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After eleven of the 18 rounds in the 2008 MotoGP World Championship, Fiat Yamaha's star rider Valentino Rossi has won four races and holds a 25 point lead over Ducati's Casey Stoner.
Alex Criville became the first and so far only Spaniard to win the 500cc/MotoGP World Championship when he took his Repsol Honda to title victory during the 1999 season.
Ram?n Aur?n was one of the first engineers, alongside Antonio Cobas, to exploit telemetry data to improve motorcycle performance at the race track.
Manuel Olivencia is Dani Pedrosa's Showa suspension technician.
Kazuhiko Yamano started working for Honda at just 19 years of age and, 25 years later, became team manager of the factory's Repsol Honda Team for the 2008 MotoGP season.
Benson's world championship experience began in 1994 as Niall MacKenzie's mechanic at Yamaha, before making the jump to Superbikes with Honda.
The young Frenchman stunned the Le Mans fans by briefly leading his wet home race, as a MotoGP rookie, whilst riding for Tech 3 Yamaha last season - but has endured a tough time in his first three races as a Ducati rider, with a best finish of 14th...
Having previously worked with Jeremy McWilliams, Ralf Waldman and Stefano Perugini - and spent two years as an ?hlins suspension technician - Mike Leitner first joined forces with Dani Pedrosa when the Spaniard stepped up to the 250cc class in 2004.
Due to Rossi's switch to Bridgestone tyres, which has resulted in the factory Yamaha pit being split in two this season, former overall team manager Davide Brivio will concentrate solely on Rossi's side of the garage in 2008, while Romagnoli has been put in charge of MotoGP rookie Lorenzo on the
Due to Rossi's switch to Bridgestone tyres, the factory Yamaha pit has been split in two for this season; Brivio will concentrate solely on Rossi's side of the garage, while Daniele Romagnoli has been appointed Jorge Lorenzo's team manager on the Michelin side of the pit...
The former five-times MotoGP world champion is aiming to bounce back from two successive title defeats in 2008, when he will also switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres... Q: Valentino, firstly can you tell us how your hand is following your injury in Valencia?
Q: Can you tell us about your first impressions after your first ride on this new bike? Dani Pedrosa:This is a very different bike, we had very different sensations. I think that we still have to check out all the aspects on this bike in greater detail.
Having had his own grand prix career cut short by a serious leg injury, Alberto Puig returned to 'active duty' within the premier-class pit lane last season - when 125 and double 250cc world champion Dani Pedrosa, whose career Puig has nurtured from the very beginning, made his MotoGP debut.
Red Bull KTM technical director Harald Bartol is the man in charge of developing the Austrian marque's 125 and 250cc machines into grand prix winners.
Eugene Laverty, 250 GP rider, is in the British Superbike paddock for the first round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship. He is supporting his brothers and enjoying being a spectator as he told Crash.net Radio .....
Former 250cc world champion Olivier Jacque will return to full time racing as part of Kawasaki's new look MotoGP squad in 2007, when he will attempt to finally crack the premier-class at the age of 33.
Last Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix was dominated by Loris Capirossi, who took his Bridgestone shod factory Ducati to its second victory of the 2006 MotoGP season.
On the eve of last weekend's Catalan Grand Prix, 250cc star Sebastian Porto surprised the MotoGP paddock by announcing his immediate retirement from racing.
On the eve of the 17th and final grand prix of the 2005 MotoGP World Championship season, Fausto Gresini, team manager and owner of the Movistar Honda Team, reflects on the season so far - which has seen very contrasting fortunes for his two riders, Sete Gibernau and Marco Melandri...
Dani Pedrosa wrapped-up his third world title in thrilling style at Phillip Island on Sunday when the Movistar Honda rider beat Repsol Aprilia's Sebastian Porto on the run to the chequered flag.
1993 500cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz was the rider Valentino Rossi dreamed of being - and that probably says all anybody needs to know about the Suzuki hero, whose spectacular on-the-edge riding style earned him a legendary fan base, but cost him heavily in terms of injuries and title success
Crash.net recently offered its viewers the opportunity to ask MotoGP star John Hopkins a question - on any subject - and, on the eve the British Grand Prix at Donington Park, Hopper took time out from his busy schedule to answer your questions.
Valentino Rossi was the focal point of a teleconference last Friday at Estoril where he gave his views on the return of MotoGP to American soil for the first time in 10 years, when the 2005 U.S. Grand Prix takes Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by storm on July 8-10.