A landmark moment in the history of Tech 3 takes place on Tuesday, when the former 250cc World Championship winning team - which now runs Yamaha's satellite MotoGP outfit - will put its new Moto2 machine on track for the very first time. Next year will see Tech 3 enter a grand prix support class for the first time since its title-winning 2000 season, when Olivier Jacque and Shinya Nakano finished...
A variety of sources are reporting that "Super" Shinya Nakano wiil announce his retirement from competition at a press conference in Japan tomorrow. Nakano, who raced for the Factory Aprilia team in WSBK this past season, had some good finishes but was plagued by injuries in the latter portion of the year. The highlight of Nakano's twelve year career on the world scene was probably his 2000...
Double 250cc world championship runner-up Ralf Waldmann will make a shock one-off return to grand prix racing, in place of the injured Vladimir Leonov at the Viessmann Kiefer Racing team, during this weekend s British Grand Prix at Donington Park.
The French MotoGP race at the iconic Le Mans circuit provides a fitting venue for the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team to celebrate a special milestone in its history this weekend.
A Friday press conference in Japan saw Moriwaki Engineering present their new MD600 bike, with which they plan to participate in the future Moto2 class.
Tech3 Yamaha team boss, Herve Poncharal says all satellite MotoGP teams should start thinking about also getting into Moto2, where they could play a useful role Tech3, who currently run a satellite Yamaha team in MotoGP and who won the 250cc world championship back in 2000 (with French rider Olivier Jacque), may get into the Moto2 series in 2011. ‘I do have a big interest in Moto2 and during
Olivier Jacque tests 2009 Kawasaki at Eastern Creek Kawasaki have begun testing their 2009 MotoGP machine at Eastern Creek, despite the factory team being withdrawn from the championship. Test riders Olivier Jacque and Tamaki Serizawa gave the Ninja ZX-RR its debut at the former Australian Grand Prix venue in a private test yesterday. “I only had a quick [...] Related posts: Successful First...