After the Jerez weekend, which saw two wins and a crash for Álvaro Bautista in front of his home crowd, as well as some unexpected difficulties for team-mate Chaz Davies, the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team arrives at Misano Adriatico for the seventh round of the season out of 13 and the midpoint...
The opening race of the Pirelli Thai Round in the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship saw Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) and Alvaro Bautista (ARUBA.IT Racing – Ducati) clash on track early on, creating the rivalry everyone wanted to see unfold between the two heavyweight stars....
Announcing his signing today at the British GP, the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team will have Bautista within its ranks for the year.
Additionally, Chaz Davies has signed up again to be on the Ducati Corse squad, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in the paddock.
Both Davies and...
In a lot of ways, this was Suzuka back in its heyday. Factory bikes, world-class riders, and a flat-out sprint race between the best of the best.
It was a shame that the weather interrupted what had looked set to be a classic 8-Hours. With Jonathan Rea hitting the deck in the treacherous...
Setting the high-water mark in Japan FOUR YEARS IN A ROW now, the Yamaha YZF-R1 from the Yamaha Factory Racing Team is the pinnacle of the sport.
You may not have known it, but things didn't quite go Yamaha's way this year at the Suzuka 8-Hours though, with Katsuyuki Nakasuga having to sit...
1
Yamaha Factory Racing Team
Nakasuga
Lowes
Van der Mark
Yamaha
Bridgestone
199 laps
2
Red Bull Honda
Takahashi
Nakagami
Jacobsen
Honda
Bridgestone
-30.974 sec
3
Kawasaki Team Green
Watanabe
Rea
Haslam
Kawasaki
Bridgestone
-1 lap
4
S-Pulse Dream...
Yamaha Factory Racing made history at the Suzuka 8-Hours today, claiming their fourth consecutive victory in the great race.
This Japanese endurance race has become one of the biggest spectacles on the motorcycling calendar, and there were moments of today's 199 laps that would have felt like...
A typhoon is heading towards Suzuka, but as the paddock battened down the hatches, the winds of change had already set in.
Jonathan Rea's pole position for Kawasaki ended three year's of Yamaha topping the times. The three-time WorldSBK champion will be out to do the same during tomorrow's...
Jonathan Rea grabbed the headlines on Friday in Japan, with an unofficial lap record at the Suzuka 8-Hours, which put the Kawasaki Team Green ZX-10RR on a pole-position start.
The Northern Irishman was nine tenths of a second faster than Pol Espargaro's 2016 pole lap, and Rea's time was made...
In Endurance, the same principle guides the way, but there are compromises to be made. Speed is as necessary in the pit lane as it on the race track.
Being able to repair any damage quickly and easily is crucial. At this weekend's Suzuka 8-Hours, we will see the fruit of that work once again,...