Young Brit challengers in this year’s Red Bull Rookies championship, James Flitcroft and Harry Stafford, have been posting on the official Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup website, reflecting on the recent Valencia tests earlier this month. Here’s what they have to say… James Flitcroft (pictured): “Well the test finally came and it was my first [...]
The week-long buildup to the coming weekend’s TwitGP continues apace, with yet more followers joining in the fun and more big names helping ensure that MotoGP fans don’t go without a very special event to replace Sunday’s postponed Japanese Grand Prix. It now even has a virtual track to run on… “Twitegi”! Jorge Lorenzo is [...]
The internet phenomenon of this weekend’s virtual MotoGP on Twitter continues to grow, with its focus – @TwitGP – almost on 3,000 followers within a couple of days of setting the idea going. Amongst the followers from across the globe are former BBC MotoGP host Suzi Perry, The Stereophonics, comedian and bike fan Ross Noble, [...]
Lots of people slag off Twitter. They’re idiots of course. But they do. And sometimes you can accept that there’s differing levels of usefulness, triviality and purposelessness to the phenomenon in an already crowded world of communications and technology. Nonetheless, any MotoGP fan should find themselves very grateful that Twitter exists this coming weekend, when [...]
www.motorcyclenews.com reports that the Japanese MotoGP race, scheduled to take place at the Twin Ring Motegi next weekend (April 25), has been postponed until early October because of on-going European travel chaos caused by an Icelandic volcano. The Twin Ring Motegi race, which was due to be the second of 18 races on the 2010 [...]
Three days of testing in Valencia prior to the start of the 4th Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup season gave the teenagers plenty to think about with a variety of cold and wet conditions. By the end of a cold but dry Thursday Japanese 15 year old Daijiro Hiura was fastest ahead of 16 year [...]
Bradley Smith didn’t have the start to 2010 that he was expecting. Having struggled all weekend, not even a good start was enough to put the Briton within reach of the lead group, and he was soon riding on his lonesome. He kept his pace and took eighth position, something to build on in the [...]
Pos Nº Rider Bike Laps Time Delay/Retirement 1 48 Shoya Tomizawa Suter/Honda 20 41’11.768 2 6 Alex Debon FTR/Honda 20 41’16.424 4.656 3 16 Jules Cluzel Suter/Honda 20 41’16.557 4.789 4 24 Toni Elías Moriwaki/Honda 20 41’18.746 6.978 5 44 Roberto Rolfo Suter/Honda 20 41’18.946 7.178 6 75 Mattia Pasini Motobi/Honda 20 41’23.572 11.804 7 [...]
Pos Nº Rider Bike Laps Time Delay/Retirement 1 40 Nicolas Terol Aprilia 18 38’25.644 2 7 Efrén Vazquez Derbi 18 38’28.039 2.395 3 93 Marc Márquez Derbi 18 38’28.064 2.420 4 44 Pol Espargaró Derbi 18 38’28.484 2.840 5 11 Sandro Cortese Derbi 18 38’29.170 3.526 6 35 R.Krummenacher Aprilia 18 38’29.213 3.569 7 12 [...]