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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Vladimir Putin: The motorbike is a symbol of freedom!

During his working visit to Ukraine, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the annual international bike show devoted to the Black Sea and the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War organized by Night Wolves.

The Russian prime minister arrived at the bike show at Gasfort Lake near Sevastopol riding on a three-wheeler at the head of the biker’s column. He looked quite striking: wearing a black shirt, black pants, black fingerless gloves and dark sunglasses, he was riding a Harley Davidson decorated with both Russia and Ukraine’s flags.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Dakar 2010: A triumph for Cyril Despres and KTM

KTM-supported rider French-born Cyril Despres on Saturday sealed victory in the 2010 Dakar Rally after 9000 km across Argentina and Chile. He rode in triumph into Buenos Aires to complete his third Dakar victory and the ninth consecutive victory for KTM, the Austrian-made sports motorcycles.

Despres, who completed the final stage, a total ride of 707 km with a timed special of 206 km of fast track riding to finish the stage in a comfortable eighth place. He was five minutes 05 seconds behind the winner of the day, rather fittingly, his KTM support rider Rubin Faria of Portugal. Despres, who also won in 2005 and 2007 when the rally was staged across Africa, was one hour 02’ 52” minutes in front after completing the immense distance and endless challenging terrain, including four stages in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ducati Desmosedici GP10 technical specifications

Yesterday Ducati Marlboro Team unveiled the new Ducati Desmosedici GP10, the Ducati Marlboro Team's latest weapon in the chase for the MotoGP title...

Today Ducati Marlboro Team presented Ducati Desmosedici GP10 technical specifications...

Day 13 Dakar 2010: Goodbye Chile, hello Argentina. Despres retains overall lead

KTM’s Cyril Despres put in a solid day’s ride across the Andes to San Juan on Wednesday to retain the overall lead by 1 hour 20’54” as the Dakar “caravan” 2010 returned to Argentina. Despres was seventh in the 11th stage but only 4’21” behind the stage leader Frans Verhoeven.

Despres said it had been a nice stage and confirmed he is having too much fun to hold back for the sake of caution. “It was strange at the beginning, because after 13 km, there was a banner stopping us following a track,” he said after the day’s ride. ”I went straight ahead for about 80 meters but I turned around after I saw Marc Coma coming back in the other direction followed by other riders. After that, we carried on as a group. I rather enjoyed myself. It was quick today, 220 km in a flash. Was I being extremely careful? No. When I climb on the bike, I just can’t hold myself back. I just want to have fun”.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Day 12 Dakar 2010: third stage victory for Coma; Despres leads by 1:22.49’

KTM supported rider Marc Coma scored his third stage victory in the Dakar 2010 as riders went from La Serena to the Chilean capital of Santiago for Stage 10 as the Spaniard strengthened his determination make the best of the rest of the rally. KTM’s Cyril Despres still leads overall.

Although Coma has virtually no chance of making up the distance separating him from leader, arch rival and fellow KTM rider Despres, his will to win has not diminished. He was beset with problems during the first half of the race that put him behind in the overall ranking. Coma, who won here last year, has now taken line honors in Stages Four, Six and Ten. He has made inroads into improving his overall position but is still ranked sixteenth.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Wrooom 2010 opens and Madonna di Campiglio welcomes the Ducati Marlboro riders

Madonna di Campiglio (Italy). Wrooom –Press Ski Meeting 2010 has officially opened, a week that traditionally combines spectacle, sport and meetings with the international press in Madonna di Campiglio’s magnificent Dolomites. Events will get underway tomorrow, with press conferences with the two Ducati Marlboro Team riders, Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden.

On Wednesday 13th it will be the turn of Claudio Domenicali, General Manager of Ducati Motor Holding. Another key moment will be the official presentation of the Ducati Desmosedici GP 10.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Russia in MotoGP: Vladimir Leonov completes his mission in Brno

Though the race was won by Marco Simoncelli from Italy, Russia’s Vladimir Leonov fulfilled his task and, despite the searing pain in his hand from an injury suffered two races earlier, made it to the finish with a score of No. 19 and just 1:59.794 behind the leader in German’s Sachsenring.

Motonews.ru is happy to share exclusive photos from the event along with a short video from Brno (the Czech Republic), right where the Czech Gran Prix took place.

Friday, January 16, 2009

MotoGP is coming to Russia

MotoGP’s possible and long-awaited arrival in Russia has become the talk of the town in the motorcycling world amid the global financial crisis.

Compared to other European countries and even the United States, Russia’s situation is rather favorable at the moment. Besides, the construction of several new circuits is continuing, and they will be ready to host a MotoGP race someday soon.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Ducati riders get together in Fabrique again

On September 6, Moscow’s fancy night-club Fabrique (located on the Kosmodamianskaya Embankment) had another party devoted to Italian motorbikes.

Super bikes, great music and positive atmosphere once again brought together the owners of Italian motorbikes. It wasn’t for the first time that such event was held, and, moreover, it has become a good tradition, as the previous party was held not long ago, on June 13.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Supermoto’s second round results

The second round of the 2008 Supermoto Championship of Russia was held in Firsanovka (Zelenograd) on June 14-15 and ended with German Tarasov’s victory in the hobby class and Sergei Ivanyutin’s in the S2 class.

Anastasia Loginova showed some pretty good results in the first race and came second. During the next race she crashed and came only in seventh, earning a fourth placed result after the two races.

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