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Pictorial: Stealing a tenth
By Ben Cope on 06/06/2012 11:37:26
There aren't many areas of life where a tenth of a second matters as much as when you're racing. We pick the best images of the MotoGP riders at Catalunya, as they do everything they can to try and steal an elusive tenth of a second
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Style Check: MotoGP Catalunya Turn 2
By Robin Goodwin on 07/06/2012 09:51:57
Grazing elbows for the MotoGP stars
Yesterday Ben touched upon the effort racers make to steal that extra tenth, amongst these was MotoGP rookie Stefan Bradl mastering a huge lean angle as he goes for more corner speed on the Honda RC213V at the infamous turn 2 at Catalunya
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Casey Stoner unveils new concept bike
By Tim Skilton on 31/07/2007 14:21:18
A host of safety and security features on new machine
MOTOGP CHAMPIONSHIP leader Casey Stoner was at the unveiling of a new concept motorcycle earlier this month. The machine, designed by Tim Cameron, is claimed to be safer, cheaper to repair and harder to steal than any current motorcycle. The bike
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MotoGP Shanghai Race Report - Resurrection
By David Emmett on 04/05/2008 23:32:17
Tired of MotoGP's Young Turks, the Old Guard strikes back
Shanghai MotoGP Race Report - ResurrectionThroughout the first three races of the 2008 MotoGP season, all the talk has been of the newcomers to the class. And rightly so, as Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso, James Toseland and Alex de Angelis have
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MotoGP Sachsenring Preview - Hard Left
By David Emmett on 10/07/2008 23:26:50
From the fast and sweeping Assen, to the tight and tortuous Sachsenring, the MotoGP circus moves from one extreme to another. Will it make chasing Casey Stoner any easier?
.SlowhandHow ironic, then, that the German MotoGP round should take place at the Sachsenring, a circuit at which the world's fastest racing motorcycles never reach anywhere near their maximum speed - even after last year's capacity reduction to 800cc. Indeed, so
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Paul Bonhomme - Red Bull Air Race pilot
By Visordown on 21/10/2010 12:09:49
Paul Bonhomme is a Red Bull Air Race pilot, rides a KTM 450 Supermoto for fun and flies a Boeing 747 around the globe for a living
on and I had to do some pretty drastic things to get out of that. I came back in a bit shaken after that, I'll be honest.I'd like to see Rossi get his bike working properly again this year and steal the MotoGP championship back, but I can't see it happening
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Race Report - Crunch Time
By David Emmett on 22/07/2008 01:45:59
The MotoGP race at Laguna Seca looked like turning into the Stoner Show all over again. How wrong we all were...
, each corner taken at the fastest speed possible. He treats each race more like a time trial than a group race, and can push the bike hard from the start of the race all the way to the end, his concentration never lapsing, his speed only flagging
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MotoGP Qatar Race Report - Plus Ca Change
By David Emmett on 10/03/2008 22:44:32
MotoGP is back, but will night racing mean closer racing?
mission as they jet around the warmer parts of the world in their relentless quest for more speed, better bikes and the upper hand once racing resumes. This generates a flurry of news stories, lap times and above all, speculation about the relative pecking
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Fast Masters
By Stuart Barker on 02/11/2008 14:02:20
Why are some riders faster than others? Is it fear that stops us, a lack of technique or a state of mind? TWO examines what being fast really means and uncovers the secrets of going faster
One man's fast is another man's slow. If you posted a lap of Donington good enough to put you on the third row of a MotoGP grid your mates wouldn't hear the end of it, but Rossi would be gutted. For some cracking the ton is enough; for others that
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MotoGP Misano Race Report - Fairy Tale
By David Emmett on 01/09/2008 23:33:31
After Casey Stoner's crash at Brno, would he be back, and ready to ruin Valentino Rossi's fairy tale of getting a record-equalling 68th win at the track just a stone's throw from Rossi's home?
Stoner had done this despite an old injury resurfacing, with a crack in the scaphoid bone of his left hand opening back up again. Riding with a broken hand is painful, riding at MotoGP speeds with a broken hand must be excruciating. But it certainly wasn
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