Taking his first ever MX1 red plate Max Nagl made it a successful start to the 2010 season at Sevlievo as he won this first Grand Prix in front of Antonio Cairoli, the latter on the 350cc KTM, while Clement Desalle completed the podium.
In the MX2 class defending Champion Marvin Musquin took a clean sweep and topped the podium from Ken Roczen and Steven Frossard … Details
Valentino Rossi is predicting a big battle for the championship this year as the 2010 MotoGP championship kicks off this weekend in Qatar.
The Yamaha rider will begin his title defense in the night race, and while he admitted there is still work to do on his new bike, the Italian feels he will be starting in good shape … Details
KTM factory rider Max Nagl on Sunday won the opening MX1 GP in Sevlievo, Bulgaria on Sunday to take his career first red plate as championship leader with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing teammate Antonio Cairoli second on the podium on the new KTM 350 SX-F machine.
The 1-2 in the MX1 class wrapped up a perfect weekend for the factory team with KTM riders winning all motos and sweeping top podiums – also in MX2 and in the opening round of the Women’s World Championship. The result prompted KTM’s Offroad Director Pit Beirer to comment at the end of the day: “Six out of six. It doesn’t get any better than that!”  … Details
The performance of modern literbikes may be intoxicatingly fabulous, but we were becoming a little bored in recent shootouts by having to resort to splitting hairs among the Big Four’s similarly spec’d 1000cc sportbikes. Yamaha gave us a taste of something different last year with the crossplane-crankshaft version of the R1, but it has a small power number and a large weight number, so it wasn’t the game-changer we hoped would shake up the literbike pecking order. We began to feel a yawn coming on.
And that’s why we’re glad 2010 has rolled around, as it sees the introduction of two totally new four-cylinder superbike contenders … Details