championships, and still very much a diamond…
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WSBK: KRT one-two as Sykes again squeezes past Rea in closing stage
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Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) extended his historic Tissot Superpole record at the Automotodrom Brno with a brilliant final lap. The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship returned to the Czech Republic in the same way it did six years ago, in the last Saturday here: with ‘Superpoleman’ Sykes leading the way into Race 1.…
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MotoGP: Lorenzo’s land: Mugello hosts the return of a king
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A first imperious win for Ducati in a 1-2 for the team sees the five-time World Champion reign in Italy, with Rossi completing the rostrum Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) has taken his first win in red as he led a 1-2 for the Ducati Team at Mugello, uncatchable and untouchable to cross the line over…
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MotoGP: Iannone, Marquez and Dovi top Warm Up
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A Spaniard amongst the Italians on Sunday morning – with polesitter Rossi in P7 Andrea Iannone (Team Suzuki Ecstar) once again topped a session at his home Gran Premio d’Italia Oakley, ahead of Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) and Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team). The three start from P4, P6 and P7 respectively – with the…
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IOM TT 2018: Birchalls smash records in sidecar race 1
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Ben and Tom Birchall took their seventh Isle of Man win on Saturday evening when they blitzed the record books in the opening Locate.im Formula Two Sidecar race at the 2018 Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy, shattering both lap and race records. The Mansfield brothers broke their own lap record on…
