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Entries Tagged as 'Moto GP 2009'

Toseland ousted from Moto GP by Spies?

September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

At this time of year in the motorcycle racing season speculation becomes rife about where our favourite riders will end up next year. Sometimes it seems unfair that certain racers get to lose their ride when their season has been dogged by injury and mechanical failures, but that is the lot of the professional motorcycle [...]

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Misano Moto GP Report

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Who’s the Donkey Now? When Valentino Rossi retires from competitive racing I think he should start a promotion agency as the Donkey on his helmet idea, to say yep I was an idiot last weekend, was inspired, and means he can laugh at himself whilst still getting down to the serious business of winning races [...]

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Unexpected Result At Last Donington Moto GP

July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Yesterdays last Moto GP at Donington race track certainly threw up an unexpected result. With weather conditions tricky all weekend and a wet practice on the morning of the race, the race itself was declared wet despite very little falling rain and the track being visibly dry in a lot of places. Ducati decided to [...]

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Donington Moto GP Qualifying

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

In a dry qualifying session Donington ahead of tomorrow’s British GP there were lots of changes of position during the hour, some surprises and some almost foregone conclusions. Early on Jorge Lorenzo was the man to beat, with Casey Stoner close on his tail and Dani Pedrosa who was riding very quick and smooth, in [...]

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Yamaha Duo Have Epic Battle at Catalunya Moto GP

June 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Yamaha teammates Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo have no doubts about who is their biggest challenger to the Moto GP Championship in 2010 – each other. In qualifying for the Catalunya race Rossi held the top spot for most of the latter part of the session and no other rider seemed to be able to [...]

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Mugello Moto GP Report

June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Mugello was another challenging GP for the riders, but exciting for the fans, as they yet again had to cope with wet race tyres on a drying track and calculate when was the best time to come in and change to slicks. Although Casey Stoner got away to a good start, together with Chris Vermeulan, [...]

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Surprises At Moto GP Le Mans

May 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Yesterday’s Moto GP was one of the best I have seen in a long time and all thanks to the unpredictable weather conditions. The race was declared wet and all of the front runners chose cut tyres. However it was clear from the off that the track was drying quickly, which meant that tyre deterioration [...]

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Bradley Triumphs at Jerez Moto GP

May 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Although Moto GP press interest is largely focussed on the main race the smaller cc championships have much closer racing and are a lot more exciting as a result. Whilst in the main race there were four riders at the front of the starting grid most likely to take the win – Lorenzo, Pedrosa, Rossi [...]

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Spanish Moto GP Show Pleaser On The Cards

May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Valentino Rossi was widely predicted to take pole position at yesterday’s Moto GP qualifying session from Jerez, following his form in friday’s practice. However, Spaniards Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa had other ideas, bouyed up by their home crowd. Both riders rode blistering laps and were the only two to get into the 1.38s. In [...]

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Factory Teams Surprising Winners In Japan

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Racing

Moto GP has been suffering of late both with the weather causing havoc and also with it being a tad boring and predictable. The one tyre rule was supposed to sort out the boring bit and for the first time this season we saw some real evidence of that happening. Valentino Rossi took an early [...]

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