Garry McCoy
Rossi’s Replacement And The Rookie Rule
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that MotoGP changed on Saturday - Thursday, 10th June 2010, 16:23 GMTWithin minutes of Valentino Rossi's terrible crash at Mugello, once it became apparent that the Italian's leg was broken, speculation began on who would replace the Italian. During the first update the assembled press received in a hushed media center at Mugello, one journalist, with blatant disregard for taste and decency (mea maxima culpa), pressed the Fiat Yamaha PR spokesperson on whether the team was working on a replacement. The spokesperson rightly pointed out that as the incident had happened less than an hour previously, it was perhaps a little too early to be thinking about this. Once the dust Rossi's crash had settled, though, and it became clear that The Doctor will be out for the next three to four months, the debate began in earnest. The list of possible replacements was already surprisingly long by Saturday night, and has only grown since then. Disregarding wishful thinking (Troy Bayliss and Garry McCoy) and the downright impossible (Max Biaggi, Toni Elias and Alex de Angelis, all under contract), the two options most commonly named are moving a rider up from the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha team (Ben Spies being most frequently named in this regard) or bringing in one of Yamaha's test riders to take Rossi's place. read more Read article
Garry McCoy quits FB Corse MotoGP project
Source: | Motorcycle Sport | MotoGP - Tuesday, 8th June 2010, 12:58 GMTGarry McCoy has ended his involvement with the FB Corse MotoGP project.The Aussie, who signed a deal to develop and race the former Oral Engineering 800cc concept in late January, quit the squad by mutual consent earlier this week. FB... Read article
Garry McCoy quits FB Corse MotoGP project
Source: | Motorcycle Sport | MotoGP - Tuesday, 8th June 2010, 12:58 GMTGarry McCoy has ended his involvement with the FB Corse MotoGP project.The Aussie, who signed a deal to develop and race the former Oral Engineering 800cc concept in late January, quit the squad by mutual consent earlier this week. FB... Read article
McCoy And FB Corse Separate, FB Corse Project Unlikely To Make Grid
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that MotoGP changed on Saturday - Sunday, 6th June 2010, 17:04 GMTThere have been doubts hanging over the fate of the FB Corse project almost from the moment it was announced. There were question marks about the state of the engine, worries about team financing, and problems with testing. After a test at Valencia, an initial press release announcing they had been accepted into the MotoGP championship had to be withdrawn, after Franco Uncini stated that the team had made good progress, but not enough to qualify for the grid. A later test for the bike planned at Misano had to be called off, after Garry McCoy, who had been contracted to test and race the bike, pulled out with a flu. That withdrawal seems to have been the final nail in the coffin of the project. Today, McCoy announced that he and FB Corse have decided to terminate their relationship. No reason for the withdrawal was given, but it seems logical to conclude that a lack of technical progress combined with the question marks hanging over the project's finances have forced McCoy to decide that enough was enough. read more Read article
Facts & Figures from Valencia
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Thursday, 8th April 2010, 13:57 GMT• Max Biaggi was able to climb onto the podium in Valencia in the second 2007 race but in all the qualifying sessions he never fared better than ninth. The Italian curiously finished four times in eighth place, three times in a row in the last three races run here. In the 500cc/MotoGP championship Biaggi always scored points out of seven starts and his best result is a second in 2004 behind Valentino Rossi. Biaggi started from pole in MotoGP in 2001 and 2002;• Three top-10 finishes out of four races run and a third place in race 2 in 2008 are the results of Carlos Checa at his home track in the World Superbike Championship, while in the 500cc/MotoGP championship he ran nine races obtaining as best result a fourth in the 2001 and 2005 editions;• Troy Corser, together with Noriyuki Haga, is the most successful winner at Valencia, with five wins, the first in 2000 and the last one in 2005. Corser however is not the leader for podium finishes, a record shared by Troy Bayliss and Haga with ten to Corser's eight, the last one obtained in 2008, race 1 in third. Corser is the absolute leader for poles and fastest laps, with four and seven;• Cal