Pol Espargaro
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Pol Espargaro to join KTM in MotoGP alongside Bradley Smith
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Austrian manufacturer KTM has been busy testing with a variety of former World Championship riders in order to prepare the KTM RC16 for its World Championship debut in 2017 but has also remained focus on signing an all-star line up for 2017. At the start of the 2016 season, they announced Bradley Smith as their…
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MotoGP Jerez: Rossi wins in style “I think that this was the perfect weekend!”
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Valentino Rossi took a sensational first win of 2016 with a flawless performance at the Gran Premio Red Bull de España in Jerez. With the three biggest names in the MotoGP World Championship all starting on the front row of the grid, the Spanish GP was set to be a very special race. For Valentino…
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Marc Marquez looking for another win this weekend in Texas
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Marc Marquez has never been defeated at the Circuit of the Americas which is where MotoGP rolls into this weekend in Texas and that’s a statistic he’s keen to keep as he seeks to extend his championship lead. It was a dramatic weekend at the Termas de Rio Hondo last Sunday, safety concerns forcing riders…
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Marquez clinches victory and championship lead in Argentina
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A faultless flag-to-flag race by Marc Marquez saw him dominate the Argentina GP, running away with victory from Rossi and Pedrosa. The Spaniard now leads the championship by 41 points. Issues with the rear tyre of Scott Redding’s (Octo Pramac Yakhnich) Ducati during Free Practice 4 on Saturday saw a raft of changes brought in.…
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MotoGP test day two: Top three split by 0.1s, Vinales quickest
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The second day of testing in Qatar saw three manufacturers split by under 0.1s at the top of the timesheets with Maverick Viñales back to his best. Once again it was Hiroshi Aoyama and Michele Pirro who were the first out of the pits at the Qatar Test, the rest of the field beginning to…
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Lorenzo quickest at day one of the Losail MotoGP test
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Jorge Lorenzo dominated the timesheets in the final MotoGP test before the 2016 season with a commadning performance in Losail, Qatar. As the track opened at 16:00 Local Time, it was only Michele Pirro, Hiroshi Aoyama and Takuya Tsuda who rushed out on track, the three test riders given the responsibility of assessing track conditions.…
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Lowes and Guintoli with Yamaha for WSB return in 2016
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Yamaha has announced that it will return to WSB next year as an official squad being run out of the British Crescent racing base. It has signed battling Brit, 2013 BSB Champion Alex Lowes and 2014 World Superbike champion Sylvain Guintoli to ride the R1 superbike in the championship. Here’s what Yamaha itself said about…
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Lorenzo lays down MotoGP marker with fourth consecutive win
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Lorenzo lays down MotoGP marker with fourth consecutive win. Jorge Lorenzo took a sensational fourth consecutive win for the first time in his career in front of a massive home crowd at Montmeló is Spain. Similar to the previous MotoGP round, he led the race from start to finish, which means he set a new…
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Espargaro: “It was clearly not our best race”
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Pol Espargaro finished in 8th in Argentina after producing a driven and determined ride race that proved to be rather challenging.
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Marquez leads MotoGP Sepang 2 test
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The weather has played a major part in each MotoGP team’s testing plans, with the searing heat during the day meaning that realistically riders could only set flying laps within a small time-frame when the sun wasn’t at its peak. Most teams focused on developing the bike and finding their riders’ ideal set ups over…
