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It’s still time for market deals, bargains and negotiations between riders and team managers, as the calendar of the 2009 Endurance World Championship has been announced. Some teams are already made for next year. Second at the 2008 championship, Yamaha Austria Racing Team keeps for 2009 the Slovenian rider Igor Jerman and Australian Steve Martin, and goes back with one of their previous ace, the...

2008 FIM Freestyle Motocross World Champion: Rémi Bizouard French Freestyle rider Rémi Bizouard is the 2008 World Championship of this spectacular discipline of the motorcycling sport. Held as an FIM Series of events since 2006, the FIM Motocross Freestyle World Championship continues an increasing development. This year the title went to a rider who was not really a favorite contender at the beg...

The FIM received at the beginning of December in Geneva the organizers of events and the twenty-three teams interested in taking part in 2009 Endurance World Championship. Several modifications were established, as well as the calendar of the season 2009. The FIM will maintain the same system of permanent teams. The maximum number of permanent teams admitted for 2009 will be twenty, and the list ...

As the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team took a fourth consecutive title, the 2008 Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship might have looked at first glance similar to the previous editions. However, this season gave us some intense racing, full of surprises and dramas. The SERT, running World Champion and favourite, took his fourth consecutive title at the penultimate round of the season, the Bol d’Or,...

Yamaha Austria Racing Team took the victory at the 8 Hours of Doha. Igor Jerman, Steve Plater and Steve Martin gave to YART his first victory in the Endurance World Championship (besides a first place in the Superbike class at the 2006 Suzuka 8 Hours). YART strenghtened his second place in the championship, behind the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team, who was crowned 2008 Endurance World Champion at t...

What a dramatic race under the Qatari sun! On the Losail racetrack is a frantic battle for the lead involving Maco Moto Racing and Yamaha Austria Racing Team. One lap behind, Bolliger Team Switzerland, Diablo 666 Bolliger and Yamaha Folch Endurance are also fighting for the third place. All these teams are aiming for the runner-up position behind 2008 Qtel FIM Endurance World Champion Suzuki Endur...

Suzuki Endurance Racing Team confirms his domination and took pole position for the 8 Hours of Doha, last round of the 2008 Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship. Pairing with Julien Da Costa and Guillaume Dietrich, Matthieu Lagrive even took the luxury to improve his best lap. Matthieu was the only rider to lap below the 2’02 mark, which is similar to the best World Superbike times on the Losail ...

Suzuki Endurance Racing Team has already taken, from the first qualifying session, a serious option for the pole-position for the 8 Hours of Doha, last round of the 2008 Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship. With a best lap of 2’02’’004, Matthieu Lagrive was the fastest man this afternoon in Doha ; with his teammate Julien Da Costa, himself close to the 2’03 mark, they put the Suzuki 1 far ahead ...

2008 Qtel FIM Endurance World Champion Suzuki SERT is dominating once again after the first free practice session held on the Losail international racetrack (5380 m). Suzuki Endurance Racing Team riders, Matthieu Lagrive, Julien Da Costa and Guillaume Dietrich, even managed to lap faster than last year, with a best of 2’02.551 during the second session. A group of Yamaha are to be found in the SE...