2010

Yamaha Monster Energy Motocross Team’s David Philippaerts can consider himself unfortunate to end his home Grand Prix with only 8th position after an eventful afternoon at Mantova for the second round of fifteen in the 2010 FIM MX-GP World Championship. The Italian was leading the first moto at the Grand Prix of Lombardia until a crash, which was then followed by an excellent recovery and finally ...

« Happy to have finished», was the feeling shared by the surviors of the GRAND PRIX AMV SEGUROS D’Espagne. Following the second day of competition this Sunday, the stars of the MAXXIS FIM EWC held themselves together, dealing with fatigue built up the previous day. Exiting the Valverde del Camino park, eyes were almost closed, drained by the effort expelled throughout the opening two days of the C...

Valentino Rossi ended Casey Stoner`s domination in Qatar as the Fiat Yamaha rider took victory in the opening round of this season`s FIM MotoGP World Championship.Stoner had won every race at the Losail circuit since he joined the Marlboro Ducati team in 2007 and looked set to continue that record early on as he powered into the lead from pole position before he surprisingly crashed out.That left ...

Shoya Tomizawa made history as he won the inaugural FIM Moto2 Grand Prix in Qatar.The new 600cc four-stroke bikes have replaced the traditional 250cc class for this season and the Japanese rider made a late dash for the line to win by 4.656 seconds.Alex Debon was second, just ahead of Jules Cluzel in an entertaining race under the floodlights of the desert.Pre-season favourite Toni Elias fell off ...

Nicolas Terol leads the FIM 125cc World Championship after winning the opening race of the season in Qatar on his Aspar Aprilia.Marc Marquez started on pole position and looked like leading from flag to flag aboard his Red Bull Derbi until he was passed by Terol with three laps to go. The top seven were in a group on their own and produced some classic 125cc racing under the floodlights of the Los...

Castelnau de Levis held the second event for the FIM MX3 World Championship this weekend. French riders took two places on the podium. Idol of the home crowd Mickael Pichon (Honda) won the sunny race on the 1805 metres long track Puech Rampant in front of Italian Alex Salvini (Husqvarna) and another French Christophe Martin (Husqvarna).The track was hard and difficult. Pichon won both heats. In th...

Taking victory at the Grand Prix of Lombardia, Antonio Cairoli wrote a new page in Motocross history as he collected the maiden Grand Prix win of a 350cc machine in the likes of the KTM 350 SX-F. Clement Desalle and Max Nagl completed the MX1 podium.Marvin Musquin took his fourth consecutive heat win to win the Grand Prix from Ken Roczen and Jeffrey Herlings.Mats Nilsson dominated round one of the...

Two action-packed races held under clear Spanish skies saw two different winners make their mark, Leon Haslam (Suzuki Alstare) in race one and Noriyuki Haga (Ducati Xerox) in race two. The races could not have been more different, with Haslam a clear leader in an uninterrupted contest, while Haga won an aggregate race two by only 0.025 seconds. Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia) scored two podiums toda...

Joan Lascorz moved to the top of the FIM Supersport World Championship standings with a dominant victory in Valencia.The Spaniard led from start to finish in front of his home fans on his Motocard Kawasaki to move to 65 points - four points ahead of Ten Kate Honda rider Kenan Sofuoglu.Turkish rider Sofuoglu clung on to claim second place ahead of Welshman Chaz Davies, while Irish rider Eugene Lave...

Today, the enduro stars battled through the first round of the GRAND PRIX AMV SEGUROS D’Espagne through the dusty Andalousian hills.  At the end of a long winter break, the Friday night Super Test took the pulse of the world Enduro and 2010 looks full of promise.   On a drastically transformed course, with logs and rocky obstacles, ENDURO 1 rider Antoine MEO (FRA-HVA), showed the be...