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Monthly Archives: March 2016

Qatar GP Results: Lorenzo’s Land
The 2016 MotoGP™ World Championship got off to a fiery start in Qatar as Lorenzo blitzed the field ahead of Dovizioso and Marquez. With new Michelin tyres [...]
Qatar GP: Warmup
Red Flag restart procedure revised: The procedure for restarting a race after a red flag has been revised to allow the bikes to return to racing sooner. [...]
Qatar GP: Qualifications
A tight Q1 session saw both Crutchlow & Smith head into Q2 to do battle for a top 12 grid spot for the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar. There was [...]
Qatar GP Free Practice 4
Lorenzo heads Marquez and Dovizioso as riders turn their focus to race distance during the revealing FP4 session. Free Practice 4 has classically been when [...]
Qatar GP Free Practice 3
Asserting himself as the fastest man again under the desert floodlights was Iannone who set a 1’54.639 to lead from Lorenzo and Marquez. After a productive [...]
Qatar GP Free Practice 2
MotoGP™ riders were the first on track on Friday due to Qatar’s unique schedule with Iannone topping the session from Marquez and Redding. With both ground [...]
Qatar GP Free Practice 1
Despite leading the MotoGP™ field by over a quarter of a second, Jorge Lorenzo feels he can go even faster in Qatar. Having left the Qatar Test as the [...]
2016: Time to Race!
With the tension ahead of the opening round building, six of the biggest names in MotoGP™ from 2015 gathered for the first press conference For the first [...]
Pier Paolo Bianchi
Starting competitions at Cesenatico in 1968, riding a Guazzoni 60. With the “mosquitoes Milanese” Bianchi ran until 1971, performing well both [...]
Bill Lomas
Bill Lomas had an inauspicious start to his TT career, retiring in the Clubman’s Junior Race of 1949 with a ‘repeat’ in the Junior TT of 1950. In 1951 [...]
Qatar Day 3: Tyres matters
A crash-filled final day in Qatar as the MotoGP™ World Championship conclude their pre-season testing, Lorenzo on top again. MotoGP™ riders were given one [...]
Qatar Day 2: Viñales take it back…
The second day of testing in Qatar sees three manufacturers split by under 0.1s at the top with Viñales back to his best. Once again it was Hiroshi Aoyama [...]
Qatar Day 1: Lorenzo
The MotoGP™ World Championship begin their final test before the 2016 season with Jorge Lorenzo leading the way. With the start of the season fast [...]
2016: New Aprilia RS-GP
Both riders took the covers off the brand new Aprilia RS-GP ahead of the Qatar Test, the Italian brand ready to take to the track. On the eve of the final [...]
2016: Final pre-season test
After three days in both Sepang and Phillip Island, the MotoGP™ World Championship heads to Qatar for one last test. The end of winter rapidly approaches; [...]