Just a few drops down from the clouds – nevertheless, rain was the key-factor of today’s GP. On the grid, in unpredictable weather condition, Simone Grotzkyj and Taylor Mackenzie opted for rain tires. Soon after the start, a wind swept the sky and the sun rapidly dried the tarmac. Both riders, who were in the [...]
Red Bull Ajo Motorsport’s Danny Kent finished 11th in today’s race of the Catalunya Grand Prix. The good performance gave high hopes for his home race that will take place next week in Silverstone. “Kent failed at the start but after that he raced really well”, team manager Aki Ajo applauded. Spaniard Nicolas Terol who [...]
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider Cal Crutchlow heads to his crucial home race at Silverstone next weekend brimming with confidence after he stormed to a career best MotoGP result in the Gran Premi Aperol de Catalunya today. Starting from the second row of the grid, the British rider quickly gained momentum on Bridgetone’s hard [...]
Tech 3 Racing Team rider Bradley Smith put on an all-action display for a crowd of over 81,000 fans during the Gran Premi Aperol de Catalunya this afternoon, but bad luck ended his bid for a maiden podium finish in the ultra-competitive Moto2 class. Smith’s 19th position on the result sheet doesn’t do justice to [...]
This morning the race day of the Catalunya Grand Prix started with rain and the warmup was run in wet conditions. And while everything pointed towards the race being held under the same conditions, the sun made an appearance and the Moto2 riders had to race on a damp track which caused more than 12 [...]
Bad luck struck the Indian Mahindra team in today’s Catalunyan GP, when both riders were involved in a first-corner traffic incident. Danny Webb (20, from England) was knocked down and out of the race before even reaching the second corner. Team-mate Marcel Schrötter (18, from Germany) was radically slowed by the same incident, and spent [...]
Red Bull Ajo Motorsport’s Jonas Folger and Danny Kent will start from good positions to the season’s fifth 125cc Grand Prix in Barcelona, Spain. Kent qualified 11th, with a laptime 1,578 seconds slower than the pole position. Kent did a good job especially during the last minutes of the qualifying with his Aprilia RSW bike, [...]
The free practice this morning convinced Kev Coghlan and the technical crew of the Aeroport de Castello team of the road they had taken yesterday – with the change of chassis – which should be the final solution to all the problems with the front of the bike which persisted since the beginning of the [...]
Bradley Smith once again demonstrated the high level performance of the Tech 3 Racing Team’s Mistral 610 Moto2 machine in Catalunya today after he qualified on the second row of the grid at the challenging Montmelo circuit. Smith has been one of the fastest and most consistent riders on track all weekend and he was [...]