Ben Spies is to retire from motorcycle racing. The shoulder injuries the Texan suffered in the past year have cast doubts over whether his shoulders will ever be strong enough to race a motorcycle again, and so Ducati and Spies have come to a mutual agreement for Spies to terminate their contract after just one year. Accordingly, Spies’ retirement leaves the second seat at Pramac Ducati vacant for 2014.
MotoGP Qualifying Results from the Japanese GP at Motegi, Japan
Even the most secularist and rationalist motorcycle racing fan must by now be thinking that there is some kind of…
Earlier this morning, Marc Marquez tweeted the following in Spanish to his Twitter followers: “Special helmet and shirt for a special GP in Japan, at home!!! ;) Do you like?” and attached the above photo to the message. The intent is clear, Marquez hopes to clinch the 2013 MotoGP Championship while at the home grand prix for HRC, at track Honda owns no less. While Honda brass would surely love such a coup, we hope someone takes young Marc aside and explains something about his T-shirt.
After losing the first day of practice at Motegi to the weather, Race Direction has announced contingency plans for a…
All Friday practice sessions for the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi have been cancelled due to safety concerns caused by…
After the farcical yet compelling Australian Grand Prix, the Grand Prix paddock heads north to Japan for the last of…
The 2013 Australian Grand Prix – likely to be known henceforth as ‘The Debacle Down Under’ – taught us many things. It taught us that tire companies need to find ways to test at newly surfaced tracks, that pit stops in dry conditions are potentially dangerous when each stint is less than 10 laps, and that hurriedly changing rules and race lengths are far from ideal when trying to organize a MotoGP race. Those were the lessons that were immediately obvious to anyone watching. There were more subtle lessons from Phillip Island as well. Marc Marquez’s disqualification was not just a failure of either strategy or his ability to read a pit board, it was also a sign of growing tensions inside the Repsol Honda box.
After the eventful Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island, the MotoGP paddock heads to Japan, hoping for a slightly quieter…
Whatever your opinion about Sunday’s Australian GP (a farce of mismanagement and tire failure; the most exciting race for years,…
After every race weekend, Bridgestone issues a press release containing a summary of how they think their weekend went. Normally,…
