Hungarian Gabor Talmacsi finished his first MotoGP race in 17th place for the Scot Honda team in Sunday's Grand Prix of Catalunya.
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2007 125cc world champion Gabor Talmacsi has split from the Aspar Aprilia team after just three rounds of this year's 250cc World Championship.
Former 125cc world champion and 2009 250cc rookie Gabor Talmacsi has set the fastest lap time during the single 45-minute Friday free practice session ahead of Sunday night's season-opening Qatar Grand Prix.
The first stone of the new Balatonring circuit, which will host next year's Hungarian Grand Prix, was laid on the construction site near Savoly in Western Hungary on Thursday.
Gabor Talmacsi - who will move to the 250cc class in 2009 - has taken the final 125cc pole position of the 2008 season during an exciting second qualifying session at Valencia.
Hungarian Gabor Talmacsi will start on 125cc pole position for his adopted home round at Brno in the Czech Republic after Saturday's intermittent rain left the reigning world champion's provisional pole time unchallenged.
Gabor Talmacsi has won his first race as a reigning world champion with victory during a five-lap 125cc Dutch TT at Assen, after rain halted the original race and forced a restart.
Championship rival and Aspar Aprilia team-mate Hector Faubel had taken the Friday pole, but his advantage was overturned by the Hungarian with 12 minutes of the final qualifying session to go.
Hungarian rider Gabor Talmacsi won the 125cc Qatar Grand Prix in a controversial photo-finish ahead of Red Bull KTM team-mate Mika Kallio at the Losail Circuit today.