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The Ducati's of #69 Nicky Hayden and #36 Mika Kallio sit on display outside the team garages during the pitwalk at the Indy round of MotoGP in August of 2009. Kallio was filling in for A-rider Casey Stoner who sat out several rounds last year due to illness. With Stoner's diet under control and no off-season surgeries or injuries to slow him down, look for him to be tough to regain the MotoGP crown he held after the '07 season. And with good testing numbers finally starting to come his way, Nicky has made leaps and bounds over last year's initial season on the big Duc to be able to feel the bike and feel confident on the bike. In the last test at Qatar several weeks ago, Stoner was fastest and Nicky was fifth overall. Things should be good for the Marlboro Ducati Team this year barring injuries or the new six-engine rule for the year. Kallio will be on the Team Pramac Ducati for the 2010 season.
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Rick McGuire looks over one of the Valentino Rossi replica M1's that was on display throughout the weekend of the inaugaral Indy MotoGP in September of 2008. This particular display was set up at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, home of The Indy Mile. The van in the background was decaled out in Indy MotoGP graphics, and several were used to demo bikes up to and including the weekend of the races all over town. When Tony George was still running the show at IMS he pulled no punches when it came to the MotoGP weekend, and we can only hope with him out of the picture that that doesn't change around Indy!
With seven (yes, count 'em, 7!) premier class MotoGP Championships under his belt and over 100 premier class wins as well, Rossi will be the one to beat this year. If he stays healthy and injury-free (and REALLY, when was the last time he WAS injured?) Vale should be holding 8 series championships after this year. But, that's why we race now, isn't it?! Vale will be teamed again this year with Spanish sensation Jorge Lorenzo on the factory team Yamaha.
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The Mapfre Anspar Aprilia 250 team of #55 Hector Faubel and #19 Alvaro Bautista get set up by the team members in the MotoGP garage area at Indy in September of 2008. The smell of castor oil in the air and sounds of chain saws on acid are a lingering memory in the middle class.
Even though the 250's are gone after the '09 season and Moto2 starts a new class for 2010, they will forever 'ring' on in our hearts. With the new Moto2 class and the 600 Honda engines mounted in different chassis set-ups, this could be a very interesting series to watch in it's initial voyage. With big teams like Antonio Banderas' and Tech 3's having a go of it, the possibilities could be very exciting. Stay tuned!
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The #15 San Carlo Team Honda of Alex De Angelis sits outside the garages at the Indy MotoGP round in September of 2008. Nicky Hayden's #69 Repsol Honda lingers just inside the garage. Hayden brought the #69 home in second behind Valentino Rossi in the initial running of the Indy round of MotoGP, and it was this weekend that the 'unofficial' announcement came of his move to Ducati for the 2009 and 2010 seasons. The 'official' announcement actually came the Monday after the Indy races. De Angelis will be running in the Moto2 class for the 2010 season.
The weekend was fraught with the remnants of Hurrican Ike to the 93K+ spectators as well as the riders that braved the 60mph winds on Sunday to watch the riders do battle. Unfortunately the 250 race was canceled due to the elements. 2009 was all but picture perfect, with the help of being three weeks earlier on the calendar. We hope that 2010 is a near repeat weather-wise!
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One of the Repsol Honda RC212V's gets warmed up in the pitlane at Indy in August of 2009. The official factory team again will consist of Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso. Both Honda's struggled in the off-season tests, especially with what seems to be the main culprit of the switch to Ohlins suspension after having been involved with Showa for decades. With limited testing, track time and race time due to the new six-engine rule, we hope that the setbacks experienced thus far won't get worse for the Honda's as the season wears on.
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MotoGP 2010 is less then a few hour away--officially--and the great news this week was a press release from the folks at Dorna and SpeedTV announcing that the majority of the races this year will be shown live, and all of them will be in HD. Here is the official release as posted by the great folks over at RoadRacingWorld.com that includes the full schedule for the year at this time (Indy and Laguna times TBA):
MotoGP 2010 is less then a few hour away--officially--and the great news this week was a press release from the folks at Dorna and SpeedTV announcing that the majority of the races this year will be shown live, and all of them will be in HD. Here is the official release as posted by the great folks over at RoadRacingWorld.com that includes the full schedule for the year at this time (Indy and Laguna times TBA):
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You can follow the rest of the action via the link below to the action in the desert of Qatar.
The MotoGP race is scheduled for 4 PM EDT on Sunday April 11th.
MotoGP.com does have a great time converter on the current round schedule to adjust for the +3 GMT time differential to Qatar. They also have a great timing and scoring ap so you can follow all the practice and qualifying sessions live.
125 practice starts at 1 PM EDT followed by Moto2 at 2:15 and MotoGP practice wraps up Friday's on-track activities at 3:30 PM EDT.
Go here and enjoy the races!
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