Crutchlow in the Supersport championship obtained at Valencia the first of the five wins which took him to the title last year;• Michel Fabrizio managed to climb onto the podium in Spain only at his seventh attempt, last year in race 1, when he was second behind team-mate Haga. Michel was able to repeat a podium finish in race 2 behind Haga and Spies. Last year he obtained also his best qualifying result, a fourth, his only start from the front row at the Ricardo Tormo;• The last three races run at Valencia were won by Noriyuki Haga, who won in race 2, 2008, and in both 2009 races, scoring in the latter also two fastest laps. Five wins for the Japanese rider, who has never started from pole here, and who obtained his best qualifying result last year, a third place, at his eighth race in Valencia;• Leon Haslam finished fifth in three of the four races he contested here;• The best result for Vittorio Iannuzzo came in his debut year, 2006, with a sixteenth place. In 2002 Iannuzzo posted his maiden win, pole and fastest lap in the Superstock 1000 championship. He won with a six seconds advantage over Giacomo Romanelli despite falling to eleventh in the early stages. Iannuzzo was crowned Superstock 1000 champion at the end of that year;• A win in 2008 in race 1 and two podiums in 2006 are the best results by Lorenzo Lanzi at Valencia, a track where he has always qualified in the top-10 except for his debut year, when he started thirteenth. Lanzi won the 2003 Superstock race beating Enrique Rocamora Ros and Lorenzo Alfonsi;• Good performances but also a fair share of bad luck for Max Neukirchner, who was taken down by Carlos Checa in the first 2008 race. Last year he was able to jump into the lead at the start and at the end of the races he obtained his best results in Valencia: third in race 1 and seventh in race 2. Max started from pole in 2008;• The best result for Andrew Pitt in Valencia came in the second 2005 race, when he was fifth. He didn't have much luck in the Supersport championship either, even in the year he became champion, 2008, when he was 19th starting from pole. His best result in the Supersport class is a second place behind Kenan Sofuoglu in 2007;• Jonathan Rea didn't manage to end in the top-10 in his superbike debut on the Spanish track, retiring in race 1 and finishing thirteenth in race 2 last year. In 2008 he was sixth on the grid and in the Supersport race;• Last year Luca Scassa was 18th and 24th in the Superbike races. In the Superstock 1000 championship he raced there three times with three different bikes: in 2004 he was seventh with Kawasaki, in 2005 21st with Yamaha and in 2006 fifth with MV Agusta;• Six races and no finishes in the top-10 for Jakub Smrz, whose limit seems to be the fourteenth place. The Czech rider finished fourteenth four times out of six races run here;• Tom Sykes in his Superbike debut in this track scored a seventh and a tenth in last year's races;• In his Superbike career Makoto Tamada has alternated a points finish to a retirement in Valencia: he was ninth in race 1 in 2008 and fourteenth in race 1, 2009, retiring both times in the second races. He had more luck in the MotoGP championship, when he was always in the points from 2003 to 2007, obtaining a fifth as best result in 2004;• Two wins out of fourteen starts for James Toseland on the Ricardo Tormo track: in 2004 race 1 and 2007 race 2, the years when he won the championship. He added to these two more podium finishes, in 2003 race 2 and 2004 race 2. Two front row starts: in 2003 and 2004. In his two years in the MotoGP championship he didn't manage to finish in the top-10 in this track;• Chris Vermeulen finished second behind Troy Corser in both 2005 races, starting from the same grid spot. In the MotoGP championship he managed to finish only once in the top-10 out of four races run: a sixth place in 2007;• Ruben Xaus won race 1 in 2007 and was second in both 2003 races behind team-mate Neil Hodgson. Last year he didn't manage to finish in the top-10, with a thirteenth and a sixteenth. VALENCIA RACE NOTES • Aprilia won three times here: in 2000 race 1 and a double in 2001 with Troy corser, who scored pole in both races;• BMW have yet to finish in the top-10 after the thirteenth and fifteenth places obtained last year;• Ducati have won twelve of the twenty races run in Valencia. In the last eight editions they missed the win only in 2007 race 2 (winner James Toseland, Honda) and in 2008 race 2 (Haga, Yamaha);• Only one win for Honda in Valencia, with Toseland in 2007, race 2. In the last two years the Japanese manufacturer obtained only one podium placement, with Carlos Checa, third in race 2, 2008;• Kawasaki