After his recent laps of Silverstone, Valentino Rossi was back on a Ducati in Italy to test the GP12 machine at Mugello. This is the third test on the GP12 machinery for the factory Ducati team (Rossi and Hayden did a day each in Jerez earlier in the year), and Rossi and Filippo Prezioso felt [...]

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Alvaro Bautista hit the track for a short time in the Estoril test session yesterday before letting test rider Nobuatsu Aoki take over in the afternoon. Bautista managed to complete 17 laps during the morning and set a best lap-time of 1’38.850 on his final lap – over a full second faster than his best [...]

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The bulk of the MotoGP riders were out in force today for a testing session at Estoril – only Randy De Puniet and Hector Barbera were absent due to injury. Barbera suffered a cracked bone in his back after his highside in the race yesterday, and De Puniet was forced to fly back to France [...]

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The first European MotoGP of the season kicked off in Jerez today and gave Cal Crutchlow one of many new tracks to learn. The British rider seemed unfazed, stating, “I felt like I learned the circuit pretty quickly and I was happy with my performance this morning”. Crutchlow ended the morning session in 14th, and [...]

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Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi had a challenging final test in Qatar, and look likely to find themselves competing for mid-pack positions for the opening round next weekend if the test is anything to go by. Here is what they had to say: Nicky Hayden (Ducati MotoGP Team) 9th, 1:56.726 (68 laps) “When we got [...]

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