Valencia
FB Corse Bike “Not Yet Ready To Race”
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that MZ in Moto2 has a nice ring to it - Wednesday, 17th March 2010, 17:59 GMTAs the established MotoGP field warm their engines for the final test of the season at Qatar starting on Thursday, back in Europe, another bike has been auditioning to join the show. At Valencia today, the FB Corse team ran a timed test in front of Franco Uncini, Dorna and IRTA's representative sent to evaluate the project, with the hope of impressing Uncini sufficiently that the team and their rider Garry McCoy would be admitted as the 18th official entry into the MotoGP class. Their hopes have been dashed, however. Uncini's verdict, though full of praise for the team, is negative, and the FB Corse team will not be allowed to start the season at Qatar. Speaking to GPOne.com, Uncini described the project as "interesting," but said what the FB Corse really needed was more time and more miles on the bike to develop it further and refine it before it is ready to race. read more Read article
Byrne fired up for the rest of 2010
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Wednesday, 17th March 2010, 13:13 GMTAfter a great pre-season and pre-race test at Phillip Island things went off the rails for Shane Byrne (Althea Ducati) at the opening round of the year, as two crashes (one in first qualifying and one in warm-up) badly beat up the English rider and naturally held back his raceday performances. He was to finish only 14th and 12th, having been second fastest in testing, and top four after first qualifying. The upside, three weeks after the opening weekend ‘down under', is that there was no lasting damage to his body, and he is not only raring to go at Portimao, he is determined to make good ground at all the rest of the races in 2010. "The only thing I wanted was for the second race of the year to come along the week after Phillip Island. I just couldn't go fast after my crashes but now I need to get to Portimao, Valencia, Assen - all the other rounds. It is not about being fast at one track. I really like Portimao but I don't just want to go well, there, I want to be on the podium there, at Valencia, at Assen, and all the other places." Byrne knows that his lack of raceday pace was simply due to being beaten up from his fall, and knows that injury free his weekend could have been different. His team-mate Carlos Checa won race two, after all. "All through testing and early practice we showed we had the speed. But I just feel disappointed for Genesio Bevilacqua, the team owner, because he put a lot of faith in me giving me that ride in 2010. I really wanted to be Carlos at Phillip Island, and be the one giving Genesio the podiums!" Read article
ParkinGO Triumph BE1 Racing Launch
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Tuesday, 16th March 2010, 14:42 GMTEurosport International and Italian network La7 will broadcast the presentation of Triumph and ParkinGO's race programmes for 2010. The two networks will air the event, starting on Wednesday March 17th, with a press conference launching the Triumph ParkinGO European Series and Factory Team Triumph ParkinGO BE1, recently returned from the Australian WSS round. Journalists from the most important motorcycle publications will attend the event. At Valencia, they will have the opportunity to test both standard and Supersport Daytona 675 and the Street Triple R, machine that will be used in the Triumph ParkinGO European Series. The challenge will start on the 11th of April at the Valencia circuit. Read article
ParkinGO Triumph BE1 racing launch
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Tuesday, 16th March 2010, 14:42 GMTEurosport International and Italian network La7 will broadcast the presentation of Triumph and ParkinGO's race programmes for 2010. The two networks will air the event, starting on Wednesday March 17th, with a press conference launching the Triumph ParkinGO European Series and Factory Team Triumph ParkinGO BE1, recently returned from the Australian WSS round. Journalists from the most important motorcycle publications will attend the event. At Valencia, they will have the opportunity to test both standard and Supersport Daytona 675 and the Street Triple R, machine that will be used in the Triumph ParkinGO European Series. The challenge will start on the 11th of April at the Valencia circuit. Read article
MZ And Ant West Now An Official Moto2 Entry
