Jorge Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo finished third at Indianapolis today and Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi fourth in a punishingly hot race won by Dani Pedrosa. Tech 3 Yamaha and future Factory Team rider Ben Spies finished second, his best result so far in his rookie MotoGP season.
Lorenzo dropped three places on his grid position at the [...]
Adventure motorcyclist Sam Manicom is the author of the motorcycle travel books ‘Into Africa’, ‘Under Asian Skies’ and ‘Distant Suns’. We have managed to obtain an excerpt from his new book ‘Tortillas to Totems’ which was launched at th…
Jorge Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo took an impressive seventh win of the season in Brno this afternoon with a clinical performance that saw him lead from the first lap to the chequered flag. In doing so he becomes only the third premier-class rider in history to finish in the top two at the opening ten races of [...]
Jorge Lorenzo
An extraordinary qualifying session in Brno today left Jorge Lorenzo in third and Valentino Rossi in fifth for tomorrow’s Czech Grand Prix. The Fiat Yamaha riders were luckily unhurt despite both crashing out within moments of one another on their final flying laps.
Heavy storms overnight had changed the nature of the track and Lorenzo [...]
Jorge Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo took a brilliant sixth victory of the season at Laguna Seca today, romping home to win by over three seconds from Casey Stoner. His team-mate Valentino Rossi made a triumphant return to the podium just seven weeks after breaking his right leg, overhauling Andrea Dovizioso during a thrilling last ten laps to [...]
Roger Lee Hayden is replacing the injured Randy de Puniet at LCR Honda for this event, while Alex de Angelis starts his second race weekend as a stand-in at Interwetten Honda.
1. Jorge Lorenzo ESP Fiat Yamaha Team 1m 20.978s
2. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1m 21.169s
3. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 1m 21.617s
4. Dani Pedrosa [...]
Laguna Seca
The Fiat Yamaha Team flies west today for the first North American stop of the season, at Laguna Seca in California. With Jorge Lorenzo leading the championship and Valentino Rossi back in action after six weeks out through injury, the team is in high spirits and looking forward to what is always a favourite [...]
The Fiat Yamaha Team unveiled their one-off Laguna Seca livery this afternoon, with both Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo present. The livery celebrates the impending release of the Fiat 500 car in the United States and features the faces of 500 fans …