It was a good start to the season for Danny Webb at Qatar, already taking his first championship points with a decent 11th place finish and looking quick during the practice sessions. With a competitive bike and team he’ll be aiming for regular Top 10 finishes in the next races. Source: Ambrogio Racing
The first race of the season at Qatar, his first in the Moto2 world championship, left Kyle Smith happy at the end of the race due to his good result, but above all thanks to the good pace he demonstrated and the experience he got in his first Grand Prix. Kyle will arrive at Austin [...]
The PBM MotoGP team of Yonny Hernandez and Michael Laverty were in action at the opening round of the MotoGP World Championship in Qatar this weekend where both riders put in an impressive performance for the Penrith-based team. Both riders were contesting the Claiming Rules Teams (CRT) class where Hernandez, in only his second season [...]
Danny Webb (Ambrogio Racing Suter Honda) and Brad Binder (Ambrogio Racing Suter Honda) were Honda’s best finishers in the Moto3 race, the team-mates crossing the finish line together in 11th and 12th positions. Alexis Masbou (Ongetta-Rivacold FTR Honda) crossed the line two positions down in his first Grand Prix since he broke a leg last [...]
Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo led from start to finish at the Qatar Grand Prix to start the defence of his MotoGP™ title in the best possible fashion. Starting from pole, Lorenzo got an excellent start and led into the first corner and was never headed, going to cross the finish line 5.990 seconds ahead [...]
Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo laid down a lap of 1’54.714 on his penultimate lap in QP2 to claim pole position for the first race of the 2013 MotoGP™ season at Qatar’s Losail International Circuit. Lorenzo’s time eclipsed that of Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow by 0.202 seconds, the two riders ensuring a Yamaha [...]
Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez produced a strong last lap effort to top Friday practice by just one-thousandth of a second and head the field into tomorrow’s qualifying sessions. Marquez edged out Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo to emerge quickest from the three ranked practice sessions, with Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow placing third overall [...]
Losail International Circuit will light up the opening round of the 2013 MotoGP™ season as the twenty-four riders contesting this year’s championship prepare to do battle in the Qatari desert. This year is Bridgestone’s fifth as Official Tyre Supplier to MotoGP™ and during that time, it has been the fast and technical Losail circuit that [...]
Britain’s James Ellison got the Paul Bird Motorsport Team’s latest venture underway with a solid finish in round one of the MotoGP World Championship in Qatar. Aboard the CRT-specification Aprilia ART, the 31-year-old Cumbrian and the PBM UK team headed by Phil Borley, continued their on-going development work at the Losail circuit and emerged with [...]
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