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that the winter is now officially over for racing fans - Tuesday, 16th March 2010, 14:06 GMTWith the official withdrawal of the Kino Racing team from the Moto2 field yesterday comes a new opportunity. To fill the place vacated by the Argentinian rider Fabrizio Perren, the first reserve rider has been allowed onto the grid, in the shape of Ant West and the MZ team. West has been testing with MZ since last year, though the team started out with one of West's former CBR600RR Stiggy Honda Supersport machines. Since then, Martin Wimmer and former 250 star Ralf Waldmann have been working on a trellis framed prototype which West has tested at Valencia, Barcelona and Jerez. There is a certain poetic irony to the return of the MZ name to the middle class. The former East German factory revolutionized the 250s and sounded in the two stroke era when Walter Kaaden took the technology he had learned building V1 rockets and applied it to two-stroke exhausts. After a modest debut in 1957, the factory returned with a vengeance in 1958, its two-stroke engine radicalizing engine design throughout the 1960s, eventually forcing the four strokes out of the sport. It took a rule change imposed by the MSMA to finally kill off the two strokes in the intermediate class, and the introduction of the 600cc four-stroke Moto2 bikes. read more Read article
Moto2 Latest: Kino Racing Folds, Wilairot And Faubel To Use Bimota
Source: MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks - ... that the winter is now officially over for racing fans - Monday, 15th March 2010, 19:51 GMTAs the Moto2 class approaches its inaugural race, the field is going through a shake out and approaching its final lineup. For some teams this is good news, for others less so. The Stop & Go team can number themselves among the former: Today, the team confirmed it would be taking part in the 2010 Moto2 season under the name Thai Honda PTT SAG, and fielding the Bimota chassis for their two riders Ratthapark Wilairot and Hector Faubel. There had been question marks over the team, after both Wilairot and Faubel had failed to turn up at any of the Moto2 tests since the post-race tests at Valencia. The trouble was one of contracts, team manager Edu Perales told MotoGP.com. The team had originally been negotiating with Suter for chassis, but had backed out in the end over disagreements over support. Bimota offered a more direct contact with the manufacturer, a chance that Perales and the SAG team had jumped at. The delay has caused a problem for the team. Both riders are chronically short of test time, and will get their first proper test on the bike at Jerez in two weeks' time. Both Wilairot and Faubel will have a lot of catching up to do in those three days. read more Read article
BMW Update
Source: WORLDSBK.COM | NEWS - Thursday, 11th March 2010, 13:42 GMTThe official BMW Motorrad Motorsport team had some up and down experiences during the opening round of the season, but the team is now working on getting both riders and their machines ready for the first European-based round of the season, at Portimao. Davide Tardozzi, team manager for the German-based squad, is currently in Spain with the test team, at Valencia, and met with factory rider Ruben Xaus recently. Ruben was ruled out of the Australian races after the effects of four practice crashes on his mind and body, but Tardozzi confirmed that he is on course for a return at Portimao. "The main issue at this moment is to have Ruben on form in Portimao," confirmed Tardozzi, who has been Xaus's team manager in the past, as well as in the BMW set-up in 2010. "We are working on that, it is my priority so far. Ruben is not so bad so far. I am in Spain now and I spoke to him here. I think Ruben still thinks he can be fast and do well, and I have seen he is very well in these two days, so I think he will be ready for Portimao." The BMW S1000RR will have more technical updates in Portugal but for Tardozzi improvements must still come gradually, to ensure a more consistent degree of competitiveness. "On the technical side we will have another step on the bike," said Tardozzi. "We are making progress step by step, not looking for a huge step. You can't pass from seventh to first immediately; you first have to be consistently close to the top guys. Houses are built stone-by-stone." Read article
Jerez testing update from WTR San Marino Team, March 6-8, 2010, Circuito de Jerez
Source: Motourage - Monday, 8th March 2010, 20:32 GMTJust a few days after the end of the first International Road Racing Teams Association privateer teams test at Valencia, the WTR San Marino Team returned to testing; this time in the rain at Jerez. The first day, Saturday, was characterized by strong rain, which made it impossible to enter the track until 2pm, when, fortunately, [...] Read article
Márquez maintains leading form at Jerez
Source: News RSS on motogp.com - The Official MotoGP Website - Monday, 8th March 2010, 17:06 GMTThe Red Bull Ajo Motorsport rider is the fastest 125cc rider at the second official test, as he was last week at Valencia. Read article
VALENCIA AND JEREZ MOTO2/125GP DAY TWO TEST TIMES
Source: Bike Sport News RSS Feed - Monday, 8th March 2010, 0:00 GMTAll of the times from day two at Valencia and Jerez Read article
