July – month of hope for the real Superbikes While Bautista was able to dominate at will for the first 5 rounds of the season on Ducati’s MotoGP Replica, the weekend at Donington Park kicks off the month of hope for his real Superbike competitors. Here and of course two weeks later in Imola, as […]
Clumsy arithmeticians
KTM and their constant rider problems At KTM, Motorsport Director Pit Beirer and Big Boss Pierer have a lot in common. In particular, your public statements often seem to many as if you have eaten wisdom with spoons and your opponents are mostly fools. In fact, however, it’s not that simple when it comes to […]
Misano WSBK review
Continuation of the two-class society also in round 5 Unfortunately, our forecast from the preview came true and the monotony from the first third of the season continued in Misano. Without saving rain, the competition from Ducati had absolutely no chance and the world championship leader, with the exception of the sprint race, drove in […]
SBK Portimao look back
Dramatic Europe final – the World Cup remains open After the reigning world champion fell in the first two races of Portimão as a huge favourite in both races, the chance of defending his title seemed to be only theoretical. But then Jonathan Rea proved why he is already 6-time record world champion and the […]
SBK Jerez look back
Exciting races against a sad background It was not easy for either the drivers or the teams to get back to business on Sunday. But as Johnny Rea noted after the first run on Sunday morning, he and his competitors had to put the sad thoughts aside during the race and try to concentrate on […]
WSSP Superpole Navarra
Aegerter on pole position with Gonzalez and Odendaal in row 1 At halftime, Aegerter was ahead of Cluzel, Gonzalez, Öttl and Odendaal. With 1: 40.535 the Swiss had set a time that was 0.123 seconds better than the French. While Manuel Conzalez and Steven Odendaal were able to follow suit, the world championship leader improved […]
MotoGP aftermath
Spielberg became the Covid-19 cluster event and Maverick at Aprilia For some comments before the MotoGP double race on the subject of Austria and the risk of Covid-19, we even received hater comments from anonymous readers. Unfortunately, it now shows in the most unpleasant way how correct this cautious assessment of our authors was. Everyone […]
An empty promise
The former high-flyer and his hard landing in reality The words still ring in the ears of many MotoGP fans today, which Marc Marquez uttered after his attempt at comeback far too early over a year ago in Jerez de la Frontera. The Repsol Honda Star said into the microphone at the time that he […]
Moto3 GP of Styria
Pedro Acosta gives KTM the only home win It was only 17 degrees Celsius when the Moto3 race started at eleven o’clock on Sunday morning as a rain race on still damp asphalt. For Pedro Acosta and the other rookies in the field, it was only the second wet Grand Prix of their career. Since […]
Misano Saturday review
WSBK race 1 in Misano: Rinaldi wins ahead of Toprak & Rea – Redding only fourth Even before the start, Michael Ruben Rinaldi was very confident and said in an interview that he saw chances to win in the first race on Saturday. After P2 in FP1 and two best times in the other free […]