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The trials & tribulations of Foggy Petronas
By Stuart Barker on 09/01/2008 14:57:49
At the end of this season Team Foggy Petronas will be no more. After five years the team still hasn't won a WSB race and the FP1 road bike has yet to go on general sale. So what went wrong?
team and was considering 'walking away from the sport completely.'But while Foggy had been pushing for a Ducati WSB deal, another manufacturer was busy advancing its own plans to race in the upcoming four-stroke MotoGP championship. Sauber Petronas
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Lauren Vickers - Randy de Puniet's Playboy girlfriend
By Visordown on 25/07/2011 15:48:35
Gallery of Randy de Puniet's Playboy model girlfriend Lauren Vickers
.She's has more height than the average grid girl you often see on the MotoGP grid. She can be seen holding Randy's brolly or in his pit garage with the team or wandering around the paddock posing for photos and video. Lauren Vickers is on Facebook
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Guy Martin hasn't quit says Tyco team
By Visordown News on 25/05/2012 09:47:00
Internet rumours are quashed. They hope.
GUY MARTIN hasn't quit. That's the message from his Tyco Suzuki team ahead of the 2012 Isle of Man TT.The team took to twitter following 24 hours of gossip and rumours across the internet where fans were speculating that Martin had quit the team
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Exclusive: TTXGP responds to FIM actions
By Visordown News on 22/02/2010 18:49:29
Visordown asks the founders of zero-emission motorcycle road racing five questions that matter over the turmoil within clean-emission racing
(wiki.egrandprix.com) is tangible example of the ideals we arestriving to fulfil.In a new era of motorsports, we feel partnerships are the key to the successof our industry, our teams and our partners. We can only succeed if we standtogether as one body
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Bad Boy No.9: Anthony Gobert
By Stuart Barker on 07/12/2010 15:39:03
First seen tearing a Kawasaki round WSB rounds, now seen struggling to hold down a job in Subway
and a third place. His incredible performance put the then 19-year-old on every team’s wish list and he eventually opted to replace Scott Russell in the factory Kawasaki squad. He won two races 1995 and a further three in ’96 before moving to 500cc
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Living with a 2002 BMW R1100S Sport
By Gus Scott on 16/12/2002 16:25:02
Gus experiences the sporty BMW R1100S
December 2002No topple-overs or stacks on my longterm BM to report this month, oh no. I just wrote my race bike off at Oschersleben instead! That went down with the race team about as well as the Titanic. Sorry again chaps.Little Dave my mate from
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The story of Akrapovic
By Bertie Simmonds on 07/01/2011 13:06:52
From a shed in Slovenia, Igor Akrapovic's exhausts now dominate the world
In just 15 years Akrapovic has come from a one-man-band making exhausts in a shed to being the number one brand worldwide for road-riders and race teams alike.Stories like this generally start with a visionary, and this is no different. Ours is Igor
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Inside the mind of Valentino Rossi
By Ben Cope on 01/09/2010 18:14:10
One of the UK's leading graphologists analyses Valentino Rossi handwriting from a note he wrote to his team and offers remarkable insight
the Fiat Yamaha MotoGP squad, he penned a letter to his team which was widely publicised on the internet. We wanted to know more about this elusive, private individual so we gave a copy of his resignation note to Elaine Quigley and only told her
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Rocket Men - The Racing Haslam Family
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/06/2002 15:50:55
The story behind the racing Haslam family
?"Leon replies: "It just nipped up, dad."Ron, finally getting to the bottom of the problem, suddenly has a half smile on his face and says: "I knew it were running lean." Before rushing off to the team garage to check the spare bike was okay.There's a few
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2011 Kawasaki ZX10R spied
By Visordown News on 06/08/2010 10:01:14
Big Green's 2011 superbike spied out on track with Skyes and Yanagawa testing the Kawasaki ZX10R at Autopolis, Japan
KAWASAKI'S resident Twit has been at it again, Tweeting pictures of the company's 2011 ZX-10R during test trials.The test team, comprising of WSB racers Tom Sykes and Akira Yanagawa, is currently in Japan putting the new 1000cc sportsbike through
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