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Panini launches MotoGP trading cards.
Italian company Panini, famous for its football sticker album collections, has revealed that its first ever release of a MotoGP trading card collection will take place later this month.
West: I don't know what it is about Estoril...
Ant West recorded his ninth top ten finish from eleven rounds in this year's 250cc world championship, but was at a loss to explain quite why he has been unable to hook up a good result at Estoril.
Rossi turns the corner.
Despite his pre-season caution, Valentino Rossi probably never imagined the 2003 season would provide him with such opposition - to the point where there was talk of the four-times champion facing a crisis, despite never losing the points lead.
Picture: Sete stung by Ducati power.
Loris Capirossi snatched a breathtaking, last-gasp podium finish in yesterday's Portuguese GP, using the awesome power of his Desmosedici to out-accelerate Sete Gibernau's Honda in a thrilling race to the flag.
Mondello twists prepare Team KR for Estoril.
Proton Team KR have been busy testing their newly born four-stroke prototype during the two weekend break since Brno, taking the V5 to Mondello Park in Ireland where they ran the latest power and engine braking improvements.
Rossi beats Sete with seven-year-old move.
Anybody who thought that Valentino Rossi was in crisis after four races without a win was silenced yesterday in a classic Czech Republic Grand Prix, which will be remembered for many years by the 44,865 Brno fans.
Rossi wins by millimetres after titanic battle.
Valentino Rossi rode arguable the race of his life in Brno today, taking revenge on Sete Gibernau by overtaking the Catalan on the final lap - after 22-laps of non-stop MotoGP heaven - and clinging on by just 0.04secs as the pair raced side-by-side to the chequered flag.
World championship standings.
Leading MotoGP championship standings following today's Czech Republic Grand Prix, round ten of the 2003 series. Riders' championship standings after round 10:
Nakano apologises after 140mph highside!
Shinya Nakano suffered a spectacular crash in morning free practice at Brno, highsiding his D'Antin Yamaha at 140mph in a spectacular, but sickening accident that required the Japanese to be airlifted to a nearby Hospital.
Nakano hospitalised after morning fall.
Shinya Nakano's Czech Grand Prix may have come to a premature end after the amiable Japanese was hospitalised with concussion after a huge morning practice fall.
McWilliams impressed with V5, wants two-stroke.
Team Proton KR riders Jeremy McWilliams and Nobu Aoki were back on the radical new 990cc four-stroke KR V5 at the sweeping Brno circuit, and enjoying a package of minor but significant revisions that have addressed teething troubles found in the bike's first few races, as well as unleashing more
Biaggi to get 'something new' from Honda.
Despite suffering his first non-score of the 2003 season last time out at the Sachsenring, Max Biaggi still finds himself the third player in the championship hunt - and Brno is his circuit.
Hofmann heads Brno wild-cards.
Alex Hofmann will make his fourth start as a Kawasaki wild-card rider this weekend in Brno, while a further 10 riders have been accepted for the 125 and 250cc classes. MotoGP class #66 Alex Hofmann (GER) Kawasaki Racing Team
Burns back for WCM, four-stroke return nears.
WCM's Chris Burns will return to action in Brno this weekend, four weeks after breaking his collarbone on his MotoGP race debut at the British Grand Prix.
Vincent 'astonished' by KTM dismissal.
Reigning 125cc world champion Arnaud Vincent has spoken of his 'astonishment' at being sacked by the KTM team nine races into the 2003 season - indeed, the Frenchman seems as surprised as everyone at the Austrian team's decision.
World champion Vincent sacked by KTM.
In something of a shock announcement, 125cc GP newcomers KTM have announced that they have sacked reigning series champion Arnaud Vincent and replaced him with young Finn Mika Kallio.
Honda's GP stars ready for 8 Hours attack.
Three current MotoGP stars have been entrusted with carrying Honda's hopes of a seventh consecutive victory in this weekend's 26th running of the Suzuka 8 Hours. The HRC assault will be spearheaded by the two Seven Stars Honda teams, equipped with the latest version of the VTR1000SP-W.
Okada joins Kato's cousin to run #74 at Suzuka.
This Sunday's Suzuka 8 Hours event will see former GP star Tadayuki Okada teamed with Chozum Kameya in the Sakurai Honda team.
McCoy off twice - in one lap.
Kawasaki's Australian slidemaster, Garry McCoy, overcame two scary off-track excursions to come within a whisker of scoring points in yesterday's fiercely contested German Grand Prix at Sachsenring.
Kenny: Jacque high-sided doing a burn-out!
Kenny Roberts made his GP return from injury at the Sachsenring on Sunday, but a distant fifteenth placed finish gave him little joy... although Olivier Jacque made him smile with his post race antics.
WCM finish first race of 2003.
In something of a sad reflection of their 2003 season, the WCM team saw the chequered flag for the very first time this year in Germany yesterday when sole remaining rider David de Gea finished 20th and last on his ten year old two-stroke Yamaha.
World Championship standings.
Leading MotoGP championship standings following today's German Grand Prix, round nine of the 2003 series. Riders' championship standings after round 9:
Gibernau defeats Rossi in photo finish.
Sete Gibernau won today's German Grand Prix by just 0.06secs after emerging victorious from a fierce race long fight with Valentino Rossi, that looked to be going the Italian's way until the very final corner.
Rolfo grabs dramatic debut victory.
Roby Rolfo finally secured his first ever 250cc GP victory today at the Sachsenring, after holding off a charging Fonsi Nieto and Randy de Puniet at the end of 29 hard fought laps of the Sachsenring.