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Team Honda Pons given RC211V opportunity.
The West Honda Pons team will be given the opportunity to assess the Honda RC211V, prior to the 2003 MotoGP season. HRC have decided to provide the Spanish team with one RC211V, from the Pacific Grand Prix, at Twin Ring otegi, on October 6.
Vincent takes fifth GP win.
Frenchman Arnaud Vincent took his fifth MotoGP win in the 125cc category in an action packed race today at the Sachsenring.
Ryo continues development.
Team Suzuki's Akira Ryo qualified 21st for tomorrow's 9th round of the MotoGP Championship at the Sachsenring in Germany, as he continues to test new settings on his GSV-R.
Barros on front row as two-stroke rule.
For the first time this season a two-stroke machine will start a MotoGP race from pole position with Frenchman Olivier Jacque leading the final qualifying session for the German Grand Prix, at the Sachsenring this afternoon.
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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.
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.
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.
Provisional pole Proton flies in Germany.
Nobody could beat Proton Team KR rider Jeremy McWilliams at the Sachsenring today.
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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.
Qualifying results - Sachsenring 125cc.
Qualifying times from the Friday session in Sachenring in the 125cc class.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Result - 250cc.
Full results from Sunday's 250cc race at the Cinzano British Grand Prix at Donington Park.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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