Motorcycle Racing
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Márquez: ‘This surgery wasn’t for pleasure – this is to win’
Can you imagine Marc Márquez living a calm life? The series is a whirl of racetracks, team meetings, team dinners, surgeons, consultations rooms, hospital wards, gyms full of torture gear, training on bicycles, training on motorbikes, private jets, hanging with his gang at the brothers’ Le Corbusier-style mansion in Madrid and lots of pain and moments of dark thoughts. After the fourth operation on his arm, in June last year, he’s wheeled out of surgery, still drugged up to the eyeballs, with all his power gone, his fire extinguished, like Samson shorn of his locks. He lies there weak, like you’ve never seen him, defeated like you’ve never seen him,…
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WorldSBK: Race Two Results From Assen (Updated) – Roadracing World Magazine
Aruba.it Racing Ducati rider Alvaro Bautista won FIM Superbike World Championship Race Two Sunday at TT Circuit Assen, in The Netherlands. Bautista, the defending World Champion, won the race, his sixth of the season, by 3.915 seconds on his Ducati Panigale V4 R. Toprak Razgatlioglu was the runner-up on his Pata Yamaha Prometeon YZF-R1. Razgatlioglu’s teammate Andrea Locatelli finished third, 7.416 seconds behind Bautista. American Garrett Gerloff got 12th on his Bonovo Action BMW M 1000 RR. Crashers in Race Two included Loris Baz, Iker Lecuona, Bradley Ray, Jonathan Rea, Michael van der Mark, and Xavi Vierge. WSBK R2 WSBK Points after R2 More, from a press…
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Melissa Paris Was ‘Lost’ Until She Found Motorcycle Racing
Melissa Paris misses racing. You wouldn’t be able to tell initially while in conversation, or during the occasional cuts MotoAmerica TV coverage makes to Paris, standing in her garage, watching her team or her husband on track. She looks focused. Confident. Sometimes fierce. It’s not that she doesn’t love the work she is doing with her team, MP13, supporting two young riders in MotoAmerica’s Twins Cup and Junior Cup classes for 2023, or that she hasn’t enjoyed her role as a mentor to younger riders and working as chief mechanic when she can as well. It’s that she misses swinging her leg over the bike and pushing it, as well…
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A Rare Magni Australia Superbike From 1994
The Magni Australia is an exceedingly rare Italian superbike from the mid-1990s that was named after Australia thanks to the remarkable efforts of Ted Stolarski and his racing team based out of Perth. The bike has a bespoke Magni tubular steel frame with a Magni-designed Parallelogramo swing arm, and it was powered by the then-new Moto Guzzi V-twin engine with its single overhead cam operating four valves per cylinder. Fast Facts – The Magni Australia Magni is one of the most revered names in the history of specialist Italian motorcycle manufacturing. The company was founded in 1977 in Samarate by Arturo Magni, a legendary motorcycle engineer who had worked on Gilera race…
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MotoGP USA | Zarco ‘doesn’t agree’ with fan meet 15mins before race
Pramac Ducati rider Johann Zarco has expressed his unhappiness at the ‘stressful’ demands of MotoGP’s revised schedule, believing them to be a contributing factor in a slew of injuries for multiple riders so far this season. His comments ahead of this weekend’s Grand Prix of The Americas at COTA relate to MotoGP’s move to double the number of races in a season with the addition of a shorter Sprint Race to take place on Saturday afternoon’s. Prompting the first major overhaul of the weekend programme since the current ‘elimination’ qualifying format was introduced in 2013, it has led to a knock-on effect for the schedule, with riders now completing Practice…
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Incredibly rare motorbike ridden by bike legend Mike Hailwood to go under the hammer – could you snap it up?
A Unusual motorbike ridden by the legendary Mike Hailwood is set to fetch up to £120,000 when it goes under the hammer afterwards this month. The 1960 Ducati 125cc Desmodromic ‘Barcone’ Grand Prix Racing Bike was one of only four these kinds of machines developed for that year’s racing season. 5 A exceptional motorcycle ridden by the legendary Mike Hailwood is set to fetch up to £120,000 when it goes under the hammer afterwards this thirty day periodCredit rating: RideaPart 5 Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood, right, was a British Grand Prix bike road racer – pictured here with Phil Read throughCredit: AP And the bike is now one of the…
