MOTOGP MEDICAL guru Claudio Costa came under fire after misdiagnosing a life-threatening injury to Swiss 125 rider Randy Krummenacher. The 18-year-old KTM rider, with a best of third place last year, was training on his mountain bike on the weekend

, said Yamada. “In 2007 when the tyre allocation was only 31, many riders would only use 20 tyres in a weekend.”The big saving for Bridgestone, which must provide tyres free of charge, would be in reducing the number of tyres scrapped. Ubukata explained

into the season, another switch to a German team, as an economy measure. Saved! But there wasn't anything left over to pay him as well.Earlier in his career, four years in 500s - '93 to '96 - saw a best of a single seventh place in France in 1995, and three other

as many laps as usual to their own economy drive, achieved by saving track time.Stoner was fastest, Rossi a shade slower: the Ozzie Groaner ran a time of 2:01.043 – 1.716 seconds faster than his best time of last year. That’s an improvement of 1.3979

.The record says it all. At the last round of 2004, Capirossi racked up 216 starts in all classes, with 23 wins - a rate of 10.65%. In 500cc/MotoGP, the rate drops to 2.86% (105 starts, three wins). Checa has 168 starts and two wins, making his average 1.43

their predictability.Few more so than three blinding laps in the Donington deluge. After running wide and losing 2.5 seconds to lie fourth, he re-caught veterans Barros and Roberts, played for a while, then pulled away - gaining 1.6 seconds one lap, 2.5 the next, and 3

expressed. They were investigating an 'error message' in the fuel-management ECU, but there was petrol. No there wasn't, said the team. A wrong signal from a faulty sensor said the bike still had 1.9 litres. In fact, it was empty.This developing story

to pretend on a fortnightly basis, that Rossi is just an ordinary racer, with a bit of talent, a lot of luck and some good technical support. And that he is very definitely beatable.The first Yamaha tests of the M1 saw the double Superbike champion within a

abroad to get their talent nurtured. Britain's pride is the Day of Champions at the British GP, which this year again broke records, raising more than £200,000 for the charity. All done in traditional British style.This mainly meant drunken and unruly

of serious turmoil. Much impetus for the control-tyre proposal came from his threats to quit if something wasn’t done to save him from his bad Michelins; and he then put the screws on harder to force through a bizarre one-man Bridgestone deal.With consummate