MotoGP
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Boutique Italian motorcycle company Vyrus is hoping to cause a real shake-up in top-level racing by entering its radically unorthodox Vyrus 986 M2 Factory in the heavily standardised Moto2 competition.
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The king of Italian motorcycles pulls the wraps off a very odd new motorcycle indeed - the 2011 Ducati Diavel power cruiser - and announces a new MotoGP sponsorship and co-promotion deal with Mercedes-AMG.
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It's a long time since we saw anything quite as extreme as the NCR M16, a motorcycle that takes one of the most expensive roadbikes ever built, throws almost all of it in the bin and replaces it with the most exotic materials on the planet.
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Ducati is so pleased with the weight saving and additional rigidity afforded by its MotoGP frame design that it has patented the frame for its road bikes.
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To many motoring enthusiasts, Japan’s Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima is to hill climbing what Michael Schumacher is to F1 or Valentino Rossi is MotoGP. It’s no wonder then that when Tajima launches an electric car the motoring world gets excited.
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Valentino Rossi has only ever driven an F1 car six times, but this week Rossi tested in a Ferrari F1 car again, and was so fast that the possibility of a move from MotoGP to F1 might now be approaching a probability.
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Very few world championship winning bikes exist outside the private collections of former world champions, or in factory museums. Now Franco Uncini has decided to auction the Suzuki 500 XR40 on which he won the 1982 title.
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While carbon fibre has been the construction material of choice for F1 for three decades, the first win by a motorcycle made of carbon fibre at the highest level did not come until this evening.
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Japanese computer graphics designer Yutaka Igarashi has conceived a new robotically controlled motorcycle design aimed at beating the lap time of a MotoGP bike around a circuit.
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The global financial crisis has clearly hammered the highest echelons of prototype racing, with established teams like Honda and Kawasaki pulling out of F1 and MotoGP respectively in the last couple of months. But for the production-based (and much cheaper) World Superbike series, things have never
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Last year's world champ Casey Stoner lead from pole to clinch victory in the Australian MotoGP today, but most of the excitement lay behind him as Valentino Rossi cut a swathe through the field from his 12th-place grid position, slipping past Nicky Hayden on the final lap to finish second.
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Yamaha's superstar MotoGP team, including Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Colin Edwards and James Toseland, have assembled to throw their star power behind a completely reworked 2009 R1 launch in Vegas - but the magnificent machine bare
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