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Bennetts announces sponsorship line-up for 2017
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Advertisement Feature Motorcycle insurance specialist, Bennetts, has announced its sponsorship line-up for the 2017 race season. The Bennetts racers will represent the brand at British and World level, on short circuits and roads, with the squad including riders at the outset and the height of their careers. Racing legend, John McGuinness, will be supported by Bennetts…
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Alpinestars launches Maverick Vinales ‘Mach 1’ limited edition Supertech R boot
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Alpinestars has released a new Limited Edition Maverick Vinales Supertech R boot ahead of the first European stop of the 2017 MotoGP Championship in Jerez, Spain. The Limited Edition ‘Mach 1’ Supertech R, which Maverick will wear for his home GP, is a Supertech R in a limited edition colorscheme (grey, red, and black). The…
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SHARK Helmets release Race-R PRO ‘White SHARK’ replica of the lid worn by Lorenzo
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SHARK Helmets has released a limited and numbered edition of the Race-R PRO White SHARK Replica of the helmet worn by Jorge Lorenzo at the 2016 Aragon MotoGP. There’s a worldwide production run of just 1,500 and each lid comes one in special premium packaging. The helmet comes in an exclusively designed White SHARK box that…
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REVEALED: Honda’s secret NEW CBR600 patents (yeah, and a French Honda boss says that the 600 ISN’T dead!)
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Well, well, well – would you look at these. These are the secret Honda design drawings that PROVE that a CBR600 is in the works. And this run of drawings look VERY different to the COMPLETE V4 Superbike designs we brought you FIRST, months ago! The designs concentrate on the…
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Valentino Rossi is the oldest rider to top the World Championship since 1949
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At the grand old age of 38 years old (and 66 days), Valentino Rossi is still breaking records. The 15 year veteran of the MotoGP grid has just achieved another huge milestone, by becoming the second oldest rider in history to lead the MotoGP World Championship, after his podium in Austin this weekend. Valentino is…
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BMW confirms 212bhp HP4 RACE carbon superbike. Yours for £68k and there’s only going to be 750 of them made.
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Last week we brought you our spy shots of BMW’s HP4 RACE carbon superbike out on final form during track tests in Spain – and today the factory announced that the bike is indeed going on sale to the general public. For nearly £70k. The bike is the first BMW motorcycle to feature a…
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Lorenzo launches attack on Rossi and Yamaha
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Jorge Lorenzo has opened up about his time at Yamaha in a wide-swinging interview where the Majorcan claims that he wasn’t treated as well as teammate Valentino Rossi. In the quite astonishing interview for the website Marca the Ducati rider spoke about his former relationship with Rossi when the pair were racing for the Japanese factory: “Yamaha…
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Video: Beardie plays the violin. Marquez and Pedrosa do some skids.
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Err… what on earth is going on here? With the MotoGP season around the corner Honda’s released this ‘Sum of of talents’ video that shows a violinist in a warehouse with Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. Yeah. It’s as odd as it sounds. And the beardie dude flick a visor down with the end of…
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Gorgeous Ducati roadbike V4 CGI Mac-up appears in Japan
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A while ago we were the first to bring you the news that Ducati’s boss, Claudio Domenicali had confirmed that the Italian factory is going to make a road-going version of its V4 MotoGP machine available to the public – and now our Japanese journalist friends have put together this piece of computer-generated gorgeousness on…
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KTM boss launches scathing attack on ‘most hated rival’ Honda
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Following the MotoGP and supporting championship teams launch by KTM, boss Stefan Pierer launched into a harsh vocal volley against Honda. Speaking to Italian journalists, the man at the top of the KTM tree is reported to have broadsided his Japanese rival by saying the following about his discomfort at having to run a Honda…
