French Grand Prix in Le Mans – Friday live blog On race day the order is as usual, with Moto3 first, followed by Moto2 and MotoGP. Nevertheless, the sequence in practice and qualifying for the weekend of the French Grand Prix remains reversed. As before in Jerez de la Frontera, the premier class drives on […]
English weather in France
The lousy weather in Le Mans dampens the anticipation of many drivers In MotoGP, rain races with the electronic helpers and the huge fall areas are far less dangerous than until the 1980s. Neither of these existed back then and if you crashed in the wrong place, you ran the risk of sacrificing your life […]
Vive la France
The French before their MotoGP home race In contrast to Germany with the Sachsenring race, there is absolute high spirits in France before the home game of their MotoGP heroes. From Johann Zarco to Fabio Quartararo to Lorenzo Fellon in Moto3, their heroes have strikingly Italian-sounding names. The French don’t care at all because the […]
BMW before the 1st race
Where does BMW stand before the first race in 2021? When BMW announced the new M-1000RR early last season, it became clear to many viewers why Michael van der Mark had signed with the blue-and-white team beforehand. We published the first official pictures of the promising weapon on our website on September 24th, 2020. Surprisingly […]
GRT Yamaha before the start
The Yamaha junior team before the first race of 2021 It was 2019 when we couldn’t help but laugh out loud when we introduced the Yamaha junior team. Even with Sandro Cortese and his hairline slipped back a little, one could no longer speak of a “young talent”, given his 29 years of age. But […]
HRC Honda before the start
HRC Honda before the first race of 2021 When Alvaro Bautista announced early in the summer of 2019 that he was not going to extend Ducati for a season or two, many observers puzzled what his future would look like. The veil of this secret was not lifted until much later. With the announcement that […]
Pata Yamaha before the start
Team introduction before the start of the season – Pata Yamaha Together with the three BMW teams, Pata Yamaha is one of the biggest question marks for the new season. Originally, Toprak Razgatlioglu was traded as the coming man in many places after a good end of the 2019 season. Even after his first win […]
Aruba Ducati before the start
Aruba.it Ducati ahead of the 2021 season start – already 52 wins and no title yet Ducati is considered by many to be the Ferrari of the two-wheelers. But is the company from Borgo Panigale, a suburb of Bologna, rightly entitled to this unofficial title? It is currently still undisputed that the Reds are the […]
Kawasaki before the start
Team introduction before the start of the season with part 1 – Kawasaki There is more than one reason why Kawasaki is so successful in WorldSBK. Just like with Jonathan Rea, his former team-mate Max Neukirchner says quite clearly that his success has several fathers. The entire interview with the best German in WSBK history […]
Ducati’s special train
To the Navarra test of Ducati and three WSSP 600 riders After the track had not yet been released shortly after the Barcelona Test, the first teams and drivers of the near-series World Championship met in Navarra at the beginning of May, while most of the others did their final laps in Aragon. With a […]