It took ten years and nine days, but the last of the pole records set on qualifying tires has finally…
Triumph is sending a major wakeup call to its colleagues down south in Bolonga, as the revamped 2019 Triumph Scrambler 1200 just broke cover in spy photos, and the bike looks to be a direct competitor to the Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled. Abandoning its previously frumpy British roadster-with-knobbies design, the new Triumph Scrambler 1200 looks the part, and seems focused on actually going off-road, like a good scrambler should. It is a big surprise from the British brand, and a bit of a new direction for Triumph, but clearly the Brits have been feeling the post-authentic pressure from Ducati, and are thus responding in kind. More than just trying to riff on the scrambler aesthetic though, the Triumph Scrambler 1200 looks like it can do the business.
Winter is officially over. Though meteorological winter ended on March 1st, and the astronomical winter will end next week on…
It has been an eventful couple of weeks for Yamaha. Apart from the expected hectic period of preseason testing, Yamaha agreed to a new two-year deal with Valentino Rossi. There was also the surprise announcement by Jonas Folger that he wouldn’t be racing in 2018, and working with Hervé Poncharal to find a replacement for the Tech3 team. More significantly, they also had to deal with the surprise announcement that Tech3 will be leaving Yamaha at the end of this season, and swapping to become a satellite for KTM from 2019 onwards. So journalists had plenty of questions for Lin Jarvis, the head of Yamaha Motor Racing, and Qatar was the first opportunity to ask him.
Andrea Iannone has been handed a penalty point for an incident during qualifying at Le Mans on Saturday. The Italian…
Filling in for the injured Álvaro Bautista at the Spanish GP, John Hopkins was once again the powder blue of the Rizla Suzuki squad and on the Suzuki GSV-R race bike. Obliging Asphalt & Rubber with some copious notes on the Jerez Circuit, Hopper is the second rider in our on-going track notes feature, and we really appreciated the level of detail and insight he gave us on Jerez. Over the course of the 2011 MotoGP Championship, A&R will be getting track notes from each MotoGP racer on the 18 venues the series visits throughout the season.
