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casey stoner gp winner 46:46:114

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spanish tribute for australian winner casey stoner 46:46:114

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 only [...]

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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 tenths [...]

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 medium [...]

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, who [...]

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 try [...]

Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Reigning MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi maintained his perfect start to 2010 by once again leading the way at the start of the second Sepang test. Rossi and 2007 world champion Casey Stoner occupied the top [...]

Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Suzuki believes the key to a competitive 2010 MotoGP season is not a specific performance gain, but getting the GSV-R to stay near the limit for longer. For the first time since 2004, Suzuki finished last [...]