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#feature-wrapper,#carousel_control,#featured_posts {display:none;padding:0;margin:0;} .post { margin:0 0 15px; padding: 15px 15px; background:#fff url(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lxBSX0YJV58/SwQkg_x07sI/AAAAAAAAAi0/CGdD6bqHwXM/s1600/box-bg.gif) repeat-x top left !important; border:2px solid #eaeaea; } .post-body { padding-bottom:10px; margin:0; line-height:1.6em; background: url(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lxBSX0YJV58/SwQk0u1fWeI/AAAAAAAAAj8/KZzJfqsEaNg/s1600/dot.gif) repeat-x bottom; } .post h3 { width:543px; margin: 0px 0px; padding: 7px 0px 15px 0px; font-size: 22px; background: url(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lxBSX0YJV58/SwQk0u1fWeI/AAAAAAAAAj8/KZzJfqsEaNg/s1600/dot.gif) repeat-x bottom; }  HRC has confirms that Andrea Dovizioso will still on Repsol Honda line up for 2011 MotoGP. It means, after Casey Stoner join with Repsol Honda, there will be three rider on next year MotoGP for Repsol Honda team. This contract was announced after HRC and Repsol signed more two year contract. Previously Honda Racing Coorp ever had three riders on their line up while Mick Doohan, Alex Criville and Shinichi Ito rider for Honda at 1995.
?We are delighted to announce that our valued partners at Repsol will once again join us in our quest for the MotoGP World Championship next year,? comments team President Tetsuo Suzuki.
?Honda?s partnership with Repsol has been long and successful and we are very proud to be together again for this challenge into the future. We are also very pleased to expand the Repsol Honda Team to once again include three riders next year.
?Our current riders Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso will be joined by Casey Stoner, all racing in Repsol Honda colours, to form a truly formidable line-up that we believe can fight for victory at every race and achieve our joint goals, recapturing all three MotoGP World Championship titles.?
Andrea Dovizioso finished 5th on this season 2010 MotoGP, up one place from 2009 MotoGP season.   Franz Aschenbrenner Stuart Aspin Rossi wasn't allowed to comment publicly following his first test on his new Ducati GP11, but although he focused simply on getting to know the machine during the Valencia session (rather than trying for lap times), "quiet before the storm" seems apt. Pierluigi Aldrovanti Alejandro Aleman Eduardo Aleman The weather finally turned halfway decent for a test, with the sun out and temperatures rising for the World Superbike test at Phillip Island in Australia. The improved conditions saw Max Biaggi once again top the - admittedly very limited - timesheets with a lap of 1'32.3, but 2010 World Superbike champion - out on an Aprilia bearing the #1 plate - was only a couple of tenths faster than both Yamaha's Eugene Laverty and Biaggi's Aprilia teammate Leon Camier. Slowest man of the day was Laverty's teammate Marco Melandri, but even Melandri was just three tenths off Biaggi's fastest . Biaggi and Camier spent the day testing the 2011 Ohlins forks once again, as well as a new swingarm, fuel tank and engine update, aimed at smoothing power delivery. The pair also tested new Pirellis, though whether those tires will be ready for the season opener on February 27th remains to be seen. The day was spoiled by a couple of crashes, both happily ending without serious injury. Marco Melandri crashed and hurt a finger, though that did not slow him down, while Leon Camier came away from his crash unhurt, only to suffer a bird strike, the Englishman hitting one of Phillip Island's ubiquitous seagulls at high speed. That incident was painful enough for Camier to call an early halt to the test, after Camier suffered swelling in his arm read more 
 Bob Anderson Chris Anderson Fergus Anderson Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class use a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP uses four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc was replaced by the new Moto2 600cc four-stroke class. Grand Prix motorcycles are purpose-built racing machines that are neither available for purchase by the general public nor can be ridden legally on public roads. This contrasts with the various production categories of racing, such as the Superbike World Championship, that feature modified versions of road-going motorcycles available to the public.  honda motogp  motogp 500cc  2007 motogp  motogp images  motogp 2008  motogp test  motogp photos Eugenio Lazzarini Gianni Leoni Libero Liberati  After first seeing the TTXGP and then FIM e-Power race series lower their maximum bike weights to 250kg, thus barring the 266kg SWIGZ race bike from competing, Chip Yates and his SWIGZ.COM race team seem to be making the best out of a bad situation, and have announced that they will compete in the WERA Pirelli Sportsman Heavyweight Twins Superbike class race being held at California Speedway on January 9, 2011. Promoting an advanced KERS system, ...  Giovanni Zigiotto Luigi Zinzani Norick Abe Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin, Crew Chiefs, Pit Crews, Sprint Cup, Hendrick Motorsports, NASCAR  Although Dale Earnhardt Jr., winner of 18 career Sprint Cup races, has now stretched his winless streak at Hendrick Motorsports to 101 races, that's only part of the reason for the massive shakeup announced Tuesday, team owner Rick Hendrick said Wednesday. "This was not a Dale Earnhardt ... this was not a move that we made -- this major a move -- because of Dale or his situation," Hendrick said Wednesday in a teleconference. "I'm excited about making all four teams better. We need to be better across the board. It was a move to make all four better." It's hard to think that a racing juggernaut like Hendrick Motorsports, with five straight Sprint Cup championships in the history books and gunning for six in a row next year, might be going downhill. But Hendrick said as much Wednesday in describing why he shuffled the drivers and crew chiefs among three of his teams and switched driver partners in the twin pairing arrangement he has for the four teams at the organization's sprawling Concord, N.C. complex. "I think we just kind of got complacent and other teams were getting stronger and stronger, and we were just not where we needed to be," Hendrick said. "We just were off this year. The 48 was off. And we needed to make a lot of things better. