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0Video: MotoGP crash camera shares dizzying onboard experience 1361894400
In the fast paced world of motorcycle racing, professional MotoGP riders are trained to whip around race tracks with incredible speed and accuracy. But a motorcycle crash can quickly become reality during a race, as anything from rider error to a mechanical problem could cause something ...
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Video: Best motorcycle crash saves and wobbles in MotoGP 1360110600
It's no secret that MotoGP racers, and motorcycle racers in general are some of the most fearless people in the world, but this clip is a real testament to why. MotoGP has recently compiled this video of close-calls that would have had the majority of us screaming for our mommies. One after ...
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Official: Valentino Rossi leaves Ducati, heads home to Yamaha 1344627960
After an undeniably unsuccessful two-year relationship with Ducati, motorcycle superstar Valentino Rossi has decided to take his talents back to Yamaha, the team he left at the end of the 2010 season for what he hoped would be greener pastures. The deal signed by Rossi will see him wearing ...
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Official: BMW rolls out new M6 safety car for MotoGP 1337464980
It takes a fast and agile car to keep pace with MotoGP racing bikes. Fortunately the BMW M division is up to the task, providing safety cars (or what we'd call pace cars on this side of the Atlantic) to the race organizers of the top-level motorcycle racing series. The most recent vehicles to ...
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MotoGP champ Casey Stoner stuns with retirement announcement [w/video] 1337364000
Reigning MotoGP champion Casey Stoner is just 26 years old, but has been riding in the FIM series since 2001 when he joined the 125cc ranks. Five years later, the Australian was in the headlining formula series with Honda, the year after that, in 2007, he won the title astride a Ducati. Last ...
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Official: SPEED inks multi-year deal to keep 24 Hours of Le Mans broadcast 1335477600
SpeedTV has piped Le Mans racing action to American television sets since 1995, and with the signing of a new multi-year television deal, the annual Frankish displays of 24-hour madness will continue to have a home on the cable network. The length of the deal wasn't disclosed, but it does include ...
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Official: Misano circuit renamed in honour of Marco Simoncelli 1320697800
The race track on Italy's Adriatic coast known to most as Misano World Circuit will adopt a new name in tribute to the late motorcycle racer Marco Simoncelli. Although Misano isn't where Simoncelli lost his life – that tragedy unfolded at Sepang in Malaysia – he was known and loved ...
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Misano circuit renamed in honour of Marco Simoncelli 1320613320
The race track on Italy's Adriatic coast known to most as Misano World Circuit will adopt a new name in tribute to the late motorcycle racer Marco Simoncelli. Although Misano isn't where Simoncelli lost his life – that tragedy unfolded at Sepang in Malaysia – he was known and loved ...
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MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli dies in race accident [w/video] 1319367540
Bad news, it seems, does come in threes, as we're grieved to report the passing of Marco Simoncelli. The MotoGP rider succumbed to injuries sustained this weekend at the Malaysian Grand Prix, his death coming barely a week after those of Indy 500 champion Dan Wheldon and Baja racer Rick ...
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Casey Stoner leans his MotoGP Repsol Honda in HD at 1,000 fps! 1310581800
Modern technology offers us some truly amazing experiences that we'd otherwise never be able to comprehend. Take, for instance, cameras. At its beginning, the camera was a novel invention that allowed mankind to capture brief images in time and record memories in a real, physical form. Now, ...
