TEST RIDE a Yamaha at your local authorised dealer and be in with a chance of winning a custom-painted 2010 YZF-R1.Entrants responding to Yamaha's post-test ride survey will also get a T-Shirt celebrating the company's three world championships plus

-M1 to beat his new experienced Italian team-mate Andrea Dovizioso for fourth, after a race-long game of cat and mouse between the pair. The 26-year-old from Coventry shadowed Dovi before making the pass on lap 17, equalising his best finish

800 - The French Grand Prix will be the 800th Grand Prix event counting towards the world championship classification.100 - Dani Pedrosa’s third place finish at Estoril was the 100th time he has stood on a Grand Prix podium. He is the seventh rider

1010. 2000 BRANDS HATCH, WORLD SUPERSPORT, JORG TEUCHERT & OTHERSIn a complicated and close season, the strong favourite Jšrg Teuchert (Alpha Technik Yamaha) was taken out at the penultimate race by his own team-mate Christian Kellner (Alpha Technik

GP win. The others are Indianapolis, Le Mans and Silverstone.2.465 seconds – The time covering the top four finishers in the MotoGP race at Jerez. This is the closest top four in the MotoGP class since the opening race of 2010 at Qatar when 1.876 seconds

the factory Suzuki at Jerez earlier this season, deputising for Bautista as the Spaniard was sidelined with a broken femur.Hopkins scored his best-ever finish at Brno finishing second with Suzuki in 2007. The Anglo-American said: “It’s a real thrill to get

staged at Brno. The first Grand Prix to be held at Brno was back in 1965 on the old road circuit which measured 13.94 km. The circuit remained essentially the same until 1975, when it was shortened to the 10.92 km circuit that was used up until 1982

­ces separating him from the winner being less than 0.4 seconds in each case. He was 0.167 seconds behind Terol at Mugello, finished with the same time as Faubel at the Sachsenring and was 0.397 seconds behind Cortese at Brno.

for me to do this, my mother knows that when I want something I try my hardest to get it. When I finished school I said to mum ‘I want to be world champion.’ So she says “sure, but if you’re not world champion in a year you’re straight back to college

LOCATION: Egham, M25 J13DESCRIPTION: Tight and twisty 4.3 mile TT courseSURFACE: Bumpy sections, two level crossings, student vomit on racing line, no ShellgripSKILLS PRACTISED: Hard braking, hazard avoidanceThis tidy 4.3 mile circuit circles