MOTOR-CAR SPORT

I really don’t know what is inside Justin Barcia’s head. The factory Honda rider is completely incapable of passing another rider cleanly and his move on Malcolm ‘Mookie’ Stewart at Daytona proved once and for all that ‘Bam-Bam’ is a dickhead! Sure, Malcolm, in his first 450SX race, turned down and hit Barica’s back wheel but really, all Justin had to do is get in, make the pass and get out of the corner but no, he has to slide into the side of Stewart and stay just long enough to be a problem. Well, ‘Mookie’ didn’t take kindly to what Barcia did and after a bit of push and shove Malcolm rode away while Barcia was picking his bike up for the second time, but as luck would have it the crash punctured Malcolm’s radiator and his Troy Lee Honda CRF450R didn’t make the distance. It wasn’t a good night for the Stewart brothers, while Malcolm was at the pointy end of the field battling with the likes of Roczen and Barcia early in the main event, James was parked in the pits after trashi...

Ducati Team presented at the Audi Forum in Munich Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow will take part in the MotoGP World Championship with the Desmosedici GP14 in Open configuration Ducati Team sporting programmes and Desmosedici GP14 technical content presented at Audi Forum The new GP14 livery to be revealed in a second event at the Audi Zentrum in Eching, in the “pre-night” before tomorrow’s Audi Annual Press Conference in Ingolstadt The Ducati Team for the 2014 MotoGP World Championship was presented today in an original location in Germany. Confirming the close ties and synergy between the Bologna-based manufacturer and the Audi Group, the official presentation of the Ducati Team was held at the Audi Forum inside Munich Airport. In the presence of a carbon black Ducati Desmosedici GP14, which had just returned to Europe following the recent tests in Malaysia and Australia, Claudio Domenicali (Ducati Motor Holding CEO), personally introduced the team, represented on the st...

MotoGP Qatar Test - Aleix Espargaro on top as preseason concludes, whilst brother Pol breaks collarbone The final premier class test of the 2014 preseason concluded on Sunday night at the floodlit desert circuit of Qatar, with Aleix Espargaro the fastest rider in attendance – just ahead of his younger brother Pol who suffered a collarbone break in a late evening crash Over the last few months, during the preparations for the new MotoGP™ World Championship campaign, the elder Espargaro sibling has been the standout performer of the testing period – showing the potential of his ‘Open’ entry Yamaha for the NGM Mobile Forward Racing team. He set the best time of the three day Qatar test with a 1’54.874 circulation on the 19th of 47 Sunday laps. That time was less than 0.2s off Jorge Lorenzo’s 2013 pole lap at the Losail Circuit and Espargaro also looked strong in a race simulation which he carried out late on the final day. His brother Pol Espargaro, the Moto2™ World Champion...