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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 3, 2012   Sayaka Kaneshiro Becomes the Newest Member of Team Honda Muscle Milk   Torrance, CA: American Honda announces the addition of Sayaka Kaneshiro to Team Honda Muscle Milk for the 2012 Women’s Motocross Championship (WMX) series. Kaneshiro will join three-time Women’s Motocross Champion Ashley Fiolek aboard factory prepared Honda ...    Read more

KTM has announced that Ken De Dycker of Belgium will ride for the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team for the first five rounds of the MX1 World Championship starting on the Easter weekend in Valkenswaard, Netherlands. KTM learned recently that De Dycker was planning to start his own team and ...    Read more

Brackney, PA - On June 29 and 30, Square Deal Raceway in Harpursville, NY welcomes special guest Scott Parker to the AMA Vintage National Dirt Track Race double header. Metro Racing, the industry leader in vintage motorcycle clothing , pulled out all the stops to get 9-time AMA Grand National ...    Read more

The 2012 MotoGP World Championship officially starts this weekend in Qatar, the small Peninsula off the Persian Gulf, noted for hosting the only race of the calendar under floodlights. The Grand Prix of Qatar is, without any doubt, one of the most spectacular races of the season. Months of development, ...    Read more

Monster Energy Yamaha are raring to go for the launch of the 2012 FIM Motocross World Championship this coming weekend and have completed work on a fantastic new video that can be seen by clicking this link . The images shot by award-winning videographer Mikey Neale perfectly highlight the speed, ability ...    Read more

The 2012 MotoGP World Championship starts on Thursday at Losail International Circuit, with the first free-practice session scheduled for 6 p.m. (40 minutes) for the Moto3 class, 6:55 (45 minutes) for Moto2 and 7:55 (45 minutes) for MotoGP. It will be a long weekend, with riders taking to the track ...    Read more

From ACD's Facebook: Dear Racers, As you know we lost the last drag strip in Southern California area recently when a judge ruled that Auto Club Speedway must cease operations of the drag strip due to noise complaints. The speedway has expressed their desire to see drag racing continue at ...    Read more

CENTERVILLE, Miss. (April 3) -- GEICO Honda rider Kevin Windham will miss the rest of the Supercross season after suffering several injuries during a crash Saturday in Houston. Attempting to qualify for the Main event, Windham was in a pitched battle with James Stewart during a Heat race when he came ...    Read more

This Sunday sees the long awaited and hugely anticipated season opening race of the 2012 MotoGP Championship at the Losail circuit in Qatar. Yamaha Factory Racing riders Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies will line up on the grid under the spectacular floodlights alongside their rivals for the first true test ...    Read more

In the premiere episode, we take a look into the unleaded life of motorsports legend Travis Pastrana. Life for Travis is all about pushing the limits -- whether it is making a pull-up bar out of crutches for his new wife or embarking on his new quest for fun in ...    Read more

Team Suzuki Press Office - April 2. Leon Camier broke the Imola World Superbike lap record today and was the third-fastest rider on track during the Crescent FIXI Suzuki team's test using a new Yoshimura-powered GSX-R1000 engine. Following on from yesterday's second round of the World Superbike Championship at the ...    Read more

Irivine, Calif. (March 31, 2012) -- Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto clinched his second consecutive Monster Energy AMA Supercoss, an FIM Championship title on Saturday at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. On the strength of eight wins this season, Villopoto has built an insurmountable lead in the standings and earns ...    Read more

Ducati's "All Roads Lead to Pikes Peak" Challenge As you know, Ducati will return to Pikes Peak in 2012 for the 90th running of the “Race to the Clouds.” Defending champion and Pikes Peak motorcycle record holder, Carlin Dunne, will join six-time Pikes Peak winner,Greg Tracy, in an effort to ...    Read more

Costa Mesa, CA – Dainese’s D-Store Orange County is pleased to announce an art gallery-style exhibition of the work of racing photographer Andrea Wilson. Andrea has travelled around the world in her pursuit to capture the essence of top-level motorcycle racing, with her work gracing the pages of many of ...    Read more

Tom Sykes and his Kawasaki Racing Team Ninja ZX-10R once more made great progress in the SBK class, taking two second place finishes at Imola and staying within six points of the championship lead. Having started from pole after blitzing the previous track best in Superpole qualifying Sykes was to leave ...    Read more

Team Suzuki Press Office - April 2. Rockstar Energy Suzuki's Blake Wharton fought back from a heavy crash in qualifying to bring home fourth place in the Lites class at Saturday night's AMA/ FIM World Supercross series at Houston in Texas. The RM-Z250-mounted rider took the holeshot in his six-lap heat ...    Read more

Red Bull/KTM’s Ken Roczen took his first win of the season at the seventh round of the AMA East Supercross Lites Series in Houston Texas by capitalizing on a last lap crash by championship leader Justin Barcia. It was the German teenager’s second career victory in the Supercross Lites class. Roczen, ...    Read more

AS EXPECTED, THE TWO RACES IN THE IMOLA ROUND HAD THE APRILIA RIDERS BATTLING LAP AFTER LAP. MAX BIAGGI'S TENACITY LED TO TWO FOURTH PLACES, IMPORTANT SPOILS FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. EUGENE LAVERTY, AFTER A FIFTH AND SIXTH PLACE, CAN NOW LOOK FORWARD CONFIDENTLY TO THE ASSEN ROUND. Imola, 1 April – The ...    Read more

Imola (Italy), Sunday 1 April 2012 – Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) was a force to be reckoned with once more at Ducati’s home circuit, and he duly posted his desired double in the FIM Superbike World Championship races in front of 81,000 fans at Imola. The final result of ...    Read more

HOUSTON (March 31) -- The most promising of nights for the GEICO Honda race team ended with a slew of accidents and a few broken hearts, but fortunately no serious damage Saturday at Reliant Stadium. Supercross Lites East points leader Justin Barcia was robbed of his sixth win in seven ...    Read more

MotoGP After months of anticipation MotoGP™ riders, teams, fans and spectators around the world will finally have their appetites for action satisfied, when the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar gets the 2012 MotoGP™ World Championship off to a start on Thursday. The first practice sessions of the opening round of the ...    Read more

Imola (Italy), Monday 2 April 2012 - Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) set quickest time in the official one-day Superbike test session at Imola, the day after the World Championship round dominated by Carlos Checa (Ducati Althea Racing). The day was marred by a serious crash for his Spanish team-mate ...    Read more

JGRMX’s Davi Millsaps posted his best result of the 2012 AMA Supercross series (also an FIM World Championship) when he secured second position at the thirteenth round of seventeen at the Reliant Stadium in Houston. Millsaps guided his YZ450F to yet another holeshot in front of almost 49,000 spectators and ...    Read more

Team Suzuki Press Office - March 30. Six-time AMA Women's Pro Motocross Champion Jessica Patterson has signed to ride for the Rockstar Energy Racing Suzuki team. The 28-year old Tallahassee rider will compete for the 2012 Women's Motocross Championship aboard her #2 Suzuki RM-Z250 under the 'Rockstar Energy Racing Suzuki ...    Read more

Cypress, CA March 29, 2012 – 19 year-old Cameron Beaubier, who races a Yamaha YZF-R6® for Yamaha Extended Service/Graves/Yamaha in AMA Pro GoPro Daytona SportBike, was involved in an unfortunate, one-vehicle accident while riding his Yamaha Zuma® 50 scooter on the street. He clipped an unseen hazard in the ...    Read more