“After finishing eighth at Montmeló I’m looking forward to getting to Assen and fighting for a top finish. It wasn’t a bad result and I’m still only a point and a half behind Julito but I was left with a bittersweet taste after that race. We have to think positive and keep working in the [...]
1st Bradley Smith: 41m49.556s “The bike went awesome today, and I can’t thank my team enough. I was able to get away and had an extremely fast pace for the whole race. In the last seven laps I had a fifth gear problem that cut the advantage, but I knew how to bring the bike [...]
7th Bradley Smith 2.01.608 (14 laps):“There is not much grip out there so the lap times are quite slow and it’s difficult to get a good feeling. We usually come here when it’s much warmer and in this heat everything changes – the setting, the feeling, everything. I think we have a good base setting [...]
“I really like Motegi and I know I can be fast there. I had the best result of my rookie season there and was the highest-placed Honda. I’ve had a bit of bad luck there over the past couple of seasons but with the way this year is going I’m sure we can do well. [...]
As the Aspar Team have now published a big and career stats press release for Bradley, it seems opportune to post it all up here for completeness… BRADLEY SMITH #38Date of Birth: 28/11/1990 – Garsington – Oxfordshire – Great BritainAge: 18First race: Motocross – January 1997First Grand Prix: Spain Grand Prix – 2006First Victory: –Last [...]
British 125GP world championship hopeful Bradley Smith believes the influence of mentor and former Moto GP star Randy Mamola will be crucial ahead of his 2009 campaign.The Aspar Aprilia rider has spent large spells of his winter holed up at Mamola’s Barcelona home to train ahead of his fourth assault on the 125GP world crown. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]