. If the electronics and the engines are basically all the same, there will be a greater chance for exciting racing and lower costs for the teams."1987 500GP champion, Wayne Gardner agrees that the CRT bikes should be the future for MotoGP, as the series

FORMER MOTOGP World Champion Valentino Rossi is to ride his new Ducati MotoGP racer in an all-black black colour scheme at the post-season Valencia test session, rather than the team's Marlboro red colours, as a mark of respect to current employers

AAP. "In our class overseas with a lot of European riders there's a lot more jealousy, all kinds of stuff. "All the riders hate each other and they think they need to hate each other to beat each other."Around here you can still be mates and race

LOVE HIM or loathe him,World Champion Casey Stoner is closing in on the all-time motorcycling Grand Prix greats, notching up 21 wins in the premier class, following his stunning victory at the Grand Prix of Aragon. The Australian needs just one more

by the official MotoGP tyre supplier'.Previously the factory riders were limited to test days defined by Dorna, usually after the race at circuits like Mugello and Brno, outside of this all development work was conducted by the test team.The news will please

to the bottom of his Ducati's front end problems and would be working hard with the team to "solve the issue."The Australian has finished in just one of this year's three MotoGP rounds and now languishes down in 13th place with a mere 11 points. “Obviously

Rossi ITA Ducati Team 2m 1.999s10.    Alvaro Bautista ESP Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 2m 2.224s11.    Hector Barbera ESP Aspar Team 2m 2.645s12.     Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Team 2m 2.680s13.    Toni Elias ESP LCR Honda MotoGP 2m 2.779s14.    Randy de Puniet FRA

AND RIGHT ON CUE from Repsol Honda:HRC is delighted to announce that Casey Stoner will become a factory Honda rider in next year’s MotoGP World Championship. The Australian 2007 World Champion, who rode in the Honda LCR Team in his debut MotoGP

front tyre I'd not used all weekend and it took me a while to get a feel for it. Once I got some momentum going and I started to understand how the front tyre was feeling I started pushing my way through. But with about seven or eight laps to go I

, it happened suddenly and unexpectedly. "Seven seconds were enough to make the tyre drop temperature dramatically. The error was mine."Rossi is expected to take up to six months out of MotoGP racing to allows the Italian's injuries time to heal properly