2010

Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, visited the great state of Texas for the second time in 2010 in front of 44,624 fans from Houston’s Reliant Stadium. After a one week break, the world’s best supercross riders returned to action on Saturday night as Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto, of Poulsbo, Wash., won his seventh AMA Supercross class race of the year. Monster En...

Toni Elias secured pole position for the first ever FIM Moto2 World Championship race at the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar.Elias, competing for the Gresini Racing Moto2 team, clocked the only sub-2:02 lap at the end of a tight qualifying session on Saturday evening, with only a second separating the top 13 on the grid.The former MotoGP rider posted 2:01:904 to better the mark of Mapfre Aspar'...

Casey Stoner's bid for a fourth successive victory in Qatar will begin from pole position after the Australian set the pace in qualifying for the opening FIM MotoGP World Championship race of the season.Stoner has traditionally been unbeatable at the Losail circuit and will again be the man to beat in Sunday's race after once again showing his rivals the way under the floodlights at the desert tra...

Mickael Pichon (France), Andrea Cervellin (Italy), Jernej Irt (Slovenia) and Michele Cervellin (Italy) are winners of the Saturday’s Qualifying sessions in Castelnau de Levis.There was a great sunny day. Three home French riders finished top five. Mickael Pichon took the pole position in the FIM MX3 World Championship Qualifying practice. French Honda rider was the fastest already in both mornings...

Spain's Marc Marquez kicked off his 2010 season in style by claiming pole position for Sunday's opening FIM 125cc World Championship race in Qatar.The Red Bull Ajo rider, third quickest in both of the earlier free practice sessions, turned it on when it mattered most with his time of 2'06.651 good for top spot under the floodlights at Losail.Pol Espargaro (Tuenti Racing), who set the pace in pract...

At the end of an extremely hard-fought Superpole, in which riders were separated my mere thousandths of a second, Ducati Xerox riders Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga secured places on the third row of tomorrow’s grid, Michel in tenth and Nori in eleventh.This morning’s second qualifying took place on a cooler track with respect to yesterday afternoon’s first session, and both Michel and Noriyuki...

Ireland's Eugene Laverty produced a late track record to claim pole for Sunday's FIM Supersport World Championship round in Valencia.Kawasaki's Joan Lascorz had led for much of the session but Laverty piloted his Parkalgar Honda to a lap time of one minute 35.658 seconds to edge out the Spaniard by 0.082sec.Turkey's Kenan Sofuoglu claimed third place on his Hannspree Ten Kate Honda, ahead of Lasco...

The Grand Prix of Lombardia started off with a great home duel for the MX1 pole position as David Philippaerts won today’s qualifying heat from countryman Antonio Cairoli. Championship leader Max Nagl ended third after having led the first half of the race.In the MX2 class Jeffrey Herlings took his first ever World Championship pole.  The 15 year old Dutch ended ahead of Championship leader M...

Britain's Cal Crutchlow took a comfortable pole position for Sunday's FIM Superbike World Championship round at Valencia to prevent home favourite Carlos Checa topping the timesheets.Crutchlow powered his Yamaha round the four-mile track in one minute 33.615 seconds, over two tenths of a second clear of Checa, with the pair joined on the front row by Italy's Max Biaggi and another Briton, Leon Has...

Five months on from the final race of last season the Fiat Yamaha pair of Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi were back in action in Qatar tonight for the opening free practice of 2010, finishing the session second and third behind Casey Stoner. Last season's in-house rivalry looks set to continue with the Spaniard having the edge over the Italian tonight by just 0.002 seconds, the former emerging u...