Motorcycle motivation
The AFM or American Federation of Motorcyclists is a non profit organization, the oldest in the country, solely based around motorcycle road racing. Check out this awesome video they have produced.
The AFM or American Federation of Motorcyclists is a non profit organization, the oldest in the country, solely based around motorcycle road racing. Check out this awesome video they have produced.
Nothing like a little dice now and then to give you some perspective of how quick the big boys toys really are
9,68 seconds is all it took this corvette to run the 1/4 mile. That will ensure a punishing is handed out to almost any car on the road that you may come across. The corvette crossed the line doing 235 km/h. I.e 0 to 235km/h in 9 seconds.
Casey Stoner captured his sixth win of the season in front of 155,400 fans at Brno for Sunday’s Cardion ab Grand Prix České republiky, stretching his Championship lead to 32 points over Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing). Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) got the hole shot from his first pole position of the season, with Lorenzo [...]
Refreshed and ready for their imminent return to action after a two-and-a-half week interval since Laguna Seca, the MotoGP class returns to the track on Friday morning for the opening session of the Cardion ab Grand Prix České republiky. Discussing the 11th round of the 2011 campaign on Thursday afternoon at the Brno circuit were [...]
Dani Pedrosa emerged victorious from a three-man race-long battle for first place at the eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland, with Jorge Lorenzo wrestling second from Casey Stoner on the final corner of a thrilling Round 9 race. Repsol Honda’s Pedrosa had his usual great start, taking the hole shot ahead of Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) [...]
KTM celebrated its seventh consecutive win at this year’s Red Bull Harescramble when Taddy Blazusiak etched his name into the Erzberg Rodeo history books by clinching his fifth consecutive victory in the world’s toughest one day Enduro race where only nine out of 1898 riders made it to the finish. The Polish rider qualified fourth [...]
Today, one of the most anticipated Formula one races was on the TV. The Monaco F1 GP. This glitzy race is accentuated with girls in Bikini’s, celebrities, fast cars, fast boats and enough Rolex’s to enable even Stevie wonder to tell the time. Traditionally there is a lot of hype in the build up to [...]
Pirelli heads immediately from one of the quicker tracks seen on the calendar to the very slowest, but at the same time definitely the most glamorous: Monaco. The tight and twisty confines of the Principality are ideal territory for Pirelli’s PZero Red supersoft tyre, which makes its debut in Monaco. For the first time, by [...]
After a race long-duel with fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing), Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) raced to victory at the bwin Grande Prémio de Portugal on Sunday and with it claimed his first win at the Estoril circuit in any class. Third was Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda). Pedrosa, who only recently had surgery on [...]
Due to reasons of force majeure, the Japanese Grand Prix, at the circuit of Twin Ring Motegi, originally scheduled on April 24, has been postponed to 2 October 2011. Here is the race calendar: March 20 Qatar* Doha/Losail April 3 Spain Jerez de la Frontera May 1 Portugal Estoril May 15 France Le Mans June [...]
Evolution has once again made the new Suzuki GSX-R750 a bike that is in a class of its own. The 750 is interesting in that it shares the best of both worlds, taking the handling qualities of a 600 and mixing them with the raw power of a 1000cc superbike. In essence one struggles to [...]
Small in size but big in attitude, a pumped-up, track-ready interpretation of the super-smart iQ city car leads a posse of tuned and tweaked Toyota concept and production cars at the Tokyo Auto Salon. The world’s largest annual aftermarket parts show that took place from 14 to 16 January, gives leading tuning firms and custom [...]
Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah was declared the winner of the 2011 Dakar Rally Argentina Chile on Saturday when he crossed the finish line in Buenos Aires 49 min 41 sec ahead of Volkswagen team-mate Giniel de Villiers of South Africa and 1 hr 20 min 38 sec in front of last year’s winner Carlos Sainz of [...]
A flooded, muddy landscape greeted the weary survivors of the Dakar Rally Argentina Chile on Friday morning following heavy rain overnight in the San Juan area of Argentina, but it was not enough to interrupt the three-car Volkswagen caravan that continues to head the 2011 edition of the world’s longest and toughest motor race. At [...]