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MotoGP: Now the FIM President has waded in about Coronovirus fall out – double-header weekends, Portimão and racing in January is on the table!
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To understand why the MotoGP year is being pushed as far as – potentially – January 2021, it’s important to understand that the minimum amount of racing rounds needed for a series to be a World Championshiop is 13. 12 is a World Series. Bearing that in mind then, you can appreciate the somewhat desperate…
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MotoGP: The USA round falls under Austin, Texas’ new ‘State of Emergency’ ruling. Prospects look iffy for April.
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After the cancellation of the 2020 opening round of the MotoGP championship and the postponement of the second round in Thailand (move to October in the calendar, to replace the Aragon round) there now seems to be early indications that another round of race action is falling foul of Coronavirus. The, what-would-have-been third round of…
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MotoGP: Dorna boss Ezpeleta talks about the Coronavirus plans: 'We will race at Christmas if we have to and GPs run behind closed doors might happen!'
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So here’s quite the set of quotes from Carmelo Ezpeleta, Dorna boss (basically the head honcho of MotoGP) about the impacts of the Coronavirus and how it will/could/might continue to disrupt the MotoGP calendar this year. There’s already been some upheaval in MotoGP plans with this weekend’s opening round of the MotoGP championship being cancelled…
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MotoGP: Updated 2020 race calendar released. New dates for Thailand and Aragon.
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An updated race schedule has been released for the 2020 MotoGP season – following the start of the championship being postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The big news is that there’s a new date for the Thailand Grand Prix, after it was postponed earlier this week. Racing will now head to the Chang International…
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WSB: Now THIS has been postponed too. Round Two of the World Superbike Championship in Qatar won’t go ahead.
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It’s just been announced that the Qatar round of the World Superbike Championship has been postponed. Travel restrictions to Qatar are being enforced as a result of the global coronavirus outbreak – and the latest victim is the second round of the WSB Championship. It’d been set to take place in Doha from 13-15 March…
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MotoGP boss: "There will absolutely be a 2020 MotoGP season."
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In a statement from Carmelo Ezpeleta, Dorna boss, things are starting to sound a bit desperate as far as the rest of 2020’s MotoGP happenings go. Clearly trying to alleviate any fears of further cancellations or postponements after this weekend’s MotoGP round at Qatar was cancelled and the season’s second round at Thailand was postponed…
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MotoGP: Now the Thailand Grand Prix is postponed
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In light of the earlier news about the MotoGP round at Qatar being cancelled, this has just arrived from MotoGP owners Dorna about the second round of the year at Thailand – Dorna has just said this: As the global outbreak of coronavirus continues to develop, the Thai government has communicated that it won’t be…
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MotoGP: Thailand round confirmed. It’s ON despite coronavirus global worry
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This has just come through from Dorna, the FIM, IRTA and the Thai government – and it’s very clear that the Thai round of this year’s MotoGP championship IS happening, despite rumours of a possible cancellation. There has been raised levels of concern over the round as the coronavirus is more widely reported on, but…
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VIDEO: Do YOU want to improve your RACING lines in the wet? Here’s how not to do it.
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We’ve just clocked this short clip of a group of bikers picking their through a set of wet twisties high up in the hills (somewhere in Asia). And it’s a perfect example of what to watch out for when you’re riding in the wet. https://www.facebook.com/KRspecs/videos/2912378745468902/ Catching sight of a sweeping left hander up ahead, the…
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MotoGP: Marc Marquez has had surgery on his right shoulder!
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Reigning World Champion will be discharged from hospital in the next 36 hours to begin recovery With his most successful premier class season to date finished, and the recent MotoGP tests behind him, eight-time World Champion Marc Marquez has had surgery on his right shoulder at the Hospital Universitari Dexeus-Quiron in Barcelona. The operation went…
