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danny87 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:47 pm

Yeah forgot to say its delayed sorry.

Whofan · PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:51 pm

Its going to be the last season on British Eurosport though as BT Sport will show it exclusively from next year. Which is a bit of a shame as it means no more Toby and Julian

Fish88 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:54 pm

We arent using the 2013 thread?

Fish88 · PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:27 pm

SUZUKI IN 2015 and now APRILLIA IN 2016!!!.

Quote:

Aprilia to make 2016 MotoGP return after 12-year absence

Aprilia has announced it will return to MotoGP in 2016, 12 years after last racing in the category.

Roberto Colaninno, chairman of Aprilia owner Piaggio Group, confirmed the marque's plans on Tuesday at the Milan Bike Show.

"In 2016 Aprilia will return to MotoGP to win and match the success it had in [World] Superbikes," Colaninno is quoted as saying by Reuters.

"We've got two years of work ahead of us."

While Aprilia's last season in grand prix racing yielded little success - it finished sixth in the 2004 constructors' championship with just 39 points - it has gone on to enjoy massive success in World Superbikes, winning the 2009 and '11 manufacturers' titles.

It also helped Max Biaggi to his two WSBK crowns.

The Italian manufacturer suffered a blow last month, however, when its highly-regarded racing boss Luigi Dall'Igna – who had been instrumental to that World Superbike success – was appointed as Ducati Corse's new manager.

Aprilia's return means MotoGP could potentially boast five manufacturers in 2016, with Suzuki having confirmed its own return one year earlier in 2015.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111153

MOTOGP iS RECOVERING, FUCK YEAH!!!

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:29 pm

Aw, sweet. Now where's Kawa? Would be cool if there's enough MotoGP bikes so that CRT's could be ditched.

kals · PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:32 pm

That's great news having Aprilia back also, but quite frankly their last MotoGP effort was pretty pathetic. The last thing of merit they achieved were two third places for Jeremy McWilliams in 2000, including that epic British GP battle with Rossi and Roberts Jnr.

To be honest, and I know Aprilia has a huge heritage in 500cc, 250cc and 125cc GP racing, I mostly remember Aprilia for this...

[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9b79n_sbk-2001-rd13-imola_auto[/dailymotion]

Go to race 2 - 7 minutes in

Speedworx · PostPosted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 12:37 pm

Do we know who BT Sport are going to have in the commentary box?

Fish88 · PostPosted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 2:47 pm

A 20 year old becoming world champion, wow!!!

phil1993 · PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 3:32 pm

Code:

Provisional 2014 MotoGP entry list

#    Rider             Team        Bike        Class
4    Andrea Dovizioso  Ducati      Ducati      Factory
5    Colin Edwards     Forward     FTR/Yamaha  Open
6    Stefan Bradl      LCR         Honda       Factory
7    Hiroshi Aoyama    Aspar       Honda       Open
8    Hector Barbera    Avintia     FTR         Open
9    Danilo Petrucci   Ioda        tba         Open
17   Karel Abraham     Cardion AB  Honda       Open
19   Alvaro Bautista   Gresini     Honda       Factory
26   Dani Pedrosa      Honda       Honda       Factory
29   Andrea Iannone    Pramac      Ducati      Factory
35   Cal Crutchlow     Ducati      Ducati      Factory
38   Bradley Smith     Tech 3      Yamaha      Factory
41   Aleix Espargaro   Forward     FTR/Yamaha  Open
44   Pol Espargaro     Tech 3      Yamaha      Factory
45   Scott Redding     Gresini     Honda       Open
46   Valentino Rossi   Yamaha      Yamaha      Factory
59   Niccolo Canepa    Ioda        tba         Open
63   Mike di Meglio    Avintia     FTR         Open
68   Yonny Hernandez   Pramac      Ducati      Open
69   Nicky Hayden      Aspar       Honda       Open
70   Michael Laverty   Paul Bird   PBM/ART     Open
93   Marc Marquez      Honda       Honda       Factory
99   Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha      Yamaha      Factory
tba  tba               Paul Bird   PBM/ART     Open

kals · PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:17 pm

A nice healthy field right there.

fede999 · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 1:08 pm

Nothing better than buy out your rival series and turn it into crap after having "borrowed" their regulations.

It's like 2003 all over again.

fede999 · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 2:44 pm

Doriano Romboni is apparently in critical condition after a crash during a charity event to raise funds for Marco Simoncelli's foundation.

Let's hope he can recover.

kals · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:20 pm

Oh shit, I've not heard that name for many years. Here's wishing Romboni well.

cambridge · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:47 pm

fede999 wrote:

Doriano Romboni is apparently in critical condition after a crash during a charity event to raise funds for Marco Simoncelli's foundation.

Let's hope he can recover.

the crazy thing is that apparently the crash was quite similar to simoncelli's one. It's written that he fell, remained on the bike and cut the racing line while another rider was passing. here are some picture from an italian site

[attention] may depict a fatal crash

Spoiler:

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:57 pm

Unfortunately he succumbed to his injuries.

http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/198688 ... event.html

kals · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:18 pm

How tragic. RIP to Doriano. He's a name I grew up watching when I first truly got into motorcycle racing in the nineties. It's sad and ironic to lose in considering the circumstances.

stimaro · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:43 pm

Tragic!

Fish88 · PostPosted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 9:36 pm

Terrible, especially on such an event.

kals · PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 1:41 pm

Honda is threatening to quit MotoGP should standard ECUs become mandatory in 2017 - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111887

I'm torn on this. On one hand manufacturers come and go, Honda cannot hold the sport to ransom for their own benefit, but then again Honda is in the fabric of MotoGP. Standard ECUs have done well in F1, perhaps Honda should evaluate the success (or failure) of standard ECUs in other top class racing series before making the jump.

ChiliFan · PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:39 pm

Semi-interesting news: The Spanish national championship (CEV), which is also run by Dorna, will be organised by the FIM in 2014. Essentially it becomes an international championship which holds 6 races in Spain and one in Portugal. In other words, Spain and Dorna continue to tighten their grip on Grand Prix motorcycle racing.

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