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2011 Silverstone World Superbike Sunday Round Up: On Championship Contenders, A Single Bike Rule, And Equalizing Twins Vs Fours

It's on days like these that championships are won. In both the World Superbike and World Supersport classes, the championship leaders came in with differing expectations, met with wildly different experiences through practice, yet both Carlos Checa and Chaz Davies leave Silverstone with their lead nicely consolidated and comfortably in charge of their own destinies. [...]

2011 Silverstone World Superbike Race 2 Result: Imperious Race Sees Easy Win

Results and summary of World Superbike race 2 at Silverstone: Race Details 2011 read more Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MotoGPMatters/~3/KgQMGk0sSs0/2011_silverstone_world_superbike_race_2_.html Thomas Allier HÃ¥kan Andersson Victor Arbekov Les Archer Nicolas Aubin Rene Baeten David Bailey John Banks Mark Barnett Jonathan Barragan Andrea Bartolini Willy Bauer Jean Michel Bayle Pit Beirer Christian Beggi

Scott Jones On Wednesday: Tech Porn

Laying rubber on tarmac: top spec Ohlins helps DOHC, Desmodromic style read more Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MotoGPMatters/~3/stw-Sibjue4/scott_jones_on_wednesday_tech_porn.html Steven Frossard Eric Geboers Sylvain Geboers Broc Glover Rui Goncalves Josh Grant Billy Grossi Davide Guarneri Thomas Hahn Torsten Hallman Bob Hannah Donnie Hansen Torlief Hansen Marcus Hansson Doug Henry

2011 World Supersport Championship Standings After Round 9, Silverstone, Great Britain

Championship standings for round , 2011 read more Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MotoGPMatters/~3/ESPzTOp5FE4/2011_world_supersport_championship_stand.html Pit Beirer Christian Beggi Mike Bell John van den Berk Marnicq Bervoets Fritz Betzlbacher Dave Bickers Anthony Boissiere Frederic Bolley Xavier Boog Damon Bradshaw Goat Breker Sven Breugelmans Larry Brooks Mike Brown

Sachsenring 2009 MotoGP race analysis

While the weather had produced torrential downpours thoughout the preamble to this GP, it stayed dry for the action in Germany. As the riders lined up on the grid, there was a real feeling of anticipation as Rossi and Lorenzo, so close through practice until that awesome final qualifying lap from Valentino, pulled up next [...]

Young driver test to follow Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | F1 Fanatic round-up

In the round-up: Yas Marina will hold the young drivers’ test before the final race of 2011. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/f1fanatic/~3/4iV34pv1IUE/ Rob Herring George Holland Jeremy van Horebeek Kent Howerton Neil Hudson Ryan Hughes Georges Jobe Gunnar Johansson Peter Johansson Rick Johnson Gary Jones Mark Jones Ake Jonsson Julien Bill Pierre Karsmakers

Yamaha To Pull Out Of World Superbikes At End Of 2011 Season

Yamaha has announced that it has decided to withdraw its factory team from the World Superbike Championship at the end of 2011. The withdrawal comes as a result of a review of Yamaha Motor Europe's marketing activities throughout Europe forced by the rapidly declining motorcycle market throughout the region. The move leaves both Eugene Laverty [...]

2011 Season Kicks Off

Qatar in March is an oddity. A race in the cooler evening air, floodlit. If that’s not different enough for you, throw in a covering of sand which makes any excursion from the thin, black racing line an adventure in optimism or blind faith depending on the rider. So Qatar is not a good race [...]

The Champion and the Apprentice

The Fiat Yamaha team have been surrounded by hype this past few weeks. Not, as an outsider might expect, caused by a battle to re-sign the reigning champion: Rossi’s contract ends at the end of the 2010 championship, and he looks settled, happy, and at one with the bike he helped shape and tune into [...]

Ducati Superbike 1199 Spotted Again

The 2012 Ducati Superbike 1199 is shaping up to be the school yard tease, giving us a glimpse of its still unfinished form seemingly on a regular basis now. Spotted with another cameraphone “spy photo” somewhere on the streets of Italy, we get a fairly clear side profile of the new 1199. The underslung exhaust [...]