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MotoGP: All the stats ahead of this weekend’s racing at Le Mans
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The MotoGP world championship is heading back to Le Mans – and in preparation for the action kicking off, here’s a bunch of facts and figures about this weekend’s MotoGP racing at the iconic French circuit. This weekend will be the thirtieth round of the MotoGP hosted at Le Mans. The first was in…
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MotoGP: Rossi from 22nd quickest: “We think we’ve solved the problems”
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Championship leader Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) had a difficult time with tyres in the Spanish GP, but despite finishing the post-race test in P21, the ‘Doctor’ found some positivity and solutions to his problems. The Italian legend tried a range of rubber during his 62 laps of the Jerez, and set a best of…
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MotoGP: JerezTest: Viñales and Marquez split by 0.002 at the top
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After Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) took his first win of the year on Sunday, bikes were back out on track the following day for the Jerez Test – the first post-race test of the year. The tyre allocation for the test was the same as available throughout the weekend, plus an extra front option…
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MotoGP: Pedrosa fastest in the rain at Jerez
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Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati) was quickest out the blocks in a wet on a run of red sectors and laps, but it was Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) who topped the session by the flag – by only 0.002 from LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow. Jack Miller (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS) completed the top three. Championship leader…
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MotoGP: KTM to try out new ‘big bang’ motor instead of ‘screamer’ engine at Jerez
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KTM is using a revamped version of its MotoGP engine to Jerez this weekend and could end up with the ‘big bang’ lump in the bikes for the premier race on Sunday. The motor was out at Le Mans earlier this week for some hard laps with Pol Espargaro, Bradley Smith and test rider Mika…
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MotoGP: Guintoli gets call up to French round. Will replace injured Alex Rins on the factory Suzuki
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Sylvain Guintoli has been designated the rider to race Suzuki´s GSX-RR in the French GP in Le Mans on May 21st and following races, until Team SUZUKI ECSTAR’s factory rider Alex Rins is fully recovered and able to return to competition. Guintoli will join Team Suzuki MotoGP, already in Jerez, to take part in Tuesday´s…
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MotoGP: Dovizioso on Ducati’s 2017 campaign ‘We have to rethink everything 360 degrees!’
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Ducati MotoGP man Andrea Dovizioso sounds like he’s already given up on this season with some pretty downbeat comments about the Italian team’s set-up and results following his sixth place finish in Texas at the weekend. After finishing 14 seconds behind winner Marc Marquez, Dovi let loose with his thoughts of the 2017 Desmosedici bike…
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MotoGP video: So Valentino, if the other riders were pizza toppings, what would they be? Worth a watch…
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https://youtu.be/0F3WXcSmBzI Watch this video or our mate Steve Day asking the best MotoGP question of the year so far to Valentino – it involves pizza toppings. Yeah. Worth a watch, pretty funny.
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Alpinestars releases limited edition ‘Republik’ Supertech R Marc Marquez Austin MotoGP replica boot
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Now, this we like – a timely release from Alpinestars ahead of this weekend’s American round of the MotoGP championship in Texas. This is what the Italian bike gear company describes as a: “Clebration of Marquez’s relationship with the GP of the America’s.” The Limited Edition ‘Republik’ Supertech R features all the same technical innovations as…
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MotoGP: All the stats ahead of this weekend’s Austin round in Texas
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– This is the fifth successive year that a MotoGP event has been held at the Austin circuit and below are a selection of facts and stats related to this event: – In total, there have been 29 previous Grand Prix events hosted in the USA: Daytona – 2, Laguna Seca – 15, Indianapolis –…
