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Stoner moves up, confirmed at LCR.
Australian Casey Stoner has been confirmed as riding for the LCR team in 2006 as the squad makes the move up to the MotoGP class.
Denning: Suzuki can succeed.
Paul Denning heads into his second season in charge of Team Suzuki MotoGP hoping that "some really interesting stuff" happening ahead of the new season will result in John Hopkins and Chris Vermeulen "on TV" in 2006...
Yamaha confirms Gauloises split.
Yamaha has today officially confirmed that, as rumoured for much of the second half of the 2005 season, it will not race with Gauloises sponsorship during the 2006 MotoGP season.
Foggy: Edwards has lost hunger to win.
Four-times World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty believes that former rival Colin Edwards, a double World Superbike champion and Valentino Rossi's current team-mate at the factory Yamaha MotoGP team, has lost the hunger to win.
EU angry as Spain `keeps` tobacco advertising.
The European Union has reacted angrily to a recent ruling by Spain, which could mean that MotoGP and Formula One events will be exempt from tobacco advertising restrictions until 2008.
Motocourse on sale.
Motorcycle racing enthusiasts can rest easy for Christmas with the news that world-renowned annual Motocourse has hit the shelves for sale at bookshops in the UK.
Aoyama lands Honda scholarship for GP250.
Honda has awarded its third 'racing scholarship' to 21-year old Shuhei Aoyama, the reigning All-Japan 250cc class champion.
Biaggi `waiting for an answer`.
Max Biaggi's MotoGP future remains in limbo with the Roman still waiting to here if he will be able to ride a third factory Kawasaki in the 2006 world championship.
Biaggi: No Bridgestone problem.
Max Biaggi has claimed that Bridgestone will supply him with tyres, should Kawasaki and Camel finalise a deal for the Roman to ride a third factory ZX-RR in the 2006 MotoGP World Championship.
Bridgestone sink Biaggi deal?
Max Biaggi's chances of a 2006 Kawasaki MotoGP ride are reported to have ended after the team's tyre supplier, Bridgestone, refused to support any additional riders.
How Yamaha made the M1 even better...
The 2004 YZR-M1 will forever be remembered as the machine with which Valentino Rossi sensationally won Yamaha's first premier-class world championship since 1992 but, with the Italian's Honda contract preventing him from testing the machine until late January, much of the bike's design was decide
Ellison impresses on Tech 3 Yamaha debut.
2005 WCM rider James Ellison impressed on the first day of his Yamaha Tech 3 'job interview', by putting his Dunlop shod M1 within 1.3secs of MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi around the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.
Sepang test pictures online.
Pictures from the Sepang MotoGP test, which began today (Monday) and continues until Wednesday, have already been uploaded onto Crash.net .
Rossi takes on kart champion.
Encouraged by his increasingly competent outings in one of Ferrari's Formula One machines, multiple MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi decided to try his luck against one of the world's leading kart racers when he visited the second edition of the Champion Show, organised by his father Graziano, in
Ilmor MotoGP engine update.
On August 18, Crash.net ran a report about McLaren Mercedes F1 engine manufacturer Ilmor building a MotoGP powerplant - and speculated that the 2007 MotoGP engine rule changes would provide the perfect opportunity for such an arrival.
Valencia win puts Smith on GP alert.
Fifteen-year-old British schoolboy Bradley Smith is on the brink of a grand prix career after an impressive victory in the penultimate round of the CEV Buckler 125cc Spanish Championship in Valencia on Sunday (pictured).
Hofmann, McWilliams `in discussions` with WCM.
WCM racing director Peter Clifford has told Crash.net that his team are developing their 2006 plans around racing KTM V4 engines - and are 'in discussion' with Alex Hofmann and Jeremy McWilliams about riding the machines.
JiR keeps Tamada, Konica - maybe Michelin.
Japan Italy Racing is set to retain title backing from Konica Minolta and again run Makoto Tamada on a Honda RC211V in the 2006 MotoGP World Championship, but is still to confirm its tyre supplier.
HRC president explains future strategy.
HRC president Suguru Kanazawa has released the following statement regarding the future MotoGP strategy of the Honda Racing Corporation which, for 2006, looks set to drop several established MotoGP stars and instead field no less than five riders - Nicky Hayden (24), Marco Melandri (23), Toni Eli
Rossi beats McRae at Monza Rally.
MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi finished his first competitive outing in a Subaru WRC car with an impressive second overall - ahead of former World Rally Champion Colin McRae - at this weekend's Monza Rally Show.
MotoGP memorabilia in charity auction.
An upcoming charity auction to raise money for the 11-year-old daughter of popular racer and journalist Gus Scott, who was tragically killed in this year's Senior Isle of Man TT race, has attracted an impressive array of MotoGP memorabilia.
Yamaha: No interest in Biaggi.
Yet another door appears to have closed in Max Biaggi's face, with his former employer Yamaha - one of the most significant manufacturers still to confirm its 2006 rider line-up - stating that they have no interest in working with the Roman.
Rossi completes ` very different` Ferrari test.
Valentino Rossi was giving nothing away about his future intentions - or even lap times - after completing his three-day Ferrari test, held at two different circuits.
Stoner `at the front in two years`.
It will take Casey Stoner less than two years to run at the front of MotoGP - that's the verdict of Honda Pons team boss, Sito Pons, after the young Australian's impressive RCV debut at Valencia on Wednesday.