Cruel luck at Philip Island saw Dani Pedrosa’s chances of winning the 2012 MGP World Title disappear as he went down in the Honda hairpin while leading the Australian MGP. Casey Stoner shot through into the lead to give the Aussie fans a real treat as he put on his final “Stoner Show” on home […]
Jorge Lorenzo extended his lead of the MotoGP W0rld Championship standings in front of his home fans at Catalunya by beating fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa into second place, after a duel that lasted for almost the entire race The fast starting Pedrosa threaded his way through from the second row to lead into turn one. Lorenzo’s team-mate […]
Spain’s 2010 world champion Jorge Lorenzo won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Sunday and took the overall lead in the world championship in front of a frantic crowd of over 80,000 who came out in heavy rain to support their heroes. The 25-year-old Yamaha rider, recording his second win of the season and 19th MotoGP […]
Dani Pedrosa secured his first pole position of the 2012 season after setting the fastest time in qualifying for Sunday’s French MotoGP at Le Mans. The Spaniard clocked one minute, 33.638 seconds to finish above his Australian teammate Casey Stoner. Andrea Dovizioso had a good run to finish in third place but Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo looked less than comfortable in […]
Casey Stoner led from start to finish in Portugal to take his second win of the season at Estoril , finallygetting that elusive win there to rack up a win at every track on the current MotoGP schedule. The Australian pulled out a commanding lead on the first lap and never looked back. Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo got close […]
World champion Casey Stoner grabbed his first pole position of the season at the Portuguese MotoGP in Estoril on Saturday by beating teammate Dani Pedrosa in a fiercely contested qualifying session marred by an crash at turn four involving Randy du Puniet and Colin Edwards who fell heavily on his suspect shoulder and was carried from […]
Defending champion Casey Stoner took the lead in the Qatar MotoGp, now referred to as Moto3, race after just three laps and stayed in the lead until lap 18 when Jorge Lorenzo sped past and opened up a good lead to win the first race of the season. Earlier in the race Danny Pedrosa […]
The traditional night race in Qatar gets the 2012 MotoGP season off to a start on Sunday under lights in the desert with new 1000cc factory bikes to contend with and while we have 1000cc in MotoGP, then I wonder why we still have SuperBikes? Remember the days when we had 125, 250 and 500cc races? […]
If you can imagine one hundredth of a second, that is all that separated Aussie World Champion Casey Stoner from American Ben Spies as they crossed the line in Valencia to close out the MotoGP season and bring an end to the 800cc era, Andrea Dovizioso claiming the third podium place. In the usual dash for the […]
World MotoGP championship standings at 6 November 2011 POSITION RIDER TEAM POINTS 1 Casey Stoner Repsol Honda Team 350 2 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing 260 3 Andrea Dovizioso Repsol Honda Team 228 4 Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team 219 5 Ben Spies Yamaha Factory Racing 176 6 Marco Simoncelli San Carlo Honda Gresini 139 7 […]