2-time AMA Superbike Champion Josh Hayes on his Monster Graves Yamaha YZF-R1 Superbike taking a lap at AMA Pro Roadrace Round 5, held at Road America on June 3rd 2012. Hayes had a perfect weekend at Road America taking the pole, winning both races, and setting a new track record of 2:11.216 around the 4.048 mile road course.
Honda bursts onto the electric motorcycle racing scene at IOM but Segway MotoCzysz prevails
Electric motorcycle racing became a lot more interesting today when the TT Zero race at the Isle of Man was run and the top three riders all finished at average speeds of more than 100 mph.
The win went to the Segway MotoCzysz team with Michael Rutter (pictured below) producing a lap of 104.56 mph but  … Pictures and more
It’s taken many years, but it pleases me greatly to announce that there is a new motorcycle lap record on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. At 7m10s BTG, Andy Carlile is now the fastest man ever to lap the 20832m Northloop on two wheels. Back of a fag-packet mathematics would place that as a 7m28s full lap time or even a 7m24s ‘industry’ time (which is a full lap minus the T13 straight)  … Pictures and more
Dani Pedrosa secured his first MotoGP pole position of 2012 at Le Mans as a drying track produced an ever-changing session which built into a spectacular last-gasp shootout.
Few ventured out in the early stages when the track was at its wettest, but after Mattia Pasini served notice that slicks had become the best option by going  … More