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Valentino Rossi completed a mainly positive first day of testing in Malaysia today as the first of four pre-season tests began for the Fiat Yamaha Team. Rossi's second test on Bridgestone tyres was interrupted when he crashed entering turn two on his twentieth lap of the day, but the Italian was unhurt and completed 44 laps and some important development work

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© Fiat Yamaha Team. After being officially welcomed into the Yamaha fold at the Team's presentation in Turin last week, Jorge Lorenzo was out on track in Fiat Yamaha Team colours for the first time today in Sepang. The three-day Malaysian test is the first of four pre-season tests before the Spanish rookie makes his MotoGP debut in March.

 

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© Repsol Media Service. Bad luck for Dani Pedrosa who has to return to Spain after a big crash in Sepang. Setting the second best time of the day behind Randy De Puniet, the Spaniard slid off at Turn 11, injuring his right hand. Team-mate Nicky Hayden completed a total of 85 laps, riding more laps than anyone else on track.

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© Honda. The XESS (eXtreme European Streetfighter Styling) version of the CB1000R draws on the most extreme potential of this new Naked streetfighter’s intensely aggressive power. It focuses the customer’s attention on the eventual possibilities for modifying the production model to make it even more stunning.

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Up to eight riders run in 1'32", close times for this first test of the WSBK 2008 season in Phillip Island. Yukio Kagayama set the fastest time of all three days as Aussie Troy Bayliss fell at the bottom of MG broking his collarbone. Two times World SBK Champion will be fit for the start of the season in Qatar.

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© Repsol Media Service. The Repsol Honda Team today revealed the new racing prototype it will use to contest the 2008 MotoGP World Championship as a day and a half of MotoGP testing began at Valencia, Spain.

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© Fiat Yamaha Team. Reigning 250cc World Champion Jorge Lorenzo, who will ride for the Fiat Yamaha Team in 2008, got his first taste of the YZR-M1 today as he tested with Yamaha for the first time in Valencia this afternoon.

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With the memory of yesterday`s race in front of his compatriots at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo still fresh in his mind the Repsol Honda Team rider Dani Pedrosa, recently proclaimed Runner-up in the World MotoGP Championship, was the host for some very special visitors in the pits.

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© Repsol Media Service. The Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) is very pleased to announce today that the Repsol Honda Team will continue its highly successful partnership with Michelin for the 2008 MotoGP season.

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Tech 3 Yamaha has announced the signing of James Toseland for the 2008 season.

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© FIM. Suzuki Yoshimura with Jomo 34 put an end to a series of ten victories by Honda at Suzuka today.

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© Honda Pro Images. The Honda HRC 11 of Ryuichi Kiyonari and James Toseland took the plaudits in Friday's qualifying sessions for the ‘Coca Cola Zero' Suzuka 8 Hours.

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© FGsport. Spaniard Ruben Xaus (Ducati Sterilgarda) has already won an SBK this season and he forced his name to the top of another results sheet at Vallelunga, after scoring the fastest time in the official tests.

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© Repsol Media Service. The early promise of the weekend remained unfulfilled for the Repsol Honda Team at Donington Park on Sunday as the British Grand Prix was affected by rain.

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© Bernhard Spöttel/Red Bull Photofiles. Privateer rider Teddy Blazusiak has been the perfect sensation of the weekend taking the victory of the Red Bull Hare Scramble 2007 for KTM! Considered as the toughest motorcycle Offroad race, the Erzberg Rodeo crowned a new king today as this 24 years old rider from Poland reached the finish line of the Red Bull Hare Scramble in a sensational 1:29, 48 hours!

 

The 24 years old Polish Trial rider attracted the interest of race director Karl Katoch with his breathtaking riding skills and was entered to the Rodeo-X Endurocross race by Katoch.

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© Fiat Yamaha Team. Valentino Rossi rounded off the first day of the Grand Prix of Catalunya in positive fashion today, setting the second fastest time of the day on his penultimate lap as temperatures climbed into the thirties at Montmelo.

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© Repsol Media Service. Long before the Motorcycle World Championship was born, a group of intrepid British riders decided to travel along Europe to race at the different circuits of the old Continent.

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