2012

The 2012 eni FIM Superbike World Championship enters into a crucial phase this weekend as the title battle is virtually whittled down to three names on the eve of the penultimate round at the Autodromo Internacional Algarve circuit at Portimao.Max Biaggi and Marco Melandri, two of the most famous riders in world motorcycle racing, will be fighting it out on Sunday together with the revelation of t...

FIM Speedway Under-21 world champion Maciej Janowski makes his senior World Championship debut as the wild card in the FIM Torun Speedway Grand Prix of Poland  at the Marian Rose Motoarena on October 6.The Wroclaw-born racer dons the famous No.16 race jacket for his hotly-anticipated arrival on speedway’s biggest stage in the final round of the 2012 SGP series.Janowski lifted last year’s Unde...

Michael Jesper Jensen moved a little closer to his dream of winning the FIM Under-21 title with an emphatic win in Final 4 at Tarnow on Saturday. Beaten only by Ukrainian, Aleksandr Loktaev when they met, he also set the fastest time of the meeting in Heat 7. Local favourite and current champion, Maciej Janowski, encouraged by some 4500 fans finished on 13 points but lost out in a run-off for sec...

Missing from action during the 2011 FIM International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) in Finland, France make a welcome return to the World Trophy team category at this year’s ISDE in Saxony, Germany, starting as clear favourites to add victory to their winning results in Serres, Greece (2008), Figueira da Foz, Portugal (2009), and Morelia, Mexico (2010). With newly crowned 2012 FIM Enduro World Champions ...

Emma Bristow – Ossa heads to Tramelan, Switzerland for the second round of the 2012 FIM Women’s Trial World Championship with ground to make up on her main rivals. Following the opening round of the current series held high in the mountains of Andorra back in June, Bristow sits third in the general standings after placing second and then fourth over the initial two days of competition. Ten points ...

In the ninth contest of the 2012 FIM Freestyle MX World Championship, title favourite Remi Bizouard survived a strong challenge from in-form riders Maikel Melero (ESP) and Libor Podmol (CZE). The second NIGHT of the JUMPS in Guangzhou attracted Chinese fans in even greater numbers to the Guangzhou International Sports Arena, all keen to extend an enthusiastic welcome to the world’s FMX elite. As e...

Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo brought his 2012 race win tally to six today, leading from the start grid to take victory in the Grand Prix of San Marino. The victory was doubly special for Yamaha as it was achieved running a special Yamaha ‘Race- Blu’ livery. The race itself started in dramatic fashion after Karel Abraham stalled on the grid causing yellow flags to come out and the start li...

On an event-filled day at the GP di San Marino e Riviera di Rimini, Valentino Rossi had his best race so far aboard the Desmosedici. In sunny and warm conditions, the Italian made it to the second step of the podium, having ridden at a pace that was second only to that of the winner, Jorge Lorenzo. The first start was cancelled, but Rossi enjoyed a great getaway when the red lights went out for ...

In a nail-bighting Moto3 race at the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera de Rimini it was Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Sandro Cortese who stormed to a thrilling victory ahead of Luis Salom and Romano Fenati. Cortese got the holeshot into turn one as drama unfolded at the back of the grid, as Mahindra Racing’s Danny Webb, Elle 2-Ciati’s Kevin Calia, Technomag-CIP-TSR’s Alan Techer and Ambrogio...

It was Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol’s Marc Márquez who recorded an emphatic win in a shortened re-started race at the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera de Rimini in Misano in front of Pol Espargaró and Andrea Iannone. Following a restart due to an oil-spill by Federal Oil Gresini Moto2’s Gino Rea, the Moto2™ grid set off for 14 laps with Speed Master’s Andrea Iannone on pole ahead o...