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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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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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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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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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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 –…
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Lewis Hamilton: ‘I’d like to race in a MotoGP race’
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Former F1 world champ Lewis Hamilton has said that he wants to race in MotoGP, and that the F1 bosses shouldn’t stand in the way if a ride could be found. Speaking out at the weekend’s Bahrain F1 GP, Hamilton said that he thought that the news that fellow F1 driver Fernando Alonso’s plans…
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MotoGP: Suzuki’s Alex Rins has broken his ankle
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This just in from Suzuki, the factory is playing it down – but it’s a fracture in the ankle for the MotoGP rider… Team SUZUKI ECSTAR rider Alex Rins had a slight accident while training on Thursday with his Suzuki RM-Z motocross machine. Apparently without major incident, but with some pain in the right ankle,…
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MotoGP: Sam lowes ‘We’ll make big step in Argentina’
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Aprilia Racing Team Gresini rider Sam Lowes has been talking about his plans for how to get his MotoGP bike further up the field following his race debut on the Italian machine last weekend which saw the Lincolnshire lad finish in 18th place. Speaking to MotoGP.com, Lowes said: “The weekend was a bit different, with…
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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…
