Silverstone
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Ducati Riding Experience Academy’s first UK event heralded a stunning success
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*Ducati’s first running of the famous DRE Racetrack Academy in the UK at Silverstone *World-class instructors from Silverstone and Ducati, including Michele Pirro, Karel Abraham, Chaz Davies, Alex De Angelis, Ferruccio Lamborghini and Dario Marchetti *Limited to 60 participants riding a fleet of Panigale V4, Ducati offered a truly exclusive track experience on Britain’s only…
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VIDEO: How to Ride Silverstone GP Circuit – Track Guide
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Tim Neave returns to share more hints and tips on how to tackle UK tracks, this time he is riding Silverstone’s GP Circuit. The weapon of choice, BMW’s 50th Anniversary M 1000 RR, equipped with Dunlop’s GP Racer 212 tyres.
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MotoGP: British and Australian Grand Prix CANCELLED
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MotoGP organisers have confirmed that there’s going to be no top level racing at Silverstone and Phillip Island during the 2020 season. As a result of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and the numerous calendar changes, it has been announced that the British and Australian Grand Prix have been cancelled for 2020. The British Grand Prix…
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The UK’s California Superbike School has gone into liquidation.
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The school, which had been based at Silverstone Circuit, had spent the past 22 years teaching advanced motorcycle handling techniques on track. A statement sent out by the school, first reported in British Dealer News, blamed both falling numbers of riders taking up the courses and the effects of Brexit on the current state of…
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MotoGP: Rins ousts Marquez by 0.013 to win dramatic British GP
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Suzuki star steals victory from Championship leader’s grasp at Woodcote as we witness two big-hitters crash at Turn 1 Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) claimed a sensational victory at the GoPro British Grand Prix as he and Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) treated us to a phenomenal MotoGP race, the Suzuki man eventually beating the…
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MotoGP: Quartararo breaks lap record again to beat Rossi to top spot
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The rookie sensation managed to get the better of The Doctor with his final flying lap to lead the charge into qualifying Petronas Yamaha SRT’s Fabio Quartararo continued his dominance at the GoPro British Grand Prix by smashing the outright Silverstone lap record for the second time this weekend to top FP3. But, he was pushed…
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MotoGP: Frenchman Quartararo crucifies lap record and finishes top in FP1 and FP2 as we see scorching times set at a newly resurfaced Silverstone.
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Thanks to a track limit photo review after FP2 had ended, Fabio Quartararo’s (Petronas Yamaha SRT) 1:59.225 was allowed to stand to give the rookie phenomenon the advantage on Friday at the GoPro British Grand Prix – and a brilliant new lap record. Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) sits as Quartararo’s closest challenger, 0.251 splits…
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MotoGP: Rookie Quartararo goes close to the outright lap record as he heads Marquez and Viñales in FP1 at Silverstone
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Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) sent an early warning sign to his rivals after going tantalisingly close to the outright Silverstone lap record in FP1, the French rookie slammed in a 1:59.952 to head Championship leader Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) by 0.586. Maverick Viñales (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) was third quickest despite a crash…
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MotoGP: FULL SCHEDULE for this weekend’s British GP at Silverstone.
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This week the MotoGP circus heads to Silverstone for the British GP – and with free practice kicking off this morning, here are all the times you need to keep across the on-track action over the next few days. There’s been a slight change to Sunday’s schedule – but here are all the times and…
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MotoGP: It’s Silverstone this weekend and here’s a bucketload of stats about it.
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This is the tenth year that Silverstone has hosted a Grand Prix event since the motorcycle world championship series returned to the circuit in 2010 after a gap of 23 years. The first Grand Prix event held at Silverstone in 1977 was also the first motorcycle Grand Prix to be held on the British mainland.…
