Scott Redding topped the timesheets and Mika Kallio was an impressive fourth fastest as the Marc VDS Racing Team enjoyed a flying start to the French Moto2 round at the Le Mans circuit today. Fourth quickest in this morning’s opening practice, Redding delivered an outstanding performance in the second session to head the combined leaderboard [...]
It was a day of debuts for Gino Rea as he completed his first laps of the legendary Le Mans circuit on a completely new motorcycle. After switching to the Suter chassis from this race onwards it was clearly an intense day for the young Brit, who is hopeful of making up positions tomorrow. Gino [...]
The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team’s all-important home race at the legendary Le Mans circuit in France kicked off in positive fashion today, with Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow posting competitive times on the opening day of MotoGP practice. Crutchlow enjoyed a satisfactory start to the Monster Yamaha Tech3 Team’s home event and the 26-year-old [...]
Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner continues to assert his dominance by topping both Free Practice sessions and clocking the fastest time of the day at an overcast Le Mans circuit on Friday. Stoner set his quickest time of 1:33.740 in FP2 to finish the day 0.265 seconds ahead of teammate Dani Pedrosa, with Yamaha Factory Racing’s [...]
Gino Rea’s swift initial adaptation to Estoril hit the skids twice today, with a pair of crashes limiting his progress and his lap time. There was understandable disappointment in the Team Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 garage, where the work continues to give Rea the opportunity to show his true potential. Gino Rea. (23rd 1’ 43” [...]
Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner took over where he left off at Jerez by setting a benchmark time of 1m 38.396s in FP2 to top the Friday timesheets ahead of Yamaha Factory Racing’s Ben Spies and Monster Tech3 Yamaha’s Cal Crutchlow. Track conditions for Friday morning’s FP1 session were poor with large wet patches on track [...]
Scott Redding was the fastest man on track at Estoril today, topping the timesheet during this afternoon’s second free practice session. Mika Kallio was tenth fastest, after using today’s two sessions to evaluate different front-end settings on his Kalex Moto2 machine. Redding was third fastest in this morning’s opening free practice session, which was run [...]
Cal Crutchlow’s phenomenal start to the 2012 MotoGP World Championship continued in impressive fashion in Portugal this afternoon, the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider finishing third quickest after the opening two practice sessions. The British rider completed just five laps in tricky conditions this morning when treacherous wet patches left by overnight rain prevented [...]
It was a positive opening day at Jerez for the Marc VDS Racing Team, with Mika Kallio finished second fastest overall after topping the timesheet in this afternoon’s free practice session. Scott Redding was fifth fastest in this morning’s wet free practice, but slipped to 11th overall after sitting out much of the afternoon session. [...]