MotoGPBlog: a change of focus

MotoGPBlog throughout the 2008 and 2009 seasons built a small but active community around news of MotoGP, tipping contests, and reference information, such as track maps and stats. Unfortunately, the amount of time and effort the blog took to maintain simply hasn’t been available to me in the past couple of seasons. Now, however, I [...]

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Takuma Aoki Hiroshi Aoyama Shuhei Aoyama Andre Luc Appietto

Tipping contest winners: Donington 2009

It was a freakish race – one which I am still trying to get my head around, let alone write up! Because of the unusual podium, points were scarce this week with many people striking out. Only one person scored podium points: @leighberwick with his 3rd place for de Puniet. How you picked him out [...]

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Jacques Bernard Adrian Bernetic Manfred Bernsee Bruno Bertacchini

Female Rider to Race Moto2 at Assen

The Mapfre Aspar Moto2 team has named Elena Rosell the replacement rider for the injured Julian Simon in the June 25 Moto2 race at Assen.

Rosell will become the first woman to ever race in the Moto2 class and the first in any Grand Prix road racing class since Katja Poensgen competed in the 250cc class during the 2003 season. Rosell regularly races Stock Extreme class of Spain?s CEV championship, currently sitting 11th in the standings.

Other female racers who have competed in the Grand Prix World Championships include Tomoka Igata, Taru Rinne, Nikoletta Kovacs and Marketa Janakova.

Rosell will have a tough job filling in for Simon, the 2009 125cc GP Champion and runner up in the 2010 Moto2 Championship. Simon suffered multiple fractures in his right leg after a crash at the Catalan Grand Prix. Simon currently sits 5 in the 2011 Moto2 standings despite the crash at Catalunya and missing the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Simon is expected to be out for a while longer but it isn?t clear if Rosell or another rider will fill in for other upcoming rounds.

[Source: MotoGP (Spanish)]

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Kenichi Yoshida Lewis Young Paul Young Yasuharu Yuzawa

Indy tipping contest scores

In another lean week top scorers, two names shot ahead from the pack to challenge the leaders – @tailzer and @harleymac1. Pulling off an impressive Brit-centric Minella to gain 6 points, @tailzer took second place in the overall standings. Well done sir! @harleymac1 also made impressive gains with his 6 point Minella. Honorable mention goes [...]

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Johnny Bengtsson Angelo Bergamonti Werner Bergold Jacques Bernard

Video: I Hate It When This Happens

Imagine yourself racing at Magny-Cours, minding your own business, hitting your lines, setting up your next pass, etc. And then all of a sudden, one of your competitors wipes-out, and takes you down with him. Tough break, but it happens right? Nine times out of ten in slow speed crashes, you can pick up your bike and recoup some points…that is of course assuming that your bike doesn’t lock handlebars with the other fallen bike, ...

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Kazuaki Yamashita Fuyuki Yamazaki Shunji Yatsushiro Ryuji Yokoe

MotoGPBlog: a change of focus

MotoGPBlog throughout the 2008 and 2009 seasons built a small but active community around news of MotoGP, tipping contests, and reference information, such as track maps and stats. Unfortunately, the amount of time and effort the blog took to maintain simply hasn’t been available to me in the past couple of seasons. Now, however, I [...]

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Darren Barton František Bartoš Günter Bartusch Eric Bataille