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Qualifying results - Sachsenring 125cc.
Qualifying times from the Friday session in Sachenring in the 125cc class.
McWilliams two-stroke surprise in Sachsenring.
The MotoGP season until now has been dominated by the Honda RC211V, and more concretely by reigning World Champion Valentino Rossi.
Provisional pole Proton flies in Germany.
Nobody could beat Proton Team KR rider Jeremy McWilliams at the Sachsenring today.
Qualifying results - Sachsenring.
Full results from the first session of qualifying for the MotoGP in Sachsenring and Jeremy McWilliams on the Proton heads the field.
Rossi to Rally in Network Q.
Leading MotoGP sensation Valentino Rossi has confirmed yesterday that he will be exchanging two wheels for four this November when he takes part in the NetworkQ Rally of Great Britain.
Roberts 'ready to race hard' after surgery.
Kenny Roberts Jr is promising to get his best result of the season when he returns to MotoGP racing at the Czech GP at Brno in August, having decided to extend his summer break by one week.
China opens its doors to MotoGP.
The first steps towards an impending MotoGP Grand Prix of China were taken today at the foot of the Great Wall.
Marlboro Yamaha sponsorship goes up in smoke.
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. has today announced that the Marlboro sponsorship of its Marlboro Yamaha Team in the MotoGP World Championship will cease at
Ryo to go wild in German and Czech races.
Team Suzuki racer Akira Ryo will compete in the German and Czech Republic Grand Prixs as a wild-card entry on a GSV-R.
Roberts to miss German GP after surgery.
Team Telef?nica MoviStar Suzuki rider Kenny Roberts Jr. will miss next week's German GP, after problems at the last two races forced the decision to go ahead with surgery on his right arm a week earlier than planned.
Result - 250cc.
Full results from Sunday's 250cc race at the Cinzano British Grand Prix at Donington Park.
Proton V5 'no Honda copy', claims Roberts.
Proton Team KR's new V5 four-stroke MotoGP bike, aimed to contest the championship next year, is not the first grand prix racer to adopt this unusual engine configuration, but team founder Kenny Roberts was quick to deny that his latest project is in any way a copy of the V5 Honda.
Vincent times it right.
Frenchman Arnaud Vincent scored his most impressive 125cc victory to date with a finely judged performance from the outside of the fourth row of the grid at a sun-drenched Donington Park circuit.
Sabbatani uninjured in Donington crash.
Having only just returned from a spell on the sidelines through injury, another accident was just what Max Sabbatani didn't want at the British Grand Prix - but is just what happened in the early stages of the 125cc race.
Rossi notches up number 46 at Donington.
Valentino Rossi capped his 100th grand prix in perfect fashion, by taking victory number 46 in front of a packed Donington Park crowd at the Cinzano British Grand Prix.
Day of Champions raises ?100,000.
The world's leading MotoGP riders joined forces with British motorcycle fans on Thursday to raise ?100,000 for the charity Riders for Health.
Checa settles into new home.
Carlos Checa is the latest motorcycling star to settle down in Britain, joining MotoGP series leader Valentino Rossi and 250 championship leader Marco Melandri as UK residents.
Riba joins Ukawa on injured list.
Although Valentino Rossi managed to return to the fray at Donington Park this afternoon, Spain's Pere Riba ensured that there were still two names to add to that of Loris Capirossi on the MotoGP injury list.
Marlboro Yamaha so close to pole.
Marlboro Yamaha rider Carlos Checa came within nine-hundredths of a second of scoring his first pole position on his YZR-M1 at Donington this afternoon, heading the times in the dying moments of the session before Valentino Rossi stole his thunder.
Rossi carries on regardless.
Despite being diagnosed with a slight fracture in his left thumb after a worrying crash in free practice yesterday, Valentino Rossi defied pain and apprehension to take his seventh pole position of the season.
Ukawa, Rossi injured in MotoGP practice.
Repsol Honda duo Tohru Ukawa and Valentino Rossi headed the injury list after first free practice for the MotoGP class resulted in something of a crash fest.
Donington's Day of Champions a success.
The now traditional 'Day of Champions' prelude to the Cinzano British Grand Prix took place at the Donington Park circuit yesterday, and crowds packed the Derbyshire racetrack in their thousands, despite heavy downpours late in the afternoon.
Ukawa out for weekend, Rossi waits.
The Repsol Honda attack has been halved with just one day of the British Grand Prix meeting over, after Tohru Ukawa was ruled out of action following a heavy crash in Friday free practice.
Records fall in Donington qualifying.
Lap records tumbled during the opening day of qualifying for the British Grand Prix, but the achievement was overshadowed by falls of a different kind involving the pre-race MotoGP favourites.