As a rider with a staggering nine world championship titles to his name – and at barely 30 years of age into the bargain – it is arguable that Valentino Rossi has been blessed with good fortune throughout his motorcycling career, but former British 500cc Champion Steve Parrish points out that sometimes, you make [...]

San Carlo Honda Gresini has officially launched its all-Italian ‘dream’ team for the 2010 MotoGP World Championship – with strong hopes that between them, Marco Melandri and Marco Simoncelli will be able to fly the flag high and ‘put a true flavour of Italy out on the track’. The Faenza-based outfit achieved seventh and [...]

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Nicky Hayden enjoyed a dramatic performance surge at Sepang on Friday – shredding 1.5 seconds from his best lap time to claim third on the end-of-test timesheets, in what Valentino Rossi called “the greatest surprise of the day”. Hayden, weakened by recent surgery to remove scar tissue from a previous arm-pump operation, had been [...]

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Australia’s Casey Stoner says he is unconcerned by arch-rival Valentino Rossi’s domination of MotoGP pre-season testing. Stoner’s Ducati was once again pipped by Rossi on a Yamaha in the second test at Sepang in Malaysia, but the former world champion declared himself happy with his progress. Rossi clocked the quickest time, less than two [...]

The Ducati Marlboro Team completed the first day of a second test session at the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia today as they continue their preparations for the 2010 MotoGP season. Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden were second and eleventh fastest on the unofficial time sheets today, without using the new tyres (hard front and [...]

One of the big improvers on day one of the second Sepang MotoGP test was Repsol Honda’s Andrea Dovizioso, who beat his eighth overall first test pace by over 0.6sec to claim third position – behind only Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner. “I’m very happy about this first day of testing,” said the Italian, [...]

After testing an exhausting range of set-up options and new parts, the Ducati Marlboro team is close to identifying the final ‘race specification’ for the big-bang powered Desmosedici GP10, which Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden will use during the 2010 MotoGP season. “This bike is completely new so it is necessary for us to [...]