With an 85-point advantage, Casey Stoner rider of the Ducati Marlboro Team, claimed another victory in the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano.
Stoner overtook Chris Vermeulen (Rizla
Suzuki MotoGP) and John Hopkins (Rizla Suzuki MotoGP). Loris Capirossi, Stoner’s team mate from Ducati Marlboro Team took the 4th place.
Carlos Checa (LCR Honda RC212V) fancied his chances here after a successful testing stint at Brno. And despite some technical troubles that prevented him from qualifying as high (...
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The current leader of the Moto GP championship “threatened” his rivals that his Ducati could be even faster at the race from Misano, Stoner launched this after this weekend won the Czech Grand Prix from Brno.
Stoner has currently 60 points and he has won 7 races from a total of 12. His latest victories were at the American Grand Prix and as we said earlier at Brno. The young rider says that the Italian team made a few steps further and the competitor will see these in the race from Misano. (...)
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Taro Sekiguchi, the Japanese rider has suffered a broken pelvis and fractured two ribs at the Czech Grand Prix after a high-speed terrifying crash. He was catapulted into the air when he crashed into Marco Simoncelli’s Gilera motorcycle.
Simoncelli crashed his bike in a corner and the bike slid into the middle of the track. Due to the dust cloud made after his crash Sekiguchi didn’t see anything and slammed Simoncelli’s motorcycle.This violent impact launched the Japanese in a 360 degree (...)
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Ducati Marlboro Team rider Casey Stoner put in a faultless display in front of 141,000 fans at Brno today, winning the Czech Grand Prix to extend his World Championship advantage to 60 points. Team-mate Loris Capirossi came in sixth after an entertaining tussle with several other riders.
It was another perfect weekend for the awesome Australian who dominated both days of practice, secured pole position and then led from start to finish, leaving his rivals floundering in his wake and (...)
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Casey Stoner, the current leader of the Championship, took the pole position ahead of the two Repsol Honda motorcycles.
The Ducati Marlboro Team rider overtook the Honda motorcycle driven by Nicky Hayden with 0.280 seconds. Dani Pedrosa, Hayden’s team mate followed them closely finishing on the 3rd place.
John Hopkins, had been one of the few riders to get close to Casey Stoner in the practice session, but the
Suzuki rider wasn’t so lucky in the qualifying session, finishing on the 4th (...
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