The Marc VDS Racing Team’s Scott Redding emerged as a real contender for this year’s Moto2 World Championship title, as the 17-year-old Briton finished the final IRTA test at Jerez fourth fastest overall and confident of further improvement had rain not brought a premature end to the three-day test. Scott had struggled to adapt his [...]
Another excellent day at Jerez for Scott, leading the morning’s timesheets and also running in an excellent 5th in the afternoon session… MORNING MOTO2 SESSION Pos | Rider | Nationality | Team | Bike | No of Laps | Fatest Lap | Time | Gap | Intv | Max Speed 1 45 Scott REDDING GBR [...]
Pos | Rider | Nationality | Team | Bike | No of Laps | Fatest Lap | Time | Gap | Intv | Max Speed 1 93 Marc MARQUEZ ESP RED BULL AJO MOTORSPO APRILIA 19 16 1:46.875 —- —- 213,4 2 44 Pol ESPARGARO ESP TUENTI RACING DERBI 16 15 1:47.459 0.584 0.584 209,3 [...]
As you know – although we stick pretty firmly to following our MotoGP Brits – we do occasionally cover riders in other championships and so it makes sense to pass on news that the new look SBK website www.worldsbk.com, loaded with a variety of new multimedia content, was launched on Thursday the 25 of March [...]
At 7pm last night the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum in Valencia played host to the official presentation of the Aspar Team for 2010, the 30th anniversary season of the Spanish team. For Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’ it was not just a team presentation but the culmination of a dream, as he prepares to launch a triple [...]
The second official Moto2 test at the Jerez circuit in Andalucia was a virtual washout, with rain disrupting the Marc VDS Racing Team’s test schedule on each of the three days. Scott Redding arrived at Jerez determined to close the gap on the leading riders at the recent Valencia test, but the 17-year-old British rider’s [...]
The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup is superb – well worth catching up on if you don’t know too much about it. It’s effectively a feeder series for the higher MotoGP classes, and always provides some cracking action featuring excellent Brit talent like Danny Kent (Check out this iTunes link for video podcasts of last [...]
Bancaja Aspar officially presented its renewed project at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia in Valencia today (Monday). In the presence of riders Nicolas Terol and Bradley Smith, team boss Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’ and Jose Luis Olivas, president of Bancaja, signed a two-year agreement which will see the Spanish bank continue as the title sponsor [...]