Ducati Scores First Home Win

Australian Casey Stoner has delivered Ducati its first ever win at home in Mugello with a frantic and hard fought wet race. With close battles for position throughout the race and throughout the field, and the added pressure of a mid race gamble onto slicks the Mugello Motogp was a cracker. Read more

Pasini Wins Race of the Season

Mattia Pasini has won his home Italian Grand Prix at Mugello from compatriot Marco Simoncelli and Alvaro Bautista. While the Italian fans are celebrating a popular one –t wo, Simoncelli’s result is yet to be confirmed, with officials investigating a lap 11 collision between the lanky Italian and bitter rival Bautista. Read more

Smith wins second race of season

British youngster Bradley Smith has won his second race of the season, elevating him to the championship lead by 3.5 points and staking his claim as a genuine championship contender. Smith won the frantic Mugello race from Spain’s Nico Terol with Smith’s Bancaja Aspar teammate and fellow title challenger Julian Simon finishing a hard fought third on an ailing Aprilia. 

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Lorenzo Wins in Le Mans

Jorge Lorenzo has won an intriguing Moto Grand Prix from veteran mastermind Marco Melandri and fast finishing Dani Pedrosa after a race that saw strategy and tyre choice come into play and unto reigning champ Valentino Rossi. In a wet race riders were given the option to change bikes to a dry tyre mid way through and it was Marco Melandri who played the strategy the best. Read more

Marco Simoncelli - Rainmaster

Marco Simoncelli has added fuel to his title defence with a dominant wet-race win ahead of Hector Faubel and veteran teammate Roberto Locatelli. After missing the first two rounds due to injury reigning Champion Simoncelli needed a win to ignite his title defence and delivered on a day that his challengers suffered from bad luck and mistakes. The wet conditions proved challenging for the 250cc pilots with many, including Alex Debon crashing more than once during the race. Read more

Aspar Dominates Race of Attrition

Julian Simon has taken the lead in the 125cc World Championship after piloting his Bancaja Aspar Aprilia to a commanding victory at Le Mans. In trecherous conditions the 125cc race became a race of attrition as lap after lap riders succumbed to the slippery French surface. With most riders falling at the off camber entrance to the Dunlop Chicane, Simon managed to hold his nerve, finishing 27 seconds ahead of German Jonas Folger. Read more

The Professor’s Masterclass

Valentino Rossi has won his sixth Spanish MotoGP in Jerez ahead of local hero Dani Pedrosa and Ducati’s Casey Stoner. Rossi put on a masterclass, hunting down Lorenzo, Stoner and Pedrosa in turn on his way to a commanding victory. Read more

Aoyama Wins Blinder

Hiroshi Aoyama has won a tumultuous 250 Grand Prix on a four year old Honda from title leader Alvaro Bautista and reigning champion Marco Simoncelli. The heated battle saw dozens of lead changes over the course of the 28 laps with as many as four riders including a newly matured Hector (Hectic) Barberra vying for the win until the dying stages.

In the end though it was Hiroshi Aoyama who scored a scintilating win. Read more