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Last year, a U.S.-designed-and-built MotoGP Claiming Rule Teams entry attempted to qualify for the U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and was 21st on the grid and finished 14th a month later at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The man who made this happen, Richard Stanboli of Attack Performance, plans to run a Mk. II [...]
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Bridgestone Press Release: Bridgestone heads to Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit to support the first MotoGP group test of 2013, as the manufacturer begins its fifth season as the official tire supplier to the class. In keeping with Bridgestone’s philosophy of creating safer race tires with superior warm-up performance and rider feel, tire development over the [...]
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Like the end-of-season Valencia race itself, the test planned for the first three days of the following week was cold and rainy. On Tuesday, Yamaha decided to move to another Spanish circuit, Motorland Aragon, in hope of better conditions but to no avail. Yamaha’s press release said, “Jorge Lorenzo completed just a handful of dry [...]
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Will MotoGP survive? Insiders say only radical cost-cutting and production-based Claiming Rules Teams (CRT) bikes can restore full grids and save teams from a shoestring existence in which lesser riders may be shaken down to cover parts costs. Sounds desperate. I’m confused. Recently, I was told that World Superbike “has 15 teams, and they are [...]
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Dani Pedrosa’s win this past weekend at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan over Jorge Lorenzo did nothing to disturb the mathematical nature of his problem. Even if he gains five points over Lorenzo at each of the three remaining Grands Prix, Lorenzo will still become champion. Pedrosa can only hope for an alliance with the [...]
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After two long days of cold, wind and rain, the sun finally emerged, bathing Spain’s Motorland Aragon in light and warmth. Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa streaked away from the Yamaha of MotoGP points-leader Jorge Lorenzo to win the 23-lap race, clawing back five points with four races left in the championship. Tech 3 Yamaha’s Andrea [...]
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[ The wheelie is the enemy! A long wheelbase helped keep the front end of the Attack Performance MotoGP entry down at Indy. ] The MotoGP CRT entry built by Attack Performance and ridden by Steve Rapp failed to qualify for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this past [...]
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Three months ago, Attack Performance principal Richard Stanboli began construction on a MotoGP CRT bike to be raced for the first time by AMA Pro veteran Steve Rapp in July’s Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The physical, as opposed to virtual, bike began as an impressive pile of solid aluminum [...]
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I’m happy to have grown up and come through the different categories with Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa. It’s a great rivalry that started many years ago, and I don’t see any reason why it won’t continue for the rest of the season. I’m going to look back and be quite proud that I was [...]
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In 1992, I built a lot of TZ250 crankshafts for Colin Edwards as he was winning the AMA 250 GP championship, so I’ve had a special interest in his career. In his fifth year in World Superbike, he became 2000 world champion on the Honda RC51 V-Twin, was second to Troy Bayliss the next year [...]
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