2012

Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo charged to a dominant victory at San Marino GP in Misano, in fr FIM MotoGP World Championship, in a dramatic race ahead of Valentino Rossi and Álvaro Bautista. It was a problematic start as a partially aborted start due to issues with Karel Abraham’s Cardion AB Racing Ducati prompted a re-start. The race was then shortened to 27 laps due to the additional si...

Joonas Kylmakorpi came in Vechta with 17 points behind Franc and Pijper. After heat 8, Flying Finn is 2012 World Champion. With 7000 people around the track, he won only one of his 4 heats. Winning the semi final, he made an extreme start in final and fly to a third title. Martin Smolinski was the leader of the whole meeting. He won 2 of his 4 heats, his semi final and was ahead until final. ...

On Saturday, China played host for the first time ever to the FIM Freestyle MX World Championship. The NIGHT of the JUMPs World Tour put together its finest line-up of riders for the scrutiny of the assembled Guangdong bigwigs and the Chinese Motorsport Federation. The occasion was enhanced by the presence of the two Red Bull drivers, Josh Sheehan (AUS) and Petr Pilat (CZE). Unfortunately, the 201...

  The sun came out in time for the Moto3™ qualifying practice at the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera de Rimini in Misano where Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Sandro Cortese took pole position in front of Romano Fenati and Niccolò Antonelli. Cortese stormed to pole with a time of 1.44’201, the best lap all weekend, thanks to the much-improved weather and track conditions. Lining up nex...

It was Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol’s Marc Márquez who threw down the gauntlet for tomorrow’s race at Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera de Rimini in Misano by taking Moto2™ pole position in front of Pol Espargaró and Scott Redding. Championship leader Márquez recorded his seventh pole of the season with a 1.38’242, beating Pons 40 HP Tuenti’s compatriot Pol Espargaró into second by ...

In the first dry session so far, Pedrosa’s lap in the high 1.33s saw Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo dramatically pushed into second by less than two hundredths. Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow was equally on the pace, with the Brit being on provisional pole in the final minutes, before being overtaken by the Spanish duo. Fourth place went to LCR Honda MotoGP’s Stefan Bradl, who look...

On the first day of free practice at the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera de Rimini in Misano it was Tech 3 Racing’s Xavier Simeón who set the fastest time ahead of Claudio Corti and Andrea Johann Zarco in the afternoon practice, the second wet session of the day. After a preceding MotoGP™ session that was neither wet not dry, the Moto2™ contingent was met with rain, allowing all...

In the final few minutes in the afternoon practice on a near-dry racing line it was Team Italia FMI’s Romano Fenati who set the pace in Misano at the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera de Rimini ahead of Maverick Viñales and Jonas Folger. The session started with a bout of rain, yet this soon stopped and riders spent most of the session creating a dry line. With five minutes left t...

In free practice sessions that were neither completely wet nor dry for the premier-class at the Gran Premio Aperol di San Marino e della Riviera de Rimini in Misano is was Cardion AB Racing’s Karel Abraham who finished on top after posting the best time in the afternoon session. With only 13 riders taking to the partly-dry circuit that was frequently hit with showers all day, top contenders such...

Repsol rider second fastest to open weekend at Misano. Rins places seventh, Oliveira thirteenth and Álex Márquez twenty-fourth in wet weather. Second in the Moto3 World Championship, Maverick Viñales was ambitious and confident today at the Marco Simoncelli Circuit in Misano. The Repsol rider finished second in a changeable day weather-wise to start the twelfth round of the season. He was behind ...