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BSB: Leon Haslam holds off Josh Brookes at Snetterton with the top eleven covered by less than a second!
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Leon Haslam held off a hard-charging Josh Brookes to top the opening day at Snetterton as the Bennetts British Superbike Championship returned to the track with an incredibly close second free practice session as the top 11 riders were covered by just 0.993s! The session got underway in warmer conditions than earlier in the day…
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MotoGP: Hammer down: Jorge Lorenzo fastest, Marc Marquez 12th
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Mugello race winner Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) was the man to beat on the opening day at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya, ending FP2 top of the timesheets after setting a 1:38.930 – the only rider to step under the 1:39 bracket. The Spaniard improved his time by over 0.8 seconds from…
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Artist imagines a pair of Royal Enfield 650 Scramblers
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Late last year, Royal Enfield unveiled a duo of all-new 650 twins at the EICMA motorcycle show – and now, render experts, Motosketches, has reimagined them as a pair of Scramblers. Admittedly, there’s been no official word from RE – and as far as we know, the Indian-based brand isn’t working on an off-road oriented version…
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MotoGP: Valentino Rossi tops opening session in Barcelona
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Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) topped FP1 at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya, his 1:39.456 that was set on soft compound tyres was 0.347 quicker than second place Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team), who set his quickest time with a hard rear tyre. Third fastest in the opening session of the weekend was Mugello…
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WSBK: Phenomenal Lowes leads Yamaha one-two at Brno
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Maiden WorldSBK win for the British rider in crazy Czech Race 2 Alex Lowes (Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team) took his first-ever MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship race win at the Acerbis Czech Round, in an astonishing Race 2 which saw championship leader Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) crash out early on. The thousands…
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WSBK: Unstoppable Rea grabs sweet sixtieth win at Brno
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Reigning champion triumphs in Czech return and opens 81-point gap in title battle When the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship last graced the flowing hills of the Automotodrom Brno, Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) was a promising 25-year-old with 10 race wins to his name, no world championships, and still very much a diamond…
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WSBK: KRT one-two as Sykes again squeezes past Rea in closing stage
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Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) extended his historic Tissot Superpole record at the Automotodrom Brno with a brilliant final lap. The MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship returned to the Czech Republic in the same way it did six years ago, in the last Saturday here: with ‘Superpoleman’ Sykes leading the way into Race 1.…
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MotoGP: HRC CONFIRM Jorge Lorenzo is joining them in MotoGP! UPDATE – here’s the official release.
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HRC has just announced via it’s official twitter page that it has signed Jorge Lorenzo to run on the orange and black bikes. Whilst the statement has temporarily vanished from the link (no doubt whilst someone is getting their backside kicked for going early with the news), the team has forgotten to take down the…
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WSB: Czech round this weekend – here’s 10 things to know about WSB, going in
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1. Michael van der Mark (Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team) recorded his maiden WorldSBK win at the same age as Chaz Davies (Nurburgring/2 2012): 25 years, 7 months, 0 days. 2. Van der Mark is the only rider in history with his first two wins separated by one day. Before the new weekend format was introduced,…
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MotoGP: Lorenzo’s land: Mugello hosts the return of a king
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A first imperious win for Ducati in a 1-2 for the team sees the five-time World Champion reign in Italy, with Rossi completing the rostrum Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) has taken his first win in red as he led a 1-2 for the Ducati Team at Mugello, uncatchable and untouchable to cross the line over…
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