2009

New UN resolution recognises motorcycle safety!FIM Chief Executive Officer Guy Maitre and Director of Public Affairs John Chatterton-Ross were in Moscow 19-20 November for the United Nations first Ministerial Conference on road safety. Opening the conference the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev called for action on a worldwide crisis running at one million three hundred thousand road deaths eve...

Youthstream announces the 2010 FIM Motocross World Championship MX1 and MX2 Provisional Riders’ Number List.The MX1 and MX2 lists can be found here below. 2010 FIM MX1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Number Name2NAGL Maximilian4STRIJBOS Kevin6COPPINS Joshua7BARRAGAN Jonathan8SWANEPOEL Gareth9DE DYCHER Ken10BOISSIERE Anthony11RAMON Steve12PRIEM Manuel13MONNI Manuel14DE REUVER Marc15BILL Julien19PHILIPPAE...

Leon Haslam could be a real contender for the 2010 FIM Superbike World Championship now he is on a factory Suzuki after joining the Alstare team.Former racer James Whitham has backed Haslam to shine in 2010 after performing well on the Stiggy Honda this season.Whitham told www.worldsbk.com: "I think he really needs a factory bike to move on to the next level and he should have one of the best...

Former racer James Whitham has backed Irish rider Jonathan Rea to continue to improve in the 2010 FIM Superbike World Championship.The Hannspree Ten Kate Honda rider finished the 2009 season in fifth in the final points standings and Whitham, a former World Superbike and World Supersport race winner and now commentator with eurosport, said: "He gets better every race and I think it is more th...

British rider Graeme Gowland announced the potential of the FTR machine which will be available to teams for the 2010 FIM Moto2 World Championship with second place in the final round of the CEV Buckler Spanish Championship at Valencia.Riding the M209 prototype Gowland, who had finished fourth in round six on his debut the previous weekend at Jerez, set his fastest lap of the weekend with six laps...

The Australian FMX rider wins the NIGHT of the JUMPs – Bizouard defends his World Championship title notwithstanding reaching the final    Windhoek, 22nd November 2009: This was never seen in Namibia. On Saturday 12 FMX athletes of the IFMXF entered the African continent and jumped Windhoek for the NIGHT of the JUMPs into the ground. The air was burning on the FMX parkour at Tony Ru...

Czech rider Lukas Pesek is to race for the Matteoni Racing team in the 2010 FIM Moto2 World Championship.Pesek is to race for the Italian-based team in the inaugural season of Moto2 which replaces the 250cc class next season.The team is to visit the Moriwaki company in Suzuka after agreeing to use a Moriwaki chassis.Pesek, who finished 15th in the 2009 250cc world championship on an Aprilia for th...

Julian Simon, the FIM 125cc World Championship winner, and Mapfre Aspar team-mate Mike Di Meglio have spent time on track experiencing a Moto2 machine for the first time ahead of the 2010 season.The pair will race Aprilia-engined machines in the new class next season but because prototype bikes will not be ready before a test at Valencia on December 9-10 they were in action at the same Spanish cir...

Massimo Meregalli believes the Yamaha Sterilgarda Team are stronger in 2010 than this season despite Ben Spies winning the FIM Superbike World Championship.The American has moved to MotoGP for next season but Meregalli believes his all-British pairing of James Toseland and Cal Crutchlow makes the team even stronger for 2010.Toseland has won two titles in World Superbikes and has a point to prove a...

Dani Pedrosa has called on Honda to make his RC212V more stable for the 2010 FIM MotoGP World Championship.The Spaniard finished an injury-hit 2009 season in third place and aims to take the world title from Valentino Rossi next season.When asked what he wanted from his Repsol Honda team for the 2010 season he said: "The same as I have been asking lately: improve the stability of the bike whe...