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MotoGP Misano Preview - Wrong Way Round
By David Emmett on 30/08/2007 23:41:11
MotoGP rides Misano, backwards ...
the original direction the track is to be raced to clockwise. Most of these changes were done to improve safety so as to lure MotoGP back to Misano, the series having left the circuit on Italy's Adriatic coast in 1993 after Wayne Rainey suffered a seemingly
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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...
the crash that broke Wayne Rainey's spine. Without the pressure of Rainey chasing him every foot of the way, Kevin Schwantz started losing interest, and retired shortly afterwards.Like his hero Schwantz, Valentino Rossi is another rider who prefers
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Preview - Poor Little Rich Girl
By David Emmett on 19/07/2007 23:31:02
MotoGP crosses the Atlantic, and hits The Corkscrew
Rainey Curve, the banked left turn at the bottom of the Corkscrew, which you can take much faster than you ever believed possible because of the positive camber. All of these lend Laguna plenty of character, and make it different from other tracks, a
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Report - Demolition Man
By David Emmett on 23/07/2007 23:08:51
MotoGP does California, but will a homeboy win?
's tailpipe, then lining the Repsol Honda rider up through Rainey, to put himself in the perfect position to dive underneath Pedrosa going into Turn 11, and back across the finish line.ShootoutIt now came down to a straight shootout between the two fastest men
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Laguna Seca Preview - No Rest
By David Emmett on 18/07/2008 14:17:05
A battered, bruised and exhausted MotoGP paddock heads to Laguna Seca for the US Grand Prix. But there's no laid-back Californian lifestyle waiting, instead they face one of the busiest tracks on the schedule.
, like Wile E Coyote, before hitting the bottom of the turn with a bang. Momentum is key, and if you can maintain that, you can launch yourself through the second part of the turn and be off into Rainey.Turn 9, named after the former World 500cc Champion
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MotoGP Misano Preview - History In The Making
By David Emmett on 29/08/2008 01:13:18
MotoGP hits Valentino Rossi's back yard, just as The Doctor can put his name in the record books. But there's a bright red Ducati parked squarely in his path. Can he push it aside for the third time running?
was reversed in an attempt to improve safety - a concession to get MotoGP to return after a crash there in 1993 left Wayne Rainey in a wheelchair - the circuit has lost many of the other features that gave it its character and made it special. Before
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