The inaugural Australian electric motorcycle racing season kicked off this weekend with the first round of the eFXC/TTXGP Australian Championship at Eastern Creek Raceway, NSW. While only three bikes made it to the grid, there was plenty of action both in the pits and on the track
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Brembo has released a list containing the Top 10 late-brakers at the Italian GP in Mugello. Taken from teams’ telemetry from the Qualifying Practice, Brembo compiled the list based off who was applying the most braking force coming off the front straight-away, and into Turn 1. Of note, the list was based off only teams who use Brembo brakes, which means LCR Honda and San Carlos Gresini Honda were left off the list (they use Nissin), we therefore don’t have data for Toni Elias, Hiroshi Aoyama, and Marco Simoncelli.
The San Donato bend at Mugello sees riders  … More
Most associate Mike Hailwood with Ducati, where he began and ended his motorcycle racing career, or MV Agusta, where he won four consecutive 500cc world championships (1962-’65). But the man many consider the most talented racer ever earned five of his nine world titles and most of his 76 Grand Prix wins on Hondas. Of all the revolutionary machines Honda put under Hailwood, none was more magnificent than the shrieking RC166 six he rode to the 1966 250cc world title.Â
Michael Stanley Bailey Hailwood had won seven British national titles and  … More
Defending world champion Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso finished 1-2 in the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday to cut into Casey Stoner’s lead atop the MotoGP standings.
Stoner started from the pole, but the Australian was passed first by Lorenzo with seven laps to go, then by Dovizioso on the final lap.
Lorenzo, a Spaniard who  … More