was not going to be ready to host the big bike round, and that the BSB championship would be forced to hold the Monday raceday at Cadwell Park instead.In a statement from the BSB bosses, they said: The Motorcycle Circuit Racing Control Board (MCRCB) inspected

HAVING ACHIEVED pole position for this year's North West 200 Superbike race, HM Plant Honda's Steve Plater has a suspected broken wrist after a huge accident in today's practice session.The eight-time NW200 winner crashed at Quarry Hill on the Coast

in the fatal collision.A joint statement issued by Isle of Man Constabulary and the Manx Motorcycle Club said: "Both riders were involved in a racing accident at Alpine Cottage on the second lap of the Junior race shortly before 11am."The statement goes

being drawn up by race organisers in consultation with the manufacturers, riders and teams, and are expected to be issued by the end of September. The regulations will focus on containing costs for competitors and producing close and exciting racing.

differently. We had a few issues but we are making progress with the bike. Certainly you always want to go faster and make things happen quicker. But we got in a lot of testing, which is good, and are definitely improving. “I am very confident the team

touched me and I went off into the gravel and that left me out of the points unfortunately. "We tried a different front-end setting for the race to try and solve some stability issues I've been having, and there is plenty of room for improvement. I just

GP machine for the first race of the season in Qatar in just six-weeks time. Today the team once more worked on improving the general handling of the Honda RC212V and eliminating the problems encountered yesterday with corner entry and engine braking

CHAZ DAVIES has become Britain's first-ever Daytona 200 winner by default after initial victor Josh Hayes was disqualified by AMA officials when they found his race-winning machine to be in violation of the AMA Road Race rulebook."We've appealed

been educated in a factory team, and he needs to learn a lot. It was sure this year he was not going to the podium. The thing is, he was always a fighter and we did not see that at Qatar. That is the biggest issue.“But we’ve never thought for a second

YOUNG GUN Bradley Smith fought hard at today's MotoGP 125cc Jerez race. Tyre issues caused Smith to slip down a couple of positions from the leading pair, but a heroic and faultless last lap saw Smith take the last step on the podium, adding