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Rossi takes `extra special` 46th pole.
The omens are looking good for former MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi after the Italian took an 'extra special' 46th pole position ahead of Saturday's season-opening Qatar Grand Prix.
250: Lorenzo turns tables for Qatar pole.
Reigning 250cc world champion Jorge Lorenzo turned the tables on former team-mate, and provisional pole sitter, Hector Barbera during final qualifying at Qatar.
Hopkins: The pain level has been high...
John Hopkins braved the pain of his hand injury to record an excellent fourth fastest time after the first two free practice sessions for the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix.
McWilliams: We thought we`d have an advantage.
Ilmor's Jeremy McWilliams has admitted that MotoGP's newest team didn't gain the advantage it hoped for by racing its 800cc motorcycle in the final two rounds of the 2006 season.
Fiat Yamaha to run `a series of liveries`.
Fiat has revealed that its newly announced title sponsorship of the factory Yamaha MotoGP team will result in 'a series of liveries' being used during the racing season.
Ducati dominate top speed charts.
Top speeds recorded during last weekend's final MotoGP test at Jerez indicate that Ducati's Desmosedici GP7 currently enjoys a consistent advantage over its 2007 rivals.
Mike Nicks: `I didn`t make it up!`
CMG is delighted to welcome Mike Nicks, who covers motorcycle racing for national newspapers including The Guardian and The Observer , to Crash.Net for the 2007 season.
Melandri suffers final day decline.
Despite being fastest on the two opening days of testing at Jerez, Gresini Honda's Marco Melandri failed to make an impression on qualifying tyres during Sunday's 40-minute BMW shootout - and finished just 14th.
Rossi wins BMW.
Former five-times MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi has won a new BMW sports car after setting the pace during the 40-minute 'qualifying session' at Sunday's final day of testing at Jerez.
Where`s the money? MotoGP holds sponsorship summit
By Mike Nicks MotoGP promoters Dorna are to host a unique one-day summit conference to answer the question that everyone is posing: why isn't the sport whose action is setting the world alight getting more and bigger sponsors?
Jerez MotoGP test times - 'qualifying` session.
Full times from the special 'qualifying' session held during Sunday's third and final day of testing at Jerez in Spain. The fastest rider during the 40-minute shootout, former five-times MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi, won (another) new BMW sports car for his efforts.
Ilmor chasing lost time.
A fog delay was the last thing the new Ilmor team needed during day two of the Jerez test, as it sought to complete further vital set-up mileage on the new spec engine.
PICTURES: Team Roberts turns red and blue.
Having raced in predominantly black last season, its first with Honda as an engine supplier, Team Roberts unveiled a more eye-catching red and blue 2007 livery at this weekend's Jerez test.
`Great feeling` - Rossi delighted with day two.
Having been a cautious 13th fastest during the rain interrupted opening day at Jerez, former five-times MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi dominated much of day two as the set-up of his factory Yamaha M1 got better and better.
Jerez MotoGP test times - Saturday.
Full times from Saturday's second day of the final official MotoGP pre-season test, held at Jerez in Spain, and attended by the full line-up of 2007 teams.
Roberts plans MotoGP-Fireblade track-day special.
Kenny Roberts Senior plans to launch a special edition of 50 exotic track-day bikes by fitting a 1,000cc Honda Fireblade engine into the chassis of his Team KR MotoGP machine.
Melandri fastest in the wet.
The wet weather that tormented the 125 and 250cc teams at Jerez earlier this week continued during the first day of the final MotoGP pre-season test at the Spanish track.
New engine at Ilmor.
Despite poor weather on day one of official testing at Jerez, Ilmor GP rider Andrew Pitt was able to try the team's 2007 engine for the first time - and provide positive feedback regarding its potential.
PICTURES: Honda Gresini reveals 2007 colours.
On the eve of the final pre-season test, at Jerez in Spain, four-times 2006 race winners Gresini Honda has unveiled its new livery for the upcoming season.
Yamaha to run `special blue` livery at Jerez.
The ongoing delay in Yamaha revealing its 2007 title sponsor and race livery will continue beyond this weekend's final test at Jerez after the factory team announced a one-off 'special blue' livery for the event.
PICTURES: Suzuki unveils 2007 livery.
Rizla Suzuki officially revealed its new GSV-R800 at Jerez in Spain on Thursday evening, in front of an audience of journalists, photographers and selected guests.
PICTURE: Welcome back Jeremy!
Jeremy McWilliams returned to MotoGP action during testing in Qatar last week - marking his first track appearance since breaking a femur, collarbone and sustaining severe damage to his hand, at Jerez last November.
Rossi: Colin and I could win tomorrow.
Former five-times MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi is now sure that he and Yamaha will suffer no repeat of their disastrous start to the 2006 season - and that he and team-mate Colin Edwards could fight for victory if the season started tomorrow.
Team Roberts threatens to withdraw.
Team Roberts owner, Kenny Roberts, has revealed that his independent British-based outfit could withdraw from the upcoming 2007 MotoGP World Championship if it does not secure additional sponsorship by the end of next week's Jerez test.