Marco Melandri
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WSB preview: Round 9, Laguna Seca – the stats that matter
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Ahead of this weekend’s WSB round at Laguna Seca, California here’s a vast stack of excellent stats to get your bike racing brain firing on all cylinders. Check out the amount of time that Tom Sykes appears in the important-stats list! 17 – A European rider won here for the first time after 16 races:…
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Number 700! Race 2 in Aragón this weekend marks the 700th race in WorldSBK history
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WorldSBK came to life on the weekend of the 3rd of April, 1988, and exactly 28 years later is set to hit the milestone of 700 races in Race 2 at MotorLand Aragón. To celebrate three decades of the world’s top production motorcycle racing Championship, here’s a look through the landmarks that laid the way…
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WSB Aragon – the stats, facts and figures you need to know for this weekend
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WSB Aragon – the stats, facts and figures you need to know for this weekend. Want to pretend that you’re a WSB expert? Then here’s all you need to know! This is the facts and figures crib sheet that the telly people rely on – and you can have it too. This is how the…
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Lowes and Guintoli with Yamaha for WSB return in 2016
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Yamaha has announced that it will return to WSB next year as an official squad being run out of the British Crescent racing base. It has signed battling Brit, 2013 BSB Champion Alex Lowes and 2014 World Superbike champion Sylvain Guintoli to ride the R1 superbike in the championship. Here’s what Yamaha itself said about…
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Melandri: “ I had hoped to keep up with the group of riders
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Aprilia Racing Team Gresini’s Marco Melandri had a much better weekend in Argentina as he made positive steps forward with the RS-GP bike.
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Marquez leads MotoGP Sepang 2 test
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The weather has played a major part in each MotoGP team’s testing plans, with the searing heat during the day meaning that realistically riders could only set flying laps within a small time-frame when the sun wasn’t at its peak. Most teams focused on developing the bike and finding their riders’ ideal set ups over…
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MotoGP Sepang 2 Test day 1 results: Rossi leads
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Weather-wise it was a difficult day for the teams with the track temperature approaching 60 degrees at times leading to a lack of grip which meant it was impossible for any rider to post a time comparable to the previous test here at the Malaysian circuit. In fact Rossi’s best lap of 2’00.414 was a…
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Marc Marquez back in front after third day of MotoGP testing
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Marc Marquez led the Sepang 1 test timesheet with a superb 1’58.867s lap as the pace increased on Friday morning, with the MotoGP™ World Champion and many of his rivals also going on to carry out race simulations before departing from Malaysia. The early hours of the action on Friday saw relatively cool temperatures and…
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MotoGP testing: Marquez posts best time, Rossi second
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With 30 riders featuring on track, the full 2015 MotoGP grid were all in attendance other than Pramac Racing rider Yonny Hernandez, who should return from injury at Sepang 2. Five test riders from the various factories also gathered data for their respective manufacturers. Repsol Honda’s double MotoGP™ World Champion Marquez recorded his best time…
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2015 MotoGP entry list revealed
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The entry list for this year’s MotoGP World Championship has been revealed. There will be 25 riders lining up on the grid, 16 of them on factory machines – thanks to the much-anticipated return of Suzuki and Aprilia. Testing starts this week (4-6 February) in Malaysia at Sepang and the first round kicks off on…
