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The MotoGP Season Ends at the Valencia GP

Well that’s it folks, the MotoGP season is over. Not to spoil it, but Randy de Puniet was not the come-from-behind points winner for the rider’s cup. Click on the jump to see every dirty spoiler....

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2009 MotoGP Testing at Valencia

The 2009 season has started. Well…sort of. The champagne only stopped flowing moments ago for Valentino Rossi, but work for the 2009 season waits for no man. With more rider and team shakeups than the...

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Record Number of Crashes in the 2008 GP Season

There were 876 crashes this past GP season. That’s a lot.Between free practices, qualifying, and races, the 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP series racked up 30% more crashes than last year, with an average of...

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Last Day of Testing at Phillip Island Ends with Ducati on Top

The last day of testing at Phillip Island has ended with Ducati on top of the time board. After losing Troy Bayliss to retirement last year, Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga have stepped up to show...

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Hopper Out the Rest of World Superbike Season

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyBlcKcB8wAlthough initial reports suggested that John Hopkins went relatively unscathed after his crash at the Nürburgring (video above),  Dr. Ting here in the United States...

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MotoGP Riders Bet Dorna the That Balatonring Won’t Be Ready for 2010 MotoGP...

Dorna and the MotoGP rider’s Safety Commission met in Sepang this past Friday before the Malaysian GP to talk about the upcoming 2010 season, and in particular the addition of the Hungarian Balatonring...

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Video Interviews with Rossi, Lorenzo, & Jarvis

In conjunction with the unveiling of the 2010 Fiat-Yamaha MotoGP team, a series of interviews with Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, and Lin Jarvis have been released for public consumption. Despite...

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Valentino Rossi Says Another 3 Years of Racing

The subject as to where Valentino Rossi will race in the future and finish his career has been a subject of much speculation, and seems to endure through the seasons. As usual we’ve already seen the...

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Qatar Track Notes by Casey Stoner

Nobody in MotoGP has the Losail Circuit’s number better than Casey Stoner. The Australian rider has won the last three races at the Qatar track (read: has won half of all of the GP races at Qatar), and...

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2010 MotoGP Season Wrap-Up Infographic

Infographic by Peter Lombardi for Asphalt & Rubber / Creative Commons – Attribution 3.0

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Jorge Lorenzo’s 2012 MotoGP Championship: A Triumph Of Consistency – Part 1

What does it take to be a world champion? A little bit of luck, certainly. A whole heap of talent, for sure. But above all, it takes preparation: physical, mental and mechanical. That, most of all, is...

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Jorge Lorenzo’s 2012 MotoGP Championship: A Triumph Of Consistency – Part 2

In just two races, Jorge Lorenzo’s championship lead had been slashed from 23 to 13 points. From nearly a win, to a fourth place finish. Lorenzo was using his consistency – apart from Assen, he had...

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2015 MotoGP World Championship Preview

The prospect of a new MotoGP season always leaves fans giddy with anticipation. Their appetites keenly whetted by winter testing, and speculation over the times set at those tests, they boldly predict...

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Rating the Riders – The 2015 MotoGP Season in Review

As the year winds to a conclusion, now is a good time to look back at the 2015 MotoGP season, and assess how the riders have done this year. It has been a fantastic season for MotoGP. The fans have...

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Rating the Riders: Jorge Lorenzo

Jorge Lorenzo, Movistar Yamaha, 1st, 330 points – Score: 9.5 All year long, everyone – engineers, journalists, pundits, other riders (with the possible exception of Valentino Rossi, for obvious...

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Rating the Riders: Valentino Rossi

Valentino Rossi, Movistar Yamaha, 2nd, 325 points – Score: 9.5 British MotoGP commentator Julian Ryder has one cliché he uses about Valentino Rossi all the time. “Never write Valentino Rossi off.” It...

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Analyzing the First-Half of the 2020 MotoGP Season

We are roughly halfway through the 2020 MotoGP Championship season, and here David analyzes the details of the first five races thus far. The post Analyzing the First-Half of the 2020 MotoGP Season...

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