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

© 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.

© FIM Endurance. Next weekend on Spanish soil the four giants of Japanese motorcycle construction will take their places among the highly competitive line-up of permanent teams in the second race of the 2007 QMMF Endurance FIM World Championship.

© Fiat Yamaha. Unlike the opening two rounds at Losail and Jerez, MotoGp riders will be racing at a circuit where they have no pre-season testing experience with this year's machines.

This Fire Blade only has 600 miles on the clock after a testing session at Brno. This Honda Fire Blade was purchased for Leon Camier as a practice bike for the Suzuka 8-Hour, the livery is the stunning black Northpoint Honda colours from the 2006 season.

© Waldemar Da Rin. Unseasonably cool weather and occasional showers disrupted proceedings on the opening day of the three-day MotoGP test at Jerez.

© Suzuki Racing. World Superbike rider Yukio Kagayama raced to victory in the final round of the Japanese SBK Championship at Suzuka on Sunday.

© Honda Pro Image. Nicky, like all the Hayden crew, didn’t just start his career early, he rode as intensive a season from aged three as any amateur rider might aged 23.

© Ducati Corse. Troy Bayliss and Loris Capirossi finished MotoGPs 990cc era in awesome style at Valencia today, storming to a dominant one-two finish in front of a capacity crowd of 129,000 noisy fans.

© Camel Yamaha Team. Designed in 1997 as a test venue, Twin Ring Motegi has ultra-modern facilities although the outstanding paddock is not quite matched by the intricacies and character of a somewhat geometric circuit layout.

© Camel Yamaha Team. The final leg of an exhausting Grand Prix triple-header takes place in Japan this weekend as the chase for the MotoGP World Championship heads north from Australia with Camel Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi now the closest he has been to the series lead since the third round of the season in Turkey.

© Camel Yamaha Team. Valentino Rossi returned to action in the Czech Republic with a series of fast laps at the Brno circuit after quickly finding a good base set-up for his YZR-M1 machine.

© Ducati Corse. Sete Gibernau underwent a final scan today at the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus in Barcelona.