Superbike News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Italian rider Niccolo Canepa will race in the new Moto2 class in 2010 with the Scot Racing team after a deal was signed today. Scot Racing won the last ever 250cc championship this year with Hiroshi Aoyama aboard the Honda...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Niccolo Canepa had a very tough rookie year in MotoGP. The Italian joined the Pramac Ducati team after a year as Ducati's test rider, having won the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup a year before. But once he made the switch from test rider to MotoGP rider, he has struggled badly, circulating close to the back of the field for much of the season. So it was no surprise that the likable Italian lost his MotoGP...
Superbike News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Hiroshi Aoyama reckons he drew inspiration from late Japanese star Daijiro Kato after he claimed a historic victory in the final 250GP world championship in Valencia last weekend. The Scot Honda rider survived a massive scare to claim Honda's first...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Hector Barbera finishes the Valencia three-day test as the surprise rookie front runner, ahead of fellow 250cc graduates Hiroshi Aoyama, Marco Simoncelli and Alvaro Bautista.
MotoGP EN (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
250cc World Champion Hiroshi Aoyama was awarded honorary membership of RCD Espanyol on Wednesday, as he met Shunsuke Nakamura at the club’s Copa del Rey match with Getafe.
Superbike News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
250cc World Champion Hiroshi Aoyama was awarded honorary membership of RCD Espanyol on Wednesday, as he met Shunsuke Nakamura at the club’s Copa del Rey match with Getafe.
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Newly cronwed 250cc world champion Hiroshi Aoyama makes a steady start to his career as a MotoGP rider.
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Testing has finally concluded for the MotoGP class for this year - or rather, almost, as Alvaro Bautista will be testing in Estoril next week, while Hiroshi Aoyama will have a test in Sepang a few days before Christmas, the two rookies being allowed extra tests to acclimatize to the MotoGP bikes. But the regulars go home with plenty to think about. Fastest of the three-day test was the man who had...
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Suzuki has announced that it will take part in a three day test with new signing Alvaro Bautista at Estoril next week...
MotoGPMatters.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The Moto2 grid is slowly starting to fit together. Today came the announcement from the Tech 3 team that they had signed 250cc star Raffaele de Rosa and former MotoGP rider Yuki Takahashi to ride the team's Moto2 bike, built and designed by Tech 3's technical guru Guy Coulon. As team mate to the last ever 250cc World Champion Hiroshi Aoyama, De Rosa did very well indeed, winning the rookie of the...
MotoGP EN (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Jorge Lorenzo was the leading rider by over half a second on the timesheet by 1pm on the second day’s testing at Valencia.
MotoGP EN (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Hiroshi Aoyama has been congratulated for his 2009 250cc World Championship success by the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Yukio Hatoyama.
MotoGP EN (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
250cc World Champion Hiroshi Aoyama will ride for the Interwetten Honda MotoGP Team in 2010.
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Marco Simoncelli was fastest of the four 250cc stars making their MotoGP debuts during Monday s Valencia post-race test.
MotoGP EN (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Having been crowned as the last ever 250cc World Champion on Sunday at Valencia, Japanese rider Hiroshi Aoyama tested with new premier class team Interwetten MotoGP on Monday.
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