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Francis Hollebecq Toshihiko Honma John Hopkins  Rossi was blinding fast during most of the qualifying session and even held pole for quite a while before Pedrosa snatched it away from him. Valentino Rossi will start on the second row, in fourth place on his Fiat Yamaha. We?ll bring you MotoGP action straight from the Spanish Grand Prix as it unfolds tomorrow. Stick around.  Jorge Lorenzo on Fiat Yamaha had a good session throughout but lost out to Pedrosa in the fag end to finish second fastest. Close on his heels was the Desmosedici Ducati Casey Stoner. Valentino Rossi meanwhile shrugged off the shoulder injury, one that he sustained during a motocross crash just yesterday.  Spaniard Dani Pedrosa outclassed the likes of three world champions, Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden and Casey Stoner. Spaniards who came in droves to cheer the Repsol Honda homeboy will return home with their hearts swelling with pride as both Pedrosa and Lorenzo rode a very strong qualifying session to emerge with top honors.This certainly augurs well for tomorrows Spanish GP as the entire of Jerez?s circuit will be rooting for the local boys.  Stefano Caracchi Jordi Carchano MartÃn Cárdenas  The FIM and Infront Motorsports announced Wednesday the launch of its own European Junior Cup, a support series racing alongside the World Superbike series, for fourteen to seventeen year old riders. According to a press release from the FIM, “riders will compete on identical race prepared Kawasaki Ninja 250R motorcycles,” racing in the time between the two WSBK races at Assen, Monza, Aragon, Silverstone, Nurburgring, and Mangy-Cours. Riders selected to compete will also attend a ...  János Drapál Geoff Duke Boet van Dulmen Filed under: Kevin Harvick, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Richard Childress Racing, NASCAR  HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Sitting on stage just to the left of his two championship rivals for a final NASCAR championship contenders press conference, Kevin Harvick leaned back in his chair and smiled, listening to Sprint Cup series points leader Denny Hamlin and second place Jimmie Johnson trade barbs and confidently explain how they planned to rise to the occasion in Sunday's season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. At times they looked awkward and uncomfortable with the situation -- each arguing the other was under greater pressure -- while Harvick, a 46-point third place underdog, couldn't have appeared more settled, looking every bit his nickname, "Happy" Harvick. Pressure? That was 10 years ago. "It seems like it has worked backwards for me with coming in and taking over Dale's (Earnhardt) car,'' said Harvick, 35, who was picked by Richard Childress to drive the late seven-time champion's car in the days after Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash in the 2001 Daytona 500. "You started with the biggest press conference you'll ever be a part of in your whole life. You start with the weight of the world on your shoulders. As it's gone through the years, it's actually gotten easier. It's almost like you've gotten prepared for these situations before you even got started. "There is no pressure this week. It's so easy, we're having fun, we're relaxed. We realize we have a small deficit to overcome and we've done it throughout the year beating both cars. So we're having fun with it.'' Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Gary Cowan Kevin Cowley Simon Crafar MotoGPBlog was lucky enough to catch up with Rick Broadbent, Times journalist and author of Ring of Fire. You can also read our review of his book, and while you’re there, pick up your copy though our Amazon store - see links at the end of the articles. Bruno Bertacchini Silvano Bertarelli Albert Bertholet    Valentino Rossi of Italy and Ducati Marlboro Team heads down a straight during the second day of testing at Ricardo Tormo Circuit on November 10, 2010 in Valencia, Spain. Esteve Rabat Wayne Rainey Michael Ranseder  According to the folks at Motocuatro, socialite Paris Hilton will be picking up where Antonio Banderas left off, and is set to unveil her 125GP team next Saturday. Officially Team SuperMartxé VIP by Paris Hilton, the unveiling of the team is to be held at the Hotel ME in Madrid, Spain. It’s not clear at this time where Hilton’s interest in motorcycle racing stems from (perhaps she is taking a page from, and one-upping, Kim Kardashian’s ...  Anton Mang Gyula Marsovsky Jorge MartÃnez Filed under: Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Jamie McMurray, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Chase for the Sprint Cup, Sprint Cup, NASCAR  Twenty years ago, when I started covering NASCAR stock car racing, the sanctioning body's public relations staff consisted almost exclusively of one man who ran 'his' media centers in the same dictatorial manner that his boss, the late Bill France Jr., ran NASCAR. That PR guy is now doing hard time in prison, but that's another story. Today, the many-tentacled NASCAR public relations operation is a media bureaucracy -- an endlessly churning mill of facts, figures, videos, press conferences, photos and other information and content. In their efficiency and zeal, bless their hearts, the PR folks at NASCAR have informed us exactly which five of the season's 36 Sprint Cup races were the best of the year. Although I don't agree with all the choices -- I think the race in Texas last month was one of the best races I've seen in years -- NASCAR says these five were selected "from discussions with the national series director, competition department and NASCAR PR managers." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Enrico Lorenzetti Jorge Lorenzo Marco Lucchinelli With the weekend's FIM awards ceremony paying homage to the 2010 championship winners, we thought we'd do the same for today's Monday morning Wake-Up Call. Woolsey Coulter Peter Courtney Gary Cowan |
