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The silly season is in full swing.
Hopkin's move to Kawasaki seems to have caused a flurry of moves and announcements. After Laguna Seca Ducati has announced that Marco Melandri would be replacing Capirossi next season. It's going to be really…
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Laguna Seca MotoGP Results
Full results here . Casey has broken the pole jinx. He was fastest in all the practice sessions, he was fastest in qualifying and he won the race easily from pole. Once he'd retaken the lead from Pedrosa - who nipped…
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Laguna Seca MotoGP Qualifying
Full results here . I haven't read the full report yet (because it's not up on motogp.com) but we can see the results and make a few deductions and ask a few questions. Go have a look at the listings. See anything odd?…
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Sachsenring MotoGP results
Full results here . The jinx remains intact. Still no one can win from pole position. Number two seems to be the spot to have, just ask Pedrosa. The Spaniard got a good start into first position and that's where he…
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Sachsenring MotoGP qualifying
Full qualifying results here . Can Casey break the MotoGP pole jinx? Yep, the Aussie's on pole and no one has won from pole for eleven races. Looking at his pace over the practice sessions though he stands an excellent…
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Assen MotoGP Results
Full results here . As ever Assen produced a great race. That's such a fast circuit for bikes it's actually scary to watch at times. There were two particularly strong performances in my books. The first was Hayden's…
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Assen MotoGP qualifying
For full results go here . Rain again . Rain during qualifying always turns things on their heads. The rain specialist Vermeulen is on pole with his countryman Stoner in second. De Puniet took his Kawasaki to third…
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Final act of betrayal
Despite a Labour election manifesto promise to take the EU constitution to the people for referendum Blair has sold us down the river by signing the repackaged EU constitution without any such plebiscite. Bastard. The…
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New Kawasaki rider
So who is this West fellow who looked so fast on the Kwaker at Donny? I've done a little bit of research but there doesn't seem to be much about him on the web. He has had a pretty meteoric rise this year. At the start…
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Fuel taxes "twice cost of damage to environment"
Further evidence that the motorist is merely an easy target in the search to look like we're doing something about so called man made global warming.
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British MotoGP race results
Full results here . Today's race was a tale of two tyres. Bridgestone and Michelin. On the sodden tarmac at the start of the race the Michelins shone but as the track gradually dried out the Bridgestones got the upper…
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British MotoGP qualifying
Full results here . Edwards on pole shocker! Still, best to not get too exited since pole position seems to be the kiss of death this year and Edwards pole at Le Mans led to disaster. Qualifying was very wet which must…
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Sold down the river
So it turns out that our government has secretly signed an EU agreement to implement road pricing (which probably means using the stupidly over priced and, as yet, not working Gallileo satellite system). So much for…
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MotoGP Barcelona Race Results
Full results here . Man what a race! As the one of the commentators said that had the best three corners I've ever seen in motorsport. It was a race filled with top flight battling for position from the start. As the…
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MotoGP Barcelona Qualifying Results
Full results here. So we have Rossi on pole, his fourth of the season. Of course that may not bode well for him as recently he seems not to win from the front of the grid. De Puniet on second? Lets hope we see a good…
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F1 Insight
For anyone interested in F1 my Dad has a new blog entirely devoted to Formula 1 that I've built for him (check out the automatic comments RSS feeds). He has some pretty strong opinions on F1 and some very well informed…
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MotoGP Mugello Results
First off sorry I didn't post qualifying times this weekend it snuck up on me somehow. The full race results are here . I love Mugello, last year's race was great with some real fairing bashing, place swapping racing.…
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Control order nonsense
The Register has a good piece pointing out the utter nonsense that are control orders .
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Le Mans MotoGP Results
Full results here . Wow what a race! Early drizzle gradually built up to hard rain later in the race. The grid started on slicks but switched to wets later. The gradually worsening conditions and tyre swapping lead to…
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Le Mans MotoGP Qualifying
Full results here . Bit of a turn up for the books with Colin Edwards setting his first ever MotoGP pole. I don't know what's got into the Texan Tornado but it's good to see anyway. I suspect though that he'll drop off…