Ben Spies...ready for more in MotoGPBEN SPIES made a quick adaptation to riding a MotoGP bike in the rain, placing eight for a third-row start in the streaming qualifying session in his outing as substitute for the injured Loris Capirossi.The day

’t ever win another race.Capirossi leads the field with a stretch of 17 years and 49 days from his first 125 win in 1990 to his last MotoGP win in Japan last year; Angel Nieto is next, with a span of 16 years and eight days, then Phil Read (14 years and 71

All out war ... Capirossi leads Hayden and RossiDucati and Bridgestone couldn't have timed their Great Revival any better. Three poles and two wins for Loris Capirossi came just as the championship changed from foregone conclusion to fait accompli

.The record says it all. At the last round of 2004, Capirossi racked up 216 starts in all classes, with 23 wins - a rate of 10.65%. In 500cc/MotoGP, the rate drops to 2.86% (105 starts, three wins). Checa has 168 starts and two wins, making his average 1.43

…“We’re friends, so I don’t want to bag him too bad, but in the last two minutes of a qualifying session you need to be paying attention.”Another to complain was Loris Capirossi, who said: “I lost out on my last qualifying lap because two riders were having a chat

JOHN HOPKINS may miss his home US GP in three weeks after he continued a crash-strewn season with another heavy fall during the qualifying hour, another victim of the Ramshoek corner that claimed Capirossi, and lucky to escape with nothing more than

JOHN HOPKIN'S terrifying high-speed crash raised new safety questions about the fast left-hand Ramshoek corner, one of few remaining sections of the old track. The same corner had earlier accounted for Capirossi, putting him out of the race

last year, when the fatter Michelin 16.5 rims started gaining popularity. The latest generation of these tyres have much better side grip than the otherwise superior 17-inchers. And that has favoured the Hondas. They have more power, and now the riders

figures for the weekend prove the Honda's long legs. Rossi's was fastest at 315.3km/h (195.8mph); team-mates Itoh and Ukawa were next (310.2, 308.5). The zinging Aprilia of Regis Laconi was fourth at 305.6, then Gibernau's Suzuki (304.6). And only

-forces are much stronger in an F1 car, both in braking and lateral G in cornering. Casey Stoner broadly agreed. “In 2003 when I slightly broke my collarbone after breaking it earlier, I had to do 10 push-ups to show I was strong enough. “But maybe