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

THE SILLY season has started exceptionally early, with rumours of 2009 rider deals surfacing, sometimes on the flimsiest of pretexts – such as one linking US Superbike champion Ben Spies with a switch to Ducati, and another putting Colin Edwards

THE RUMOUR mill has riders moving around all over the place, with substance to at least some of the stories.Ducati will be looking to replace the extraordinarily disappointing Marco Melandri, and candidates include Nicky Hayden and Ben Spies

at or near the back.At Assen, he was banned from talking to the Press by his team; at the same time as rumours gathered strength that he may not even see the year out in the Marlboro colours.Former team rider Sete Gibernau, twice World Championship runner up

FORMER double championship runner up Sete Gibernau is set to return to racing after months of on-again/off-again rumours concerning the veteran Spaniard.An announcement on the eve of next week’s Valencia GP is expected to confirm that Sete

) rumours that he's highly resistant to the prospect of sharing a garage with the thrusting young Spaniard. And there are lots of reasons. One is Lorenzo's charisma. He's been trained from early childhood to be a motorcycle champion - literally. His father

."Back then, in August, there were wild rumours of Rossi's private big-money deals - with telecommunications giant Alice, with Nastro Azurro and even with McDonald's. Since then, it's all gone quiet.It seems that Rossi might have fallen short of his personal

offer from McDonalds. Into the frying pan, from the fire.Latest news also is of yet another test with Ferrari after Brno, and growing rumours that he will jump from M1 to F1 in 2007. MotoGP will be bereft in more ways than one, since those juicy sponsors

main innovation was in finding new ways of breaking down. Rumours of numbers of engines lunched at Qatar vary between 6 and 13. Hopkins's final blow-up happened early and messily in the race.We can forgive his Loony Tunes animated tantrum that followed

-rims.What price your own factory MotoGP team? Cheaper by the year, thanks to a bargain precedent set by Rizla Suzuki.Rumours of the actual price run between £1.5-mill for two years and double that figure. Either way, it's a record low for full livery. All