Only the smallest of margins has separated Bradley Smith and Bancaja Aspar teammate Julián Simón in 125cc preseason testing, with the latter having had the lion’s share of the bragging rights since his return to the class.Smith was once again close to knocking his rival from the head of the timesheet at last week’s Official [...]
# RIDER NAT. TOTAL TIME 1 Sturla FAGERHAUG NOR 1:52,223 2 Daniel RUIZ ESP 1:52,420 3 Daijiro HIURA JPN 1:52,780 4 Mathew SCHOLTZ RSA 1:52,980 5 Florian MARINO FRA 1:53,132 6 Nelson MAJOR FRA 1:53,238 7 Alessio CAPPELLA NGR 1:53,364 8 Danny KENT GBR 1:53,491 9 Alejandro PARDO ITA 1:53,764 10 Harry STAFFORD GBR 1:53,796 [...]
British 125gp world title hopeful Bradley Smith has tried to challenge Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton to a motocross battle.The Aspar Aprilia rider met the McLaren driver during a recent pre-season f1 test in Barcelona while he was training at randy mamola’s house. The 18-year-old told MCN: “He is such a nice guy. He’s [...]
Session 1 1 Julian SIMON (APRILIA) 1:47.5202 Marc MARQUEZ (KTM) 1:47.6253 Bradley SMITH (APRILIA) 125cc 1:47.6924 Pol ESPARGARO (DERBI) 1:47.9205 Andrea IANNONE (APRILIA) 1:47.9296 Takaaki NAKAGAMI (APRILIA) 1:47.9837 Sandro CORTESE (DERBI) 1:48.0238 Efren VAZQUEZ (DERBI) 1:48.3229 Joan OLIVE (DERBI) 1:48.36410 Sergio GADEA (APRILIA) 1:48.53212 Scott REDDING (APRILIA) 1:48.59014 Danny WEBB (APRILIA) 1:48.744 30 Matthew HOYLE [...]
# RIDER NAT. TOTAL TIME 1 Daijiro HIURA JPN 1:49,983 2 Sturla FAGERHAUG NOR 1:50,363 3 Nelson MAJOR FRA 1:50,536 4 Danny KENT GBR 1:50,781 5 Daniel RUIZ ESP 1:51,117 6 Florian MARINO FRA 1:51,233 7 Mathew SCHOLTZ RSA 1:51,242 8 Jakub KORNFEIL CZE 1:51,560 9 Alessio CAPPELLA NGR 1:51,683 10 Deane BROWN GBR 1:51,725 [...]
“Basically today we have only one round of production, because we had an incident with the bike. At first we did not know what it was, so the mechanics have had a hard day’s work, frankly, doing and undoing in finding the solution . The problems have come from the gearbox, was not able to [...]
Session 1 1 Andrea IANNONE (APRILIA) 1:48.134 2 Julian SIMON (APRILIA)1:48.294 3 Marc MARQUEZ (KTM) 1:48.621 4 Pol ESPARGARO (DERBI) 1:48.898 5 Sergio GADEA (APRILIA) 1:49.142 6 Dominique AEGERTER (DERBI) 1:49.144 7 Joan OLIVE (DERBI) 1:49.202 8 Sandro CORTESE (DERBI) 1:49.230 9 Scott REDDING (APRILIA) 1:49.359 10 Efren VAZQUEZ (DERBI) 1:49.464 11 Bradley SMITH (APRILIA) [...]
Matthew Hoyle made his first appearance in the newly designed Haojue outfit today after his team had to change its name from Maxtra and therefore renew all previously produced livery.
Bradley Smith reckons engine performance tweaks have significantly improved his Aspar Aprilia 125GP machine after a successful test in Estoril this week. His Spanish team ran different engine configurations during the Portugal test as the British teenager ended fourth quickest overall. And despite finishing a massive 1.3s adrift of dominant Aspar Aprilia team-mate Julian Simon, [...]