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Luis Salom Has Died

By David Emmett | Fri, 03/06/2016 - 15:53

Luis Salom has succumbed to injuries sustained in a crash at the Montmeló circuit in Barcelona. Although the crash was not caught on film, witnesses report that Salom tried to save a highside at Turn 12, which left him heading straight for the air fence. Salom reportedly parted from his bike and hit the air fence, but the bike rebounded off the air fence and hit Salom in the chest. (Edit: CCTV footage of the crash is available on the MotoGP.com website.)

The session was immediately red-flagged, and Salom was given emergency medical assistance at track side. The medical helicopter was flown out to the corner where Salom was being treated, but in the end, the decision was taken to transport Salom by ambulance to the Hospital General de Catalunya. He was given treatment there, but died from his injuries at 4:55pm.

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2016 Mugello MotoGP Sunday Round Up: Of Engines, Disappointment, and Blistering Battles

By David Emmett | Mon, 23/05/2016 - 03:35

The 2016 Italian Grand Prix at Mugello was many things, but above all, it was memorable. It's not just that the three races ended up with incredibly close finishes – the margin of victory in Moto3 was just 0.038, and that was the largest winning margin of the three races – but how they were won, and what happened along the way that will leave them indelibly imprinted on the memories of race fans. There was drama, a bucketful of heartbreak, and plenty of chaos and confusion thrown into the mix. If there was a script for Sunday, it was torn up and rewritten a dozen times or more before the day was over.

The drama started during morning warm up. As the final seconds of the MotoGP session ticked away, Jorge Lorenzo suddenly pulled over and white smoke started pouring out of the exhaust of his Movistar Yamaha. His engine had suffered a catastrophic failure. This was a worry, as it was a relatively new engine, first introduced at Jerez, with twelve sessions of practice and two races on it. The other two engines Lorenzo had already used had 21 and 23 sessions of practice on them, and had also been used for two races each (including the flag-to-flag race at Argentina).

Though the engine allocation has been increased from five to seven engines for 2016, losing engine #3 at just the sixth race of the season could end up cutting things rather fine by the time we reach Valencia. Losing an engine so soon before a race seemed like a stroke of incredibly bad luck for Lorenzo. In fact, it would prove to be exactly the opposite.

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2016 Le Mans Moto2 & Moto3 Post-Race Press Releases

By Press Release | Mon, 09/05/2016 - 13:14

Press releases from the Moto2 & Moto3 teams after the races at Le Mans:


Mahindra preserves perfect points record in France

Le Mans, 08 May 2016:

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2016 Le Mans Saturday Round Up: Pedrosa Again, Tires, & Qualifying Strategies

By David Emmett | Sun, 08/05/2016 - 00:48

The report last night that Dani Pedrosa will replace Jorge Lorenzo in the Movistar Yamaha garage had a devastating effect on the paddock on Saturday. It provoked an almost universal panic among everyone peripheral to the decision. Maverick Viñales' manager Paco Sanchez – strictly speaking, the lawyer who is helping Viñales with his contract negotiations, as Viñales is managing himself – was interviewed by every television broadcaster in the MotoGP paddock, along with nearly every radio station and most journalists. Repsol Honda team principal Livio Suppo and Movistar Yamaha team director Maio Meregalli did pretty much the same, answering the same questions over and over. It was Silly Season at its most frenetic.

As an example, the Spanish sports daily – Spanish journalists are chasing this story hardest, as they have the most at stake – AS featured the following vignette on its website. Reporter Mela Chercoles walked past Albert Valera, manager of Jorge Lorenzo, Aleix Espargaro and others, and heard him berating Alex Salas, assistant to Maverick Viñales. "Tell me that Maverick won't let the Yamaha train get away from him," Chercoles reports Valera as saying. The sense of disbelief in the paddock is huge.

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2016 Le Mans Moto2 & Moto3 Post-Qualifying Press Releases

By Press Release | Sun, 08/05/2016 - 00:40

Press releases from the Moto2 and Moto3 teams after qualifying at Le Mans:


Brad Binder takes spot on front row for French GP

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2016 Jerez Moto2 & Moto3 Post-Race Press Releases

By Press Release | Mon, 25/04/2016 - 19:08

Press releases from the Moto2 and Moto3 teams after Sunday's races at Jerez:


Brad Binder takes sensational first career Moto3 victory at Jerez

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2016 Argentina Saturday Round Up: A look at Argentina, and Tire Challenges

By David Emmett | Sun, 03/04/2016 - 03:34

We have been here before, of course. The history of problems with spec tires is long and varied. In 2012, at Assen, the tires of several riders, including Valentino Rossi and Ben Spies, ended up losing chunks, causing huge problems in the race. The cold tire highsides of 2009 and 2010, which saw Hiroshi Aoyama crack a couple of vertebrae, an injury which ended his career as a competitive racer, and Valentino Rossi break his leg, forcing him to miss a race for the first time in his career. And of course the debacle at Phillip Island in 2013, when Bridgestone discovered that the tires they had brought could not cope with the stresses imposed by the new, much faster surface, forcing Race Direction to grant themselves new emergency powers, cut the race to two thirds' distance, and impose a mandatory pit stop.

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2016 Qatar Moto2 & Moto3 Post-Race Press Releases

By Press Release | Mon, 21/03/2016 - 14:32

Press releases from the Moto2 and Moto3 classes after the opening races of the season at Qatar:


Zarco score points in penalty-filled Moto2 opener

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2016 Qatar Moto2 & Moto3 Post-Qualifying Press Releases

By Press Release | Sun, 20/03/2016 - 11:57

Press releases from the Moto2 and Moto3 teams after qualifying at Qatar:


Bittersweet third place for Brad Binder in Qatar GP qualifying

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2016 Qatar MotoGP Saturday Round Up: On Unpredictable Racing, and the Futility of Mind Games

By David Emmett | Sun, 20/03/2016 - 04:04

Practice, like testing, doesn't really count for much, riders will tell you. When you talk to the afterwards, they will tell you that they didn't set a really fast lap because they were working on set up, or trying to figure out which tire will be best in the race, or working on race pace rather than one lap pace. Maybe they were saving tires, or maybe they ran into traffic, or maybe there wasn't enough time left in the session to go for a fast lap. Even the rider who is fastest will tell you they were surprised, they were not really pushing for a time, but it just came naturally.

All valid explanations, but not necessarily true, of course. After all, free practice is just free practice, and as long as you are inside the top ten, with a good chance of advancing straight to Q2, then there is no reason not to dip into your Bumper Book of Excuses to fob off journalists with. They are unlikely to challenge you on such excuses, because as long as your explanations are plausible, they have no way of countering them. It is impossible to know the mind of Man.

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