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A CONVENIENTLY-TIMED acquisition ahead of his move to Ducati: nine-time World Champion Valentino Rossi has taken delivery of a new Ferrari 458.The mid-engined V8 supercar, which lapped Top Gear's test track almost as quickly at Ferrari's £1million

like a regular top box and is powered by the bike's battery. A hose from the unit runs to a special vest worn under the rider's gear. A wireless bar-mounted controller means the rider can adjust the temperature while on the move. It's a novel idea that

YOU KNOW the worldwide economic situation must be bad when Honda halt motorcycle production, but that's exactly what they're planning in Spain.Latest reports say the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer is ceasing production at the company's Spanish plant, due to the lack of d...

BRITAIN'S James Toseland has confirmed that he'll be riding in MotoGP next year - for Tech 3 Yamaha.No-one expected Toseland to sign for a satellite team, but that's exactly what the current leader of the World Superbike Championship has done.Tech 3 are known as being also-rans i...

IT LOOKS increasingly likely that Valentino Rossi will sign up for another two years with Yamaha.Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing, Lin Jarvis, added more fuel to the rumour fire (oh yes...) at the weekend by saying on motogp.com: “At Mugello, as scheduled, we had a meeti...

TONI ELIAS will test with the BMW Italia squad for two days at Misano starting Tuesday, perhaps with a scope for joining the Italian team in 2012?In a press release from BMW it is said a set of circumstances led to this test ride, mainly the retirement of James Toseland from an i...

CAL CRUTCHLOW claimed victory in Race One in the final leg of the 2010 World Superbike Championship at Magnys Cours.The Sterilgarda Yamaha rider, who moves up to MotoGP in 2011, took the win from fellow Brit Leon Haslam, with Spain's Carlos Checa

THE championship winning combination of Chaz Davies and the ParkinGO team will make the move up to World Superbikes in 2012 with Ducati.Team boss Giuliano Rovelli had planned to move up to the top-flight class with Yamaha, but the ParkinGO squad

MICHAEL Rutter's move to SMT Honda looked like the lifetime both he and the team needed to get back on track.However, after his success at Mallory Park where Rutter finished fourth and sixth the team's best ever result - SMT Honda have still failed