Ducati has just finished up its three day testing session on the GP12 at the Jerez circuit. Carlos Checa and test rider Franco Battaini handled the driving duties during the three day test. Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden will get their chance to test out the bike during the first official MotoGP pre-season test at [...]
After 15-years, Andrew Pitt has officially retired from racing. The two-time World Supersport champion announced today that he’ll be hanging up his helmet. Pitt started his career road racing in Australia before joining the Autralia Supersport championship series. Pitt claimed the title in the Australian Supersport Championship series before moving on to the World Championship [...]
There’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is that John Hopkins won’t have to deal with his troublesome injury during the 2012 season. The bad news is that he’ll have to compete with just nine fingers. Hopkins had the top of his right middle finger amputated after numerous surgeries and complications that [...]
The Bimota Racing Team hasn’t been much of a factor in the World Superbike series for the last decade, but they could be back on the track soon. Bimota has recently started working on a World Superbike motorcycle which could see the track as early as 2012. Bimota was once a big name in the [...]
American Joshua Day will be racing in the World Supersport Championship in 2012. Day spent the 2011 season in the European Superstock 600 where he took two race wins, multiple podiums, and a few pole positions. Day finished second overall in the European Superstock 600 and is now ready for the World challenge. Day will [...]
Leon Camier completed his first test with the Crescent Suzuki Team this wee at Portimao. Camier’s teammate, John Hopkins, couldn’t make the test due to an injury, but recently crowned British Supersport Champion Alastair Seeley was there to help test the Suzuki GSX-R1000. Camier’s first day of testing didn’t go too smoothly due to a [...]
Leon Haslam will be entering the six-week winter break with a smile on his face. Haslam and the BMW team just completed a successful three day test in Portugal to get ready for the 2012 World Superbike season. “I am very happy. It was very good to come back to Portimão and set constantly quick [...]
While most of the World Superbike grid was at Portimao for their final three days of testing before the winter break, Kawasaki riders Tom Sykes and Joan Lascorz hit the track at Valencia. The KRT Racing Team tested for three days at Valencia, where Sykes set a best lap of 1’33.1, which is about a [...]
The Aprilia riders were at the front of the pack at the end of the World Superbike testing session at Portimao. Eugene Laverty took the top spot ahead of his fellow Aprilia rider max Biaggi. Laverty, who raced a Yamaha in 2011, set the unofficial lap record at the Portimao circuit. Laverty brought the RSV4 [...]
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