have never won in Valencia and have obtained only two podium placements: a third with Gregorio Lavilla in 2001, race 2, and a third with Chris Walker in 2005, race 2;• The only wins by Suzuki came in the year Troy Corser was last crowned champion: 2005, when the Aussie dominated both races;• Yamaha won here only in the hands of Noriyuki Haga: in 2000 race 2 and eight years later in race 2. In the first win the winning bike was the YZF-R7, in the second the YZF-R1. Last year the only pole in Valencia, thanks to Ben Spies;• In the last three editions there have been three different manufacturers on pole: Ducati in 2007, Suzuki in 2008 and Yamaha last year;• In the last two editions the polesitter never won the race and in both cases he slid off in race 1. MILESTONES IN SPAIN • 1991: 25th fastest lap for Ducati, recorded by Doug Polen (Jarama);• 1992: (in Albacete) first win for Aaron Slight. First and only fastest lap and podium place for Daniel Amatriain; 25th podium for Fabrizio Pirovano;• 1993: (in Albacete) 100th presence in race for Fred Merkel. First pole position for Aaron Slight;• 1995: 100th fastest lap for Ducati by Pierfrancesco Chili (Albacete);• 1996: 10th win for Troy Corser (Albacete);• 1998: first pole for Noriyuki Haga (Albacete), the tenth for Yamaha;• 1999: (Albacete) 100th race start for Pierfrancesco Chili and Andreas Meklau;• 2000: 25th pole for Troy Corser;• 2001: 10th podium for Troy Bayliss;• 2002: 10th win and 25th podium for Troy Bayliss; 150th presence in race for Colin Edwards;• 2003: first front row presence for James Toseland;• 2004: first fastest lap for Garry McCoy, first podium for Steve Martin;• 2005: 100th race start for Chris Walker;• 2006: 25th win and 50th podium place for Troy Bayliss. 100th podium place for Troy Corser;• 2007: tenth win for Ruben Xaus, 150th race start for James Toseland;• 2008: first pole for Max Neukirchner, the first for a German rider, first fastest lap for Carlos Checa;• 2009: 50th fastest race lap for Noriyuki Haga, the first rider to reach this goal. Tenth podium for Max Neukirchner. SUPERSPORT FLASH DATA Only Sebastien Charpentier has been able to win more than one Supersport race at Valencia (2005 and 2006); in 2009 Yamaha won with Cal Crutchlow ending a streak of four consecutive Honda wins. SUPERSTOCK 1000 FLASH DATA Daniel Oliver is the only Spanish rider able to win a Superstock 1000 Valencia on his home track (in 2000). SUPERSTOCK 600 FLASH DATA In the last three editions Yamaha has scored pole, the win and fastest lap. IT HAPPENED IN PORTIMAO • Maiden career pole for Cal Crutchlow, the 52nd rider in history to start from the front spot. Crutchlow is the twelfth youngest at 24 years, 4 months and 27 days. The record was set in Phillip Island, 1994, by Anthony Gobert (19 years, 7 months and 25 days). The last pole by Yamaha was recorded on this same track last year by Ben Spies;• Two races into the season and Carlos Checa has already collected more front row starts than the entire 2009 season, when he started from the front only at Miller. The Spaniard also recorded his first fastest lap since the 2008 Magny Cours race;• First career double for Max Biaggi. A double win by Aprilia has been missing since the 2001 Valencia races (Troy Corser). With his two podium placements, Biaggi took his career tally to 35, reaching Ruben Xaus. The Italian also passed the goal of 1000 points accumulated (1023);• Leon Haslam scored his tenth career podium, the 36th rider in history to reach this goal;• Cal Crutchlow posted his second podium after one year and a half, when he was second in the second Donington race; Read article
Facts & Figures from Portimao
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Thursday, 25th March 2010, 23:08 GMT• Max Biaggi managed to climb on the podium only once out of four starts, in race one in 2009 (third); • in both races run here Shane Byrne finished fourth; • the best result for Carlos Checa is a second place in his first race run here in 2008; • also for Troy Corser the best result came in the first race of 2008: third; • Michel Fabrizio is the only active rider who has won in Portimao. The Italian won in race two last year, while in 2008 both races went to Troy Bayliss and the first one of 2009 to Ben Spies. Michel posted the fastest lap in both 2009 races and is the rider which scored the highest amount of points in Portimao: 56; • Noriyuki Haga only climbed on the podium once last year in race two (second); • Leon Haslam was third in the second 2008 race, while in 2009 he retired twice; • Vittorio Iannuzzo has never seen the chequered flag in Portimao: four participations and four retirements; • Andrew Pitt was second