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BMW announce K1200R championship.
BMW has announced that a new one make championship, using the company's brand new K1200R 'power roadster', will act as a replacement for the popular Boxer Cup series at selected MotoGP events from next season.
Jacque back for Valencia.
Olivier Jacque will return to the MotoGP paddock, with Moriwaki, for the 16th and final round of the 2004 MotoGP world championship season, at Valencia on October 31.
2005 MotoGP calendar confirmed.
The FIM has confirmed that the 17 round 2005 MotoGP World Championship season will feature two news events - in China and America - but will not return to South Africa.
Rossi: 'Big bang' then 'big three' were decisive.
Newly crowned 2004 world champion Valentino Rossi has highlighted Yamaha's introduction of a 'big bang' engine, plus his three-race win streak from Mugello to Assen, as the most significant moments in his title winning season - and credited Sete Gibernau as perhaps his greatest on track rival.
Chaz makes Aprilia Germany proud.
Chaz Davies gives team Aprilia Germany a day to remember as he achieves his 250cc career best by coming finishing well in the top ten in a fantastic and well overdue sixth place. Team Boss Dieter Stappart tells us the story from the Team Aprilias Germany box.
What Rossi can't win without...
Despite winning the world championship on a machine which only took just one podium finish the previous season, Valentino Rossi has confessed that there's one area of performance which not even he can compensate for...
Rising star Pedrosa takes 250 crown.
Spanish motorcycle racing star Dani Pedrosa raced to a fourth place at the Australian Grand Prix, held at Phillip Island Sunday to claim the 250cc World Championship. At the age of nineteen years, and 18 days old Pedrosa is the youngest ever 250cc World Champion.
Ellison gets 2005 Blata V6 ride.
WCM have confirmed that 24-year-old James Ellison will ride their brand new Blata V6 machine in the 2005 MotoGP world championship.
Checa: I still don't understand.
Fortuna Yamaha's Carlos Checa suffered a mysterious high-speed fall in the closing stages of today's final qualifying session at Phillip Island, which contributed to him being left 13th on tomorrow's grid.
Gibernau steals Phillip Island pole.
Valentino Rossi may be on the verge of his sixth world title, but the only man that can now stop him, Sete Gibernau, has stolen the Italian's thunder by taking pole position for tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix.
Aoki crashes, Haydon frustrated.
Proton Team KR riders Nobuatsu Aoki and James Haydon were placed 21st and 22nd on the provisional grid for Sunday's Australian GP, on a day when the 4.448km circuit on the Bass Strait south-east of Melbourne lived up to its reputation of highly variable and somewhat extreme weather.
Bayliss confirms Ducati split.
Speaking at the pre-event press conference for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix, Troy Bayliss has ended growing speculation over his future by officially confirming that he and the Ducati Marlboro Team will part company at the end of this season.
Pressure on as Edwards heads 'home'.
After a podium at Qatar and then a difficult weekend in Malaysia, Colin Edwards is eager to return to the front in this weekend's Australian Grand Prix - a 'home race' at a track the Texan knows well.
Australian GP wild-cards.
The ten wild-card riders who will race in the Australian Grand Prix, at Phillip Island, this weekend, are the following:
Dovizioso: The making of a champion.
Italian Andrea Dovizioso raced to his first 125cc World Championship title at the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang on Sunday, with two rounds of the championship left to be run.
'Battle not over' but Rossi on the brink.
After a season full of races labelled 'significant' or a 'turning point', Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix looks to have been the real thing: Valentino Rossi's victory, combined with seventh for Sete Gibernau, means that the Italian now has one hand on Yamaha's first world championship since 1992.
Picture: Rossi 'sweeps' Sepang!
Shortly after taking victory in Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, Valentino Rossi stopped on his slow down lap to perform the latest of his extraordinary post race celebrations.
Moody Blues: Rossi, Gibernau and Formula One.
In the latest of his exclusive columns for Crash.net , renowned Eurosport MotoGP commentator Toby Moody provides the latest behind the scenes news from Sepang, analyses the Valentino Rossi/Sete Gibernau championship battle and ponders just how committed Rossi would be to any Formula
Tamada watching Rossi, Biaggi 'annoyed'.
Provisional Sepang pole sitter Makoto Tamada was one of only three riders who failed to improve on their Friday time today, and as a result the Camel Honda star has slipped to fifth on tomorrow's Malaysian Grand Prix grid.
Barros to break win drought?
Alex Barros will start tomorrow's Malaysian Grand Prix alongside pole sitter Valentino Rossi, as top Honda rider, giving the Brazilian veteran a good chance to break his two-year win drought.
Haydon gets second Proton KR call-up.
Having made what was intended to be a 'one-off' MotoGP appearance for Proton Team KR in last Saturday's Qatar Grand Prix, James Haydon will now return for this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix.
Rossi, Gibernau play down Qatar controversy.
Ambient temperatures were lower at Sepang today than they had been at Losail, but the heat continued to rise as Valentino Rossi and Sete Gibernau came face to face for the first time since last Saturday's controversial Qatar Grand Prix.
Wild-card and substitute riders for Sepang.
The wild-card and substitute riders who will race in this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix, at Sepang, are: 125cc class: #62 Toshihisa Kuzuhara JPN Honda Kumamoto Racing #31 Max Sabbatani ITA Ajo Motorsports - replaces Robbin Harms
Haydon top Brit on MotoGP debut.
James Haydon completed a promising MotoGP debut by bringing his Proton KR V5 home in 12th place in Saturday's Qatar Prix, and in turn claiming Brit honours after overtaking James Ellison on the final lap.