2012

Following the accident at Imola during official testing in the Superbike World Championship last April 2 the Kawasaki Racing Team would like to communicate the following about the condition of Joan Lascorz. Joan remains hospitalised at the Institute Guttmann in Spain, immersed in a process of recovery and adaptation to his new life. It is expected that by the middle of September Joan will leave th...

The final round of the 2012 Sidecar World Championship will be held at the 4.185 km Bugatti circuit at Le Mans.One 18 lap race will decide who will be 2012 World Champion.  With only 5 points separating the top four places in what has turned out to be one of the closest fought championships in years, it is down to this race.Tim Reeves and Ashley Hawes lead the championship with 156 points, af...

Perfectly positioned going into the home race in the Eifel Mountains: BMW Motorrad heads to the Nürburgring (GER) for the twelfth round of the 2012 FIM Superbike World Championship leading the standings in both the Rider and Manufacturer standings. Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport has already claimed six wins this season with factory rider Marco Melandri (ITA). The last race weekend, at the new “Mosco...

Polish star Jaroslaw Hampel admits he has had enough of watching racing on television as he prepares for his FIM Speedway Grand Prix return at Swedish track Malilla on Saturday night.The Lodz-born racer has confirmed he will take his place in the FIM Scandinavian SGP after recovering from the broken ankle he suffered in Copenhagen on June 9.First reserve Martin Vaculik has covered for Hampel in th...

The battle for the 2012 Endurance World Championship crown will be decided once and for all at the final round of the season, which takes place this weekend at Le Mans. BMW Motorrad France Team Thevent head to the prestigious 24 Heures du Mans with their sights set firmly on winning not just the race, but also the championship.With a race win and a podium finish so far this season, just 19 points ...

Husqvarna Enduro Team by CH Racing team rider Juha Salminen continued his battle for the 2012 Enduro 2 World Championship title at his home round of the series, the GP of Finland held in Heinola, where the eight-time EWC champion collected two hard fought third place results. Looking to close the gap on E2 class leader Pierre-Alexandre Renet, Juha frustratingly found himself unable to beat the Fre...

The treacherous sand track of Lierop, Holland played host to the third to last GP of a long 2012 MX season. Saturday’s qualifying saw Alessandro Lupino take fifteenth place, followed by Ivo Monticelli, marking up his best qualifying time so far, both on the new Husqvarna TC250R. Nick Triest was out of the running still battling with an injury to his left shoulder. Lupino began the first heat amon...

Europe’s leading company in the field of motorcycle lubricants and lubrication, Motul, is preparing for a second, thrilling 24-hour event at the famous Le Mans circuit in four months:  the 24 Hours of Le Mans Moto.  The endurance motorcycle race on 8-9th September on the Bugatti Circuit Le Mans is the last round of the 2012 FIM Endurance World Championship and Motul is an official partne...

Denmark’s Michael Jepsen Jensen took the lead in the Under 21 series with a superior performance to win in Round 3 on a rain-affected track at Coventry scoring an unbeaten 15 points. Jensen seemed untroubled by the wet conditions recording the first maximum of this year’s series and now has a three point cushion ahead of his nearest rivals, fellow countryman Mikkel B. Jensen and current champion M...

After one-year absence in the FIM Motocross World Championship calendar, all the Dutch fans did not want to miss the opportunity to see Jeffrey Herlings riding for the first time in Lierop, so up to 20000 spectators gathered together during the whole weekend and they could witness the incredible show of their home rider on the sand. In the MX1 it was Antonio Cairoli who dominated both heats, while...