Round two of the 2012 MotoGP™ season produced a thrilling encounter at the Circuito de Jerez with the unsettled weather conditions not dampening the spirits of the huge crowd that gathered to cheer on the first European race of the season. Reigning MotoGP champion Casey Stoner rode his Repsol Honda RC213V to a first ever [...]
PBM UK rider James Ellison saw his and his team’s hopes of an encouraging result dashed when he was forced to retire from today’s Spanish GP at Jerez less than two laps from the finish. After qualifying on the final row of the grid due to a couple of problems in practice as well as [...]
Lorenzo Baldassarri, the reigning Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup champion, stormed back to form with a brilliant victory in race 2 at Jerez. The 15 year old Italian stole the win at the Spanish Grand Prix right on the line from 15 year old Portuguese Ivo Lopes, with 14 year old Spaniard Diego Perez taking [...]
The Moto3 race at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez got underway as a declared dry race, but as the track still had some damp patches at various spots it was a very tricky situation for all riders and teams to chose the right setup and especially not to crash. Unfortunately there were many crashes, [...]
Scott Redding took a fantastic fourth place in today’s rain shortened Spanish Moto2 Grand Prix at Jerez, with Marc VDS teammate Mika Kallio finishing just three places further back in seventh. A big crash in qualifying yesterday meant Redding started today’s race from the fourth row of the grid, but the 19-year-old Briton got a [...]
Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner scored his first MotoGP™ victory at Jerez after fending off Factory Yamaha Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo in a closely contested Spanish GP. Starting from P5, Stoner worked his way through the field to take the race lead on the third lap and for the remaining 24 laps was put under intense pressure [...]
Gino Rea picked up his first Grand Prix point today after finishing fifteenth in a Moto2 race of attrition at Jerez. It was an important confidence boost to the British rider following a difficult start to the season and he will get an opportunity to build on it in just seven days time when the [...]
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider Cal Crutchlow produced the best performance of his MotoGP career in an enthralling Spanish Grand Prix today to finish fourth after an epic podium battle with Circuito de Jerez specialist Dani Pedrosa. The British rider finished fourth for the third MotoGP race in succession having been in podium contention [...]
Mahindra Racing’s Danny Webb lost a possible top-ten finish with a technical issue in a thrilling Moto3 race at today’s Spanish GP, in which the weather played a big hand. After two days of bad weather, the race started in dry conditions but with the track strewn with wet patches from earlier rain. Schrötter was [...]