Casey Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso to start the season with ‘standard’ 2011 chassis. Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa still to decide.Repsol Honda MotoGP riders Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso have been testing several chassis options for the 2011 factory RC212V.However, they have not all been testing the same variations, and only two of [...]

Casey Stoner signed off on a successful visit to Malaysia by breaking the lap record on the final day of pre-season testing on Thursday. The Repsol Honda rider clocked a best lap of 1 minute 59.665 seconds, almost one second quicker than the previous record set by Valentino Rossi in 2009, a time which completed [...]

Casey Stoner ended the final MotoGP pre-season test in Sepang in spectacular style on today, smashing the lap record at the Malaysian circuit. The Australian topped the time sheets ahead of his Repsol team mate Dani Pedrosa, with Marco Simoncelli third quickest. Great things are expected of Stoner this season – and the Australian gave [...]

Casey Stoner moved ahead of team-mate Dani Pedrosa in the final minutes; Ben Spies was unhurt in a fall during the last hour; Valentino Rossi was forced to miss the whole second day due to sickness. Testing at Sepang concludes on Thursday evening. CLICK HERE for pictures from the test… 1. Casey Stoner AUS Repsol [...]

Former world champion Casey Stoner says authorities should not rush into a date change for the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix. The Honda racer says he would be happy to race at Phillip Island at the start or near the end of the season – but the key issue is ensuring the round remains at the [...]

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 – 9:22 AM Source: BigPond Sport Australian Casey Stoner recorded the fastest time of MotoGP testing in Malaysia on Tuesday. On board his Repsol Honda, Stoner was the only rider to set a lap time of under two minutes and one second in sweltering conditions at the Sepang circuit. Stoner’s quickest [...]

Hot pace … Aussie star Casey Stoner impresses on his Honda at the Sepang circuit. Source: Lai Seng Sin / AFP Australia rider Casey Stoner finishes on top of the MotoGP testing timesheet, as Honda riders dominated the opening day of a three-day test at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit. The Repsol Honda rider led his teammate [...]

Rossi’s pre-season preparations have been hampered by a shoulder injury By Azi FarniBBC’s new pit-lane reporter Many of you in the United Kingdom will not know who I am but I have been working in the paddock since 2009 as a reporter for Dorna and motogp.com. It has been a great experience going from watching [...]

Just under three weeks after its previous appointment at the Sepang International Circuit the MotoGP class returns to the site of the penultimate round of the 2011 World Championship, as the 17 riders that will make up the grid for the forthcoming campaign continue their pre-season preparations in Malaysia. The Test commences on Tuesday and [...]

Wed, 16 Feb 14:49:00 2011 Dani Pedrosa says Valentino Rossi can never be discounted as a title contender, despite the somewhat inauspicious start to the seven-time MotoGP world champion’s career as a Ducati rider. Rossi finished the first pre-season test of 2011 in a modest 11th position overall, while Pedrosa – together with Honda stablmates Casey Stoner and Marco Simoncelli – [...]