2012

The second round of the FIM Sidecar World Championship moves from a cold and damp France held in April to the 4.381 km Hungaroring circuit, on the outskirts of Budapest. 2005 was the last time World Championship Sidecars raced at the famous Hungaroring, the teams this year will be hoping it will not be as hot as it was back then, when a lot of teams DNF the race, as temperatures soared to the ...

Fourth round of FIM MX3 World Motocross Championship took place in beautiful region Trentino. World motocross classes are at Ciclamino track for the first time. Everybody was looking forward to fights between motivated riders. Pretty nice weather lure on this circuit number of spectators. In today´s plan were qualifying races. The best one in MX3 cathegory was for today Matthias Walkner. Saturda...

Third round of FIM WMX World Motocross Championship took place in beautiful region Trentino. Women´s world motocross cathegory is at Ciclamino track for the first time. Everybody was looking forward to fights between motivated riders and pretty nice weather lure on this circuit number of spectators. In today´s plan were qualifying races. The best rider in WMX was for today Chiara Fontanesi. Star...

The Monster Energy Grand Prix de France in Le Mans provided spectators with three gripping qualifying session where riders once again battled each other, as well as the elements. In the MotoGP™ class, it was Repsol Honda Team’s Dani Pedrosa who took his first pole position of the season ahead of teammate Casey Stoner. Having started in the wet, the session dried out with 30 minutes to go, leavin...

Following a two week break, the FIM MotoGP world championship was back once again at the Monster Energy Grand Prix de France at the historic track of Le Mans, where Repsol Honda Team’s Casey Stoner laid down the marker for this weekend after setting the fastest time of the day in the second MotoGP practice session. Set in dry conditions, a lap of 1.33’740 placed him just over two tenths ahead of...

The Honda Grand Prix of Brazil is ready to start at the beautiful facilities of Beto Carrero, the biggest amusement park in Latin America. It will be the fourth year in a row that the FIM Motocross World Championship visits Brazil, but it will be the first time that the venue Beto Carrero hosts the Championship. It was only last year during a National race that Beto Carrero hosted a motocross ra...

Reigning MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner confirmed on Thursday that he would retire from the sport at the end of the 2012 season.<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Stoner had previously dismissed his retirement plans as rumours, however he has now publicly stated that he will not continue racing past the end of the 2012 season. He said: “After a long...

During the Final of the AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, in Las Vegas, the FIM and NIGHT of the JUMPS / FIM FreeStyle Motocross World Championship promoter Sportplus renewed their contract for a further three years until the end of 2016.The new contract includes not only the well-known NIGHT of the JUMPS – FIM Freestyle Motocross World Championship, but also promotion of the FIM FreeStyl...

They made history: The two BMW Motorrad Motorsport factory riders speak about the milestone they achieved at Donington. There was endless jubilation in the BMW Motorrad Motorsport garage. When factory riders Marco Melandri (ITA) and Leon Haslam (GBR) crossed the finish line of race one at Donington (GBR), they gave BMW Motorrad its long awaited milestone – not only the first ever victory for ...

Having encountered at least one day of rain during every winter test and in every race so far except for Qatar, the two Ducati Team riders hope for a weekend with stable weather conditions at Le Mans as they continue working on the setup of the GP12. Friday will find Valentino Rossi back on the track where he finished on the podium last year, and with the Portuguese post-race test having been...