After an initially promising but ultimately tough weekend at Indianapolis, the Mahindra team returns to Europe, and a GP just down the road from its home base, with a desire to continue the progress it has been making so far this season. There is the comfort of having the full engineering facilities of the team [...]
MotoGP A seventh win of the 2011 campaign at Indianapolis extended Casey Stoner’s lead at the top of the Championship standings to 44 points over defending title holder Jorge Lorenzo, as the Repsol Honda rider further reinforced his already strong claim for this year’s crown. A personal milestone of a 30th premier class GP win [...]
Arthur Sissis should be heading to the final round of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup at Misano this coming weekend already crowned as 2011 Champion. But he is not. A mechanical problem and 2 crashes in the previous 4 races leave him trailing Lorenzo Baldassarri by 6 points going into the last race at [...]
There’s no rest for the MotoGP paddock as it travels from Indianapolis last weekend straight to Rimini and the Adriatic Coast for the San Marino Grand Prix on 4 September. The Misano World Circuit is twisty and quite stop-start in nature, although there is a very fast section from turns ten to thirteen. Consequently riders [...]
Dunlop heads to Italy for the second time this season for the San Marino Grand Prix, the twelfth round of the 2011 Moto2 Championship, held on September 2-4 at the Misano Adriático circuit. A smooth circuit surface allied to a twisty layout over its 4.226km clockwise duration with likely high ambient and track temperatures give [...]
Kev Coghlan is still keeping busy in the racing world, heading to the USA again on Wednesday to prepare for his next appearance in the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike Championship at New Jersey. He will again be competing with Aussie Dave Racing, with whom he has an impressive track record, considering he has only done [...]
Like all riders Taylor Mackenzie experienced some problems with the new track surface at the Indianapolis circuit which came back to haunt him during the race where he fought the sliding bike to secure the 21st position in the end, losing out one place on his starting position of 20th on the grid. The young [...]
Both Mahindra riders had difficult weekends at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with Danny Webb sitting out the 125cc race with a hand injury and Marcel Schrötter crashing on the final lap after being in the points for much of the race. Danny Webb (20, from England) injured his hand in Saturday morning practice, an injury [...]
MotoGP Casey Stoner was the clear victor at the 2011 Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix, crossing the finish line nearly five seconds ahead of Dani Pedrosa and Ben Spies. Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) took the early race lead, until team mate Stoner overtook the Spaniard on lap seven and stretched his lead in front of the [...]