
Bradley Smith has shared his thoughts on Qatar and his steep learning curve in MotoGP in his blog over at Crash.net “Just when I thought I was getting to grips on riding a MotoGP bike I found out the hard way that I have still so much to learn. I’m on the plane to LA [...]

Here’s a photoset covering the weekend of young Brit John McPhee over in Qatar. Many thanks to both Racing Team Germany for the official shots and to Peter Ball of John’s backers – the Racing Steps Foundation – for the special ‘documentary’ / box shots. Much appreciated…

MotoGP Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo started his MotoGP™ title defence in the best possible way, winning Sunday’s Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar in dominant fashion as his teammate Valentino Rossi showed the world he was back on song as he and rookie sensation Marc Márquez fought it out for the final podium spots. [...]

Tech 3 Racing Team rider Danny Kent made a promising start to the new 2013 Moto2 World Championship in Qatar tonight after the British rider superbly fought his way through from outside the top 25 to finish just three places away from a points scoring position. Starting from 26th on the grid at the floodlit [...]

Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider Cal Crutchlow finished tonight’s opening MotoGP round in Qatar in fifth position after putting up a fantastic fight for the podium in a nail-biting 22-lap encounter at the Losail International Circuit. After starting from the front row of the grid for the eighth time in his MotoGP career, the [...]

Photoset of 2nd placed Moto2 rider Scott Redding of Marc VDS Racing across his hugely successful Qatar GP weekend. Source: Marc VDS Racing

Scott Redding got his 2013 World Championship campaign off to a flying start, with a superlative race to second place in Qatar tonight. Once early race leader Takaaki Nakagami had been despatched, Scott and Pol Espargaro put on a racing master class, going wheel to wheel on the Losail International Circuit until the final lap, [...]

A crash caused by Alexis Masbou brought a sad and premature end to what had been a great race for John McPhee in the season opener in Qatar. John crashed out on the penultimate lap of the Grand Prix when he was running 15th. He was taken out by Alexis Masbou on lap 17, who [...]

Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider Cal Crutchlow will start the 2013 MotoGP World Championship from the front row of the grid in Qatar tomorrow night after he starred in a dramatic and tense new qualifying format. A new qualifying system, which saw the fastest 12 riders go into a 15-minute shootout for pole position [...]