SICKLY AUSTRALIAN Casey Stoner is using a specially modified clutch to help with his fatigue problems, the rider revealed at Donington Park.“It’s lighter, to make it easier for me,” he said, adding that there were some heavier internal components in the slipper clutch.“It grabs a...

BRITISH MOTO2 rider Scott Redding has limped away from a big crash while testing next year's Moto2 machinery at Jerez.Reports from the Spanish circuit say Redding clipped the grass on the exit of the last turn and highsided his machine.The former

VISORDOWN'S MOTOGP mole has it on firm authority that Ben Spies has just signed a two-year deal with Yamaha that will see him stay in the WSB Championship for 2010 and then make his move to MotoGP in 2011.But, according to the reports, it appears

the Spanish circuit onboard the S1000RR-engined chassis in the post season test.The Suter machine will be a part of the new production-based rulings for 2012 and the young Briton is likely to play a major part in the team's aspirations to join the premier

BRITISH MotoGP newcomer 21 year-old Bradley Smith has impressed his team after a confident showing at his MotoGP test debut this week for Tech 3 Yamaha.After seven years in the 125cc and Moto2 feeder categories, Smith will take to the saddle

in his shoulder.Ultimately Rossi is the focus for Grand Prix's most successful crew chief, but Burgess notices the bigger picture in regards to the Desmosedici GP project realising the importance of his role in developing a machine rideable by more than

RIDING impressively in his debut year in the Moto2 championship saw Bradley Smith earmarked for an immediate progression to MotoGP next season with the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team, but after deliberation the young Brit has chosen to remain

TESTING for next year's Moto2 season started at Valencia yesterday with Pol Espargaró leading the timesheets in his first ride on the Pons-Kalex machine.Wednesday was the first of three days of private testing at the Spanish circuit, giving a number

Thursday at Catalunya as the sheet was pulled off the NSF250R. The basis of the bike is a 250cc four-stroke single engine that has been housed in a new chassis and frame based around the out-going RS125R. The Moto3 machine weighs 185lbs making approximately

sport ranks highly in popularity with the Spanish masses and the Dorna run CEV championship almost mirrors that of the MotoGP series, with 125 and Moto2 machines making two of the highly contested classes of the domestic series.Spain has produced some