in the 2008 Supersport race; • Jonathan Rea is the only one of the current riders to get on the podium in both last year's races, in second and third. He is also the only one to have started from the front row both in 2008 and 2009; • the best result for Jakub Smrz came in the second race of 2009: eighth; • Makoto Tamada was in the points only once, even if he is the only one among the current riders to have always finished the races run in Portimao. His best result was a twelfth in race one last year; • Ruben Xaus retired in both the second races, in 2008 and 2009, his best result was an eighth place in race one last year. PORTIMAO RACE NOTES • Aprilia climbed on the podium only once with a third from Biaggi last year in race one; • the best result for BMW was an eighth scored by Xaus in race one in 2009; • Ducati won three races out of four in Portimao, missing the podium only last year in race one when the winner was Ben Spies (Yamaha); • Honda is the only manufacturer to have always placed a bike on the podium in the four races run here; • the best result for Kawasaki is a tenth place, scored in both 2008 races and in 2009, race one; • Suzuki never climbed on the podium in Portimao and last year in race one none of the Suzukis present made it to the chequered flag; • Yamaha won last year in race one and was able to climb on the podium only in another occasion, with a third by Corser in race one, 2008; • the pole position in both editions was posted by the rider crowned champion at the end of the season. MILESTONES IN PORTUGAL (Estoril 1988 and 1993, Portimao 2008 and 2009) • 1988: maiden pole and win for Stèphane Mertens, maiden fastest lap for Raymond Roche; • 1993: maiden fastest lap for Simon Crafar; • 2008: both Cal Crutchlow and Jonathan Rea recorded their maiden start from the front row. Crutchlow was at his second Superbike race, Rea at his maiden one. SUPERSPORT FLASH NOTES • in both editions the polesitter won the race; • Honda won both races and was on the podium five times out of six slots available. The only rider on the podium with a bike different from Honda was Garry McCoy last year: third with the Triumph; • the only rider able to score podium finishes in both edition was Kenan Sofuoglu, winner of the 2008 edition and second in 2009. Sofuoglu is also the only one who started from the front row twice. SUPERSTOCK FLASH NOTES • in the Superstock 1000 championship Ducati won both races, while in the Superstock 600 championship Yamaha won twice; • like in Supersport, also in Superstock 600 Yamaha monopolized the podium with five placements out of six available. The only non-Yamaha rider on the podium was Gino Rea with the Honda in last year's edition. Read article
WSS: ParkinGO Triumph BE1 Racing – Portimao preview
Source: bikeracenews.com - Thursday, 25th March 2010, 9:54 GMTAll set for the European debut of team ParkinGO Triumph BE1 Racing The squad’s four riders will take to the track for the second WSS round at Portimao starting on Friday. The 4592 metres long track, with its many fast, blind and up-and-down corners, was the venue of Triumph’s second podium, scored after a great race by Garry McCoy last year. Chaz [...] Read article
FB Corse Video – Triple Treat
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that at least there's a track at Aragon - Saturday, 20th March 2010, 12:09 GMTThe debut of the FB Corse bike at Valencia this week is perhaps best described as a moderate success. The three cylinder bike built by Oral Engineering demonstrated that it was reliable and had plenty of potential, though it was still at a very early stage of development. Garry McCoy lapped Valencia at around 1'40, well off the pace but not bad for a shakedown test run without any electronics. So far, the FB Corse has not been admitted to the MotoGP entry list, but a couple more tests should help get the bike ready to be examined again in time for the Jerez round of MotoGP at the beginning of May. read more Read article
FB Corse to enter MotoGP in Jerez
Source: | Motorcycle Sport | MotoGP - Thursday, 18th March 2010, 11:40 GMTThe new FB Corse squad claims to have been given approval to start racing in the 2010 MotoGP world championship from the third round in Jerez. The three-cylinder project has been given the green light after Garry McCoy put the... Read article
FB Corse to enter MotoGP in Jerez
Source: | Motorcycle Sport | MotoGP - Thursday, 18th March 2010, 11:40 GMTThe new FB Corse squad claims to have been given approval to start racing in the 2010 MotoGP world championship from the third round in Jerez. The three-cylinder project has been given the green light after Garry McCoy put the... Read article
