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Honda and Repsol Celebrate 2 Decades of MotoGP Racing
Honda and Repsol Celebrate 2 Decades of MotoGP Racing

12 Feb 2014, 11:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Honda Factory Team and Repsol are celebrating 20 years of MotoGP racing partnership, together with past and current riders, fans and enthusiasts, in a flamboyant event in the Spanish capital Madrid....

 
2014 MotoGP: Sepang Test Shows Much Anticipated Higher Competitiveness
2014 MotoGP: Sepang Test Shows Much Anticipated Higher Competitiveness

10 Feb 2014, 12:59 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It looks like the 2014 season will be at least as interesting as the 2013 one, the initial tests for the year show. After 3 days of on-track testing in Malaysia, the first impressions hint us on a v...

 
2014 MotoGP: Bridgestone Brings a New Tire for the Open Class
2014 MotoGP: Bridgestone Brings a New Tire for the Open Class

5 Feb 2014, 16:12 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Bridgestone confirmed that the Open Class will benefit from a new tire for the 2014, in order to comply with the new regulations of these entries. While all the grid is now running with the Magne...

 
2014 MotoGP: Marquez Even Faster, Still Leads Day 2 at Sepang
2014 MotoGP: Marquez Even Faster, Still Leads Day 2 at Sepang

5 Feb 2014, 10:37 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Day 2 at Sepang is over, and Marc Marquez has been faster than the previous day, as expected. In fact he lapped under 2 minutes, with his team mate Dani Pedrosa following him 4 tenths behind. How...

 
2014 MotoGP: Mike Di Meglio Rumored to Ride an All-Kawasaki Bike
2014 MotoGP: Mike Di Meglio Rumored to Ride an All-Kawasaki Bike

3 Feb 2014, 16:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The French MotoGP-maniacs gp-inside learned that Avintia Blusens' Mike Di Meglio is likely to ride an all-Kawasaki machine this year. This means that Avintia would drop the FTR chassis and r...

 
Geco, the Shape-Shifting Motorcycle of the Future
Geco, the Shape-Shifting Motorcycle of the Future

31 Jan 2014, 15:41 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Project Geco is the brain child of Eric Pepe Offenstadt, who leads a small, but highly enthusiastic, development team. Geco is also the result of countless years of painstaking research in the motor...

 
Argentina's MotoGP Circuit Officially FIM-Homlogated
Argentina's MotoGP Circuit Officially FIM-Homlogated

30 Jan 2014, 15:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The FIM and Dorna Sports have officially homologated the Circuito Termas de Rio Hondo, in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. This week's inspection was the final step before the two organizatio...

 
2014 MotoGP: Rossi Has to Adapt to Lorenzo's Motorcycle
2014 MotoGP: Rossi Has to Adapt to Lorenzo's Motorcycle

29 Jan 2014, 14:53 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / What comes around goes around, they say, and it looks like MotoGP racing is not an exception to this rule. Yamaha YZR-M1 development team boss Kouichi Tsuji speaks about the bikes of Rossi and ...

 
2014 MotoGP: Ducati Must Choose Between Factory or Open Entries by 28 February
2014 MotoGP: Ducati Must Choose Between Factory or Open Entries by 28 February

28 Jan 2014, 12:26 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It looks like Ducati Corse has exactly one month to decide which type of entry will be made for the 2014 championship. The MotoGP regulations state that "Entries in the MotoGP class must sp...

 
No Ducati Wrooom Wrooom This Year
No Ducati Wrooom Wrooom This Year

27 Jan 2014, 16:21 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Winter was the perfect time for Ducati to unveil their new MotoGP bikes in the snow-filled mountains of Madonna di Campiglio, but this year it's silence veiling the Italian resort, instead of r...

 
2014 Moto2 Provisional Entry List
2014 Moto2 Provisional Entry List

18 Jan 2014, 08:34 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The entry list for the 2014 Moto2 season got two updates ahead of the pre-season tests. Italy's Franco Morbidelli was confirmed as the second entry for team Italtrans, riding a Kalex machin...

 
Valentino Rossi Shows His 2014 Yamaha YZR-M1
Valentino Rossi Shows His 2014 Yamaha YZR-M1

17 Jan 2014, 15:36 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Yamaha and Valentino Rossi introduce the 2014-spec YZR-M1 machine at whose helm the 9-time world champion hopes to win another title

 
2014 MotoGP Provisional Entry List
2014 MotoGP Provisional Entry List

15 Jan 2014, 16:46 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's a new, but full entry list for the 2014 MotoGP season. The latest additions to the 2014 grid have finally been confirmed. Thus 2014 will see Australian Broc Parkes as a full-time ride...

 
Davide Tardozzi Returns to Ducati as MotoGP Logistics Boss
Davide Tardozzi Returns to Ducati as MotoGP Logistics Boss

13 Jan 2014, 17:05 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Ducati announces Davide Tardozzi as the new man in charge of organization and logistics for the MotoGP operations. Tardozzi will report to Paolo Ciabatti, who was appointed Sporting Director and ...

 
2014 MotoGP: Ducati Decides on Factory or Open Entry after Sepang Tests
2014 MotoGP: Ducati Decides on Factory or Open Entry after Sepang Tests

12 Jan 2014, 11:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Going either Factory or Open Class will most likely be the biggest decision Ducati Corse takes during the past years. Ducati Corse's new chief Gigi Dall'Igna was very clear when he ment...

 
Suzuki's Struggles Back to MotoGP, Part 4
Suzuki's Struggles Back to MotoGP, Part 4

11 Jan 2014, 07:04 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Building on a base which proves to be as solid as it looks promising, Suzuki is facing the ultimate stage in the development of their XRH-1 MotoGP motorcycle: making it competitive while running the...

 
Suzuki's Road Back to MotoGP, Part 3
Suzuki's Road Back to MotoGP, Part 3

8 Jan 2014, 15:12 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's the third episode of the Suzuki MotoGP development documentary, a brief description of the road the house of Hamamatsu treads back to the premier class motorcycle racing. The present ...

 
Spyshots: Hyundai Testing Brand New Van
Spyshots: Hyundai Testing Brand New Van

6 Jan 2014, 16:49 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We already know Hyundai is getting ready to introduce the 2015 Genesis at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show later this month, but it looks like the South Korean automaker is busy testing a brand new vehicl...

 
Hybrid G11 BMW 7 Series Goes Out for Tests
Hybrid G11 BMW 7 Series Goes Out for Tests

6 Jan 2014, 16:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / A lot of rumors about the upcoming 7 Series are currently being thrown around, varying from 1.5-liter engines to M7 models. This weekend I told you about the possibility of a brand new hybrid model ...

 
Suzuki's Way Back into MotoGP, Episode 2
Suzuki's Way Back into MotoGP, Episode 2

6 Jan 2014, 11:55 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Team Suzuki show the second episode of their 4-part story on the new MotoGP prototype they'll bring in 2015, the XRH-1. This new documentary tells the story of how the new team was completed...