The third and final day of testing at Estoril for the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup concluded with a damp and cool Monday. The fastest times remained from Saturday’s session and while there were a number of fallers in the slippery conditions there were no injuries. There were no fast times to be had in [...]
The Estoril pre-season test for the 5th season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup got underway on Friday and Saturday with the 25 Rookies assembled from all over the world. Friday was damp and eventually curtailed by rain but a very pleasant day on Saturday saw everyone make maximum use of the track. Fastest [...]
The MotoGP class will complete its 2011 pre-season preparations in Qatar this Sunday and Monday, as the final Test before the opening race of the campaign takes place. Riding under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit the premier class will define and perfect their 800cc machines in readiness for the race at the same [...]
Evaluating the preseason of Moto2 rookie Kev Coghlan his team Aeroport de Castelló happily states the fact that the Scot was one of the few riders who never crashed in any of the testing sessions from Valencia to Jerez and racked up an impressive amount of kilometers on his new FTR 2011. On the final [...]
1. Hector Faubel ESP Aspar Aprilia 1m 47.443s (Day 3) 2. Nicolas Terol ESP Aspar Aprilia 1m 47.563s (Day 3) 3. Sandro Cortese GER Racing Team Germany Honda 1m 47.835s (Day 3) 4. Jonas Folger GER Red Bull Ajo Motorsport Aprilia 1m 48.022s (Day 3) 5. Maverick Vinales ESP Pev-Blusens-SMX-Paris Hilton Aprilia 1m 48.294s (Day [...]
The Tech 3 Racing Team will head to the first round of the 2011 Moto2 World Championship in Qatar later this month in optimistic mood having completed its pre-season preparations in Jerez today. After the first day of the Jerez test fell victim to more heavy rain that has caused major disruption to the winter [...]
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team riders Colin Edwards and Cal Crutchlow declared themselves satisfied with the progress at the end of a hugely productive three-day MotoGP test session in Malaysia today. Crutchlow was able to show his true potential on the final day after a difficult start to the test, which is the second of [...]
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 [...]