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MotoGP Donington Race Report - Expect The Expected
By David Emmett on 23/06/2008 16:42:47
Expectations were high for the British Grand Prix. Could King James live up to them?
Interviewed on the grid at Valencia, before the start of the final race of 2006, where the championship seemed to have slipped out of his hands, Nicky Hayden said "This is MotoGP, anything can happen. That's why we line up." Every race weekend
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MotoGP Sachsenring Race Report - The Equalizer
By David Emmett on 14/07/2008 21:46:53
The MotoGP teams came to the Sachsenring two by two, a smart move as it turned out. Who would survive the Deluge?
at the back of the grid at the Sachsenring on Sunday afternoon. The rain had been threatening to arrive all weekend, and after a brief downpour which disrupted Saturday morning's free practice session, then another shower during the warm up on Sunday morning
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Valencia MotoGP Race Report - The Party's Over
By David Emmett on 27/10/2008 22:03:59
The MotoGP finale at Valencia is supposed to be a celebration of racing. Instead of a celebration, we got a parade.
, taking 2nd place on the grid by just 5/100ths of a second. Nicky Hayden would have to make do with starting 3rd.If the weather had started to show its gentler side on Saturday afternoon, come Sunday morning it was doing its best to appear radiant. Clear
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MotoGP Catalunya Race - Leading From The Front
By David Emmett on 09/06/2008 12:48:05
Last year, Barcelona brought us a thriller. With the bikes more evenly matched, this year's race had the potential to be better. But would it be?
the Racers and the Winners on the grid are some of the finest exponents of their art for many years. In the Racer camp, we have Valentino Rossi, possibly the greatest and most passionate of the Racers, who is only really happy when he has four men bunched
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MotoGP Mugello - Italian Passion
By David Emmett on 04/06/2007 00:14:08
Would Ducati reign at Mugello, or could The Doctor fix them?
tingle, and brings passion to a full and rolling boil. The weather had helped add to the excitement at Mugello, raining on and off throughout practice, bringing riders to the front of the grid in one session, only to leave them languishing at the bottom
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Shanghai MotoGP Preview - Beauty And The Beast
By David Emmett on 01/05/2008 16:39:34
Is Stoner's Ducati still fast enough to hold off allcomers down Shanghai's long, long straights?
, and nearly a second faster than John Hopkins, the next man on the grid. But in the race, any advantage the Italian managed to pull out through the slow and tortuous section between the two long straights using the sweet handling of his Yamaha M1 would
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MotoGP Sepang Race Report - Under The Weather
By David Emmett on 21/10/2008 00:04:30
The MotoGP riders were greeted by hot, humid conditions at tropical Sepang. It was to be a war of attrition.
on Saturday. It broke just as the morning's sessions ended, justifying the Kawasaki riders' decision to go out on qualifiers in the hope of bagging a decent grid position if the afternoon's official qualifying session should be canceled. As qualifying practice
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MotoGP Assen Preview - No Sleep Till Breukelen
By David Emmett on 25/06/2008 22:37:44
A quick hop across the North Sea sees MotoGP hit the halfway point. Rossi once closed a title deficit of over 45 points, but can Casey Stoner do the same?
.009 seconds by Troy Bayliss. After a disastrous home Grand Prix at Donington during which he fell twice in qualifying, then fell again in the first corner of the race trying to make up for his poor grid position, Toseland will be out to salvage his reputation
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David Emmett: MotoGP Valencia Final - All In
By David Emmett on 29/10/2006 21:23:34
The MotoGP crown is settled in the end-of-season decider
, it does.Grid NervesAs the bikes sat the on the grid, waiting for the red lights to dim, Hayden's position did not look promising. Sat in 5th place on the second row, with a run of poor starts over the second half of the season and Valentino Rossi on record
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2007 MotoGP Estoril Race Report - Grudge Match
By David Emmett on 14/04/2008 15:38:22
Estoril saw the rivalry of Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo reach a crescendo. The showdown between the two sets the scene for a fantastic season in MotoGP.
to the podium. Parc fermé is the one place which every motorcycle racer hopes to be as he sits on the grid waiting for the flag to drop.But if a MotoGP rider is skilled enough to be finish in the top three, any romantic notions they may have had about
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