Shinya Nakano has announced his retirement from motorcycle racing Japanese rider Shinya Nakano has announced his retirement from professional motorcycle racing. Nakano, 32 years old now, raced in World Superbikes with Aprilia this year and has earlier raced in the GPs in the 250cc, 500cc, 990cc and 800cc classes, with Yamaha, Honda and Kawasaki. ‘I’ve concentrated on treatment after breaking...
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...
Shinya Nakano has decided to sit out the last World Superbike races of the season, citing the neck injury that has kept the Japanese rider out of the last two rounds. Nakano says that the injury isn't too debilitating in real life but didn't think that he was up to the strain of traveling from Japan and enduring the stress of racing speeds for three days. While there is currently no official evidence...
Shinya Nakano has decided to sit out the last World Superbike races of the season, citing the neck injury that has kept the Japanese rider out of the last two rounds. Nakano says that the injury isn't too debilitating in real life but didn't think that he was up to the strain of traveling from Japan and enduring the stress of racing speeds for three days. While there is currently no official evidence...
Aprilia Racing is the only factory-backed World Superbike team yet to confirm its 2010 rider line-up, as speculation mounts as to who will join Max Biaggi.
With Shinya Nakano returning to the fold at Portimao after an injury plagued rookie season in World Superbike, Aprilia Racing will dig deep and field a third bike for newly-crowned British Superbike champion Leon Camier. The ride for Camier is a second audition for a seat on the team after his debut with the squad at Magny Cours showed flashes of promise but was marred by technical difficulties. Nakano,...
Camier, 23, wrapped up his first British title at Silverstone last weekend and will race for the factory Aprilia team in France on Sunday as a one-off replacement for the injured Shinya Nakano.
Leon Camier has been looking for a ride in the World Superbike paddock for a while now, and his utter domination of the British Superbike series certainly showed that he has the necessary talent. As we reported yesterday , Camier is to get his chance, taking the place of the injured Shinya Nakano riding the Aprilia RSV4. read more
Aprilia is rumoured to have snared Yamaha s newly crowned British Superbike champion Leon Camier to ride alongside Max Biaggi at the Magny-Cours World Superbike round.
With Shinya Nakano out for the rest of the season with an injury, Aprilia are in need of a replacement rider for the World Superbike rounds at Magny-Cours and Portimao. Marco Simoncelli returns to his day job as factory Gilera 250cc rider this weekend at Estoril, and Aprilia test rider Alex Hofmann has duties of his own as a TV presenter for the German-language sports channel DSF at the Portuguese...
Aprilia head of communications Alain Roger, in an interview with Caradisiac. com revealed that Aprilia will field another 2-bike team in World Superbikes in 2010. Roger was not forthcoming on who would manage the team or whether the team would be a satellite. Roger did infer however, that current factory rider Shinya Nakano could find his way onto the squad. Roger also dropped the bombshell that former...
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