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The Losail International Circuit is the venue from Thursday for the Qatar Grand Prix, the first race of 2013. The Red Bull KTM Ajo begins the campaign with a new lineup of Luis Salom, Arthur Sissis and Zulfahmi Khairuddin. The unique conditions of this race, held at night for the sixth consecutive year, make this a special weekend for riders and fans alike. This will be the first of the seventeen ...

On the Wednesday evening before the 2013 MotoGP™ season opener at the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar, Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo, teammate Valentino Rossi, Repsol Honda Team duo Dani Pedrosa and Marc Márquez, Ducati Team’s Nicky Hayden and LCR Honda MotoGP’s Stefan Bradl all gathered at the pre-race press conference to share their thoughts ahead of the first race. Lorenzo, who wi...

The long winter wait is over as Yamaha Factory Racing prepare this week for the first race of the 2013 MotoGP season, the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar under the floodlights of the Losail International Circuit. The unique night-time race schedule will mean that the first practice session of the weekend will happen in just one day, on Thursday 04th April.Reigning MotoGP World Champion Jorge L...

Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez in MotoGP, plus Alex Rins and Alex Marquez in Moto3, begin 18-race World Championship season with Repsol this weekend.The Losail International Circuit will host the curtain raising race off a new MotoGP World Championship season this weekend. The Qatari track has been a fixture on the calendar for ten editions, and has been the first race of the year for the past five...

Following a long winter of testing and preparing for the 2013 MotoGP championship, the Ducati Team finally heads to the Middle East this week for the first Grand Prix of the year, at Qatar’s Losail International Circuit. The squad has a much different look than it did just over four months ago at the 2012 season finale in Valencia, Spain, with changes in management and a new rider in Andrea D...

The hard-chargers in FIM Moto3 World Championship will descend on Qatar for only the second time since the class’ introduction last year, and will arrive with yet further promise and high expectations. With some of the closest racing witnessed in 2012, and further improvements to the bikes across the class during pre-season, the 2013 season opener under the Losail floodlights in eagerly awaited....

As Moto2 embarks on its fourth season once the red lights go out in Qatar for the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar there will be one favourite on people’s minds in the form of Tuenti HP 40’s Pol Espargaró. And whilst pre-season testing has confirmed the hype, it has also shown a raft of new and old contenders that once again promise to be at the sharp end and challenge for a win in one of the...

This Thursday sees the long wait come to an end and one of the most eagerly awaited FIM MotoGP Championship in years get underway at the 2013 season opener under the floodlights at the Grand Prix of Qatar. Yamaha Factory Racing’s reigning world champion will have a tough task ahead defending his title this year, not only in the face of tough competition from Repsol Honda Team rival Dani Pedrosa,...

With little over a week to go before the start of the World Championship season in Qatar, the Repsol Honda riders talk about one another –looking at their sporting development and their riding styles. Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez form one of the strongest duos on the grid. After positive preseason testing performances, both are counting down the days to the start of the 2013 MotoGP season. In...

Britain’s Cal Crutchlow moved atop the timesheets as MotoGP™ pre-season testing drew to a close in Jerez on Monday. The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider led the way from Yamaha Factory Racing duo Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo.The third and final day brought yet more rain, although a dryer period in the second half allowed for some much desired laps on Slicks. Crutchlow was quickest before being dem...