Valentino Rossi turns 30 today, on the 16th of February 2009. Perhaps the most talented and gifted rider of all time, the current MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi celebrates his 30th birthday on Monday. As he prepares to undertake his 14th season of World Championship competition the legendary Italian rider Valentino Rossi turns 30 on […]
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Seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher was in hospital yesterday after crashing during a testing session for the 2009 German superbike championship. The 40-year-old had been testing his Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade at the Cartagena circuit in Spain since Monday. Schumacher said on his website: “I had an accident at the biking tests in Cartagena, […]
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The 2009 JK Tyre National Racing championship gets underway Saturday at the MMST track in Sriperumbudur, about 40 km from here this weekend. The two-day event will be the first of the six rounds scheduled for the season that will extend from Feb 14-15 to Oct 3-4. The second and third rounds will be held […]
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The bike got its first run-out with World Champion Valentino Rossi in post-race testing at Valencia last year, and has undergone further development over the winter. Today, as part of the factory team´s official online presentation, details of the new machine were released to the public. `In 2008, when we won everything: the Constructors´ title, […]
According to technical director of Force India, James Key , Force India’s Mercedes-powered 2009 car is yet to debut in March 09. Racing against time to put together a machine fast enough to hover around in the mid-field, Force India think-tank remains optimistic of rolling out VJM02, its latest generation car, well in time to hit […]
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Volkswagen made motorsport history by winning the 2009 Dakar Rally with its clean diesel powered Race Touareg TDI’s. This year’s Dakar Rally, which made its debut in South America, marked the first victory ever for a diesel-powered vehicle in the automobile class in the Rally’s thirty year history. Volkswagen factory driver and off-road motorsport veteran, […]
India’s first Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan said he was never interested in joining Force India and criticised team co-owner Vijay Mallya for saying no Indian was good enough to drive in F1. “I spent a frustrating time with Jordan, where I had a car that just could not perform. I have no desire to […]
Vijay Mallya the Indian Business Tycoon and the owner of Force India recently announced that he is interested to buy the Honda’s F1 racing team. Honda F1 racing team, one of the best announced earlier that they will be pulling out of F1 and sell the team due to Global economic crisis. Flamboyant Indian business […]
FIM has announced the new regulations for the 2011 600cc class MotoGP session which will replace the current 250cc class which will be termed as “Moto 2”. Technical Regulations: 1. Engine 1.1 4-stroke engines only. 1.2 Engine capacity: maximum 600cc. 1.3 4 cylinders maximum. 1.4 No oval pistons. 1.5 Engines must be normally aspirated. No […]
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The provisional List for the 2009 MotoGP has been Realesed by Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). MotoGP Class: 3. DANI PEDROSA, REPSOL HONDA TEAM 4. ANDREA DOVIZIOSO, REPSOL HONDA TEAM 5. COLIN EDWARDS, TECH 3 YAMAHA 7. CHRIS VERMEULEN, RIZLA SUZUKI MOTOGP 14. RANDY DE PUNIET, LCR HONDA MOTOGP 15. ALEX DE ANGELIS, SAN CARLO […]