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Pramac Racing Team: Kallio And Canepa Complete Testing For 2008

2008 testing is over for the Pramac Racing Team with the two new riders, Mika Kallio and Niccolò Canepa, who concluded respectively in seventh and eleventh position. Mika made it to finish with only just a tenth of a second over the third position occupied by Jorge Lorenzo and this underline the good feeling found [...]

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Rizla Suzuki Completes Successful Final 2008 Test

Rizla Suzuki MotoGP has rounded off 2008 with a successful three-day test at Phillip Island in Australia. Loris Capirossi and Chris Vermeulen recorded over 450 laps of the 4,448m Australian circuit between them over the three days, as the two conducted exhaustive tests on the Suzuki Factory’s prototype parts for the 2009 GSV-R. Good weather at Phillip [...]

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Rossi Finishes Quickest In Final Test Of 2008 At Jerez

Valentino Rossi fastest - Jorge Lorenzo 3rd at Jerez test. World Champion Valentino Rossi set the fastest time in Jerez today on the final day of testing for the year. His Fiat Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo was third fastest, making it a successful concluding test for the year’s leading team. Rossi spent most of his time today [...]

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Ducati Marlboro Team Complete Jerez Test

The Ducati Marlboro Team completed their final test of 2008 today with Nicky Hayden fifth fastest at the end of a day that saw a particularly late start to the action on track. Despite slightly warmer temperatures than Wednesday, overnight rain made for a damp track surface until the early afternoon. Hayden took to the track [...]

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Successful First Day At Phillip Island for Kawasaki MotoGP Team

The Kawasaki Racing Team were met with perfect conditions as they arrived at the Phillip Island circuit in Australia today, to start the first of three days of development testing ahead of the annual test ban, which comes into force on 1st December. This is an important test for Kawasaki, as all the data collected during [...]

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Dovizioso Makes Debut with Repsol Honda

Andrea Dovizioso tests Repsol Honda RC212V in wet conditions Cold, wet weather dominated the second day of testing at Valencia today, with most riders deciding that there was little to learn in the tricky conditions. Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa was one of those who decided not to test, but his new team-mate Andrea Dovizioso was [...]

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Kallio And Canepa-First Ride On The GP9 Alice Team Ducati

FIRST DAY OF WORK IN MOTOGP FOR KALLIO AND CANEPA Mika Kallio – Alice Team rider “I am very happy after my first day of work on the Ducati. It’s a really powerful bike. It’s really fun to ride because you have to play with it a lot to use in the best way [...]

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Tech 3 Yamaha: Edwards 6th Toseland 11th At Valencia

Tech 3 Yamaha finish 4th in constructors championship Tech 3 Yamaha claimed a superb fourth place in the Team World Championship standings in today’s Valencia MotoGP race. The 15-point haul collected by Edwards and Toseland in today’s 30-lap battle saw the Tech 3 squad seize fourth position by a single point from Suzuki’s official [...]

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Lorenzo Takes Rookie Of The Year With 4th At Valencia

Lorenzo secures Rookie Of The Year at season finale Fiat Yamaha Team rider Jorge Lorenzo took a deserved Rookie of the Year title by finishing eighth at Valencia today, his fourth position in the championship the highest finish for a premier-class newcomer since the advent of four-stroke MotoGP. The Spaniard’s first season in [...]

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Rossi Finishes 3rd In Valencia

Rossi rounds out world championship season with 16th podium Valentino Rossi brought the curtain down on a spectacular season with a third place in Valencia today, his 16th podium from 18 races in a year which saw him win his eighth world title. The 29-year-old Italian has taken nine wins, five seconds and [...]

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