Stoner steals victory in season opener
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) had a titanic tussle with his Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa at the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar in the first round of the 2011 MotoGP World Championship to snatch 25 points on his debut ride with Repsol Honda. Stoner finished 3.440 seconds ahead of second placed Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing).
Date : 20/03/2011
Weather : Dry
Temperature : Air 19°, Track 20°
Humidity : 31%Casey Stoner keeps reigning in Qatar
The Repsol Honda Team rider achieves a crushing victory. Dani Pedrosa, third and Andrea Dovizioso, fourth, complete a successful weekend for the team in Losail.
Casey Stoner just took his first victory of the season in the first race of the 2011 World Championship. It is also his first win with the Repsol Honda Team colours. The Australian took the lead by mid-race after overtaking a fighting Dani Pedrosa, that had started very strongly.
Thoughts with Japan as season start looms
Post categories: MotoGP
Matt Roberts | 17:04 UK time, Friday, 18 March 2011
Qatar
You know you've got up too early when you realise midway through the morning that your underpants are on back to front and inside out.
The first leg of my journey to Qatar for the first round of the MotoGP season was uncomfortable but not unusual.
After 10 full seasons of covering the sport, I have yet to learn to prepare my suitcase any sooner than bedtime on the eve of departure, or get up any earlier than 10 minutes before the taxi is set to beep its horn, which, in this case, was 5am.
But one thing is significantly different for me this year. This time I will be anchoring the BBC's MotoGP coverage.
BBC - Matt Roberts: Thoughts with Japan as season start looms
Just hang on and you’ll see the bike!
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Lorenzo is "No.1"
By Dan Aspel -
MotoGP
31 January 2011 09:50
MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo has unveiled his racing logo for the 2011 season: a number one made of the initials J and L.
Lorenzo is "No.1" - | Motorcycle Sport | MotoGP News | MotoGP Results | MCN
- Photo by Jaap Buitendijk – Warner Bros. Ent.
- Hagrid, Harry and the Royal Enfield with sidecar.
Did you see that flying motorcycle in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1?” Well, if you didn’t wait in line at midnight to see the film, but plan to catch it over the weekend, keep an eye out for the bike — a light-blue Royal Enfield with a sidecar.
Autopia’s official daredevil Bob Maddox is at it again, with a new jet bike so hot we almost singed our eyebrows looking at the pictures.
The self-proclaimed “Rocketman” built the latest bike for a bike racer in Illinois who got sponsorship from a local bike-themed restaurant. According to Maddox, who did five test runs on the bike before handing it over to its new owner, it does 0-60 in “maybe five seconds.” Handling is “smooth and stable,” although it’s so powerful that it “wants to pull your arms off.”
Thanks to Brad from ‘Where It’s At’.
Now that the 2010 MotoGP season is over, Pedrosa will have his injury checked again, and could possibly undergo another surgery.
"[On Thursday] I will go to the doctor again to have a CAT scan, an MRI scan and vascular tests to find out what's wrong with my shoulder," Pedrosa said. "I don't know yet if I will need more surgery, but if it's necessary I will do it.”
