Bridgestone has issued an official press relase on their investigation of the tyre issues that appeared at Assen last weekend. Unexpected excessive heat appears to have caused the tyres losing massive chunks during the race, but Bridgestone denies that this was due to any faulty tyres, but instead a cumulation of unforeseen events. Below you [...]
Last Saturday’s Dutch TT at the fabled Assen circuit saw Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner bounce back to score his third win of the season ahead of teammate Dani Pedrosa and Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Andrea Dovizioso. The reigning champion now sits level with Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo in the MotoGP™ standings. Conditions for the [...]
Florian Alt, the 16-year-old German, scored a fantastic double Dutch TT victory by matching his Assen Race 1 genius and crossing the line fractionally ahead of 14-year-old Spaniard Marcos Ramirez and German 16-year-old Philipp Oettl. Again it was a huge pack chasing the rostrum places right through the final chicane and again it was that [...]
PBMUK rider James Ellison rode through the pain barrier to claim his second successive 14th place MotoGP finish and in doing so added to his World Championship points tally at today’s Dutch TT at Assen. Aboard the Claiming Rules Team (CRT) specification Aprilia ART, the 31-year-old was still suffering the effects of his huge Silverstone [...]
Mahindra riders Danny Webb and Marcel Schrötter took a step forward with new engine parts at Assen. But the hard work of the independent Indian team was not rewarded with final results, with both riders failing to make the finish. In Danny’s case it was a crash, on the 16th of 22 laps of the [...]
Unfortunately for Gino Rea, even race day at Assen had a disatisfying conclusion. The Moto2 rider could not find confidence with his bike and did not feel comfortable enough to push to the limit. A solution to the problem has been hard to come by all week, and only with this could the British rider [...]
Sandro Cortese and Danny Kent of the Red Bull KTM Ajo Team emerged from a five-rider dogfight in the closing stages of the Moto3 GP in Assen, Netherlands to finish 2-3 in a race finish so close that it had to be decided by a photo. Kent was announced to be third only one thousandth [...]
Following on from Silverstone, Cal Crutchlow produced another heroic performance to finish fifth in the 26-lap Assen encounter, the British rider defying the pain from a broken left ankle he suffered in a practice crash at Silverstone to fight his way through from last position. The 26-year-old was fortunate to miss a first corner inc [...]
Scott Redding secured his second successive podium finish, and his third of the season, with a hard fought third place in today’s Moto2 race at Assen. Having struggled with set-up and sustained a knee injury in a collision during free practice, Scott knew today’s race would be a tough one. The 19-year-old Briton got a [...]
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