Full World Superbike Superpole qualifying times and grid line-up from round three of the 2009 championship, held at Valencia in Spain. Superpole 3: 1. Ben Spies USA Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 33.270 sec 2. Regis Laconi FRA DFX Corse Ducati 1198 1min 33.955 sec 3. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 34.082 sec 4. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 34.259 sec 5. Yukio Kagayama JPN Suzuki …

Full World Superbike free practice times (2) from round three of the 2009 championship, held at Valencia in Spain. Superpole to follow… 1. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Racing RSV4 1min 34.900 sec 2. Leon Haslam GBR Stiggy Racing Honda CBR1000RR 1min 35.056 sec 3. Ben Spies USA Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 35.103 sec 4. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 35.189 sec 5. Regis Laconi FRA DFX Corse …

Full World Superbike qualifying times (1 and 2 combined) from round three of the 2009 championship, held at Valencia in Spain. The 20 riders go through to Superpole… 1. Ben Spies USA Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 34.709 sec 2. Regis Laconi FRA DFX Corse Honda CBR1000RR 1min 34.714 sec 3. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Racing RSV4 1min 34.775 sec 4. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 34.817 sec 5. …

Full World Superbike qualifying times (1) from round three of the 2009 championship, held at Valencia in Spain. 1. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Racing RSV4 1min 34.775 sec 2. Ben Spies USA Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 34.907 sec 3. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 34.908 sec 4. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 35.243 sec 5. Tom Sykes GBR Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 35.270 sec 6. Jakub Smrz CZE …

Ducati’s Casey Stoner has won the special edition BMW 135i showdown session at the MotoGP Official Test.

Marlboro Ducati’s Casey Stoner has yet to run a full race simulation to test his left wrist, and is still suffering some pain and restricted m ovement – five months after the surgery.

Toni Elias and Gresini Honda crew chief Fabrizio Cecchini received little reward for their hard work in trying to solve the Spaniards rear traction problems, during last weekends Jerez test. Elias secured ninth during Sundays 45-minute ‘qualifying’ shootout on his factory RC212V, making him the second best Honda rider after Andrea Dovizioso, but was left 1.620sec off pacesetter Casey Stoner as …

After making his debut on the 2009 Kawasaki ZX-RR at the Qatar night test, it has been confirmed that Marco Melandri has agreed to race for ‘Hayate’ during the 2009 MotoGP World Championship. The Hayate Racing Team is a scaled down, unofficial version, of the former Kawasaki Racing Team, which withdrew from MotoGP in January due to the global economic crisis. Kawasaki had wanted a …

Marco Melandri confirms he will compete with the Hayate Racing Team in 2009, saying he has ‘nothing to lose’.

Andrea Dovizioso hoping for more from his factory Honda ride.