2010

In preparation for the upcoming Nurburgring round of the World Superbike Championship, the Ducati Xerox Team carried out two days of testing at Italian circuit Mugello. The two factory riders divided the work, Michel Fabrizio on track on Tuesday and Noriyuki Haga taking over the ropes yesterday. The test was a very useful exercise for both riders after the month long summer break.On Tuesday Michel...

After a long summer break the 2010 FIM Women's Trial World Championship will resume in the Czech Republic this coming weekend, for the second of the three round series. As expected reigning champion Laia Sanz - Repsol Montesa, who is looking to clinch her tenth FIM Women's Trial World title this year, is once again in the driving seat after having dominated the opening Grand Prix in France back in...

The FIM Motocross World Championship arrives in Lierop to celebrate the penultimate Grand Prix of the season with Antonio Cairoli being already the 2010 MX1 World Champion after the Brazilian GP. In the MX2 class everything is still to be decided, but Marvin Musquin has a highly range of possibilities to be proclaimed the 2010 MX2 World Champion with still one round to go. Recent 2010 MX1 World Ch...

With just one round remaining in the 2010 MX3-GP World Championship Spaniard Carlos Campano is extremely close to his maiden world title which will make him the first rider from his country to covet the exclusive FIM prize.The former MX2-GP and MX1-GP rider was able to break into the top half of the leader-board on numerous occasions in the past four seasons before diverting his attentions to the ...

The 2nd FIM Women´s Trial Training Camp was held in Frammersbach/Germany from 9 – 11 August 2010.Forty one girls made their way to Frammersbach including one girl from the Netherlands. Eight girls with a 2010 FIM Women´s Trial World Championship licence were present. The official FIM coach this time was Andreas Kindsvogel (Iris Krämer’s Minder in the past). We had, including the FIM coach, 7 coach...

The small town of Kramolin located one hundred and twenty Kilometres South of the capital city of Prague and close to the Austrian / Czech Republic border holds the responsibility for deciding the final order in the 2010 SPEA FIM Trial World Championship. Only one position is clear at the moment, with Toni Bou - Repsol Montesa having already been declared champion at the penultimate Grand Prix in ...

The battle for the 125cc title continued to hot up at Indianapolis and promises to deliver another exciting slice of action this weekend, after Nico Terol cut Marc Márquez's Championship lead to just four points with victory last time out.As if the tightness of the top two was not enough, Pol Espargaró lurks just a single point behind Terol as the trio continue to size each other up at every round...

Toni Elías holds a commanding Moto2 Championship lead with seven rounds - including Misano - remaining. The Gresini racing rider is 67 points clear at the top of the standings, a position which was reinforced by his fifth win of the season last time out at Indianapolis.The result in the U.S. was the Spaniard's third successive win, the first time he has secured a treble of back-to-back victories i...

The action continues to come thick and fast as the MotoGP field returns to the track just five days after the visit to Indianapolis, with the World Championship moving onto Misano for the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini. Jorge Lorenzo remains the rider to catch, having maintained his 100% podium record for the season in the U.S. along with his substantial lead in the sta...

Danish international Niels Kristian Iversen has been handed the wild card for the FIM Dansk Metal Nordic Speedway Grand Prix at Vojens on September 11.The former SGP regular, who raced in the series full-time in 2006 and 2008, missed out on qualification for next year’s World Championship in the GP Challenge on this circuit on August 21. But he will be determined to make up for that disappointment...