No new bike, despite poor performance, say DucatiDUCATI TEAM chief Livio Suppo denied that Ducati will rush out a new bike before the end of the year, squelching rumours that poor results for all the Italian factory’s riders except Stoner had

- completely out of character - gravest apologies" etc.Mick was fined Aus $2500, but the magistrate very decently acceded to his lawyers request that no criminal record should result, because of Doohan's charity work, and because he was "a veritable Australian

, where he has had good results in the past. We all hope he can finally find the way. But if he is still struggling, it will be very unusual for a top rider.“We are all so sorry, but sooner or later we will have to serious consider replacing him

installed for this year as a result of Elias’s tumbling injury (the same system has been put in round most of the circuit). However the tar merely meant Hopkins failed to slow down enough to avoid hitting the barrier.The next morning, air fence had been

.One inevitable result would be to sideline the last remaining two-stroke classes, the 250s and 125s. Which seemed something of a pity. Two-strokes may be irrelevant, but these are proper racing machines - with fully adjustable suspension and gear ratios, and so

the engine at the next race, said Yamane, depending on results at Mugello. The aim was improved acceleration and top speed, and the latter at least had been achieved, with some 1,000 rpm added to the top of the rev range; but there was still some

there has to be stricter testing and some system for concussion,” he added, recalling how he discovered he’d been ruled out of the 2006 GP for concussion “before the results of the CAT scan were ready … and they were clear.” That, he agreed, demonstrated

Pedrosa but not him, when he had won them a championship, he smiled and said: “That’s how it works over there: you get the results, you get the parts. I knew that my very first year.”Pressed further, he said: “I don’t want to get in on that one, but yeah

-R Superbikes, as well as all the rest, on the new V4 XR-E0. Honda and Yamaha also? Reckon so. They're hardly going to be shy.The results achieved by the new-generation racers won't matter, of course. But who will care about the real results? What is the value

, sounds and behaves like a motorbike.Of course it is not as simple as it looks. Ducati's string of results come courtesy of a distinct step forward by Bridgestone. It vastly upped the stakes in the tyre war, both technically and financially, and new