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MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round
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MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round. MotoGP bosses at Dorna have laid on bodyguards to look after Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez at this weekend’s race event at Mugello, Italy. The move comes after last year’s championship round and the aggressive outpouring from some sectors of…
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MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some)
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MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some). If the events of the past week have shown us anything it’s that this weekend’s round of the MotoGP championship could be the best ever – and possibly the first premier class race in the championship where we end…
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Video: Rossi meets the Yamaha Motobot!
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It’s the first time that the nine-times world champion has met his electronic counterpart – and it’s all a bit weird. This video has been released by Yamaha and shows the man who’s staying with Yamaha in MotoGP for the 2017 and 2018 seasons having a bit of a poke and prod around the robot…
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And here it is! Vinales CONFIRMED as Yamaha rider for 2017/18 alongside Rossi – Iannone switches to Suzuki
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Lovely stuff. As we outlined and dated a week ago. Here’s the announcement: Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd announce the signing of Maverick Viñales to ride for the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team for 2017 and 2018. Viñales, who is presently fifth in the MotoGP Championship standings, will partner nin-time World Champion Valentino Rossi, whose contract…
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BSB Preview: Round three Brands Hatch
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By Philip Wain Christian Iddon leads the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship into the third round of the season at Brands Hatch this weekend and the Tyco BMW rider knows he will have a fight on his hands in his quest to celebrate a debut race win in Kent. Iddon is the only rider to…
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Victory to race at this year’s TT! All-new bike AND William Dunlop riding it in the Zero TT race
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Victory Motorcycles is returning with the Victory Racing team to compete in the Isle of Man TT Zero race with an all-new electric race bike called the Victory RR. The Victory RR electric motorcycle has been developed over the past year using data gathered during last year’s TT Zero and will be ridden by…
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Suzuki announces MotoGP split from Maverick Vinales (like we said would happen today)
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Suzuki announces MotoGP split from Maverick Vinales (like we said would happen today). As we told you last week, and then again at the start of this week, Maverick Vinales has already signed the contract for him to switch from Suzuki to Yamaha in MotoGP across the 2017/18 seasons. The deal was signed away last…
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Video: Fancy a bike in the mush?
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Here’s a video to underline just how quickly things can go wrong on track – end of a track session, one rider coasting around – another clips him – and the following rider gets a face full of superbike pretty quickly. Ouch. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9j9EmfZjCQ It reminds us of this crash in British Superbikes that…
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MotoGP: Ducati confirms Dovi for 2017/18 ride. Iannone is out (as we told you first)
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So, remember when we told you earlier on that Ducati had decided on Andrea Dovizioso as it’s rider alongside Jorge Lorenzo for 2017 and 2018? And that means that Andrea Iannone is out of a Ducati ride and now is gunning to take over the Suzuki berth vacated by Maverick Vinales with the contract signed…
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MotoGP morning gossip: Vinales signed the Yamaha contract last Friday, Ducati decides on Dovi, Iannone and Rins scrapping it out for Suzuki seat
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More information has come through this morning about the merry-go-round in MotoGP and it makes for interesting reading. As Morebikes told you yesterday, the deal for Maverick Vinales (above) to become Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha team-mate for 2017 and 2018 has been done. It’s signed away and will be announced officially on Thursday this week ahead…
