The second official Moto2 test at the Jerez circuit in Andalucia was a virtual washout, with rain disrupting the Marc VDS Racing Team’s test schedule on each of the three days. Scott Redding arrived at Jerez determined to close the gap on the leading riders at the recent Valencia test, but the 17-year-old British rider’s [...]
Shoya Tomizawa was the quickest rider of day two at the Circuit de Catalunya, as the Japanese rider set a time of 1’49.4 on his Suter MMX machine from 65 laps. The Technomag-CIP rider was followed closely by Jules Cluzel (Forward Racing, 59 laps) and Yonny Hérnandez (Blusens-STX), who both registered 1’49.6 on their respective [...]
Scott Redding was amongst a selection of riders and teams testing their Moto2 prototypes at Almeria over a two-day test, with weather conditions affecting day one on Monday before a clearer outlook on Tuesday allowed further action on the track. Czech rider Karel Abraham set the fastest lap of the test on his FTR M210 [...]
1. Bradley SMITH APRILIA 2:06.9082. Andrea IANNONE APRILIA 2:07.0213. Sandro CORTESE DERBI 2:07.0904. Scott REDDING APRILIA 2:07.4645. Marc MARQUEZ KTM 2:07.7516. Jonas FOLGER APRILIA 2:07.8567. Lorenzo ZANETTI APRILIA 2:08.0348. Takaaki NAKAGAMI APRILIA 2:08.1089. Sergio GADEA APRILIA 2:08.25010. Pol ESPARGARO DERBI 2:08.29611. Danny WEBB APRILIA 2:08.424…26. Matthew HOYLE HAOJUE 2:14.758
125cc 1. Bradley SMITH APRILIA 2:06.5682. Andrea IANNONE APRILIA 2:06.7083. Julian SIMON APRILIA 2:07.0424. Sergio GADEA APRILIA 2:07.8435. Joan OLIVE DERBI 2:08.0626. Jonas FOLGER APRILIA 2:08.3917. Sandro CORTESE DERBI 2:08.5028. Pol ESPARGARO DERBI 2:08.5319. Esteve RABAT APRILIA 2:08.61710. Randy KRUMMENACHER APRILIA 2:08.78311. Scott REDDING APRILIA 2:08.98523. Matthew HOYLE HAOJUE 2:17.277
Only the smallest of margins has separated Bradley Smith and Bancaja Aspar teammate Julián Simón in 125cc preseason testing, with the latter having had the lion’s share of the bragging rights since his return to the class.Smith was once again close to knocking his rival from the head of the timesheet at last week’s Official [...]
British 125gp world title hopeful Bradley Smith has tried to challenge Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton to a motocross battle.The Aspar Aprilia rider met the McLaren driver during a recent pre-season f1 test in Barcelona while he was training at randy mamola’s house. The 18-year-old told MCN: “He is such a nice guy. He’s [...]
Session 1 1 Julian SIMON (APRILIA) 1:47.5202 Marc MARQUEZ (KTM) 1:47.6253 Bradley SMITH (APRILIA) 125cc 1:47.6924 Pol ESPARGARO (DERBI) 1:47.9205 Andrea IANNONE (APRILIA) 1:47.9296 Takaaki NAKAGAMI (APRILIA) 1:47.9837 Sandro CORTESE (DERBI) 1:48.0238 Efren VAZQUEZ (DERBI) 1:48.3229 Joan OLIVE (DERBI) 1:48.36410 Sergio GADEA (APRILIA) 1:48.53212 Scott REDDING (APRILIA) 1:48.59014 Danny WEBB (APRILIA) 1:48.744 30 Matthew HOYLE [...]
“Basically today we have only one round of production, because we had an incident with the bike. At first we did not know what it was, so the mechanics have had a hard day’s work, frankly, doing and undoing in finding the solution . The problems have come from the gearbox, was not able to [...]
