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AMA’s Blake Young Racing in the US MotoGP Rounds
AMA Superbike runner-up Blake Young will ride the Attack Performance CRT machine at all three US MotoGP rounds this year. The former Yoshimura Suzuki rider has signed with Attack Performance owner...
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Karel Abraham Debuts His Cardion AB Aprilia ART
The Czech Republic’s favorite rider, Karel Abraham, is ready for the 2013 MotoGP Championship, as his Cardion AB team has debuted its Aprilia ART entry. Making the jump from the Ducati Desmosedici GP12...
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Listen to Attack Kawasaki’s Crossplane CRT Bike
The 2013 MotoGP Championship season is rapidly approaching us, and while many of the teams are now making their way to Sepang, Malaysia for their first test since the winter ban period, Attack Kawasaki...
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2013 MotoGP Pre-Season Testing Starts at Sepang
The long wait of so many MotoGP fans is nearly over. The 2013 MotoGP season is about to get underway, or rather, the phony war of testing, which is the first step on the road to the 2013 MotoGP season....
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MotoGP Sepang Test – Day 1: CRTs Meet Magneti Marelli
The first day of the extra two-day test for the CRT teams laid on to allow the teams using the new Magneti Marelli spec-ECU has been almost entirely wasted. A lack of parts and above all, a lack of...
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HRC Boss Reveals Details of Honda’s Production Racer: Conventional Valves,...
The production racer version of Honda’s RC213V is another step closer to reality. At Sepang, HRC Vice President Shuhei Nakamoto spoke to reporters and the MotoGP.com website about the new bike, and the...
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2013 MotoGP Season Preview
Every year, about now, there is one phrase which you will hear over and over again. With MotoGP testing behind us, and the start of the season imminent, every race fan chants the same mantra: “This...
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MotoGP Dropping Claiming Rule in 2014 – Goodbye CRT?
MotoGP’s Claiming Rule is set to be consigned to the history books. At the next meeting of the Grand Prix Commission at Barcelona, a proposal will be put forward to abandon the claiming rule...
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Casey Stoner Rules Out a MotoGP Return…Again
Casey Stoner has quashed rumors that he could make a return to MotoGP. In an interview with the British magazine Autosport, he says he will not come back to Grand Prix racing while it continues in the...
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GP Commission Confirms Dropping of MotoGP Claiming Rule, Reduces Cost of...
As we reported at Mugello, the claiming rule is to be dropped from the MotoGP rulebook. Introduced to prevent factories entering MotoGP under the guise of private teams, the claiming rule allowed any...
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MotoGP: Yamaha Up’s the Ante with Non-MSMA Race Bike
When Yamaha announced they would be leasing their M1 engines to ex-CRT teams for 2014, the first wave of reaction was overwhelmingly positive. With 24 liters of fuel allowed, and 12 engines instead of...
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MotoGP’s New Rules on ECUs & Factory Riders Explained
There was a small flurry of excitement when the minutes of the last meeting of the Grand Prix Commission, including rules on the spec-ECU and factory entries were announced last week. That was then...
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MotoGP Engine Usage at the Halfway Mark: Yamaha Struggling, Honda Dominating,...
With the 2013 MotoGP season at its halfway mark, now is a good time to take a look back and examine the engine usage for the teams and riders.In 2012, with the engine durability regulations in their...
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MotoGP Silly Season Update: Forward’s Privateer Yamaha M1s, Hayden’s Future,...
With all of the prototype seats occupied for 2014 – barring a contractual bust up between Ducati and Ben Spies, which is only an expensive theoretical possibility at the moment – battle has commenced...
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Monday Summary at Silverstone: Rossi in the Second Group, An Improving...
With so much happening at the front of all three races at Silverstone last Sunday, it is easy to overlook the battles behind. Especially when those battles seem to be falling into a fixed pattern,...
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MotoGP Drops “CRT” Name for “Open” Class Designation
When it was announced that the claiming rule was to be dropped and the rules would be changed for 2014, one of the main questions was what to call the new class. After some complaining early on, MotoGP...
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Rating the Riders of MotoGP: Espargaro & Iannone
After rating the top ten finishers in the championship, it is time to turn our gaze to those outside the top ten worthy of note. Below is a look at the seasons of Aleix Espargaro and Andrea Iannone, in...
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Rating the Riders of MotoGP: Edwards & Petrucci
After rating the top ten finishers in the championship, it is time to turn our gaze to those outside the top ten worthy of note. Here is a view of Colin Edwards and Danilo Petrucci, two riders who both...
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DR Moto – The Ultimate Yamaha R1 Track Bike
The Yamaha YZF-R1 is a fantastic machine, in just about any iteration you can find. A potent weapon on the track, the R1 might not have all the bells and whistles that are found on European superbikes,...
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Buy a MotoGP Bike, Just in Time for Christmas
Are you having a hard time finding that special gift for the motorcyclist in your life? We might have just the thing for you. Paul Bird Motorsports is unloading their MotoGP equipment, now that the...
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Bryan Staring to Ride the Gresini CRT MotoGP Bike in 2013
One more slot in the 2013 MotoGP line up has been filled. Today, the Go & Fun Gresini team announced that they have signed Bryan Staring to ride the FTR Honda CRT bike for them in MotoGP in 2013....
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MotoGP: Paul Bird Motorsport Confirms Yonny Hernandez and Michael Laverty for...
Paul Bird Motorsport has finally announced its rider line-up for the 2013 MotoGP season, and unsurprisingly James Ellison is not a part of the team. Bumping up to a two-rider squad, PBM will have Yonny...
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Chris Vermeulen Back in MotoGP?
Former Rizla Suzuki-man Chris Vermeulen may be returning to the big show, as the Australian has been linked to a CRT ride, after contacting the IodaRacing Project. Also former factory rider for...
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MotoGP Tire Allocation Expanded & Open Class Killed Off
The Grand Prix Commission, MotoGP’s rule-making body, met last week to make a few minor updates to the rules for MotoGP in 2016. The two biggest changes to the rules relate to the two biggest changes...
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The Fruits of Carmelo Ezpeleta’s Grand Plan for MotoGP
Sometimes decisions are a long time in the making. Tech3's decision to leave Yamaha and sign with KTM may have been made in the space of a few months, but the genesis of that choice, the process that...
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