Kawasaki Racing Team has all the reasons to be happy as at the Grand Prix of Shanghai John Hopkins has reached the 100 attendance in the queen class.
Even greater for Kawasaki is the fact that their famous pilot isn’t even yet in its best form so we should be soon witnessing an ascendant graphic of the Hopkin’s performance and hopefully a successful attempt to repeat last year’s result. Then, on the Chinese track John Hopkins adjudicated its first MotoGP podium. (...) >> read
What if I would tell you that the Yamaha RDLC 500 V4, Suzuki RG 500 and the Honda NSR 400 have all plans of big comebacks? Your mind will immediately open the small locker in which are kept memories of the mythical and legendary two-stroke models, the smell of burned rubber and the never ending battles between riders participating in the 500cc class. Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz and Mick Doohan surely knew how to earn their place in motorcycle racing history.
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The video attached below offers a short brief of the 24 hours race of Le Mans. Even though spectators can only see the headlights and hear the roaring engines, the images are truly inspiring and encapsulate the racing atmosphere from the Night of World Endurance.
Winner at the 2008 edition was Suzuki which couldn’t have made it without the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team. Way to go Suzuki!
This is what happens when the desire to obtain a good or even the best place is too big. A fast approach towards a large and relatively easy to deal with corner results in a high side and immediately after one of the worst crashes I’ve ever seen during the famous 24 hours race.
The Spanish champion Dani Pedrosa looks like a little boy that stolen the Honda CBR1000RR from dad and heads straight to the games room in order to do a little more practice. I don’t know how this video helps Honda’s rider, but it is definitely well worth being seen.
Yesterday we’ve shown you the paddock girls from Estroil, but many more interesting things are being discovered when spending a bit of time behind the scenes. For example, the James Toseland customized Yamaha Tech 3. Modifications consist in the rider’s name and signature which are being sculpted in the rear tire. I don’t know how efficient is that when racing, but it definitely gives a personal touch to the British pilot’s motorcycle. >> read
The DB5R stands as the best DB5 model and has all the features to back up this affirmation. DB5’s greatness consist in agility and easy handling features which for 2008 and with the adding of the “R” to the model’s name have been radically upgraded. >> read
The news probably doesn’t surprise anyone as we’re all expecting for such a renewal, but what does surprise us is the fact that only three races were sufficient to convince the former SBK champion to keep competing for Yamaha in 2009. Company Iwata also came with the confirmation and with the completing that the Tech3 Team will also be surrounding the pilot’s name for next year.
An option in the contract noted that the 27 years old English pilot could keep riding in the (...) >> read
I invite you to see the first video featuring the Ninja ZX-RR engine configuration with “screamer”.
At Jerez, the man in green took the opportunity and made a few tests to the new engine and what better persons to do so than the official riders John Hopkins and Anthony West, as well as Olivier Jacque.
For the third meeting in the MotoGP circuit Team Gresini San Carlo lands with big hopes on the Atlantic cost of the Iberian Peninsula and thrusts riders Alex de Angelis and Shinya Nakano to win for them the Grand Prix of Portugal.
The Centaur number 15 declares:"Unlike what happened at Losail, Jerez, I find Portugal dealing with a circuit where I never shot in the first riding a MotoGP, as in Estoril were not conducted tests."
"Difficult to make predictions, but we (...) >> read