Pos Driver Car/Engine Laps Time/Delay 1 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha 28 47:13.592 2 Alex de Angelis Honda 28 9.435 3 Nicky Hayden Ducati 28 12.947 4 Andrea Dovizioso Honda 28 13.478 5 Colin Edwards Yamaha 28 26.254 6 James Toseland Yamaha 28 32.408 7 Loris Capirossi Suzuki 28 34.400 8 Mika Kallio Ducati 28 34.856 9 [...]
The 125cc class marked their annual visit to Indianapolis with a thrilling race that ranks amongst the best of the year so far on Sunday, with two packs of riders challenging for the upper positions. Nico Trol repeated his early leadership from the Czech Republic for near enough the entirety of the race, but was [...]
A superb, thrilling nail-biting race in the 125cc class with Pol Espargaro eventually getting a superb maiden victory, and Bradley Smith getting a great second place. Non-stop action right from the off, and a helpful clutch of points for Bradley in his championship struggle against 4th place Nico Terol and 5th place Julian Simon. CLASSIFIED: [...]
Pos | Rider | Bike | Time 1. Julian Simon Aprilia 1m49.337s 2. Sandro Cortese Derbi 1m49.387s + 0.050s 3. Nicolas Terol Aprilia 1m49.537s + 0.200s 4. Pol Espargaro Derbi 1m49.577s + 0.240s 5. Bradley Smith Aprilia 1m49.585s + 0.248s 6. Simone Corsi Aprilia 1m49.628s + 0.291s 7. Sergio Gadea Aprilia 1m49.661s + 0.324s 8. [...]
“So far my Aprilia is working really well out there despite all the bumps – you could say I knew what to expect! I’m happy with how things have gone on this opening day and I think we can be satisfied with the job done. Unfortunately we had to stop early because of the weather [...]
Pos | Rider | Bike | Gap1. Terol (Aprilia) 1min 50.603sec2. Corsi (Aprilia) +0.111sec3. Smith (Aprilia) +0.275sec4. Cortese (Derbi) +0.293sec5. Marquez (KTM) +0.360sec6. Vazquez (Derbi) +0.503sec7. Bradl (Aprilia) +0.553sec8. Gadea (Aprilia) +0.607sec9. Simon (Aprilia) +0.616sec10. Olive (Derbi) +0.768sec 12. Redding (Aprilia) +1.185sec 18. Webb (Aprilia) +1.888sec
With it being a big old gap between us and Indy on the other side of the pond – or a completely different gap depending on where you live of course! – this weekend is one to plan carefully for TV coverage.Here’s the BBC schedules… Saturday 29 AugustQualifying17:50-21:00, BBC Red Button/online ………………………………………………………….. Sunday 30 August125 [...]
“Indianapolis is a fantastic circuit, both in terms of layout and history. The people there are incredible, and you can tell that they live and breath motor racing. For the atmosphere alone the Indianapolis Grand Prix ranks amongst the best of the year for me. I really love the United States as well. We didn’t [...]
A day back from my Spain trip and I’ve finally put live the new build of the www.TeamAspar.net website, which replaces the old blog page. Now that the team is getting bigger and expanding into the top class of MotoGP I reckoned that we needed to build a completely custom website – a fully-featured and [...]