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Richard Stanboli’s plan to build a Claiming Rule Teams (CRT) bike for MotoGP’s U.S. rounds at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (July 27-29) and Indianapolis Motor Speedway (August 17-19) continues to unfold. The chassis side beams and uprights are done, tightly enclosing the “Superbike-plus” Kawasaki ZX-10R engine. The fairing is coming along. The “tank guy” is [...]
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MotoGP racing at Silverstone was another demonstration that every rider has serious problems, and that racing is infinitely more (and more interesting!) than just “goin’ for it.” The Yamahas of Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies were still down on power to the Hondas of Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa, but the Hondas had their special [...]
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This weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone is the next venue for MotoGP. The 3.666-mile circuit is the longest on the calendar (the race is 20 laps, 73.32 miles) and located in England’s South Midlands, north of London. England is an island between the stormy North Sea and the likewise stormy North Atlantic, so rain, [...]
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In early 2010, Harley-Davidson applied for a patent on a limited form of liquid cooling for cylinder heads of the type on its Big Twin. We know that a similar system, but using oil rather than water, has been incorporated into the XR1200R. Why limited? Why not just switch over to full liquid cooling? Harley [...]
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A MotoCzysz E1pc has won the 2012 Isle of Man TT Zero race for electrically powered motorcycles. Rider Michael Rutter, 40, was also first to “make the ton,” doing a single lap of the 37.73-mile circuit at an average speed of 104.056 mph. The machine was supported by Segway, manufacturer of the well-known, self-balancing two-wheeled [...]
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Casey Stoner qualified on pole for the MotoGP race at Circuit de Catalunya, looking as though he might just cruise away from the field as he has so often done. Yet in the race, he finished in lowly (for him) fourth place, saying that his tire never really heated up. Stoner and his Repsol Honda [...]
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An unsettled weekend of rain at Miller Motorsports Park in Toole, Utah, gave way to perfect racing weather on Monday, May 28, for two rounds of Superbike World Championship competition. Sandwiched between was an AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike race. Throughout SBK practice, Ducatis occupied many of the forward positions, suggesting that the V-Twins’ strong [...]
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MotoGP moves this weekend to Catalunya, just north of Barcelona, in Spain. This “fast and flowing” track is 2.892 miles long, and the event will be 25 laps. Depending on just how you count them, there are eight right-hand turns and five lefts, including a downhill hairpin and several sustained high-speed turns. The main straight [...]
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Insiders tell us this is a prototype for Suzuki’s return to MotoGP in 2014. The project was, we are told, “hot for a while” and then cooled off. Now, with these photos from a test earlier this month at Sugo Circuit in Japan, it clearly has momentum again. What have we here? We see from [...]
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This coming weekend is the fourth round of the 2012 MotoGP championship. The race takes place at the French Bugatti circuit, located inside the longer, 8.47-mile Sarthe course on which the legendary 24-hour Le Mans sports-car race takes place. The French have loved racing since the dawn of motoring; last year’s crowd was 88,000. Much [...]
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